just had a look in the cupboard and found a thermos 0.35l, as simon said its too thin for the bottle cage so itll have to go in the camelbak.

Hope it works well.

found this, reckon it'd fit in a normal bottle holder?

http://www.great-rock.co.uk/blog/
news about new trails round lancashire etc and decent videos/ new bikes.

apparentley there is very little different in the xt's to xtr's ,i personally would choose the xt's over the xtr's because of the power adjust and post mount.

Hope's are very nice, the new lever it great with the power and reach adjust easily hand operated. But expect the 'hope brakes are ****' from a few people on here.

id go with the hopes .

If you dont mind them not being bling hayes 9 are very reliable, good feel/power, extremely easy to bleed and pad changing is a breeze. they do a carbon lever version as well if you want a little bling

the rsp light is great value and very very bright with an excellent run time!
3 hours with both on full and and the battery is small too. V good value

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i dont see how 30mm of extra travel would be much of a risk though? the 100mm forks of those days looked more like a 130mm length anyway.
If the ripping of the swing arm off is a problem with the sub 5 aswell it must be an isolated problem ,i know someone whos had nine years with no worry out of a sub5 and still works fine. Could it not be people running their shock too soft so the bottom out regularly putting strain on the pivot?

anyone?

traquir arms is great, inerleithen

itd be fine im sure of it, look at the most recent singletrack, the kona stab reviewed in the 'widowmakers' section has xt levers and saint calipers.

anyone tried the superstar ceramic bb's? v cheap

seconded for the zinn book

LASER allen key set, not a bike brand but they are top quality!

oh and by the way, although you'd probably want to check this with someone who's not trying to sell you a laptop, 3gb is way more than the average user needs, even when gaming or graphics processing (unless were talking cgi video editing sorta thing)

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/dell-vostro-1500-laptop-gaming

that what you're looking for?

the spec would make it run better than the average laptop on things like photoshop because of its dedicated graphics card.

if your interested i can send you pics etc.

spock-1995@live.co.uk

bleed em, there's something up there.

you could get a new lumicycle battery of the website?

Errrrrrr, msisle's were/are only made in aluminium.

and yeah, defo depends how tall you are!!

5ft 8, on the orange website it has a cro-mo badge on the description?
http://www.orangebikes.co.uk/2006bikes/msisle.php

depends how tall you are perhaps? I am 5ft 4 and I use a 14" msisle (with pikes) for all my riding. It is quite a heavy xc bike but I haven't had anything else to compare it with. It's a tatty bike but very pretty if that helps

thanks, is that the steel or aluminium one?

The 16 inch is alright for XC, 14 inch is a bit too small. Theyre not heavy really, my 14 inch frame weighs 5.5 pounds or so.

is that the steel or aluminium version, thanks.

very tempting…

well the vanilla's are by far the smoothest if that helps.

the best to go with is get a crank brothers 10 multi tool and get a separate chain tool, they are so much easier to use. that'd be under £25. But the larger crank brothers versions are decent enough

in my experience normal led lights are pants, an ultrafire c3 is miles brighter for about £7. Cree led's are the best.

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.1993

rob, which one are you talking about?

thanks,

thanks you very much! much appreciated. i think i might just have to subscribe

still not working! anyone know when itll be up and running?

and then it says script error?

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thanks for the advice, is the run time any different between the ion and the nimh?

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play in the lowers

Its a tad overspecked for just everday tasks

I bought a Hope 4 – why?

Because I wanted one.
To be honest if i could i would

Ton…. I think his new lights cost more than his Kona..thats why he didnt spend £100's on lights be worth more than the bike.

Id like to say your wrong ,its a kona shred frame (i know its a dj frame but it was cheap and is nice and beefy). With lx, hayes,merlin handmade shimano/mavic wheels (£65 for the set :wink:) and some dieing fox's up front

a real nice one what difference does it make, we're talking about lights

spock, bike?????????????????????

A kona

the innerleithen car park is fine, at the trailhead

those log's look like they took some time