Endura Pro-Sl user here. It’s very good though it does still get drippy from sweat if it’s cold, raining and you’re pushing, even with a superfine 120g merino baselayer.

The various shake dry seem good, I just need to find one that fits an 80kg 5’8″ rider with + 6 ape index.

Euro sizes are designed so that more sizes are packed in at the peak of the size range. ie sizes 7-8-9-10 cover a shorter physical range of mm measurements than 10-11-12-13 do.

That’s not the case with US and UK sizes, they are linear.

So they need nudging about a bit, and then different Last shapes etc.

After serial disappointment with muc off ceramic, wet and dry lubes I fell into purple extreme, very clean lasts a whole week of the wet commute.

Just trying some Silkolene motorbike gel lube for winter….

Torchy on ebay, recently bought some of his yellow wrapped 3400mAh batteries. Huge run times and a genuine 3400mAh capacity. I run them in 4x solarstorm box, rewired to remove the redundant USb connection.

About a tenner each but worth every penny.

Here’s the likely scenario.

CP saw it coming, indicated in no new contract, or dwindling stock availability, or increased lead times, requests to clear accts owing, whatever, he saw it. He likely decided to get out front, liquidate his stock quickly and leave Fox with a service gap and a saturated market that hurts whoever takes over while he moves on to new things. Good on him.

Fox will continue to offshore production, quality will tank, prices won’t change, and they’ll kill the brand eventually if decisions are made by accountants.

To compete against other brands Fox need to go direct in as many territories as possible. The Uk is an anomaly in terms of international trade and distribution channels. Often referred to as Treasure Island in the various sporting goods markets we suffer high prices and get gouged at every turn. Maybe they’ll go with another distro, maybe they’ll go direct. Either way they’ll suffer in the UK in the aftermarket.

But then they don’t give a frig, OEM is where the money is. Aftermarket probably isn’t 20% of their global sales.

Good luck to CP with what he does next, here’s hoping he has a viable solution for the business and the workers who made in an exceptional example of quality British service.

Re postage, every item has a physical and volumetric weight in the system and it adds up the item values to spit out a number that plugs into the courier option tables. It’s usually pretty good but with 20,000 plus stock items there’s bound to be some doozies.

if you’re struggling with anything drop me a line simon.clark @the expected company address.

There’s a £1500 Space Chicken Build up currently, Apex and Force mix. And a couple of Ti builds just landed for testing.

If you ride in the wet, if you ride in the gutter, if you ride in soemwhere like the peak district with gritstone dust on the roads forget carbon. I can go through a carbon rim on a road bike in less than a week during the spring. there’s no benefit.

If you want light and strong get mavic Ksyrium SLR or the current equivalent. Those new Open Exalith should build nice and strong on CXrays.

I’m oval on my Meta SX and my bish bash Bosh. Easier on knees, more even more through the stroke, slightly better for gasping up serious climbs. Tey do feel odd out of the gate but that goes in a few hours of use.

I love em.

See where it says Hope in the title, and see where it says Shimano patent on your image….

The elwoods are a fair chunk of change slower, but grippier offroad, the gravel king sk are a touch slower but also grippier, the slick gravel kings are prety much the same tyre.

Unfortunately a lot of chamois creams contain nut oils, so that’s total none starter for me. Nut allergy on the nuts, not a good look unless you like whoopie cushions. Which rules out Assos and Muc-off creams.

My favourite is DZNuts pro, the thicker stuff. It’s all round awesome and doesn’t sweat off like thinner creams can.

slack hardtail with a dropper is probably the best bet for taking in everything Sheffield has to offer.

they’ve obviously put the oil in backwards.

29er front for roll-over ability and a 650 rear for easier geometry, better clearances and quicker acceleration.

best of both worlds.

Epoxy

I thought I was the only person using a chip fryer.

I’m a big fan of the bottle clean. One 2L milk bottle and a filter funnel with coffee papers lets you clean the chain and reuse the turps substitute. I quick dry on the radiator and into the chip fryer it goes.

I reckon my mix is good for about 12 hours riding time offroad.

I’ve got a roll of stretchy iron on tape for gore-tex if you want a strip. just iron it on with baking paper to protect from the iron. I’ve used it on various stretch fabrics. pm me with address and its yours.

Dougal, you are correct 38’s.

Stato, what else would you like to know about it? I can try a few more tyre combo’s. I’d rather say what rubber fits on what rims than just throw out numbers for max tyre size, as it’s so rim specific.

Yeh, there’s a few framesets out there that look like the Space Chicken, but none of them are the same. Look a little more closely at those rear triangle clusters, the seat tube and BB junction, the fork, bottle boss mounts, dropper cable routing, lack of any FM mount, mudguard and rack mounts. That’s before you look at how they’re put together, what carbon is used and the layup schedule. Not forgetting that most of the ones linked on this page use an aero seat tube…

It’s an on-spec bike at the right price, they’ll start selling soon enough.

