then spending most of the ride sat down in places i’d usually be stood up

This is definitely true; I like hardtails and I’d happily get another but FS is quicker pretty much everywhere offroad.

I’m looking for a pair of cheap deores for my gfs bike – if anyone’s got a fully working pair for sale email me at robowns at hotmail dot com.

It’s a meh from me

Kryton is the king of the humblebrag to be fair.

Turbine R here, looks the part – it’s basically the Easton Haven in 35mm.

Better off spending a £100 on newer forks mate.

Nothing wkd I’m afraid just the woods.

This sucks, remember him from bikeradar on his Carrera Fury years back. Love the attitude, best of luck to him, donated.

I’ve got E4s with Race levers, great brakeset, very understated too.

<span style=”color: #444444; font-size: 16px;”>When I know that we go long, long uphill I put more pressure onto the tires and set the right pressure once we are on the top.</span>

I must say that sounds massively overkill. I thought changing seatpost height via QR was too much of a faff, but this is next level.

Getting the lowers off is fine, it’s getting the seal out that’s a PITA.

I’m pretty sure its not from the old one. I’ll see how it goes and worst case get some new seals, as I’ll likely have to destroy the current ones to get em out.

“If Strava shows you riding on private land, frankly so what? it’s a civil offense, most of the private land in this country is owed by a tiny minority – why worry what they think?”
Agreed – really not fussed.

Sucks, work 10 minutes away and have been in loads over the years. I’m sure someone will be along to say “selling mtbs in central London wtf m8”, but a lot of people that work in Central London don’t live in Central London (about a 15min ride from Epping forest here). There’s also plenty of money there, to the degree that dropping £5-6k on a very occasional hobby wouldn’t be out of the ordinary.

I mean it’s exclusive and looks alright, fair enough, but all of the proprietary bits and the already out of date geo for £5k? No thanks.

Junkyard
Agree that does take the piss a bit, but can’t be that often. I’d pay that price to be able to run the bike I wanted to.
Zippykona
Fair point on changing the bearings in the freezing cold. Sounds more of an excuse to just ride your fatty anyway, which is totally your perogative. I wouldn’t have more than one bike, but that’s just me.

I don’t get why people keep mountain bikes inside over winter, why not just ride the same bike all year round? It’s not like bearings are overly expensive, much less than a second bike.

Just bought my first property at 30 and now have a £425k mortgage. I’d need at least a mil to call it life-changing, a few mil to give up on work

Great vid mate

Regularly go 31 days without an alcoholic drink passing my lips , I can’t understand why people make such a big thing about abstaining.

….you wouldn’t because you don’t drink much

Why do people on here care so much about what other people do? Quite sad really. If people want a Big Mac on Boxing Day, whatevs go buy one.

I thought this as well, the way it ends with the Resistance at an all time low, preparing the way for a huge comeback in episode IX

I thought that whole set up was poor – all of the resistance are in that cave!! What like 4 people?

I think it’s decent, but can’t help but think that loosedog Lewis thinks he’s a trials rider and he’s so far from.

Good luck lads

Prometheus was terrible to be fair. It had such promise until 3 mins in.

Really insightful

banks could club together for a lawyer who could put that argument to a judge

And the judge could throw it out because it turns out the banks need to be seen to make a concession to the economy for the crisis?

You used to sell PPI right ?

I wish, think of the commission.

Not as much as you lot seem to think it did, plenty of figures online comparing the amount of compensation paid vs. the total amount of PPI sold, nevermind missold. It was eventually used as a stealth bank tax to stimulate the economy, which is drying up and now and having an effect ie. Car sales.

What about the ones where someone signed you up and never told you about it?

Pretty much never happened mate, but that would be very naughty.

Beats reading what you sign up for boys, mugs game that

This candle chat is brilliant

Just one bike here.

I really don’t like the look of that meticallic one, proportions and colour look dire – and this from a cotic fan and previous Soul owner :(.

If you don’t like it and think they’re too expensive, I suppose you have two options; 1) don’t buy them 2) get a better job.

Or whinge online obviously.

Poison people. selfish and anti-soicial.

This is hilarious; your wood-fired generator/alternator to charge your phone/computer to post here must be a marvel.
Do people really think like this? Bizarre, how do you cope with your daily guilt?

All of their frames look like they were designed by a blind person. Who would pay top HT money for that?

How to make a filthy diesel filthier. Are you going to get one of those “eco-terrorist” stickers for the hatch?

Lol get a **** grip. As if one car (or every single car in the UK) makes any difference when China/India/Brazil etc are burning the **** out of fossil fuels. I’d say crack on mate, go for 140.

On One not gone bankrupt yet?

It was never a looker but it’s worse now, I’m usually a fan of KTMs aswell.

Worth a watch just for the music

I admit I only read the first page, but what are you guys intending to eat when the universal living wage comes in? You do know all the farmers have jacked it in to go and paint squirrels right?