Fan-y-big in the brecon beacons always makes me snigger like a 15 year old (as does Fenella Fudge the Radio 2 newsreader for some reason!)

i’m up for the 2nd.

I would like to join and would be happy to show anyone around, but I cannot do those dates sorry as away in Norfolk.

But i can recommend the Golden Retriever for a post ride ale.

Must admit took it for the first real ride tonight with the forks at 120mm and i think that it rides great with the slightly slacker front end.

Finally managed to take a few pictures of my raw frame new Scandal.

I know that the photography/ logo alignment/ cleanliness, is not upto usual STW standards!

I am up for meeting up at the weekend once xmas is out of the way for a ride definitely

I can’t ride on the 20th as work don’t seem to like me not turning up and riding my bike instead.

If any is ever free of an evening and wants to be shown around Swinley, i’m always happy to show them round.

Druidh

I can confirm the raw frame is a lovely looking thing. I’m going to post pics up tonight of mine hopefully.

They can make offers for a claim without formally admitting liability, it is known as doing it on a “without prejudice” basis, normally when they feel that they will not be succesful at Court when it comes to liability or when they have problems with the other party admitting fault or problems in trying to contact them to get instruction from them.

Just make it clear to you solicitor what your losses are, make it clear that your loss of earnings and the subsequent fold of your business is a direct result of the accident and make sure that this is stated within the medical evidence when you see the medical expert.

What you must do is make sure that you document everything as well as possible, photographs of the damaged bike and gear, original receipts if you have them, if not then a pro-forma invoice from a bike shop for the cost of their replacement.

Make sure you get your accountant to provide the 3 years accounts and tax returns in the run up to the accident and your accounts since. That they calculate your loss to date and that once they have the medical evidence backing it, that they make a request for an interim payments for your bike, gear and loss of earnings to date.

The more you can document your losses the easier it is for your solicitor to claim them back in full for you.

With regards to liability, try and provide them with a good diagram, photos of the accident location etc, makes it a lot easier to argue liability.

Hi Oldgit,

For my sins and although i never admit this in public but i am a personal injury lawyer (i get fit by chasing ambulances on my bike!), if i can offer any advice my email is in profile.

Just finished building my raw frame up an hour ago, rides so much nicer than the old Scandal frame, feels a lot stiffer going from old frame with 1 1/8 headtube and fork with 9mm QR to the new tapered headtube and the Reba’s with 20mm thru-axle!

I still don’t think that the gear cables running under the downtube and not being able to run full length outers is good in winter, but will have to invest in some Gore cables i think.

I’m trying my forks at 120mm first see how it handles, if no good, then will drop them to 100mm.

I’ve no light in garage, so will post some pics tomorrow.

Hi Andy mate.

Still having problems with the new 29er and getting it built.

I was just thinking ahead to the PdS next year, seem to remember some of the chairlifts being ones that just cradled the bottom of the wheel tightly, wasn’t sure if 29er wheels fitted in those.

Would you still like to come?

Anyone else any ideas?

Hi Tim,

One of my best friends sons suffers, he is an extremely bright lad in a high achievers group at school, but on the flipside, he is always in detention because his attention span is terrible, if he likes a subject and it is interesting to him he is the angelic child for the teacher.

If it is something he does not enjoy, he gets bored very easily and gets disruptive.

My daughter is called Freya, wasn’t sure of it when my wife suggested it originally, but really like it now, Nordic word for beauty apparently.

I am taking a group of 20 out there and a few have 29ers so i thought i’d check just in case we needed to make alternative arrangements.

No they aren’t for full length outers, unlike old Scandal frame.

Thanks Andy, going to have a mess about and see what I can bodge up, seems to be more the length of the metal cage that interferes as opposed to high or low mount?

The brake line mounts are badly designed, that front one is so close to the head tube that it completely kinks the brake line if you use it?

Will post a pic as soon as it is totally finished tomorrow

I seem to be havin same problem with front mech, seems they have designed frame to have good rear tyre clearance then the mech itself does not allow it which is counter productive.

Spoils what otherwise is a great frame

Hi Jon.

Thanks for your help mate, just need to get the blinkin right front mech otherwise there is clearance problems with the tyre as well i reckon.

Photo in the dark is rubbish though, do i still win a prize!

Built up this evening but IPhone photo in dark is terrible, must admit lovely looking frame, tapered head and curved seat tube are great, but whoever designed where the cable stops are and the brake line holders should be shot, the front one under the top tube is far to close to the head tube and for my old original scandium Scandal to have stops for continuous gable routing but the new frame to not allow it, is a huge step back, the routing under the downtube is like something from an 80’s bike , plus the front mech clamps over the bottom bottle cage hole. It is really like someone with sense has designed a good frame and got the Taiwanese YTS lad in randomly stick on the cable stops.

