trimming gear cable outer, with the gear cable still attached.

using the stupidly expensive chris king hub service tool to service a stupidly expensive hub. miss out a single component and you’ll knock bearing inner out of the race, leaving you with a lovely expensive paperweight. had to dismantle the wheel and send the hub to Oregon for that one.

trying to remove (in the dark no less) dtswiss240s rear hidden bearing behind the freehub. the lockring wouldn’t budge so i applied a bit of welly, then a bit more, then a bit more with an alu pole for more leverage. Crack! Thats it freed off then. Hold on, its still tight. cue torchlight revealing the hardened steel tool cracked in half, stuck on the bent axle also cracked in half and ovalised. c.£100 to repair that one, plus a new tool as they wouldn’t warranty it due to “misuse”

i’d hate to add up the cost of all my mishaps. Now i insist on having the right tool for the job (not that it always helps) and researching the work and taking time to plan and do it properly.

there was a PSA recently for a halfords 4 bike rack for £130 ish a couple of days ago on here

Love my LightBicycle wheels, no way in hell I’d pay Enve/Easton money.

i haven’t ridden mine yet but my 38mm LB rims on DT240s are lighter by a few grams and about £1000 cheaper than enves, so i’m in this camp already.

That is interesting ben however I’m not sure if My OCD would cope with having a designated rear tire on the front!

cogs bikes only have 26″ Minions in stock, dont know about price though.

Actually I have hundreds in the warehouse but I can’t sell you those I’m afraid!

Yes sadly i was one of the enterprising souls pestering emailing you asking about this.

Minion DHF is like hens teeth!

as always, well played google.

sounds like a great laugh, i’ll keep an eye on the FB page

thank god MTB tech and aesthetics have moved on from that ^^ :O

Pressure treated will last years longer than anything where you’ve just painted a surface treatment on.

+1 – cut a pressure treated post across the section and see how deep the treatment goes compared to a surface stain. The base colour wont be noticable under a brown stain and even if it was i’d rather this than replacing the fence in a few years after it all rots through.

i’m Stirling way but that sounds like a laugh, so would be happy to attend / help. Could probably rustle up a few other bodies from this way too.

cheers. Mine is due to arrive end March hopefully, can’t wait!

The Botanist Islay gin is lovely.

+1 for Millers or Caorunn too.

i do have specific tyres in mind, namely the spec purg / butcher and the maxxis minion dhr2/dhf. so what i was saying (badly) was i’d be interested how the maxxis feels against compared to those two specific tyres.

be interesting to hear your thoughts on specialized vs maxxis tyres – both sets are on my shortlist

hey, yeah they are different tyre models, i was being facetious about the D, in advance of someone else pointing it out. As i gather it the minion DHR2 is a baby brother of the full on DH tyre and the Holy Roller is different model, but i think a less aggressive tread. I was wondering if people who had owned both noted much difference, cheers

If you can stand the cliched writing and the sheer tedium of it, here’s my thoughts

whats the difference between the DHR2 and the HR2 (apart from D)

DHR2 is either expensive or rare.

the current connectormajig are pants though

Whats up with them Loco?

Your money is OK. But he didn’t PPG to you; maybe he didn’t trust you?

did it come through as a refund, or just a payment? If its the latter i wonder if he could use paypals buyer protection against the original buyer? i.e. make a refund as a “payment” then open a dispute on goods not received or something.

I’m not suggesting this is planned or anything, just curious if it could happen.

EDIT – beaten to it by legend 🙂 and LMTTM 🙂

how did you knacker the thread? EDIT – bit of a silly question really, but its such a fine thread i can’t imagine you would cross thread it, so assume over tightening,

I have some new centrelock disc hubs and it would just be my luck to make the same mistake, so forewarned is forearmed 🙂

I’ve always planned to do this really powerful trick for GMail but never got round to using it, but this could be put to good use:

Use Variations on Your Gmail address to Preemptively Filter

Gmail actually ignores periods that are inserted into your email address, and cuts off anything that appears after a plus sign. So if I sent an email to examp.le.a.d.d.ress@gmail.com, it would be delivered to exampleaddress@gmail.com, instead. It’s similar with plus signs: If I send an email to exampleaddress+test@gmail.com, the email is delivered to exampleaddress@gmail.com.

There are hundreds of valuable uses for the limitless number of email addresses that Gmail gives you, but one of my favorites is using the faux Gmail addresses to automatically archive unwanted messages.

For example, say a site requires you to subscribe to their daily newsletter in order to use their service. You can simply provide the address exampleaddress+unwanted@gmail.com, then create a filter that looks for to:exampleaddress+unwanted@gmail.com and automatically archives any of those incoming emails.

You could also use this strategy for clothing stores that ask for your email address at the register in exchange for a discount. Give them the address with an added period, like example.address@gmail.com, and again create a filter that archives messages to that address. This has the added benefit of saving that store’s promotions without them jamming up your inbox—that way, if I’m shopping for a new pair of Nikes, I can still search my Gmail archives for coupon codes and deals.

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I’ve always found all of my 240s supremely reliable.

this +1. Only time i buggered a DT swiss hub was when it interacted with me. The irony was the 6th bearing was pristine and didn’t even need replaced after 3 years.

the torrential downpour which had most people heading home in a big hurry

yup that was a real shame that, as we made a run for it too – biblical volumes of rain though. It was a bit of a surprise to see call me dave there too, also princess anne.

saw the typhoon at the Stirling air show last year. I thought the Apache was the daddy of flying machines until the typhoon flew in like a boss. The sound was truly incredible and i dont think many grown adults didn’t want to be a fighter pilot at that moment.

I thought thats what you meant but didn’t want to misinterpret – thanks for clarifying. That is super tight. I’ve gone for 38mm carbon rims for my scout so i’ll need to check #whattyres scout owners are using before buying anything.

I’ve almost got mine built up, just waiting for a different rear tyre, the original choice clashed with the seat stay brace! I was a 2.3 WTB vigilante so not the best choice anyway, going to try a HR2.

If I’m reading this correctly you have a smuggler and the seat stay brace wouldn’t accept a 29*2.3 tyre? Thats a bit worrying, what width rim?

cheers kcal, that would be great if you could take a wee look.

bump for the morning crew.

just waiting on him missing that and the spike going through his arm.

as far as i know 168mm Q factor is what you need for a modern full susser. 156 is for old school bikes with skinny frames. I hope i’m right as i’ve just ordered some XX1 cranks in 168mm.

i dont see any adverts 😀

canyon spectral, buy for the frame not the consumables!

do you not have a whyte carbon atm?

oofty, thread the needle.

made kindling there! real men go for splitting it dead in half first hit though 🙂

i was thinking 30 as i think the general consensus is to keep it out of the 42 tooth on the back i think and i dont think i’d be doing myself any favours with a 32. expensive decision!

just been online to pay the customs fees for my pair of 38mm hookless rims. £0 import duty, £26.44 in VAT and £13.50 for PF to handle the parcel. out for delivery tomorrow. All things considered i dont think thats too bad, with the exchange rate as it was the total spend was £320 for the pair or £160/rim. Just waiting for them to arrive and get them built onto a set of dt240s now.

Hey,

being honest i didn’t even notice the cable routing like that on the demo bike, although did see it in the online pics afterwards. I think the chances of catching something in them would be pretty unlikely though and as others have said i think you’d obliterate your chainring before that.

yes, sorry 5 off 50