Got my daughter’s XS Saracen Mantra Trail – female version. Grew out of it a long while back, and barely rode it when she did fit it.
Appreciate that the women’s version may be an issue, but only differences from standard version were saddle and colour.

Looks like a smaller version of this.

https://www.tredz.co.uk/.Saracen-Mantra-Trail-27-5-Womens-Nearly-New-19-2018-Hardtail-MTB-Bike_230886.htm

Has upgraded DT X1900 wheels run tubeless with Maxxis tyres and a dropper post.

Happy with £300 delivered if of any interest.

Cheers, Dave.

Or just do what this guy has done….. Seen in Belhaven Bikes – Colin said that the guy got used to it and so has taken the saddle and post off his other bikes too…..

I know short cranks are more popular these days, but 30mm seems a bit extreme…

New Vagabond might be more up your street than the last one.

Got a new unused 780 XT mech at home if you’re after one. Away from h9me just now, but back next week.

Can get pics etc then.

Cheers, Dave.

Sportline/Madison have stock of the 11 speed version, but don’t appear to list the 8 spd version unfortunately.

No harm. It’s got an integrated stop.

i find the current style much easier than the long arm style mechs to set up, as long as you follow the less than intuitive instructions.

Maybe the heaviness is up at the shifter at the tight bend towards the bar?

If running the bars at the same height, the Orange will be shorter in effective reach than the Cannondale as you’ll need to space it up (and hence back) on the steerer.

The Camino has more similar stack, so the on-paper reaches are more directly comparable. The Camino is longer, so a shorter stem than you ran on the Cannondale should correct and work well with the slacker HTA. The Camino’s steeper STA may slightly offset the reach increase when seated, but the saddle rail horizontal adjustment scope may mask that depending on where you ran the saddle on the Cannondale.

Got mine on DT CR1400s and they’re fine if you drop the bead into the rim well.

Got a medium Genesis Datum frameset if of interest? I ran it as a gravel bike, though it is really an all-road frame.

Let me know if any use?

Quite right!

That doesn’t appear to be universally agreed.

Funn’s own pictures of the product show it mounted in line with HTA, and with the bar markings centred on the stem face plate markings which put the bars in line with HTA as all other brands seem to do.

If bars are vertical, they’re rolled forward relative to head angle, and therefore increase the stem length effectively by pushing the bars further forward in relation to the steerer.

I quite like his inability to keep that internal!

Tall bars or spacers both reduce reach. If you roll the bars forward to be steeper than HTA, then you’re increasing effective stem length to offset the reach reduction.

A howler of a round for me. Loved the racing though!

Plenty other better options – some mentioned above.

Frog did a great marketing job, and a mediocre product job.

As  rootes01 says, they’re too long for many – esp riders who lack confidence. Assembly quality has dropped since they started assembling in Wales according to dealers.

12spd Shimano is a piece of piss to set up. Check hanger alignment, follow instructions and it’ll work without needing any attention for years – that’s been true of both bikes I’ve got it on.

800 cranks aren’t bonded. They’re constructed like MTB cranks rather than road ones.

Not as much as spelling them.

Has it not sunk in yet?

STW posters don’t like anything.

Sadly, not a great deal.  Just in time for the first decent weekend weather wise in Glasgow for weeks.

Not grumpy – honest.

Utter W*nkers

This gets weirder.

That adaptor you linked to is a FM Rear +20mm adaptor. Two sets of 34mm spaced holes presumably.

FM is 34mm spacing

PM is 74mm.

45mm is ???

What frame?

Ah – didn’t realise the frame is PM…

Pics would help.

Sounds odd.

70mm one is the front adaptor.

They do a load spreading accessory specifically for carbon tubes.

Part no TH98401

Are there two different Inveruglas? The one I know is by Loch Lomond, so it sounded like a monster ride!

Bromptons themselves are a perversion.
Some of Ben’s custom versions are pleasantly perverted though.

I’d more likely run a bigger front tyre, but wouldn’t want to change wheel size to accommodate it.

Stock one seems to be 190/45, so both the ones mentioned seem odd recommendations.

Another vote for GV500s. Only shorts so far where the fit is as expected for quoted size – others are huge in the waist.

230/210 are eye to eye measurements in mm

62.5/55 are stroke lengths in mm.

Out of production/business the following Spring.

Are they still Black Chilli? If so, do they still last really well for their durometer?

Anyone tried the indoor Ooni electric one or similar?

Vittoria and others do a lot of 700×47 options.

 

Vagabond is Boost rear (not front as the Susp forks to fit are 100×12) so Boost chainline .

 

Frameset weights quoted are frustratingly everything that comes in the box – frame, fork, headset, axles, seatclamp, hanger, a pile of M5 bolts etc… Makes them appear heavier than they are. Wish they wouldn’t do that.

 

 

Focus do Boost gravel bikes. Don’t know if they do framesets though?

Surprised more don’t as 148 rear ends work better with the wide chainline of GRX etc.

Lots of gravel product out there with limited tyre clearance, but loads of space between chainrings and chainstay as they’ve been built to work with narrower chainline chainsets as well as wider gravel options.

Makes sense to embrace the wide chainline stuff and Boost, but I appreciate this might be faced with the same resistance that it met in MTB originally.

“I’ve been using Hope BBs with Shimano cranks since 2008, 2009 ish. First time I’ve ever had an issue. We’ve got maybe half a dozen hope BBs in the house between my bikes and hers, most of them on their original bearings.”

Are the bearings rough in the BB that wore the axle?

“As an aside – how come this isn’t a known, talked about, failure mode with 30mm axle cranks, which are all aluminum axles interfacing with steel bearings – I would have thought they would get chewed up in no time??”

It is pretty common – I’ve seen plenty personally and many pics posted on here.