It’s the grease, you can run thinner stuff during winter with no issues. I had iso F&R on my Blur LT, ran them for five years, jet washed the crap out of them, jumped them all over the place and generally abused them. I never stripped or regreased the bearings, never needed doing and I only cracked the rear hub open once to put thinner lube in it.

utterly bullet proof and worth every penny.

Ultremo’s, crap wear, suck up flint like a hoover but grip like no other.

The Mrs is doing her clinical psychology Phd and has an interest in Mindfulness, in fact she’s doing a full scale trial in S.Yorks with three schools next year with a hope to further validate the emerging evidence base as regards its usefulness.

Personally I think it’s pointless, introspective bollocks, but then I’m not a practicing social worker/CBT practitioner with 20 years experience, and she is. Apparently “they should just f_in man up” isn’t helpful….

Who knew.

Sad loss, loved his work for years, he’s been the backbone of the British offroad cycling press.

Try the Corsodyl stuff, salty, but awesome

Nice job Brant, every little helps.

Didn’t someone show prior art on thick thing rings thus rendering SRAM claims moot?

Do you boil them? If not then it’s bad parts or bad bleeding.

Here’s a selection of simple truths about this matter. One of them will be correct.

1. You leave your weed lying round.
2. You have a better Sky package than he does.

Metal Smiths– nice B&W logo of a guy beating the shit out of a part over a cnc machine rather than an anvil.

CNC Alchemy– nice logo of some guy with a huge wizards sleeve casting a spell over a freshly milled part.

I expect a freebie if used.

Move house to the Peak District, he’ll thank you for that forever.

@legend

Yup, babysick all down your stanchions and zero lube.

north east wedding and dog photography, surely that’s just one job!

For batteries, read this guy, then buy Panasonic 3100mAh from a genuine supplier.

http://www.torchythebatteryboy.com/p/18650-batteries-chargers.html

for chargers, buy this.

http://www.nitecore.co.uk/Shop/Products/Batteries-AND-Chargers/12347-Nitecore-Intellicharger-i4-V.2.html

All the chargers on DX are shit. That’s the technical term, they are all underspecced, poorly designed, not fully heatsinked/ballasted and generally ready to kill you from the second you plug them in.

The panasonics and Nitecore might be far from the cheapest bits you can buy, but they do happen to be the best. I run a 1200lm light and one of Trouties original 2100lm lights.

Frame looks like it has seen plenty of action with lots of scoring inside seat tube, indicative of lots of adjustment and a lack of carbon paste.

I’m just taking a wild stab here, but i’d lay good odds on the fact that the unsprung mass on this fork vs a similar size/spring type/travel fork would probably be at best 100-200 grams, given the requirement for a seriously overbuilt hub interface and the weight of decent light lowers.

I agree that lower unsprung mass is good, the lower the unsprung mass the easier it is to keep on the ground and the more supple the fork could be built with lower seal breakaway force if so desired, additionally a USB self lubes much better so even looser seals could be used.

That said, I doubt it will feel any different apart from the lower torsional rigidity to a normal 15mm through axle fork. Factor in the 24″ inches of fully active suspen sion you have working all the time you ride in your arms and legs and honestly the whole story is barely worth comment.

Does anyone know if they are using the Reverb keyway to add torsional stiffness, that’ll be a clusterf_ck of servicing issues to deal with.

Creaking isn’t a feature, follow the damn instructions and use a torque wrench. Creaking is a result of not RTFM. My mate Craig’s creaked for weeks after he fitted them, i refitted them, never a creak since. My Carbon lite and Duo have never creaked.

To stiffen an USD fork you need some sort of arch, like Emerald use on the EVO. Without they are torsionally weak, unless of course you have a huge stiff axle with a massive clamping interface, but even then they won’t be stiffer than the same normal fork.

Jesus, and I’ve been whinging about being off the bike for 4 weeks with some soft tissue damage after a climbing fall.

The shape of a glass has been proven to play a huge part in how we taste the contents, the amount of air moving within the part full glass and the shape of the lip all play a part in presenting the taste differently.

This may or may not apply to that coke glass though.

I shall buy the vinyl multipack versions, wait until someone I know and trust buys them, listen to his and keep or sell depending on the level of butchery. I have the Quiex pressing versions 1-4 so they’ll have to be bloody good to better those.

Get a rear gear hub.

I use the Ritchey version of those Xpedo’s, great pedals, use them on my road bike and on my xc bike with the same shoes.

Been riding bikes since I was four, 38 years now, this is my first ever helmet.

and

more at http://www.flickr.com/photos/59684834@N08/sets/72157638740866764/

The ERD was spot on on mine, built up with Cx-rays and Hopes, 20 & 142 (40t). They weigh the same as my Crossmax SX did but I’ll warrant they are stronger and will hold true for longer. And yes my tyre profile is now about 5mm wider. They hold a lot more at steper lean angles than they used to do.

I hate to break it to you mate but….

http://www.creationwatches.com/products/seiko-chronograph-watches-63/seiko-solar-alarm-chronograph-ssc075p1-ssc075p-ssc075-3715.html

£135…

I have two divers from them, first rate service, cheapest Seiko supplier there is.

Typical for a new acct or first uploads to an account. I have flagged them as incorrectly tagged for you. The bots should look at them soon and realise they are perfectly safe and re-categorize them. The more people who flag them as incorrectly tagged the faster this will take place and the sooner they will be visible to none members.

As long as the work gets done they don’t care. I’ve worked from home for ten years with trips into office as required every few weeks/months

I don’t really see what the issue is. Whenever I see a horse near enough to me on a track that it can see or hear me I slow down, say hello and stop if it looks like it will be the safest option. If everyone did this there would be no issue. Sure some of them are dicks, but then plenty of us are too.

Slow down, give way, then you won’t end up with a tonne of horse on your head- simples.

Just get em from PlanetX, local service and support. Worth the few extra quid price difference there will be once you’ve added shipping and duty for the Chinese wheels.

Proper shorts and some cream (epiderm) will help reduce recurrence but get whatever ails you currently checked out first.

Oh OK then….

Used to run sx’s, good strong wheels if you don’t set out to charge rock gardens with total abandon.They are more than up to the task for UK riding as long as you aren’t the king of crap tail whip landings.

Its weird, I’ve ridden all my life, I used to be crazy for air as a youth. But ten years riding xc has killed that for me, the skills and bottle has gone and now I’m simply risk averse as regards air time. I’ll ride off a cliff when going dh, I just hate jumps.

The pressure absolutely cannot double in an MTB tyre in anything like reasonable conditions, you’d have to go from freezer to a hundred degrees for that to happen. The most likely culprits are rim tape or Stans sealant changing at high temp, my money is on rim tape.

Sure you used 2.5 wt?

Rental as long as your bars have a wide enough center section, Enve riders need not apply.

Not sure of the Mk2 on the mk1 swapping new barrels in was easy once you had the door cards off. (Focus 1.8 collection, full electrics pack and remote central locking.

The FFOC forum is the place to ask.

If using rechargeables then get Sanyo Eneneloop XXX. They take a great charge, have a high mAh capacity and hold their charge if unused for ages. I’ve tried all sorts in cameras over the years and these work better than anything else in the AA tray on my Canon 7D battery grip.

Get the Hope and remove the seals and fill with a synthetic |(none lithium )grease, they’ll last fine- though not CK long.