They are my LBS and they are **** ace, walked out of there yesterday with a xtr shadow rear and xtr 970 block for under £180.

mte p7 from dealextreme.com get the 2 mode, less hassle clciking to fing hi or lo than the 5 or 8 mode.

and stop sweating so much.

What you want sounds like a Tioga Factory Mud rear. Better back end pedalling action than a Bontrager Mud X, but with similar clearing and edge control.

I never take the factory muds off my BLT, they stay on all year round and i replace them late Autumn.

road bike inner tubes, lock with zip ties.

203FR 185RR on the Demno 7
160 FR and RR on the BLT.

just leave five sheets on the roll at all times, if she comes downstairs with shit all over her hands then you are being unfair… :wink:

mmmm, not unless you want to ride the fire roads, Wharncliffe is saturated, even ‘wetscreams’ were little use today on the downhill tracks.

Of course the CS is ace they charge £100 for £1 worth of injection moulding and £10 worth of adverts.

My LBS is Sheffield Jejames 400m from my front door. (my nearest LBS workshop however is the kitchen).

my two external BB’s are the longest lasting i’ve ever had, never had a square taper or octo/isis last me six months before they were fragged, i’ve never touched my Xt2 or Dura-ace sets and they are 2 years

Most useful cycling tool?

a small toffee hammer with carbide tip…!

Unless DT have decided to scrimp on the carbon they will still be the stiffest trail forks under 36mm, the rd41 xcams pissed over all the 32mm fox forks.

About time DT announced a 200m travel wide stanchion monster though..

I’m on a two year old set of RC41’s xcams that have never seen a service, but they were made for Brit mud…

need: winter slop tyres for this weekends trip to Wharncliffe, Wednesday was impossible, literally.

want: totems.

Work in progress, gotta Ti that spring and replace those forks.

What time?

32″ inside leg is between 54-60cm seat tube, based on a level TT measurement, with a compact frame it could be any fricking size.

the angle thingy for checking your tube angles.

Techno, techno, techno, tektro.

I can get two bikes into the back of a Daewoo matiz.

Marketing Director for a US sporting goods manufacturer. It’s not a bad gig… :wink:

Works for me.

I have a crappy little thin pearl izumi showerproof thing £30 from James’s work’s a treat in anything less than downpour.

The prices have gone up because of the exchange rate, whereas electrical goods will be priced out on 12 month contracts, sporting goods will not be.

Importers have to pass on cost rises and this happens quite quickly. In this case they’ve actually delayed on price hikes for quite a while. However the level of the price increases is extortionate. I work for a US sporting goods manufacturer and we’ve gone up 12% lately in the UK, but 30% is ridiculous. Transportation costs have fallen 30% over the last 6 months, and trust me, that’s a good 10% of the final product price in this case.

They are screwing us, no question about it.

It makes you consider the function of the importer at all. Bike companies are big enough to be able to do all their sales and warranty themselves for less cost than distributors do, so why stick with the outmoded 3 tier supply model, it’s crazy.

3/4 length bib longs. long enough to keep knees toasty, short enough so they don’t wick from any puddle plodging.

count me in

simonatwork@hotmail.com

Demo 7: 37lbs
Blur LT: 24lbs
Road Bike: i don’t know maybe 14lbs

I’m up for that, any night at all.

It’s been great this week for night rides, especially Monday, that was awesome, Eccy Woods, ringinglow-burbage-stannage and back.

Have a BLT as my XC bike, very nice, 2 years old, same set of bearings all over and i jet-wash the crap out of it.

great bike for the Peaks, goes down Stannage Edge fast enough to worry the DH boys.

It might be made up marketing bullshit but the stratification of new classes of riding was what reinvigorated a flagging MTB market. MTB was on it’s arse and sales were in free fall, a few marketing bods at teh bigs co’s and magazines got together and came up with a strategy to help make MTB more approachable and define specific groups within the sport that could be targeted in different ways.

Do you think all the overgrown BMX kids would have crossed over had it not been for companies pushing a hard core MX vibe in the marketing.

Like it or not it has been good for the sport, these are good years for product development and good years for growth across the industry.

Ain’t half the fun getting covered in mud?

Waxoyl is overkill.

if you wnat your frame to last forever sue soemthing, but not waxoyl

The RP 23 has true low speed compression damping, it will run throughout most of the stroke. But it can be blown off by a fast hit.

I run mine almost locked out on my SC BLT, and then when it gets bumpy, PP flicked off, perfect.

The higher the air pressure the more pronounced the effect of PP settings.

You should never be anywhere near big big small small gears anyway..

You can ride any rear cassette tripple combo on a short cage road mech if you don’t try and ride cross gears, a GS cage will be more than sufficient.

Simon who runs Ultegra short cage on his BLUR LT.

There’s no difference in chain length between 34-24 and 12-46, min and max gearing, it’s just the stuff in the middle you need to take care of.

Write yourself a gear chart and see where your natural crossover gears are.

email the guys at slideboardstore, they send friggin hundreds of them.

resting mid forties,
max had it over 200 today according to my polar.
That was churning up Winnets pass on the road bike in the biggy…

Still digging this 3 years after i bought it.

Wash your hands more often and stop touching your nose you dirty bugger. You don’t pick up colds from being sneezed on you pick them up from being sneezed on then touching your mouth and nose.

Hand wipes and no snot searching, you’ll be fine..