I’ve got a Spank Spike in Black & Chrome if you’re interested – 35mm so it wouldn’t be very helpful if you’d be doing a lot of climbing.

We are all different, just depends on your riding areas and compromise to suit.

QTF. I use 38:15 on a 26″ cos I live in the (mostly) flatlands, I’ve ridden NyA 32:17 and I nearly died 🙂 Got round pretty quick though.

both bikes are brilliant!

Classic confimation bias – you already know bikes are brilliant so what else you possibly conclude?

Depends on the context – would you say it to the Queen?

Lace the porridge with rat pioson picolax

& stand well back

Opticians would be able to answer such questions, I speak to miine during the eye exam – you should try it.

lots that just had a giant rut right down the middle, stick your wheel in and hold on

Cresta Run? Get out of the rut and ride the banks is the way to do it.

d45yth – Member

Patch it from the inside mate…any of the other suggestions might work but will come back to bite you at a later date.

Well my repair lasted a 10 min ride 🙂 Patch it is…

^ Is that one road or cross-country racing?

Loverly to have them here – and with good sounding news!

If nothing else the clothes are cool

Is that ^ really the fuzz?

Even though I was almost semi-rude 😳

I’ve passed your email address to him…

He tells me they’re “mint”, but I’ve not seen them.

I know what you mean, but are you going to be taking pictures of the bike or riding it? I don’t care too much about a few knocks as long as it works well.

Second hand?

A friend offered me some 2010 Revalation Team Dual Airs yesterday for £275, get in touch if you’re interested.

How dare you? He’s a guru!

what health benefits do you get from dairy once you are a fully grown adult?

Calcium. Think the leafy greens should cover that.

Maybe get a blood test to check vitamins?

Think I’ll pop along. Wouldn’t mind seeing them do what they do anyway.

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/recommend-me-a-tubeless-puncture-kit#post-4852421

The fix I made has worked so far, but yet to try anything adventurous. 10mm is pretty big, but the sticky pipe-cleaner things might do it.

Bringing this thread back up, did anyone buy a zee caliper and not use it?

Sort of – got 4 have only use 2 so far. Am having an issue with leaky reservoir caps on the zee levers I got to go with them, so not finished with installing the 1st pair yet 🙁

Anyone else having similar issues? Think they might be going back…

Calipers seem great BTW.

Just who needs this? At this price?

http://www.halfords.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/product_storeId_10001_catalogId_10151_productId_922745_langId_-1_categoryId_242558

Climb? That was a descent!

Depends which way you’re going 🙂

Mint!

I did a 25 mile singlespeed death march. Made me pretty un-smiley.

Trail relations are more important than strava.

Your doing it worng.

@ daveatextremistsdotcouk – did you manage to climb that section in the 1st pic? Nice little challenge that is.

Been many times. The winch & plumet style riding around Bubion is friggin fantastic!

The accom. isn’t luxury, but that’s probly not what you’re going there for 😉

Don’t get pissed with Mike. Seriously. He can have a proper skinful and still flame down the trails the next day while you eat his dust feeling grim. He’s not bad on a bike for a fat old man and a pleasure to spend time with.

Not if you don’t use a mouse, says Rob the (self-proclaimed) shortcut king!

Get refund.
Spend on bike.
Ride to work.

You’ll get properly fit doing that distance 🙂

One word: tube less

Seeing as you asked…

Relying on cleats? Probably. But so what if I am?

You’re doing it wrong.

flat pedal specific technique.

No such thing; same technique.

DH riders must have moved over to clips as they must provide some benefit and more control in the air will be a good reason I’d bet.

To pedal harder on the flat sections, would be my bet.

I was working on table tops today, worked my way upto about 3ft, but the OP’s photo looks more than that.

Up to 3 ft? The OP’s photo looks like a drop, not a tabletop. Small drop, but it’d be silly to start with a large one. 😉

Looks to me like he’s got his weight off the back and pretty straight arms and very bent legs. With weight centered, there’d be better control on landing and some force going into the front wheel instead of it being light. Straighter legs would enable soaking up the landing by bending them, just like you do when you jump without a bike.

Might be fine for a small drop, but doing the same off a bigger one would magnify the errors & increase the crash potential – I know, I’ve been there 🙂

Clips are there to be used and will allow you to move the bike around in the air

Especially tailwhips

Talk to the Porc (!) The people there you see jumping will be a lot more helpful than some of the opinions given on this thread.

Avoid this: http://www.thecycleshow.co.uk/

All v. interesting re: the quarry.

Anyone know anyone involved in it/think they might like to let some engine-less bikes in for a donation to their cause?

It’s all bikes innit 🙂

P.S.
Did a 25 miles loop from Leire today, some of it was quite good and defnly in a better state for riding than a fair bit of my local bridleways in the Langtons

you can get pedals which are flat and SPD together, so they may be worth a look.

They’re not.

I switch between flats & clips on a whim 🙂 I’ve found I apply techique better for jumps & drops on flats – maybe because I have to. I wouldn’t use clips for just jumping, have used them plenty for uplift days with jumps involved.

Technique > protection

I’ve just had my 1st tubeless puncture in ages that wouldn’t self-seal. Seemed surprising as the hole wasn’t all that big, but was close to the bead, so that may have been the reason.

Used this weird seeming kit to plug it; yet to try it out post-repair for real, but it seems it might be ok.

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=7971

But, yes, carry a tube – like I wasn’t 😳 And maybe tweezers to pull the thorns out obefore tube goes in.

The ONS said the average man in England was 5ft 9in (175.3cm) tall and weighed 13.16 stone (83.6kg).

Fat bastards!

Rob, 5′ 7 3/4″ 10stone 2pounds – not less than average, just different 🙂

Muddy bridleways, farm tracks and canal towpaths are probly all you’ll find.

Clent, Fineshades/Wakerley Woods and Woburn for wheels on the ground riding, Woburn, Chicksands & the 4x track in Lem for more exciting stuff would be you closest bets, I think.

http://www.topeak.com/products/Mini-Tools/ALiEN_II

Has “emergency” pedal wrench. Wouldn’t trust it much

Read it twice, better then the silmarillion, but in some ways kinda similar.

Prefer the Koran – it hangs together a bit better.

Edit:

I’m a Baptist Minister

Happy-clappy or fire & brimstone? The guy who used to do the sermons at Tywyn Baptist when I was a kid was proper old school hell & damnation, very entertaining 🙂