I tried cutting into the top cap to remove this

hitting the stem with a hammer

putting a screw driver into the bottom of the forks

hitting it with a hammer

bashing the bolt from above

don't be soft with it-its laughing at you that bike is, try harder, use more force, make it stop laughing.

I'd rather burn my arse on red hot black vinyl seats in a black car parked in death valley than give them numpties at Kwikshit any money.

the head of the bolt that attaches the brake hose to the caliper

molegrips

3 miles on my Kona Smoke. Thankfully I terrorise Lee Quarry on Wednesday nights to make up for lack of weekend riding.

+1 for MWC, G10, black PVD body, date, glass face, NATO strap. Also CWC G10's as issued to UK MOD are as good allthough plastic face.
Casio are overated, straps break, buttons fail, exterior parts snap off.

Modified XT rears, Hope fronts-I've broke Hope axles before and the aluminium freehub shell is a crap idea.
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Brooklyn went fixie **** some time ago, but leather covered fixie ****? goodbye Joe.

don't get me wrong-I love fixies.in a velodrome, but come on stop the bandwagon now please, just leave them in the recycling centre, they get melted down and turned into something usefull one day;
http://www.fixedgeargallery.com/2010/feb/1/Lageheiko@T-Online.De.htm

whatever fork it is must be coil sprung, and 140mm so that rules out Van36's and leaves pretty much the 454Pikes (or domain318's), plus they're nearly the same colour as the Fox's so the wife wont notice. Just wondering if it was worth the change though-I doubt they're going to snap-its just a bit disconcerting seeing them flex so much.

both brakes bled through with non-shimano LHM fluid numerous times-no air in system-lever firm. discs wiped with Xylene, pads never in contact with brake fluid, cant remember what pads but Sintered, bedded in by getting plenty of heat into them-disappointing so pads removed and lightly rubbed on 1500grit emery paper in case of glazing, no improvement.

My last brakes were Magura Gustav's on a Brooklyn Racelink so not sure if Im expecting too much of the SLX's.

If not, i'd consider Saint Brakes too, honestly the most powerful on/off brakes i've ever touched, fantastic.

if I cant get the power out of the SLX's then I wont be touching Shimano for brakes again-been really disappointed so far, its back to Hopes or Gustav's

Me and Mrs Nissan Prairie are happily living with her parents and have been for the last 2 years whilst we've been gutting our house. Its been fine-no problems at all.

just ordered some discobrakes black bullshit marketing speak all singing all dancing compound pads.

lets see.

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I've done all sorts, running sintered something or others now and they're shit.

Been away for a month so only rode the new stuff at Lee Quarry on Wednesday night, and Cragg Quarry today. Well impressed with it all.

Lived and rode in Rossendale all my life, bike development stuff is the best thing to ever happen in/to the Valley apart from possibly the ski slope.

just been looking at the Devolo plug things which look ideal apart from the fact I hate spending money on pc pap more than buggering around wireless settings/networks. any other ideas?

just been looking at the Devolo plug things which look ideal apart from the fact I hate spending money on pc pap more than buggering around wireless settings/networks. any other ideas?

just been looking at the Devolo plug things which look ideal apart from the fact I hate spending money on pc pap more than buggering around wireless settings/networks. any other ideas?

neither, Profile Racing's cranks with the new external 'Spanish bearing' style BB, and a GDH titanium spindle.

The Singapore flights are 3-3-3 seats in Economy whereas the Emirates flights are 3-4-3 so you pays yer money…

seat pitch and width as the same for EM and SA, parents are pissed that they tried to reserve the 2 row seats near the back but havnt got them, me & Mr's RNP have them on the EM flights to dubai and the 2 seats just behind the emergency exit row seats on the A380-plenty of leg room for me. Still gonna be an awful way of spending nearly 24hours.

The Manchester-Munich thing was only added in the last few months or so, my parents bought their tickets nearly 8-9months ago, they'd have gone EM otherwise.

going to Sydney on Thursday via Emirates, folks going the day before on Singapore.

Emirates do the new A380 out of the new terminal3 in Dubai power supplies in seats, loads of films etc, seats are reserved on booking.

Singapore unreserved seating, folks have just found out they're getting re-routed via Germany adding 2-3hours onto journey-not happy, unless the flight/food as far superior they'll be on Emirates again next time.

bugger. Im gutted for you.

yep its no probs for the MOT-I did it for a few years with my Nissan 'Pussy Wagon'
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Providing its clear you arnt going to use the back seats at all by removing the seats/belts/ and any mounting brackets.

alpin – Member

RustyNissanPrairie – Member

Bluepig with 140mm Vans and Profile bmx cranks.

can i see your bike, please….

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/20-ragley-bluepig-build-pics

Bluepig with 140mm Vans and Profile bmx cranks. Ragged the absolute shit out of everytime I ride it. underbiked?

manic in slabstock polyurethane foam (massive large scale production), the group came very close to folding last March but then picked up. End products are mostly automotive-eastern europe clients, medical, and industrial products-tapes, seals, gaskets etc.

