Ladies and Gentleman…. The North Downs Way…

just ordered some kenda honey badgers, will let you know next week 😉

Just ordered some badgers instead of the Hutch toros, a Ton on tyres seemed a tad excessive.

You seen the video to strong, a bit like guy fawkes night in lewes, and yes she’s a beautiful as her voice.

miley cyrus licking a sledgehammer and swinging naked on a wrecking ball in her new video.

For the record, it’s for work.

£15 wow, cheapest I can find is £45 a pop.

Anymore thoughts on these, thinking I might give them a try.

It’ll be a wet chalky muddy mess Eastbourne end looking at Saturdays forecast.

SPDs are fine, they’ll help you on the Whites Level climb, I wish I had. I’d wear pads if you were going to really cane the downhills.

That’s ok – I don’t like Scott bikes

me neither but millions globally do

@ teamhurtmore – you tried upgrade or freeborn for a demo ff29, they’re Horsham area.

According to Scott 27.5 is the new industry standard, only their basic entry level bikes and dh are 26.

I’ve seen a fair few 650b on my local trails, the small Kinesis Sync’s is 650b, looks lovely, med and large 29, makes sense to me. Lapierre 2014 AM line up looks good too.

New 650b Sync build posted by Kinesis UK on Twitter, sweet.

Cheers speeder I missed that. Not sure about the grooves on the new design. Current design seem sold out everywhere, I should have bought them at the time, price put me off.

zipvit watermelon are great

Sloes soon too.

Gap descent is fun though.

Cheers and yes a lot of money but worth every penny. A chromag surface would of been a lot more. The FF29 is lovely in the new orange, I see a lot of the FF29s on the South Downs, all smiles. 😀

Just drop kinesis or upgrade an email, they’ve just released a lot of new models, I’ve got the new maxlight sync Ti, stunning bike, tapered headtube, direct mount rear mech, bolt thru axle etc. new school Ti ht 29er. Great reviews in latest issue of ST.

@ soma – I don’t really do road bikes but that is a looker.

My lads 24 Gary fisher pre caliber was pretty light, his younger bro has it now.

Ha Ha, must pay more attention. 😀

Another fan of the gore alp x here.

Premier subscribers can see a nice little vid of the Sync too, spot on review.

http://singletrackworld.com/magarchive/issue-84/%5B/url%5D

Singletrack Mag this month: ‘2014 Objects of Desire’. Ibis, Santa cruz and @Kinesis_UK Maxlight SYNC! @singletrackmag

Tweet from Kinesis UK

emmylous harris – hard bargain album

@ mattjg – I’m not saying a word 😉

The climbs out of Jevington never feel that gentle to me, especially pentlands. I better grow a pair before I head to Lakeland 🙂

Some decent off road loops around woldingham and north downs way, and bridle paths around warlingham and happy valley near coulsdon. No GPX but I could mark up some Os maps. Road wise there titsey hill and north downs around oxted.

@ tomaso – thanks, yep that’s good old eastbourne, some great riding around, not quite Lakeland. That wasn’t you i saw in friston with the bouncy devinci and full face. Did you find all the trails? Would love to take the sync to the lakes one day.

@ Nacho – cheers, it’s definitely been worth saving for.

Depends on weather, race kings are slick for off road anyway, if dry then I’d just keep them on and adjust tyre pressures.

Shame the Sync doesn’t have the short chainstays of the others

You wot? 43.8 is pretty short, Solaris is 43.5, Yelli is 42.4.

@ mattjg – sorry mate, can’t promise that, can’t see the novelty wearing off on this bike 🙂

I’ve done Woldingham (nr Croydon) to Eastbourne, NDW – DL – SDW. Nice ride.

You need a Ti Kinesis Maxlight Sync. Set up for a 120, short and siff backend with DT Swiss bolt thru and direct mount mech. When I’m not riding this bike I’m dreaming about riding this bike.

Unfortunately, I then turned the wrong way onto the SDW at the top of the hill at Beeding and took everyone on an unnecessary collection of steep climbs all the way up to Devils Dyke

That’s the only fun bit. 😕

yep

I was originally looking at the Chromag Surface, limited custom builds by Dekerf, very nice. You do loose alot of £££ in shipping and exchange rate though.

Nice one, cheers.