I’d seriously consider the genesis latitude £335 from here

http://www.ukbikesdepot.com/m90b0s717p7845/GENESIS_2012_Latitude_853_Mountain_Bike_frame

looks a lovely bike when fully built
http://www.ukbikesdepot.com/m15b0s2p6988/GENESIS_2012_Latitude_10_2012

I had a homemade headset removal tool made from 28mm copper pipe. It only lasted 2 headsets before it mangled and was completely unusable.

If you can get steel pipe then it would work better the copper just wasn’t strong enough.

In the end as i was ordering stuff from rose i added one of these to my basket and for £15 it was a lot less hassle then making a new one.

http://www.rosebikes.co.uk/article/xtreme-ejector-drift-for-headset-shells-1-18/aid:180264

If you are looking for all mountain rims, I’d find it pretty hard to look past these for the price

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Mobile/MobileModels.aspx?ModelID=10510

Spokes – rose bikes, it is my go to place now. Nipples are sold separately but are pennies.
Rims – really depends on what you are looking for

I would be very surprised if the Stantions would limit the travel. Yes they will overlap a little more than before but they should not hamper use. If you want a decimate go/no go before going ahead with stripping them then drop Si at Loco tuning an email. He will be able to tell you for certain.

So its either a case of swapping the 95-140 u turn spring and damping cartridge into the 150mm r sektors

I’d take this route to give you more options if you change your mind later.

There is lots you could do to the Sektors to make them nicer than the Pikes.

you could make them 150mm U-Turn with the change of a spring £45 ish and taking the adjuster off the Pikes.

You can upgrade the damping to dual flow

Swap the moco over or upgrade that to RTC3

Lots of options.

As others have suggested it will probably be easier to swap the moco as a start.

double post sorry

This one is cool

Tried that on my phone. I normally use Flickr so I guess it may be a Picasa thing ?

Maybe Hora borrowed it to fit to his works hoover ?!?

Is this a bike you own currently or are looking to buy?

If you are looking to buy then i would suggest looking elsewhere. If you know you are happier on a slacker bike. be aware that it is not only the head angle that will change with longer forks, the bottom bracket height and seat tube angle will also alter.

Below is a link to cotic bikes and gives a great example of what happens to other areas as well as head angle when longer forks are used

http://www.cotic.co.uk/geek/

I gave up on this same thing last time i tried to post pics from my iphone, now just copy the url and paste it into the text.

However, thinking about it could you kind of do it backwards by pasting the url and then typing the image brackets round it?

Hang on, when did anodised purple come back in?

When did it go out?

That king stuff looks soooo nice! way out of my price bracket mind but looks soooo nice.

Good god no please don’t tell me he has bought a bike that may be the right size for him!!!!

lord help us all.

*is sure Hora will make up for this next time by buying a 14″ jump bike at a XC weapon* 😉

Do you have many telephone sockets in the flat or just the one?

Can you see the phone line comming into your flat from a telegraph pole?

If say the phone line from the pole come in at your hallway window to the little BT box can you see how it is cabled from there to your main phone point?

I’d be surprised if you can’t get a bearing for it. However there are lots of zero stack headsets out there these days in a wide range of prices, of the top of my head cane creek, chris king, FSA and Hope all make them as with many others.

May be worth a chat with Dave in Law Cycles in North Berwick, i believe he selling some fat bikes now and was speaking about local fat bike tours so he may have some contacts of other like minded people who may be up for fat bike night rides.

Not sure what a john carr door is, presuming it is wood?

Why not use wood glue?

I’ve never had a bike with alloy nipples but i can’t see how it would not be possible to rebuild the wheel with all the same components but with brass nipples.

Even if they all snap when trying to disassemble the wheel surely any remaining bits on the spokes could be removed with pliers.

This would be something you could do yourself as it may take a while then take it back to the shop to be trued.

That looks mental!!

Where does the battery go? how long does it last?

mrjmt

below is a thread trout started about rebuilding the R4 with XML LED’s

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/hope-vision-de-re-constructed

hope this gives you the info you were looking for.

Rusty

They want all the benefits without any of the cost of Paypal to themselves.

If this is the case you can always pay by purchase of goods and add a few pence or a few quid depending on the price of the item to cover the fees. This is what i usually do to ensure i am covered by paypal.

1 free hub bearings?
2 spacer as previously mentioned or seal between free hub / hub.
2.1 hub bearing in squint or axle not fully home.

Lucky miss from me! Thanks for the heads up. He replied to a wanted add I had up but all of a sudden went cold when I asked for pictures.

