They are 120 bcd. And there are precious few large rings with pins/ramps that fit. Sram do rings to fit of course and so do Raceface. There’s a few brands that do 120 bcd but they are mostly singles with no pins/ramps or increasingly narrow wide which is no use on a double.

Legally, they are on solid ground. From a business and marketing POV it’s a real mess. Any good sales manager would either let you chop the bike back in at full retail or maybe do it – a 10% restock fee or similar.

I would suggest that you state your intentions to them. That you are happy to let them hold the purchase price until the new bikes come in.

If they aren’t happy with that then they really aren’t a good shop to be dealing with.

How much do you value, the CTD side of things on the fox shock. I couldn’t live without the ‘C’ setting on mine, though with 180’s up front I spend most of my time in the ‘D’ mode. Sure it wallows a little mid stroke like all air fox shocks do, but a PUSH tune largely sorted that out.

If you don’t need the easily adjustable lockout then go CCDB

How much does the feel good factor effect how you feel about the ride though? Training more is the best way to go faster, but buying anew bike might well give you much greater enjoyment from your cycling.

I’ll not be watching that via any means that ever results in money being paid to ‘him’.

Have they fixed the roof on Magna yet, it was shut following gales. Time frame for repair seemed quite a while.

Are we to assume people are going up there on their road bikes, ‘stop to move log off track’ just ride over the fecker.

Pair or re-cased Yamaha Ns1000m, re-worked XO for the raal tweeter which replaces the Yamaha tweeter.

Bummer. Perhaps stem cell therapy beckons.

A 2.4″ will start heading towards instability in hard cornering, at steep lean angles (20 degres) your contact patch is likely be outside a vertical line defined by the tyre bead. So no matter where you put your weight on the bike you can’t put it straight down via the tread.

Unless you like running 35psi+ I’d stick with 2.25-2.3″ as an absolute max.

It keeps getting pushed back every single time. All of the Magic-M tyres except the cheapest 26″ remain unavailable. Nextday tyres are quoting 5th Feb now.

Regardless of what has since happened with your shock, simply have your solicitor send them a bill for the full replacement cost of the item. Title did not switch to the RM. So their disposal through auction is both theft and fencing. They made no effort to return nor gave you chance to collect.

When they ignore this this go to small claims, they won’t turn up you’ll get a judgement against.

The whole size thing is just another example of marketing push. The big brands get together and decide on what new specifications and standards they can come up with to make your current bike obsolete faster so you buy newer sooner.

It’s no more than that.

The reason 650b seems so popular all of a sudden is just a fait accompli. The industry want’s change, they know we will naturally resist it, so they hit a ridiculous bar with 29-ers. Not many people fall for it, but when the 650b is rolled out as the new messiah everyone is all over them because they aren’t 29’s but so much more like what we already know. Of course no one stops to think “then f_ck it, i’ll keep what I already have”.

Do the math, draw the diagrams a 29er is 8mm better at rolling over vertical objects than a 26″ wheel. But at the same time that same wheel with the same built rim and tyre will be over 200 grams heavier and of course neither as stiff or as durable.

So if you like having to accelerate greater mass more often during every ride, go for it, knock yourself out buy some 29’s. If not stick to your 26″ and protect your investment in the bike you already own.

If you doubt it's galvanic corrosion I suggest you take up windsurfing and see just how long your carbon bits last with ally plugs in them in salt water.

Don't use Lithium grease any scratch in the outer coat on the post and it's toast, aluminium oxide all over the place from the battery between carbon and aluminium. It sticks because aluminium oxide takes up more space than the alloy in the seat tube wall.

Don't use petroleum based greases as they penetrate the epoxy resin and cause it to swell.

Sodium hydroxide down the bottom bracket will help dissolve the aluminium oxide and remove a jammed carbon post from an ally frame, if you used Petroleum based grease, yer f-ed.

World gone mad. Rights of way for dogs. If your dog can't get over/through something that most humans can- stop walking that way or get another dog.

either do it yourself or have the nurse do it before they stitch your legs back up…. you only make that mistake once, it's hard to shave somebody else's legs with a straight blade razor when they are full of gravel.

He'll park round the corner, get someone to clamp the prick,

It sucks that he got hit by the car, but I have to say in the same situation I wouldn't have trusted the way the Mondeo approached the junction, he obviously wasn't slowing. Without eye contact with the drivers theirs no way I would have hit it at that speed.

There's nothing quite like forgetting how to control your ipod as the fringes of your vision start to go black…

A worthwhile place to visit once a month I reckon, just to make yourself feel alive.

I once managed to use a box of Bryant and May cooks matches as a decent shitter, so i guess that wins…

Showaddywaddy… 😉

Sad to hear, Jazzmatazz was the soundtrack to my 2nd year at uni 2nd time round.

Cough/cough, 'Warranty repair'

trouty, by far

Er hello, Pot Noodle….

I used to go to the pub, but when they thought it was in their own interests and they'd make more money by letting the government push the smokers out, as a smoker I thought **** them, and stopped going entirely.

Now I'm no longer a smoker, I still bear a grudge against them for their lack of support and happily quaff wine at home instead.

People don't go to pub because all the good looking, funny smokers like me are at home so what's the point. 😉

He was just after a touch and you didn't whore yourself, job done.

38 next weekend haven't been out for months, just feel run down and shagged the whole time….

I think long term contraception should be mandatory.

He's just a little confused about who we are vs kids on bikes with tinnies of Carling.

forgedabadit, they have no legal right of access, just tell them to **** off.

If you look at something and feel like you need bottle to do it you don't have the skill to be riding it. Ifyou build up to stuff you just naturally start riding more gnarly as your skill builds.

Get a Nomad slightly smaller than reco size. works for me.

I alwasy take mine to the main dealer for a service, but tell them to do nothing if they find anything and we can discuss the work when I call back. Then I take it to my mate who charges £25 an hour to do the work after they do diagnostic.

Ive had root canal and wisdom tooth extraction, neither hurt both done under local.

this one is comedy, but true.

Builder in Hastings- wait for it….

William the concretor..

if you wnat witty suggestion it might help if you give us his name and full range of intended services on offer.

I can't see how EBC expect to work in Sheffield. Unless they think James's are just so piss poor it'll be a walk in the park for them.

More details, age would be a big help.

http://www.goincase.com/products/detail/monochrome-slider-case-cl59233

and a decent matt screen film, none adhesive type.

had a 3020 many many moons ago.