m0rk – Member
I’ve got one.

Can’t use it anymore as I can’t find a mount for the 5s now they’re out of production

Dodgey “for sale” opportunity if you wanted it’s just sat in my garage

I’ll buy it from you! my email is in my profile, cheers.

It’s a large frame and the steerer is approx 210mm.
Might just cut but leave 1 spacer on top.
Out this weekend for a couple of rides so will decide after that.
Cheers for the advice!

If i do cut, what’s the best way to deal with star nut to get it further down the steerer?

he’s not going to return it, just buttering you up before trying for a partial refund in some sort of post sale price bartering game that he thinks will work because you value your precious feedback.
Exactly what happened in fact. Now he doesn’t want to return it, just get a partial refund.

This happened to me, I refused to partial refund and told them to return item.
They kept it, but left neg feedback.
Contacted eBay who could see via messages that I had been totally reasonable and eBay removed the neg feedback.

Don’t let the threat of neg feedback make you give in!

Finally got up to Hamsterly Forest this morning, did the red route, a number of issues have become apparent:

1. I’m not as fit as i was (or use to think i was!)
2. I need a better pair of cycling shorts!

Must be about 10 years since i rode a bike properly around Hamsterly and i must say i really enjoyed it, especially Transmission, Accelerator and Nitrous!
Nearly lost it a couple of times but my skills* (*luck) kept me upright and on the bike!

Couldn’t fault the bike, not much to compare it to ( used to have a Marin single pivot) and it rode better than that. Bit of brake squeal? and i think i need more air in the rear shock. Need to buy a shock pump!
Rode very good and comfortable, went up hill ok when i wasn’t pushing it!
Downhill was great, in my limited experiance.

Overall really impressed!
Only one photo, to knackered to get phone out of backpack!
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£5 a team in ours, I got Costa Rica!

I work for a large Japanese motor manufacturer in the north east of England.
I wouldn’t buy any car in the last or first 6 months of its build!

I changed the glass on my sons S3, didn’t find it hard at all.
Just used a hair dryer to soften glue and screen just prised off.
I googled it and followed an online guide.
As Del Boy would say “who dares, wins!”

No submarines!

I’m out.

Just something wrong with an 84 year old watching a video and then saying “I think you see him going inside me”!

matther01 – Member
Defo need to sort your seat angle…unless you like a numb nether?

Got a day off this weekend, so hopefully get up to the local country park for ride to set it all up properly

And going to make another 380 tonight!

your decking is at a very jaunty angle.
Doesn’t the bbq slide off?

Ha ha! Hides the crappy engineering bricks what the previous owner decided to build the extension with!

Still needs setting up properly!

Got it built but haven’t been out on it yet!
Combo of night shift and crap weather

Bike was all good out of box, no dings, scrapes or chips

*double post

My boys have one each, a 250gb and the youngest a 4gb.
Only a couple of games won’t play on the 4gb which in a way is a good thing as he shouldn’t be playing on them anyway!
But all the games I deem suitable for him ie FIFA, racing games, disney infinity etc all play no problem on the 4gb console.

Savage garden- truly, madly, deeply

I was in the military for 10 years so I like to think I know how to clean but the wife could give any CO a run for there money!

The flip side is I don’t do any and get grief for that!

Think I’ll just work Saturday overtime then it’ll be all done when I come in at lunch time 🙂

jonba – Member
People clean their own houses? You can pay someone to do that for you while you ride your bike

I gave her the day off, that’s how nice I am!

The fact I just bought a new bike and left it in the dining room proberly didn’t help my case!

Always feel particularly sorry for those in the cycle industry, working in bike shops for 3 pence an hour when loads of Cycle Scheme knobbos turn up, desperate to make up every last penny of the 1000 quid.

I had 1k, shop gave me 10% off, so I’ve got £100 left over.
I can’t reduce the 1k so of course I’m going to spend the extra £100 to make it up to £1k!

There’s 6000 people where I work and about 20 bikes in sheds at any one time, so no, not a lot of people use the bike for work. (Approx 20% of employees have used the scheme at some stage)

I picked my new bike up today from halfords (boardman team fs 650b) was £999 but this weekend they have 10% off all bikes.
My LOC was for £1k so I ended up getting the bike for £899 and having £101 to spend on accessories. (New helmet and jacket).

So for £1k I pay back £737, which seems good to me

Mine took 6 days!
Applied on the Friday, had my LOC the following Thursday!

I work for a large multi national company who have been doing the scheme for the last 5 years though.

Well picked bike up today, unbuilt as promised.
Also got a new helmet and jacket with 10% discount I got for the bank holiday, bonus!

Hopefully get it built up tomorrow or over weekend

I use camskill, really good prices.
Brother in law is a tyre fitter with own van so he puts them on for me for a cup of tea!

I use camskill, really good prices.
Brother in law is a tyre fitter with own van so he puts them on for me for a cup of tea!

Only 2 road bikes available in the clearance offer though.

Happy with £100 to spend to take me up to my £1k voucher, proberly get a new helmet, either the 661 Recon Stealth, Gyro Hex or Met Terra. Which ever fits the best.

Hopefully have out up Hamsterly Forest this weekend if the other half hasn’t got plans for me!

Seems to get mostly good reviews, must be selling well, i’m in Sunderland and having to go to North Shields to collect the next nearest was York!

My mate had his catalytic coverter stolen from his Qashqi last week, parked on street outside of his house!

Being a woman she’s completely gone off track and bought a yellow beetle!

Wife went just before xmas, 4 days 3 nights, said could have done with a couple of more days. Food cheap booze expensive.

She really enjoyed it,up until the plane dropped out of the sky on the return flight and they had to make an emergency landing at Goose Bay, Canada!

Loads of silver about red less common, always had a fear of red cars ever since owning a red vauxhall years ago which turned pink!

It was nice but wrong colour and the blue leather wasn’t to the wife taste!

Got to be silver or red with black leather.

Well went to garage this afternoon, we were upfront with salesman telling him we we’re there to compare the two with no real intention of buying 😳

Don’t know wether it was because it was quiet but he was very accomadating! Even let us take both cars out for a test drive!

So it’s been decided she want’s a………..TT 😆

It just felt more fun and that little bit more special.

She will have the money by end of January so the hunt is on!

Thanks for all the info above.

Voodoo hoodoo? £499

Just going to that garage as it’s local and they’ve got one of each so she can compare the two.

I know she can get a better/practical car but she has decided on either the audi or mini. It’s her money and she’s treating herself!

(of course i’ll be the one fixing it if it goes wrong!)

Edit: Will state our intentions at garage. I’m not a tease 😉

^ If she goes for the TT i hope so!