Most will fit, however with certain brands the inside tabs (Bit below the bolt hole) can foul the tabs on the cranks. So either check with who you are buying the parts off or buy a dremel multi.

IIRC you should be fine with most chainrings on shimano. Raceface on the other hand can be a little awkward to fit on.

Prick is easier to spell and use, It also rhymes with more words.

Yet to find anywhere that isn’t singlespeedabubble

Young Lady Falling off her bike without a helmet and looks fine:

(its Friday!)

You can always afford to give away a couple of Leeches though.

I wouldn’t mind a patch, but again comes down to if its my last one or two. Its not about cost its about me getting home, if two minutes later I found out that I’ve gone through the same glass/thorns/whatever I’d be pretty pissed off if i’d just given my only tube to someone else.

I’d always help with what I can, but wouldn’t give a tube or anything like that as I only carry one.

Especially if they asset there is no downside to helmet wearing.

So what IS the downside to me wearing a helmet?

And unless I missed it the deaths in the report are the result of accidents involving cars. Not pedestrians tripping over and dying compared with cyclists crashing on their own.

I’m against a compulsary ban, and don’t really care what others do. I’ll always wear one, my kids will always wear one and I’ll always recommend one to others to cover my own back (what they do with my advice is up to them but I’d be gutted if I said don’t bother and they needed it). What I fail to see is the downsides to wearing one and how I would be better off not wearing one.

No downsides to helmet wearing? I take it you wear one while walking or jogging then to reduce risk as far as possible. If not why not?

So what’s the downside?

As for the whole wearing one while jogging/walking. Come on its pointless everyone who is spewing shite like that. The arguement goes both ways, i’m sure the non-helmet wearers don’t disable airbags etc

Ours down in the New Forest.

If helmets were essential you’d have to wear them to hire a Boris and you don’t, so they aren’t.

I don’t think they are essential, but its my head and I want to protect it. I’ve trashed 3 helmets and I consider the pounds I’ve spent on them well spent.

I haven’t seen in my eyes an argument yet for me not to wear one.

I’d like to think that a car that’s stopped at a red light would have done all its braking and swerving already. Unless you’re assuming that i just dart bout the place with no regard to other road users, causing untold mayhem in my wake? Fact is I don’t want to be hit by a car, nor do i wish to cause other road users to have to take avoiding action. That doesn’t mean I’ll sit at a junction to wait for the lights to go my way if there’s little traffic on the road. I’d rather be considered selfish than a gormless idiot

Aren’t you by jumping the light and getting further down the road giving the car chance to travel past you at an increased speed?

If both start on green, (cyclist in the box in front of the cars) The car would sit at your speed then move past.

Saw it on facebook, I like it

Well yeah, but then so does Dunfermline.

Add it to the list!

got any pics?

if its for a small racing bmx a square taper is probably whats needed.

I don’t think Scotland would want to be dragged down by the North of England, it would be economic suicide.

Plenty of money in North Yorkshire. 😉

York or Edinburgh, both have historical claims.

I’d be in, sick of hearing Scots complain about Westminster ignoring them. Westminster ignores everything north of Watford Gap.

Buy the frame off Sam and take it to your local bike shop.

The fact remains that other than those small instances where traffic lights will not change because they need a car to activate them, there is no valid reason to jump the reds. The reason you jump them is because you want to, and that isn’t reason enough.

+1

I have genuinely never needed too,

I feel i can’t get on my high horse about road safety if I ignore the rules of the road.

Yup no Canyons or Cubes.

Purely a personal dislike of mass produced, big german direct sales outfits. Knocked out in their thousands in a Taiwanese factory.

Cube aren’t direct sales, Canyon are just as mass produced as most of the others on here. you not posting your bike?

As the fields get larger it may be worth setting the riders off in groups. Similar to triathlons.

-Cyclists are more likely to get better times as the whole field won’t try and pile into the first roundabout/corner at once.

-It won’t piss everyone else off as much.

Bearings are loads cheaper if you get them from places that don’t sell bike stuff.

Look up a local bearing supplier and take them with you.

Its just bad luck it happened so early on, damage like that is as likely to happened on your first ride or 100th and on a £400 or £4k.

