cool thank you all, going with the majority i think the conti contacts sounds decent and found them for £17.95 on JE James so have ordered some.
cheers 😀

fork steerer length may be too short for new frame

I thought this thread last week was a brilliant idea, unfortunately my bike was not built, so I had to wait until this week, so on my bikes inaugural ride we went here.

The ‘Horse Monument’ at Farley Mount, Winchester

The Country Park is named after the famous monument to a horse, named “Beware Chalk Pit”, which carried its owner to a racing victory in 1734, a year after having fallen into a chalk pit whilst out fox-hunting
not particularly remote but very nice and part of our loop today.

outside

inside

going for a potter round winchester, should be fun, will see if we can remember how to ride a bike !

that’s really quite impressive, really good video, that last trick in the dirt jump section: footplant to 360 something looked amazing. good link.

hi,
it may be worth joining this forum and put a post on, i have seen some bearing q’s come on here and there are people around who will give you advice on it.

http://forums.mtbr.com/forumdisplay.php?f=139

hope that helps
Rich

unfortunately not mine, image stolen from another website, but they were darn comfy.
my poobahs fell to pieces, would buy new ones if they still did them.

answer flatfoots in blue and black for you CapatainFlashHeart

personally i miss my old Nike Poobahs, so comfy

i agree with bigbob chrome/silver with touches of red and black, super nice.
love that helius tho looks good with the gold !

i have been using monkeylites and lock-ons for well over a year now, did not realise that you could not use lock-ons, oops, still no issues so far and they were a second hand off a friend who had been using lock-ons, so at least 3 years use all in, bar looked fine when i swapped grips a month ago. hope that helps

must have been bargain of the century to make a four figure profit!
link to the auction?

the only thing my wife offers to do with my bike is sell it, definitely after something

5ft 10.5

19in hardtail – 100mm stem straight up post – 68.5cm
18in full sus – 100mm stem, laybak post 68.5cm

i thought they would be different but bizarely they are not.both feel right and not perched at all

i have a 2010 P7 19in it is a fantastic ride, it is a little heavy but never seem to notice it at all, climbs and descends brilliantly and is really confidence inspiring, it has a solid feeling in and out of corners at speed and accelerates like a much lighter bike. As others have said it is not the cheapest but it is certainly worth the money and is made in Britain too, just feels right all the time.

My P7

sounds exactly like a P7 to be honest

i believe it is called a pin-stripe, and is not cheap, i think it was standard on the fat chance yo-eddy’s, but you would need to check on retro-bike for that as definite fact.
however it is definitely one of the coolest paint jobs and very iconic.

wow, surely someone at the bike shop where he had the work done should have pointed out the utter stupidity of this venture?

i would imagine you would get many admiring glances as people watched

“the reciprocating movement of the swinging members”

or at least a lot of childish giggles

wow thats actually making me rethink getting an alfine, probably the best it has ever been explained. is that similar with a rohlof as well or is that heavier?

not building, but just bought a nicolai frame, currently sat on the other sofa looking damn fine. looking forward to the christmas holiday so i can build her up.
good luck with yours nothing beats building a bike for the weekend

+1 for the Orange P7 bought my first one in 1996 and got another one last year, seems to have continually evolved. great bikes.
for full suss i love the Ibis Mojo, truely a beautiful bike

i used both when i lived in France (Val d’isere, Tignes), the socks were much quicker to put on and gave you good grip in shallow and fresh snow, they have a carpet like texture that sticks to the snow/ice, however they were very easy to hole when there was no snow on the road, i.e.in a tunnel, pot hole, however unless you have ripped them all the way across they will still work. they are however not very good if you need to get up anything steep, they do seem to slip, especially if there was ice underneath. a good set of snow tyres is just as effective as the socks to be honest and give you pretty much as much grip as you would need. the chains whilst a hassle to put on, (gets easier with practice and make sure you know how to put them on before you go out, it’s very cold otherwise trying to learn in a dark layby) and will get you up anything and as long as you drive sensibly. when on tarmac they will be fine at slow speeds just don’t turn to quickly.
if you are going to be driving regularly in a lot of snow chains win, with snow tyres or socks for occasional usage in lighter non steep conditions.
hope that helps

i was so disapointed by the lack of snow in eastleigh, especially as i had been told i could work from home due to the impending “bad weather”, i rebuilt my fork instead.very jealous of everyone who has 14in + of snow would be excellent!

it is not important, just wondered if anyone did one as it seems you can get just about anything else after-market and anodised, and with most of the new long travel forks having 15mm or Maxle lite systems that someone would be doing a coloured aftermarket kit by now.

on the hope website there is a video clips on how to do it,
the mechanic just pours the fluid in the brake, and squeezes the lever he has the tube and other stuuf, but as TJ said, bit of hose some sellotape, i use a coke bottle , but has the same effect.
useful to have some kitchen roll hanging around as well. just be careful when removing the olive as they can snap.

Richmtb – exactly, just think it would be nice, i was surprised superstar or someone were not offerring them.
might just take one to an anodisers and see what they can do

chandoo.org is very useful for tips and short tutorials, but the best thing is to just try something, very little you can’t do in excel.

seriously £20 to fit a pair of tyres!

i have the silver and black ones (hope mono minis) and have just replaced with 5mm hose worth getting some new olives as one of mine snapped 🙁

brilliant!

popped into Peter Sansford this afternoon in Winchester, about 5.30 so helpful and great service, bought a lovely new thompson stem 🙂
great service and nice guys.

we put a clearview into our living room, £2000 for stove chimney lining and flue pots etc, absoloutley fantastic can't recomend it enough. the stove was £1000, kit was £500 and £500 fitting. well worth it and much more effecient than the fireplace it replaced.

ok i see now, thankyou all for your help i think i wil try to source a correct one rather than faff around.
thankyou all for your help it is much appreciated
cheers
Rich

ok so the one currently on the frame is 200mm i2i and 50mm stroke the one i have been offered is 200mm i2i with 57mm stroke , can i change or do i need to find a shock with a 50mm stroke?

the shock is too far gone all the stanchions are worn and it does nopt move at all.
i have been offered a cheap rp3 which is the same i2i – 200mm- but it has 5inch travel, i don't know enough about full sus to know if this is going to be a massive problem i know you can run the front at 120mm so was wondering if you can do the sam e with the rear?

i believe it's a 25mm so repleacing a 4in shock woth a 5in shock with the same i2i

thanks guys much appreciated for the help

on retrobike.co.uk there is a gentleman called Gill_M who will make you decals which are excellent!

as a lot of people have already said i just wear glasses, clear if over cast and varying lenses depending on conditions,
however i wear monthly disposables mainly because they are cheaper, but having trialed dailies apart from the chuck them at hte end of the day did not notice any difference. tended to split them more often as they were a lot thinner than the monthlies.
most opticians will give you a weeks worth as a trial so give them a go and see how you get on with them.