As it happesn i will have a couple of sets of Pedals for sale that have been to magazines recently 🙂

I think so, but i am biased 😉 The Canfield's feel weird in that they don't have a dead spot at the top or bottom of the stroke like most other flat pedals. This is due to the fact that your foot is more or less over the axle.

How about some really pimp pedals?

As mrsmith says tubeless is a good idea. Maybe sell your Hope/823 combo and buy Hope/Flow and run with yellow tape, saves you some weight to which is nice 🙂

EDIT: ignore that then!

jesus, as if there weren't enough people doing this **** "guerilla" marketing already

For real? Whilst I am obviously biased surely the mtb community is better for the direct info we get via the forums? Takinqg my industry head off, I certainly value the trade info we get on this forum as opposed to the sterile forums of BikeRadar etc!

That is a lovely looking bike trail rat! Very tempted to give 29er a try this winter.

nice, very clean lines!

It's jus healthy debate 🙂

al, you are right and i am wrong. happy? 🙂

Of course you can say something like that, If both were brand new materials with no prior knowledge then fair enough.

as we all know nothing is ever constant in the MTB world, so i can never say for sure that Ti would do something the CF wouldn't. But for me the Ti would likely take heavy impacts better, and whilst i realise Ti is quite brittle as a metal Ti would bend rather than just give way, like i have seen CF do. I am sure some people have seen Ti give way, though i would say that is very rare.

I am no expert, but is there more people who can repair CF than Ti? I would have thought (I am aware that Ti is not easy to work with) that there would be more people who can weld, than people who can lay CF, especially over a fractured piece of CF?

I bet a carbon LT HT would last just as long as the Ti one

i bet it wouldn't, opinions are great though eh? 🙂

NOT ALL FRAMES MADE FROM THE SAME MATERIAL ARE THE SAME

Really? why the shouting? I'm still not clear as to why the statement is BS though?

An you trust your main brand's frame builder? As if you wouldn't?

he designed it, some other guy made it 🙂

Full of so much generalising it's a joke.

The quote was about a particular style of bike, a LT HT, so not really general or a joke.

Road bikes tend to go through less stress than a LT travel HT?

I don't mean to sound argumentative, but the OP was calling BS on a quote from Brodie about the Holeshot and the fact it is made out of ti and would be more durable than an equivalent CF frame. I know which material i would trust more in that style of bike.

I also trust Bruce Spicer's judgement (the guy who designed the Ti Holeshot) as he has masses of experience and knowledge.

CF is great, i sell bikes with CF so no beef against it, just disagree with the OP call on the BS from the quote 🙂

Zero – which is what you are using to justify your argument?

For sure. The point is, is Ti more durable than CF, no?

You were the one calling the BS in that quote, i just asked what was incorrect about the quote?

The performance issue is not the point, i doubt if CF would last as long as Ti, in particular being used as a long travel HT, like the holeshot marketing quote al is calling BS. How many LT carbon HT do you see?

Why oh why is there so much BS on the web?

Which bit is BS?

Depends what you're doing with it.

if two frames used for the same riding one from ti the other carbon, which would last longer?

lol, you stalking me again al? Will carbon last as long as Titanium al?

How about some Ti loveliness? Brodie Ti Holeshot long travel HT. Due to arrive tomorrow, frame numbers limited so you would be super cool and exclusive 😉

Canfield yellie Screamy

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Full pic for those interested. Canfield intend this frame to have the shortest chain stays and one of the slackest HA of any 29er. They want this frame to be nimbe and tough.

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The principle around the yelli screamy makes me intrigued to try 29er, something I never thought I would do!

Ton, I'm not completely aware of the 29er Market, is there the demand for a beefy 29er fork?

I just like his zest for life and his can do attitude!

Man i feel for you! We have just had our second Beagle and i would not be without them and feel your pain and loss.

Yeah I was thinking 5 spot, the DW does look nice, I don't want a 5 or specialied that's for sure, any more?

Cue Si @ progressive

Chumba XCL 🙂 a real four bar and very versatile

Shame on-one are out of stock as they were £300 !

Those were 32's not 36's

I have 2011 forks without the kashima coating, mail me at info@progressive-bikes.co.uk for prices.

Not many HX2 frames around, in fact not many were made (100 world wide) thats why you won't get many reply's on here 🙂

I have no stock, though i know Chumba have a few in larger sizes left, what size would you need?

Bureaucratic nonsense like this is far more prevalent in the private sector.

Becuase of all the crap that successive governments have imposed on them due to H&S etc and the fact that they are worried about the claim culture? 😉

Just found out i will be getting some in ano grey colour too, sweet!

if the pedals are worth the premium (and they are not the most expensive pedals on the market) is relevant to yourself.

Chris Canfield says that the pedals are more efficient by allowing you to lean back and push through the normal “dead spots” at the top and bottom of your pedal stroke. I have recently been using the pedals and they certainly feel more like an SPD type pedal at the bottom and top of the pedal stroke.

He also says that the platform also allows for more balance and stability because you are standing on the side of the spindles instead of the top.

Chris and Lance both race DH so know what they want from a pedal and seem to have come up with something uniquely different.

Pins have a stop now to they don't go all the way through. Slight change to inner pedal shape buy still as thin as before.

New Canfield pedals now in stock, in two new colours too!

18 bikes shouldn have some stock soon or buy from here 🙂 http://www.progressive-bikes.co.uk/canfield.html

Good grief! As DH bikes have got better and the forks work better, we've realised that you need to get your weight over the front to make that big fork work. Yeah, they're funny looking, ugly even, but they work.
Just for reference, my large VPfree has a stupidly long head tube, with normal riser bars and a conventional stem, the bar height is up in the clouds. I still have a riser bar (Fun 15mm rise/750wide) but to achieve the same net result my stem in fitted upside down. Having tried it back to back with stem normal way up and higher rise bars, its definatley better. I'm quicker and feel more in control than just a passenger. Its very easy to say its fashionable, but as said before, its all about getting them contact points in the right positions.

I agree with this. Things move on, so we tried riser bars, and they work. Then people start running 160mm forks on 'trail' bikes and now it seems that flat bars with sweep allow you to work the fork better and keep in a decent riding position, whats wrong with that?

I'm not sure it's fashion or marketing, just something different.

Are the vpp bikes regressive at the end of the travel?

Got a few Chumba XCL frames for £799, any good?

How did this go? What was the route like?