It may be better to go to your LBS. Merlin are normally quite quick. Wiggle dispatch quick but RM seem to take forever with their parcels..

They post using APC now as far as I know, They are fast. Just thier depot’s are scarce or in the middle of nowhere.

one word: Bombers

+1

Minoura True Pro 2

Ordered 7.5 wt Rock Oil from CRC, for 99p more its delivered and I know its used in lots of bike forks.

Fork is a Manitou Black Super Air 120mm from 2004.

I’ve been reading about some production issues with Ragley and I would prefer not to be stuck having to deal with a company an ocean away with problems.

Just to clear this up, Im sure the production issues Ragley had were sorted before any frames were sold. Brant wouldn’t even sell a batch frames just because the paint was slightly wrong.

I would say Dalby out of the two. Stainburns quite short and repetitive if you hit it multiple times. Dalby will always keep throwing different stuff at you.

Gisburn would be even better though.

I’ve cracked 2 Handsomedog XC03 frames.

First one cracked at headtube/toptube weld within a month.
They replaced, cracked it in the same place again within a month again.
They replaced again with the steel talisman, had that a year with no cracks as off yet. They did tell me they would not replace it again because it would clearly be due to my hand-fisted’ness if I broke another.

Something like a Ragley Piglet with 120mm forks would by choice, should take most of the abuse while still not sapping much of your energy on road

Shirley all you have to do is do the string up?

I would think so too. Well. Put wheel size into computer when turned on, probably uses the circumference of the wheel by the sounds of the ad. Set MPH/KMH. Wire up to bike, set magnet near ish to the reciever (less than 1cm is good) Test it works. Then ride.

Thanks.

Thats all I wanted to know. I dont mind cutting at the soles a little, just not loads as walking on cleats is horrible.

Its like deja-vu.

Didn’t we have this thread yesterday?

Yes we did

bump for the later crowd of the STW massive.

was it halfrauds?

Park. I think the green one is 3.3

I was really looking for a 4 sided one, Should have put that. Sorry.

I find it funny how the 0.130 size is supposedly a European Standard yet, no one makes a 4 sided spoke key for it!

I use WTB 4-Front Clamp-on.

Plastic lock on collars too, shouldn’t damage carbon bars.

Eat my trail dust

My dad has a 2.3 Michelin dry 2 on the back of his. Its fine.

Just drop a little bit of chain lube on the adjusters and the spring.

They are tight until you turn them back and forth a few times.
Make sure you turn them the right way as well.

yes they do look cool, theve only gone on this weekend
hope pro 2 hubs on spank rims

Its amazing how close the spank green and the cove green colours are.

Looks ace.

Although the logos/valves are well out of line.

Don’t get one, You’ll only want to get a hardtail again because its not as fun.

Next step…Rigid singlespeed.

Ever wanted to do the red bull rampage? I think you should 🙂

Have you checked the carbon for cracks that could cause a catastrophic failure?

I’ve done the red and the majority of the world cup course on a singlespeed. 32/17. I only struggled in jingleby climb? where I stopped and pushed because its so long.

Our sheds got for the door locks and is built up more inside with extra wood. then inside we have 2 home made floor anchors bolted down to the slabs underneath with irremovable bolts and the heads welded to the anchors.

I’m beginning to wonder than too. A lot of people have also got new mountain bikes, although they probably never use them as almost everyone has converted to the darkside.

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He wont know what STW is, He uses pinkbike too much…

I would huck the lot, 900 metre road gap?

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Never dropped a bottle on rough descents or drops.

Schwalbe test PDF

I would think it would be fine as long as the carbon hasn’t cracked.
It looks like its only really taken the paint off.

Plus I would have though On-One would have layered the carbon thicker at that point knowing that chain suck happens.

Tiscali is TalkTalk, nuff said.

Thats my new one.

A single wheel reflector.

looks like a badly tensioned wheel that sprung in that photo to me.

That was my own wheel.It was definitely not bad tensions that knocked it out, I came down bars sideways onto a rock with it.. Ran it for 6 months before that happened.

It was his rear wheel so it would me more bunny hop over curb but not hop far enough, which he has done many times before…

Agreed experience plays a big part, I did spend about 7-8 hours of online research into wheel building before I even took my first wheel apart. I think I almost read every single page on how to build a wheel… I wasnt going to start a job that I didnt understand. Once I understood the physics and mechanics behind it I knew what to do.

No I could not pin point the issue. Not quite sure what caused it, I think when the tube was fitted(wrong size) it had about 20-25psi in it and he has bounced the wheel up a curb or something causing a rather large shock through the wheel and maybe unfortunatly it was where the tube bulged and the tyre was even softer at that point. So basically he cracked the rim on something solid without noticing.

Thats the only explanation I could think off. I cannot think of any other valid reason why it would have done what it did.

Its now got a 26 inch tube in it pumped to around 35psi so that should stop any chance of what I said above..

I mean if now its built to the Sheldon Brown ways of doing it I cannot see any reason why the wheel would walk out of line due to a wheel building issue.. I mean after all, Sheldon is a legend of bike maintainence.

I reuse old spokes and rims, but I wouldn’t build a wheel like that for someone else unless they were prepared to accept that.

He knew it was using old spokes and rim.