Why a 7/8 speed mech? Isn’t it quite hard to get decent quality gear in 7/8 speed these days? You should be able to pick up good second hand 9 speed fairly cheap.

If On-One are doing a slot dropout with a hanger then I’d go for that, given your plans. You can always get a BB-mounted chain guide if you need one. They work fine IME.

+1

+1 Dalby,

I live near sutton bank and to get anything other than drovers roads you’d need a local or spend some time on a map. you’d save time on driving but lose it on looking for trails.

El mars are getting as common as jones’s now.

Mine might end up in the classifieds 🙁

Very nice duckman, Still yours?

Just seen the pics now, hows the pace shep? Which is your favourite?

The Pace’s are no more 🙁

The salsa is by far the best 29er I’ve owned. love it to bits. The top pic is its current set-up.

Salsa With Reba’s

Salsa with Rigids

Pace with rigids

Another Pace with fat front

STW Standard Rigid Swift

Good group of us ride out of bagby/kilburn/coxwold area (near Thirsk), Thursday nights and a longer one at weekends.

Email in profile if you fancy a ride out.

I bought a pair of halo aerorage wheels for my paddy wagon a few years ago and they where excellent, sealed hubs, tough rims and not silly money either.

Halfords have a long way to go in my opinion as the damage is already done from what I can see

From what you can see yes, but your not the mass market. Halfords are the biggest at the lower end and their model works. If they turn their backs on BSO’s and cheap end they will lose a considerable amount of revenue. They need people to keep coming back and work their way through the range of bikes.

Maybe you could teach me about the software for the Management of Nuclear Fuel Rods in Magnox Reactors,

Sorry 😳 My time at grammar school made me do it.

I’ve got uberbike, really good, got one of their lights too.

A few years ago they opened a sub brand called Cycle Republic (I think) in york. It only really sold high end. Was a great shop till it closed.

I have the reba RLT, and have been really pleased with them. Been on since feb.

I’m with the OP on the frame warranty self-build issue though – A manufacturing defect is just that, regardless of who builds the bike

most components/frames have it, Its to stop people fitting parts incorrectly or ones that are unsuitable. If the parts broke through their intended use then no problems.

If they didn’t carbon road frames would weight a tonne to be prepared for people fitting Rockshox Boxxers to handle a few pot holes on the route to work.

Do you know what brand sleeve it was? Any issues with it?

This one, that a few people have mentioned.

FSA Sleeve

Works perfectly fine, you get some glue with it. A shop will do it for you. If I bought a BB30 frame one of these would be going straight in,

A mate of mine has a GT Staystrong racing bmx.

He tried all sorts of cranks, mods etc, In the end we got a sleeve, and pressed it in with a headset press.

Now just works like a normal frame and uses deore bb’s.

Are people still trying to justify counterfeit goods?

The problem is there are two types of cyclists,

People who love riding bikes

and

People who have bikes.

The later often being more of a problem.

There is a lot of riding near me at Sutton Bank. (just east of Thirsk, 15 miles north of york)

Have a look on strava, you’ll see the routes,

Its a nice ride from there to osmotherly, following the drovers road and the bits of singletrack that come off it.

Should have sent it back before spending money on it.

Name and shame then go ride and enjoy it.

How does one change gear on the dinglespeed?
Do you have to get off the bike and move the wheel in and out?

Yep,

two cogs front, two cogs rear, swap the chain over.

I’ve always been a fan of nixon. I’m sure they do a few suitable models,

You can pick them up in snowboarding shops etc.

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I have a couple and they are bloody tough.

There’s been a few of these threads recently,

Does your frame have singlespeed compatable dropouts?
If so, dingle speed is a good option. If ran it a couple of time. works a treat if all the teeth add up to the same on both combos.

If its a vertical dropout frame, just stick with the sping loaded tensioner, ones with more wrap like pauls, rohloff etc will handle the jump between cogs better.

Karate monkey?

And maybe its all in my head but every bike I get on feels different to every other one to me – I’m amazed people can go from a 26″ bike to a 29″ bike and not feel a difference immediately, cos they are different! Otherwise what’s the point?

Do all tyres feel the same? All bar widths feel the same? All stem lengths feel the same? No… why should wheels be any different?

+1

So much of this is a joke,

I personally don’t think churches/businesses should be forced into marrying anyone the don’t want to, irrelevant of sexual orientation, religion etc. But the institute of marriage should be open.

I know a few gay guys who’s main comment on the CofE is Why would anyone want to get married somewhere that they don’t feel welcome or have any interest in. I think that’s a fair point, look at how many straight couples who get married in hotels etc.

