I wish. :-(

Having chatted to DCC about this, I was surprised to hear that Peak rail actually sounded quite interested in offering guard’s vans (to carry bikes) and link the ideas together. We’ll see…

We had exactly this – a hose had popped off the back (feeds the reservoir) so water was just running down the back of the machine.

Have you pulled it out to take a look?

Anything with a different PN is a different part – where shared, they use the same code.

IIRC it doesn’t work out anything like cost effective to swap bits around to change wheelsize

have you met anyone called Shimwell in Youlgreave yet?

;-)

hehe, was about to post this having seen it on Dirt’s twitter feed

sounds fairly normal, although not in every case. Worth a double check that there’s still clearance between top of steerer and top of stem (or spacers)

Either would be enjoyable, but really quite differnt. I’ve had some proper good times on the CX around teh valley, but not as fast descending as on the mtb!

Have you got ideas/plans of where you’d like to ride? Pop in the shop (18 Bikes) if you’d like a natter over a map

Oh – I used a small pack (Osprey Raptor 6) – the straps give you something to rest the bike on your shoulder too ;-)

1) Doesn’t get quite as rocky/blocky as I remember, more of the moorland/grassy, but with rocks sticking out. If you’ve ridden round here on the CX bike, you’ll be fine. Practice the shouldering/climbing bit imho.

2) No idea on the others, I’m sticking with suggesting Landcruisers

thanks folks!

agreed – I rode Cardinham a few times last year on my cross bike, great fun.

Headed to Lanydrock this year, again with cross bike – really impressed with the new setup there. I went with my wife, who’s not really a rider, so the easier trails were spot on.

RP90 – it’s pretty amazing stuff

Indeed – if it’s the 2014 it will still want the travel limiting to avoid tyre/crown, but 2013 won’t clear at the arch no matter what.

No worries DT78 – I’m on a weekend off, but the lads should follow up for you. I’ll check on Monday to follow up.

RS – ;-)

we (18 Bikes) do have details of the standard Equilibriums – just not got anything like the whole range added to the webshop yet. Fire me an email info@18bikes.co.uk and I can explain as much on pricing/specs as possible!

Equilibrium discs have a modern look/bright colours, the standard models have kept the really classic looks, silver kit/campag options now. All nice, very different ranges.

Si

it’s another one (like peanut butter) where variety is great. smoetimes chunky, sometimes smooth, sometimes tahiniey (?!)

Aldi one is decent. Our local middle eastern/polish/bit of everything shop has decent, cheap too. chunkier and more chick peas than supermarket ones.

nothing for me yet. not looking too promising :-(

I disagree bungle!

I spoke with Zyro (UK importer) who reckoned it would be late summer before they started to get the newer Easton bits, more than a little annoying. They’re not listing anything yet -but I’m expecting similar pricing to the current range.

Email me at the shop if you’d like to go on my “keep people updated” list on this info@18bikes.co.uk

This one on Saturday

In front of the entire finish line crowd.

Then my shorts fell down.

a great day out, my first time racing. went through the tape first run, then fell in the bombhole second run (with bonus shorts down moment) I’ve not seen any photos of my fall yet though, thankfully!

Another top job from all involved, looking forward to next year…

Peanut butter

My first, punctured on the road before the forest and fell off later. Still loved it!

Do they post times, or is the finish just so they know not to go looking for you?

Hora – NP, although I’m more than a little jealous of you out riding today ;-)

alex – we’ve not booked anything yet, but if you want to send us an email then I’ll get in touch when we sort it. Usually a tuesday evening, but we can be fairly flexible on that.

info@18bikes.co.uk

totally agree – having riders on track for most of the day was superb, even better seeing kids riding! Impressive that it seemed to be clubs training, rather than 1 off beginner sessions.

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superb – this has been a more than useful little thread, cheers folks! Really rather looking forward to my trip next month now…

IHN – the Monsal is one of our off-the-peg options. If you’ve a particular look that you’re after, then another £200 puts you into custom build options with us- which includes colours etc. Forks are one you can choose too- we’ve put the Whisky (which I love!) as the option at £1100, but we can offer Enve etc instead.

If you’re able to, as RD says – Bespoked would be a great opportunity to chat with some builders!

http://bespoked.cc/

that’d certainly be number 1 to check!

1)has it only ever had the mismatched brake/rotor? Or have you tried a Shimano rotor with it?

2) some time spent making sure the 2 pistons are pushing evenly is worthwhile. I’ve had Shimano brakes centred by the usual method, where they’re actually working more like a cable brake – with one pad pushing the rotor over into the other. Holding back the enthusiastic piston to let the other work its way out sorts this.

cheers folks, we do try.

jonk – was it your wheels where Hope sent us 2 rear wheels? If so, double thanks for understanding that these things happen ;-)

superficial – did you ever go in the old shop? That really was tiny.

hora – it works in our interest to raise money for Ride Sheffield too, all part of the bigger picture, but I’m glad you see where we’re coming from with that.

thunderwing – sounds like a misunderstanding there. We do have an off-the-peg Heckler in the shop, at £2500 IIRC, certainly below £3400. We don’t/can’t deal with the big box shifting type brands (Spec/Trek/Scott/Giant/etc) as it simply doesn’t work for a small shop like us. We choose to deal with brands where we can make things work- that means frame only/custom build focus for bikes like Cotic and Santa Cruz, along with some decent complete bikes from Genesis. Apologies if we’ve somehow misworded to you/your mate, but we can’t be all things to everyone.

Hehe – of course, we’d gone with the adjustable dropout for neatness. custom frame = your choice (within reason) on most bits!

Matt says he’ll bring it the the show, seeing as you said please ;-)

certainly no problem to re use existing parts too – that’s pretty commonplace tbh.

We can do a really pretty sweet deal, especially on a complete build – certainly better value than the off the peg builds. You also get full choice on component sizes/colour/which tyre etc. It’s what we’ve done on our own bikes too, makes much more sense imho.

Fire me an email if you’d like to chat through details. I might be biased (have a 5010 myself) – but you’ll not go wrong with that bike!

info@18bikes.co.uk

did you replace the DS seal when swapping the springs?

did you replace the DS seal when swapping the springs?

yep – we have a (hail damaged) Cat D Panda. Saw before photos, price was good enough to go with it. Was from a bodyshop type place, so you could tell that they did it themselves, not pulling wool over your eyes on something else.

For Cat d, with Adrian flux – we only had to discuss the write off, no need for any other paperwork and the price was no different. No idea on other Categories.

We spoke at length about this with Hope at the show.

Rims aren’t to compete on price (it actually costs them more than Stans now they’re bulk buying so many of those) – more to offer something even stiffer than the Flow EX. I’m likely to try a set, we’ll see.

Narrow/wide ring is on the way to us (so they say) – so hopefully by the end of the week. £45 RRP. 32/34/36t to start, then 30t in a couple of weeks.

I’d be a little surprised, given that the Fortitude never sold in enough numbers to justify keeping it the range. Genesis will know better than I though. I’d imagine that the Caribou will somewhat test the water too.