Funkmaster, the Space Chicken went through an iterative design process where aspects of the design were considered, altered, evaluated and then included in the production version. That’s design…

P20, the nano’s are snug on the Ful Monty but entirely doable. If you ride it like a mountain bike and rail the crap out of turns you might rub a chainstay, but in normal use, they’re fine.

Should have gone to your LBS. I’ll always search the local shops, before I go online JEJames usually have what i want if we don’t stock it at work (PX)

I’ve done a lot of mixed commuting on my Kysirium SL Pro, with 25mm tyres the wheels have held up as well as a set of WTB CX i19’s with 32mm tyres on. They’re surprisingly tough rims. I’d totally consider a set of these built up with CX-rays on disc hubs for my B.B.Bosh.

Love that is has DA mechanical on it.

There aint 100 available in total, it’s just a site bug

No, it’s just a pricing mistake. Pre brexit price on the individual items, grab em while you can.

I had a real holy shit moment this morning when checking out the price of fat bike tyres, most really are ridiculously expensive, that’s low volume production for you. Spinning a new tyre isn’t cheap, mould costs are over 10k and MOQs are multi thousand. That’s the price of being a niche I guess.

On-One isn’t getting out of fat bikes. It just happens that we’ve run out of fatty trail frames at the same time as fat bike hubs. For some reason, every man and his dog bought them during december/january and we’ve blown through the stock.

They’ll be back.

A few Space Chicken facts.

We were well into this design before the One-up appeared. It’s Dave’s personal baby, his bike for the riding he does, so it doesn’t have to make sense. We aren’t making large numbers of them, the frame is expensive to produce so I wouldn’t hold your breath for price miracles.

It’s a real hoot to ride especially as moustached 650.

Are these run without lube?

There’s no free lunch here.
Lower viscosity oil is more free running, but doesn’t cling as well.
Same goes for grease, better film pressure equals more drag.
Tighter seals keep out crap but increase stiction.

and all those spray shit lubes you can get end up dragging crap past the seals.

Don’t worry about the history, Mark’s a good guy with a good rep, he just partnered up with the wrong guy- previously.

He’s not just making, he’s also designing and licensing so he’s on a very solid foundation. Buy with confidence, he makes an excellent frame and has a real feel for his craft.

It doesnt matter what you use they’ll squeel like hell dirty or wet. Get some better discs first.

Clink, it’s more XC geometry than trail, figure it with a 70/80mm stem. It’s only 10mm off a pure race XC in reach.

Ben_h, looking like RRP for the frame is 999, we’ll probably do a launch date offer at 899 for the first ten frames. The frames aren’t up on their own yet.

Those China Rango’s aren’t, plain and simple. There’s several revisions worth of development in that frame that’s all us. Sure you can buy one that looks similar, though not in any sense of the word identical, same as you can with chinarellos. The geometry, layup, frame specs another bits and bobs are all us.

Re designers we work with a few well known contractors and we do some dev in house.

I agree with you about the S36, it’s fugly, but it rides remarkably well and does what it says on the tin.

I’ll edit the Titus content, it is 130mm rear on both bikes. The Gravity Trail version does actually eat stuff up, if you ride front weighted its a really capable bike.

Are you sure you weren’t a tiny bit to blame? I have a friend with a punchable face, he’s nearly always at fault in these incidents.

Joking aside, I hope you lent forward to give him the hard shoulder.

At its heart its an inexpensive bike. We could do a bolt on back end with all manner of slots and different sizes as options but its detracting from the simplicity. 26″ in XS only is a solid idea though, might take you up on that.

I like the idea of a 26″ 650 back end combo, there’s gotta be loads of shed bikes out there with 26″ wheels just dying to be built into a hack bike/xc hardtail, 650b compatibility down the line protects your investment. mmmm interesting and typically leftfield, could be right up our street.

The trouble is that there are so many standards in the market and its such a small market. There’s economies of scale to consider and a spread of frames that take the same parts helps with stock management. In an ideal world we’d be able to shoehorn 197×12 rears onto a 83mm BB for a nice low Q factor and still let people run 5″s.

The Inbreds are due a refresh, thats on the table currently and we’re looking at the whole Fat Bike offering in a similar light. They’ve been good to us, and niches is where On-One really does well.

Let’s see what comes out in the wash over the next few weeks. We just want to make bike that people want to ride.

My money is on it being the most split season so far. I’ll take Gwin, Bruni, Hart and Gee for at least one win each. Any Rach for the women’s with maybe one event going elsewhere.

This thread is why we can’t have nice places to ride.

I’m on 25 slicks on my road bike which is slammed at the front, ave in to work 20-21mph. On my Bish Bash Bosh with the same 25’s I’m a good 2mph slower and with my 38mm Gravel grinders on and on canal path I’m about 15mph ave.

It’s mostly rubber unless you on a butchers bike.