It’s amazing how sensitive/aggressive the 29er evangelists are. It seems to get them very upset if you don’t immediately spaff over every single 29er. Apparently riding a 29er and not liking it proves nothing – riding a 29er and liking it proves everything.

29ers coming nowhere in a race proves nothing – 29ers winning a race proves everything.

The exact opposite can be said for the 26″ crew,

Not all 29ers are the same, just like 26ers.

As for the racing, the best rider wins.

Not a singletrakworlder one near the top in the enduro world series.

😆

But that was kind of my point, are 29’ers going to be the death of 26″ wheeled bikes to fit tall people?

More than likely, you can blame marketing all you want but people are buying them,

As soon as a demo comes near i’m going to have a proper go on one. Can’t wait.

Quite evidently the latter not the former… Perhaps if you moderate Drac you should be setting an example rather than putting a normal member down? It’s not exactly a level playing field.

TBF His “bike test” was a lap of a car park and there is nothing wrong with a bit of mickey taking.

I never knew there was official lines.

Strava 🙄

breatheeasy – breatheeasy

Having seen a couple of Chinarello Dogmas, the build quality and finish is superb – easily comparable to the real deal.

Rubbish, They may look with beer goggles from a distance but in reality its:

We had a Chinarello in the other week for a new headset, – couldnt get one as it was all non standard and when you saw how the steerer had been made by simply gluing a tube of carbon to the fork legs then you realise why its cheap shit. not to mention how the bars snapped a week later.

If it fools you, then go a head. Just hope I’m not following you down a hill.

I understand the arguments against these bikes, but I wouldn’t be buying this instead of genuine Cervelo, I’d be buying it instead of an unbranded version of the same sort of thing.

I don’t get this at all, The whole I’m not robbing a sale from Cervelo.

Well technically by keeping the fraudsters in business you are,

A good alloy frame will ride better and you won’t look as much of a tool.

So LoCo .. why the diff attitude when you use diff log in accounts?

Personal View Vs View of a business.

I think its fair to have a “Business” and a “Personal” log-in.

I’ve been in my LBS for parts in the past, to be told “We’ll have then in on Thursday”, only to find that when Thursday comes around “The rep didn’t call in, we’ll have them next Thursday”.

LBSs don’t order from a rep. They order from a distributor. Most stuff is easy to get, but some stuff is very hard to source for various reasons.

Depends how long ago, B2b with distributors is only fairly new. Before that you had to have a visit from one of your reps or give them a call.

There is also a diference between a “Rep” and a “Agent”

Reps work for distributors/brands, Agents are self employed and you generally deal with them direct.

My LBS fits parts I buy from them for free (if I want them too)

I recently bought a hope headset. To go in a frame I also bought from them.

RRP is £79.99, CRC price £75.99.

I get 10% discount for being a member of the local club. Fitting free. So win on this one.

This sort of service means that sometimes if crc is cheaper (within reason) I’d still go to my LBS.

I can only guess that the people who are offering excuses for what happened are people in the bike trade?

In which case .. surely these people should be trying to remove the bad apples that are giving their profession a bad name.

I’ve worked in the bike trade for years, as many on here know. (Don’t anymore)

But I had a similar incident happen to me when I worked in a sports shop just after leaving school.

A chap came in late on a friday, after the latest Pete Sampras racket that had just arrived that morning desperate to play with it that evening. So I grabbed the racket out of the box showed him it. He then asked if he could have it strung in the top of the range string at a certain tension.

I said no probs, cut the strings out whilst chatting to him and restrung the racket. He paid for the string and racket left capped to bits.

The next morning he called to say the racket had been strung in the same strings as original. (He was right, but at the time this was an unusual string to factory standard) Kicking off that we had ripped him off. We apologised and gave him the refund of string.

I genuinely never thought to check and my intentions where to get the customer out the door with what he wanted for his match that evening.

I’m not defending the shop entirely or saying the OP is completely wrong, as I wasn’t there and only have an internet rant to go off. I’m just saying there is a good chance it was a mistake.

The glass is always either half full or half empty.

6’2″ with 33″ inside leg, With a fair bit od seatpost out.

I had the Large, loved it. ran it with a 120mm stem.

I gave it to my dad who is a little shorter than you and uses a 100mm stem. He’s a big fan of it too now.

You’ll need a new crown race.

Chris King does a “tall” one that adds 5mm.

This had me pretty wound up ..

Sorry but LOL!!!

Brightened up a wet day

Doesn’t sound very honest mistake to me

50/50 either way in my opinion.