Should have known the price was too good to be true.

I would think it would be a lot as trout suggests, cheaper/brighter competition and the fact with modern LED’s is there such a demand for 8 of them in a light if the right 4 can produce daylight levels of light?

Maybe hope have realise that it is not just about the number of lumens but the use ability of them and due to a combination of all these factors have decided to change tac and move development of their lights in another direction?

I have this cable on my hifi speakers and it sounds significantly better than the cheap speaker cable from the local hardware shop that seemed exactly the same as the stuff privided with the stereo.

http://www.superfi.co.uk/p-3685-qed-silver-anniversary-xt-speaker-cable.aspx?utm_campaign=froogle&utm_medium=organic&utm_source=froogle

The cane creek ones have worked well enough for me in the past, however if your curent ones are just gritty rather than sezed i have found carefully poping the seals off with a pick or stanley blade and flushing the bearing through with fresh grease has revived them for a good bit longer.

Anyone use a zero stack head set, i understand the cons of them not lasting to long

Don’t know where this has come from? but is definately not my experiance of them. I had a FSA Orbit Z that lasted 2 years with no maintnenace and then longer when i re-greased the bearings.

Zero Stack / Semi Intigrated / Integral / 44mm headsets like any others can come with good or bad bearigns dependant on type and model.

What will limit you in the decision to use one of these is the dimentions of the head tube on your bike. The below link takes you to a hope document that will help explain the diference in types of headset for the types of head tubes on bikes.

http://www.hopetech.com/webtop/modules/_repository/documents/HOPEHEADSETS2011Web.pdf

If you have a traditional 1 1/8 head tube a zero stack headset will not fit.

Presuming this is on a mountain bike then 20mm is a massive amount to lose!

Have you removed all the spacers?

You could possibly shave off 7-10mm of overall stack height with a lower stack headset (for regulat 1 1/8 i think crank brothers do one) and a new stem (sun line do one at 35mm) but 20mm IMHO will not be possible.

Head Set (21mm stack height)
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=24980

Stem (35mm stack hight)
http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=41211

Superstar do one at a similar stack height of 35 mm
http://superstar.tibolts.co.uk/product_info.php?cPath=67&products_id=416

So basically the steerer tube of your forks will need to be

Head tube lenght + 21mm + 35mm – 3mm(to allow for preload on bearings)

if it is not this length then it will be a no go.

No one has suggested shit stirrer yet, I’ll go with that one. 😉

or advice and management consultant ❓

Wow and i thought this forum was full of fly off the handle types, would appear that road.cc is worse.

I agree with the above two comments, and i think we may see more of this from other sports as the realisation that the drug testing that curently goes on may be inadiquate. Yes cycling is taking a thumping right now but i don’t see this as him jumping on the bandwagon to slag it off.

I used ASDA bleach last time. Drilled holes into the stump and poured the bottle in over a few days. Seemed to work well enough.

what is causing the racket in the background when you are on the road?

What bike were you riding? fully rigid? It didn’t seem to deal well with the rock bumps.

Depending on your budget i can suggest a couple of possible headsets for you. For £35 you can get this FSA one, i have used this before and got 2 years out of it before the bearings began to get gritty. With a little tlc they were right as rain again.

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=51070

If you don’t want to stretch to £35 for £26 you can get this FSA headset which uses the same sealed TH bearings as the above headset and they are fairly readily available for about a tenner a bearing.

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Models.aspx?ModelID=15888

Yes you can ride on it without damaging the cups.

here is the hope video on how to change the bearings

If you have the BB out you could always take the curent bearings out and pop off the seals with a pic or stanley blade and flush out the old greese with new to prolong the life of them.

But for some reason it’s March 31st, which is silly.

It’s down to what time the sun comes up I think. In late October it starts getting hard to get up at 7am when it’s pitch dark, so the clocks going back is to mitigate that.

Just checked. The equal date then becomes 28th March. Still a month earlier than when they change forward.

* Is confused.

If you have none of the outside edge then I guess you could drill a small hole into the end of the Maxle and put a screw or something into it to allow you to twist the axle in/out

Like the idea but would it not have made more sense to line the rivets up at 6 and 12 rather than 3 and 9 so you stand a better chance of figuring out what time it is.

This will definitely take a 15″ laptop and some clothes.

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Mobile/MobileModels.aspx?ModelID=37966

My girlfriend uses it for her commute for that exact purpose.

I have v12’s and love them, on one bike I need to replace the pins but have no idea how I am going to do this now the heads of the grub screws are full of crap. If I buy again I’d go for vaults.