Why give bigger tyre clearance to allow room for bigger tyres and mud, then get rid of the ability to run continuous cable outers?

Maybe this evening, confirmation email to state that it has been delivered and a mate turning up with beer and curry to try and get it built up asap this evening ready for a ride first thing tomorrow morning.

Will post a pic up when finished.

Thanks for that Brant, i noticed you put something on your Shedfire website about that and thought it might be something I wanted play around with in the future especially when i head out to the Alps, or times when the bike is going to spend most of it’s time pointing downwards.

Are they going to be made available in the future via On-One, i notice you have a 1 1/8 version on there?

Mine is down for delivery at 2.30-3.30 apparently, so hopefully gonna start building tonight!

You can get 2011 Rockshox Reverb here but only with right hand trigger for about £170.00

http://www.bike-components.de/products/info/p25327_Reverb-Sattelstuetze-mit-Remote-Matchmaker-rechts-Modell-2011-.html

Got an 18″ raw frame coming.

Going for a bit more of trail build than the one above.

20mm maxle 120mm Reba’s from On One (bargain).
Angleset to kick out front slightly
Hope Pro II hubs with DT Swiss rims.
Currently running Bontrager Mud X, but will probably go for old faithful Nobby Nics set up tubeless.
Easton Haven 711mm bar.
New XT brakes from the classifieds
Thomson stem and seatpost.
Old 9 speed XT cranks (aiming for black 10 speed XT when classifieds have some)

Looking forward to the weekend..

We have had quite a bit of rain over the last few days but the trails themselves have held up OK, quite a bit of mud in places but rideable, but if you keep to the “armoured” trails especially, they are fine.

A lot of Swinley is in a natural bowl, and with trees, you don’t really get the wind too much.

Rode there last night and it was good.

I really, really want one of these and i’ve paid for it! Just waiting for the blinkin thing to arrive..

Must admit they do seem to have got carried away with the number of cable stops and the rack mounts, the raw frame would be a thing of beauty without all the clutter.

Anyone lend me a Dremel (and teach me how to use it!)?

tk46hal.

I’ve got an older Scandal now and have ordered one of the new frames, i’ll let you know and post up a pic when it’s built.

My opinion, as you have it so well documented take them to the Small Claims Court for the damage to the bike.

I worked for Parcelforce for a summer as a temp job in their office arranging contracts with firms to use Parcelforce in the centre of London, so many parcels went missing we got to a point where we had to tell client’s not to put the name of the company or what it contained on the outside of the packaging. Certain depots like the one in East London if it was a mobile phone, DVD, our common items like this, they were being stolen on mass.

Didn’t Intense plough quite a bit of investment money into trying to develop a 29er DH bike before giving up?

Thanks Alfabus.

Are the changes worth paying the extra £70-80 for?

Anything’s got to better than my old Joplin seatpost, I have to service every time i ride and even then it is rubbish.

Looked at CRC seem to be £254?

Thanks for that Leku, that’s more like it…

Are CRC still doing the vouchers?

I’ll have to have a look at their offers, i did stop using them so much as Rose Bikes and the other german sites, along with On One’s great deals on parts meant that they were no longer the cheapest for many bits.

Thanks all.

Brant, i’m only sore cause i took the old bike to bits in an excited frenzy and I start to get a bit tetchy if i don’t ride at least 2 or 3 times a week!

If it looks as good as it does in the “teaser” picture all will be forgiven………

Hi TimP.

My current frame is a 29er Scandal frame, sorry mate. If you fancy the switch to the big wheels, let me know. (18″ black frame).

Kingtut.

I think that’s why i’m getting carried away a bit, sad really but in ten years of riding this will actually be my first new frame! I’ve always made bikes up from eBay and the classifieds.

I currently have one of the old Scandium scandal frames which I bought on the STW classfieds and an old 2008 Reba fork, it is only because the fork has completely given up this winter that i was looking to buy a new fork, saw the tapered steerer with 20mm axle on the On One website, then when I saw that they were releasing a new frame that was it, the credit card was melted.

I’ve just spoken to On One, the frames will not be with them til wednesday or thursday and then not dispatched til this time next week!

Feel a bit of a t*at now for listening to them last week and stripping down my old frame on friday! No riding for me this week!

So far I’ve been told that the frame had 27.2 seatpost, so purchased one of them to be told it is now wrong size, been told that it would be delivered to me 1st or 2nd December and that the frame was 3.5ib in weight all of which were wrong.

Good job they are cheap!

Anyone any idea as to whether they will be dispatched today as I was told on the phone last thursday?

I think that the 2.4 Ardent is the largest “normal” tyre i’ve come across so far.