The best performing fork I ever ridden/owned was my Avalanche Dhf8, forget Fox40's they're crap, that Avy was awesome. USD design-only issue was when you crashed and 'dug' the bars in you needed to loosen the crowns and straighten the forks back up. Never any flex with its 20mm when riding.

http://www.avalanchedownhillracing.com/dhf8forka.html

sell the 90 and buy a 110

M6TTF – Member

Who?

Was on one of the Dirt/Earthed vids-few DH guys doing whips over a bridge on a course somewhere;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWX0SyxytB4

I came to Oz 10 years ago with a backpack & bike. Got down to Hobart, met my wife, found my job & some awesome trails. No plans on leaving now.

my brother did the same 4-5 years ago, bmx wrapped in a cardboard box, small suitcase with a few clothes in. Lives in Sydney, great job, and he's getting married in a months time! would never return.

My Alps riding was mainly in Les Arc. I've never been at faster speeds on a bike anywhere else in my life allthough as you say there is techy slow stuff as well.

Used to wear A Troy Lee SE (MX helmet) for DH, a fair bit heavier and physically bigger than the carbon D2 I had after and nowhere near as much ventilation. Never crashed in either but the D2 felt a lot lighter/flimsier.

A little depends on what riding your doing-I wore the SE whilst in the Alps a lot with its generally higher speeds/rockier and the D2 in the UK with lower speeds/tighter/twistier tracks.

SE mugshot;
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Ambrose – Member

For pimpy colour coordination I use electrical crimps.

+1 boot lace crimp ferrules for electrical cables generally black or red ends for gear cables.

was told me & Mrs RNP couldnt have kids which knocked us sideways 2 years ago, both in good well paying secure jobs and figured we could carry on doing what we do only to look back in retirement having had nice holidays/cars/big televisions etc or do something else.

House on market this summer, our 19 year old landrover overland camper being rebuilt by myself over winter then setting off early next year heading south-ish, rough plan is to spend the summer in Ibiza, re visit Morocco then head south from there but not to retrn to the UK.

We're gonna live the no-plans, plan.

Blower – Member

Rustynissanprairie,whats you're idea with this high front end malarky?

Im a lanky 6'5" er with long legs, I prefer high front ends even if it is against the general thought that low is best, my previous hardtails have always had long head tubes, big forks&2" rise bars, I tend to ride off the back with a light front end for manual rolling or clean 'bunny' hopping entire rock fields/sections at speed-it comes from years of street&race bmx and big DH bikes.
Cornering was never a problem with my old hardtails, Im a kinda bmx elbows out tucked down corner-er or sometimes stick my foot out and drift it in kinda style which isnt hampered by a high front end.

The trouble is that the new generation of hardtails have lower front ends for better cornering&climbing, my 20" 'pig has a higher BB and lower front end than my previous stuff, so I feel rotated forwards over the front. Its a great bike for 'hard XC'/riding but im not getting the love for DH stuff. I've gone 20mm shorter on the stem to 50mm. 20mm (IIRC) spacers under the stem and 2"rise bars. Im thinking a higher bar will put me back to where I was-ish.

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found some Fire eye bars on CRC with a nice 77mm rise!!-gonna give em a try I think, allthough I can hear Brant crying into his Yorkshire puddings as I speak with thoughts of a 'Pig being pedalled around looking like something from Easy Rider.

Brant;

it's also a 27.2mm Sdg I-beam same as mine, my mates had 30mm Hope bolt clamp-snapped the bolt trying to clamp it enough then used it with a bodged QR, tried an 28.6mm hope-still no joy, currently got one of the bolt brand X clamps, grease/copperslip removed from post&frame, still slips. I'll have a chat with my mate and see what he says, it came from cyclery in Uppermill.

rusty…best description for me, took me a quite a while until I got used to the lower front , higher bb…I prefer also the high/light front ends to pop&roll over stuff—-but otherwise due to this the pig climbs fantastic….

The problem is that its always more fun to go down stuff than to pedal up in the first place, I'd happily (and might do yet) trade climbing for downhill pop,roll&manual.

Looking for 3" rise bars but there arnt many out there-tempted to chop my 762mm bars down to bring my hands in and push my upper torso up and back a bit.

but still have an issue with not holding the seatpost properly…

my mate has an 18" thats had loads of different seat clamps on and none have fixed the slipping issue. Need to have a measureing session on it and see whats happening. My 20" has been fine with an SDG&Ragley clamp.

Got a Bluepig, its a good all rounder, climbs better than previous frames, better for more XC style stuff but a bit of time spent on it now is showing up that it/I dosnt descend on it as well. I prefer high/light front ends with low bb's to pop&roll over stuff, the 'pig feels higher in the bb and lower in the front to no doubt aid cornering. Dosnt have much bmx style snap out of tight slow stuff that I expect the mmbop has being coke can metal an all, does have a mystical 'steel is real feel' and absorbs trail buzz that ali dosnt.
Dont know for ti.
Weight? who cares-mines built pretty heavy with Profile bmx cranks. Weight=strength+big leg muscles.

The Lounge in Ramsbottom is good and owned by The Dining Room people, Nutters over in Norden, White Horse good, Ramsons-good food but the guy is a complete arse, okay though if he dosnt come over mithering and teaching you how to drink coffee, and dont ask for normal table salt apprently. Didnt have much joy at Mario's, it was better when unhinged Reeko and his dad had it as The Magnet