Ordered j pull 650b Flow on PRO 2 Evos & 12 mm rear conversion for £300 inc del from Wicked Cycles yesterday – Bargain!!

yeah pretty pleased with myself!

Think that price might just be for one…

You may be a little disappointed if you expect a pair for that.

Just ordered a pair of:

Hope Hoops 650b PRO2 EVO Flows & 12mm Rear conversion

£300 delivered from Wicked Cycles bargain if you ask me!

Thanks Kendo954 for the heads up

crikey that is cheap, i wonder if they will convert the rear for me to 12mm – will call tomo

No 650b on the site so I have emailed them

Thanks

thanks fella – what size is yours? I have gone for Large as I am 5’11 with 32 inside leg!

Pics will be coming – Pike RCT3, Flows, High Roller IIs, Thomson, SLX Dbl, X9 shifters/mech XT cassette, Gobi etc

Hey nice one, it looks really slack – Im getting 160 pikes (black) too!

How does it ride compared to the previous heckler?

What do you think of the rear shock?

Ordered my Heckler 650b frame from Stif today with a Hope Headset – should arrive early next week – let the build commence!

Ordered the Tropicana Blue – should look good with a set of black Pikes!

Even new vinyl is silly money. £20+ for a single album? I think not.

its a niche market – what do you expect?

what is your budget

Sat at home playing all my Boards of Canada vinyl reissues drinking vino – mrs working!

me too. lots of UK first editions from the 60’s. very, very hard to get rid of for decent money…

Because they are probably not as rare as you think!

Think some people believe that ALL vinyl from the 60s & 70s is worth a fortune – yes some is especially short-run 1st pressings & mono Beatles pressings etc

I just have to laugh at some of the prices some of these charity shops are trying to charge – yes I know vinyl is getting popular again but there are bargains to be had if your thorough in your search.

It pains me to see Smiths LPs for over £30 on ebay, you can find them less than a tenner, or better still buy the reissues for less than £20

Now, if I could just find a good cond. Planar 3 to replace my dead record player somewhere other than Ebay I´d be happy.

Get an RP3 – thats the modern day equivalent – better in every aspect

got a mint copy of DSOTM for £9 – no pops & Clicks

My local oxfam shop has Eric Calpton – August for £15 – who are they kidding

I am building a SC Heckler 650B
I have been cany buying NEW parts when I have seen good offers

I picked up the following recently from CRC a few weeks ago when they had a mad sale for £250

X9 shifters
X7 rear mech
XT cassette
2 x PC971 chains
SLX front Mech
SLX Double Bash with BB

Then got my Pike RC3 from bike discount.de for £588

Set of Mint M4 brakes off the forum for £120

When i got my frame (£1349) i blagged a hope taper headset supplied & fitted

Just need wheels now (cheapest i seen is £330)

it will be a £2800 build a bit more than the complete bike from SC but that has crap spec for £2600

Ive got a 650B Heckler frame on order – no more Larges until mid-Jan

GolfChick
Has Fozzybear got a Bronson too?

try bike discount.de

ordered some from bike discount.de for my new 650b Heckler – glad to read all the positives about the Pike

SBrock – I’m running 150mm solo air pikes on my bronson and they’re very plush, extremely stiff compared to any single crown fork I’ve ridden before. No down sides yet. As an added bonus they’re also pretty light too.

Thanks, I think 150 will be the sweet spot TBH so gonna order a set of 150mm Pike Solo Airs

Serious Bronson’s fellas!

Thinking of a 650B Heckler or possibly an Alu Bronosn – what size forks are you running? 150 or 160?

What your opinions on the Pikes – I will be speccing mine with Solo Air pikes just can’t decide 150 or 160

cheers

think a 150mm on a 650b Heckler will be the sweet spot

ok thanks Dan, gonna go for Pike RCT3 160mm solo air and Hope Hoops Arch EX

anyone?

yeah but 7 months FFS

And for the record my daughter who is 2 1/2 comes everywhere with me on my bike! (I mean the local park)

Kimbers chill out mate – this is a discussion forum

And to answer the OP question – YES

I agree US, UK & French action is looking very likely – This is what Assad probably wants so he is justified in his mass genocide. Sorry state of affairs!

bet ya missus not keen either!

I think its madness to put a child in a seat at that age.

EXACTLY

What is the obsession with people on her to get ‘babies’ on bikes FFS

They should be doing baby things like crawling/walking/climbing/exploring – don’t forget the dangers.

Absolutely ridiculous!

To the OP – It’s a Civil War!

Saint Tony had got properly stuck in

He did!!!

Him & Bush were chomping at the bit to get into Iraq – oh how times have changed!

As for Syria – how **** is that gonna sort itself out I do not know – but what I do know the scenes of dead children are pretty upsetting to say the least.

Personally get all the innocent Syrians out of the country and bomb the place to smithereens – only my opinion like! Why should we be involved in a costly war FFS

the rega carts are nothing special (i owned an Elys) much better offerings out there from the likes of ortofon, sumiko etc.

I beg to differ but you are entitled to your opinion!

Do you refer to the Elys or Elys 2?

Rega carts IME are very nice on a Rega arm, yes you can get better but then you start having to mess about with spacers on the arm – I just think for simplicity then a Rega Elys 2 will sound lovely.

BTW I have Dynavector 10×5 on my RP6 and its lovely but so was the Rega Exact I had on before!

That said this (Edwards Audio TT1) looks interesting for £380.

basically its a reworked Rega with an ‘OK” arm!

Better off with this

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rega-RP3-in-Titanium-B-Grade-slight-minor-imperfections-save-126-00-/390622756232?pt=UK_AudioTVElectronics_HomeAudioHiFi_Turntables&hash=item5af2ee3d88

Slight cosmetics – yes – I got an RP6 with slight cosmetics and cannot see anything wrong with albeit it a £1k deck but sounds fantastic

Get them to put an Elys 2 and you have a very nice deck – the best sub £500 deck imho – it has plenty of upgrade potential too – TT PSU, subplatter

Also the RP3 has the superb RB303 tonearm which is also on the RP6

Good Luck – The RP3/Elys2 combo sounds great………….I should know I owned one!

i feel for you last Oct was told we were in consultation, go made redundant with 2 years salary, my shares & pension so was in a good position!
Applied for 40-50 jobs got 3 replies, 3 interviews and 3 job offers so was lucky i walked into another job, 3 months later I left as hated the job, environment & management were useless.
So i am job hunting again and have a few irons in the fire
Living off my redundancy at the minute – so hope I get another job…….to start about Sept would be great!

thanks peeps got a few viewings booked for this week

thanks peeps got a few viewings booked for this week

The STW massive has come up trumps again…..thanks guys

No schools to consider as my daughter lives in Lincoln with her mother.

I will be travelling early hours of the morning (530ish) so traffic should not be too bad

I was thinking West Bridgford, handy to walk in to city centre

Budget is £600 rent a nice 2 bed terrace

Synology DS212j, Rega DAC, Rega Brio R, Rega RP6/Exact & Rega RS3 speakers – sounds ace especially vinyl