I’d look at the cost cost effective way of sorting it. If the bike rode well fix it/or replace the arm and keep it.

If it didn’t decide if your going to sell it damaged or repair it then sell it.

Oh and sorry, sounds like its all a ballache.

Bottom Vid: The guy in the blue shirt is a hero.

My current half-link chain started flapping around my chainstays after two (fairly strenuous) climbs on last night’s ride. Is first use stretching normal?

Not being harsh but have you checked your wheel hasn’t moved?

I’ve had plenty where the dropouts slip.

Gypsies – Go where they want anyway, If there going to steal ROW isn’t going to help them,

Mountain Bikers/Walkers/Hikers will go where looks good and is more than likely a trail, A field of crop aint fun.

Average Joe – This is where there is more likely to be a problem in my eyes. Take a short cut without thinking about livestock etc and then sue landover because they got hurt through their own stupidity.

Something I’m looking at currently. really fancy a T4/T5.

Currently doing 60miles a day commute so working out the pros/cons.

Scottish rules are great in low density population areas in England & Wales it will be harder, why should you be able to ride/walk all over my family farm where we are trying to make a living disturbing livestock and then having to worry about people straying into areas where crop spraying etc is going on.

+1

As someone said above, if there’s a path/trail use it, To much of a blame culture in my eyes to let people roam anywhere where farming is involved.

When you go into least rated, about sueing farmer etc.

Your right about the ones in the first page.

contract of sale is with retailer and customer, nothing to do with the supplier to Evans. If the bike has quickly broken, its up to Evans to sort it out with their supplier. Telling customers “its going back to supplier or manufacturer for assessment is typical B.S. the bike industry likes to tell to clueless customers

Probably 90% of the items that have been returned to wherever I’ve worked have been returned to manufacture/distributor for inspection before a decision has been made to offer refund/replacement/tell them to jog on.

I would quote “goods not fit for purpose” and ask for a new bike, or a full refund, well within your rights under consumer law

Evans are also well within their rights to inspect the product, How does the shop assistant know its not neglect/crash damage.

It doesn’t sound like the process was explained well by Evans, or your the OP’s mate got the wrong end of the stick.

A mate? Hmm, this sounds a bit chinese whispers going on here. None of it is hardly Evans fault though, they’ll have to do what the importer asks for the warrantee.

+1

There is a UK distributor for RM now and you would of thought that Evans could just repair under warranty?

I can see why they wouldn’t, not their fault it broke so get RM to pay for it.

Hmmm

Pretty much what I expected, might look at just doing friendlies there’s enough of us to get 10 to turn up each week.

I’d be all for competitive but we all do others things as our main sports and suppose it wouldn’t great to be out of riding from a kick about.

First match tonight still looking forward to it. 😀

I’ve got a set in my elixirs, No complaints. Its really dry now so can’t compare to the last set of pads I used.

As a company they seem pretty good. I also have one of their lights which is excellent.

Considering how many people local to me have an issue with MTBer’s riding footpaths, I can’t see how promoting “Racing” on them will help the case for sensible cyclists to use footpaths.

Round me there are a few footpaths that could be re-classified and there are ones that should always remain footpaths, Especially round White Horse and Sutton Bank. There are too many that are too steep, steps and handlebar width.

Free Chainset and Forks with this one:

Clicky

I think its an ugly bike but the giant trance looks a good package. I had a quick go on the cheaper one at dalby, It rode really well.

Its not really a fair comparison comparing alivio from now with 5 or 10 years ago, the only thing that is similar is the name.

The only reason I’d pick a 10-15 year old bike with xt that was £500 over a modern alivio equipped equivalent is nostalgia.

I miss em. 🙁

I also miss the proper trolls, the ones we have now are very meh.

In the same way that suspension forks are “just” an evolution of rigid forks, perhaps.

Not really, suspension has changed riding. Dropper post just mean you don’t have to stop your bike to change saddle height.

There’s no trail you can’t ride without a dropper, but there are ones that you’d seriously struggle on without disc brakes, quality tyres and suspension.

I think dropper posts are great but there are some many other innovations that come above them.

forks early 90’s

frame late 90’s

can’t really tell the rest, looks like a parts bin random build.

You lot ride over what I do

poo?