Just made me miss my local trails even more

can’t get it to work but it a good vid

Talisker.

thanks that PSA just cost me £100.

Stuck in Washington (not in Geordie land) all week id pay more than £100 to ride some dusty trails. Don’t get back until Sat and then I’ll have to do my share of dad duties to give the wife a break so probably no riding till next week.

I deliberately rode the whole Marin trial in the middle ring to see if i could manage 1 x 11 and i was fine except that really steep road bit 2/3 round which was a struggle. Would I want it all the time no i’m not mega fit and i often ride long (6-8 hour) and hard rides mostly in the peaks and Wales and wouldn’t want to be without my granny towards the end of a ride or a few weeks ago bikepacking upto Edale Cross from Kinder Res. If I rode trail centres all the time i’d consider it.

Never tire of the view on the Marin Trail from Sunday

I think that cycling clubs whether Road or MTB can be quiet intimidating. I’m a competent mountain biker, my fitness has gone up and down over the years and also ride on the road SLOWLY. I ride with a small group of friends or by myself. I live next door to where my local cycling club meet, they literally meet outside my garden gate. I have the impression (maybe rightly or wrongly) that the MTB group are more like roadies who MTB or super fast XC boys who leave you for dead. Plus their rides seem to be really long rides on the road to do a bit of mountain biking then a ride back rather than meeting somewhere to mountain bike. I’d be to worried I’d be holding them back.

I ride the cat and fiddle every week miles safer than some of the narrow country lanes round here.

you’ve got nothing to worry about you’ll not come last and even if you did so what someone has to. I came last a few years back in the macc supercross . In fact so last they were dismantling the course as I went round. I had a great time.

OP That looks ace, I built one up as a stop gap whilst I test rode all the modern full suspension bikes but I love it so much I’m just going to keep it until it dies. I’ve got a x-fusion hi-lo on mine which makes a big difference. The problem with mine is the powder coat is 3 inches thick. Might strip it and do it the same colour as yours.

The pedal strikes take a bit of getting used to and its a nightmare when riding really narrow singletrack that cut into the ground as the bb is so low.

Can you explain what you did with rear hub?

Nick

Is she going to be able to fix it if it gets a puncture. I slept out sub Zero on Kinder at the weekend on a Karrimor Z mat copy £10 at sports direct. Warm enough, light and cheap as Chips.

mat

I use a couple of these

charger

Shimano 10-speed road shifters have the same pull as as Shimano 9 speed MTB mechs. I run the same as you on my road bikes with an old LX mech on one and an new XT on the other.

But 10 speed MTB requires has different pull and will not work with 9 speed MTB shifters regardless of whether there is a barrel adjuster,

Get a grip, you left her in their custardy

richpips

I can get it as a mp4 file once its on iplayer and stick it in dropbox. Don’t have a DVD recorder but I’m sure someone will be able to do that for if you can’t.

Nick

DanW one of my mates has XX1 with Goldtec hubs

Fortunate enough to live where I can ride out of home/work both on the MTB and have road bike. My plan is in a few years if work went tits up I’d be able to contract from the bottom of my garden.

Get Nokia Here maps from the play store and download the UK map its free, once you done it doesn’t use any data.

So do I. I didn’t get the jacket (i don’t think i did) which i’m not that bothered about but I posted about 10 minutes after the add was put up. if it was me id have explained that it was sold to someone else.

fixed

We did it with a 15 month gap. Both of us work full time. Childcare costs were about £1800 a month for a while which is the equivalent to earning 27K to cover it. Then we went and had a third after 3 years. We still work full time but the older two are now in school and the fees are slowly coming down the 3 year old will be getting 15 hours paid for.

The hardest thing was we were really getting sorted with the two kids and my middle boy was /is old for his age so it felt like a massive backward step to go back to having a baby again. You just have to enjoy it for what it is and not worry about what you could have been doing.

I still mountain bike 2-3 times a week and road bike once a week. My wife does loads of gym classes but its hard work to co-ordinate work, biking and running the house.

Maybe not my favorite but love the bits where Steve from Shameless uses the guy from The Hustle as a human shield with a gun through his brain.

No read the thread but have this conversation with people regularly. Its just middle class people trying to justify taking their kids out of school. If skiing is so important take them in the holidays, if not you can’t afford it so don’t go. Same people who’ll condemn poor people for taking kids out to go to Magluf in summer.

In both cases its about saving money and nothing else. The only difference is that for those poor families its probably their only chance of a holiday as a family. For the skiers its just a way to do their hobby on the cheap.

Go for it had built one up over a summer and tweeked it before christmas. Short stem, wide bars, superstar nanos, x-fusion dropper and absolutely love it. So much so my wife said last night I could have any mountain bike I wanted (no limit to budget) and I said no i’ll keep the prophet till it breaks.

the change in standards is what put me off. I think they may be switch towards bolt thru. I noticed a few bikes coming with them. Im keeping my old cross bike until it settles down.

Hi,

You’d be fine on the medium, I’m about 5’11 and I felt it was a bit too small for me but I have a long back. I’ll sort photos out tomorrow morning.

Nick

If your a medium you i could post you my 2013 Boardman team for £430.

I think without hood, I wasn’t allowed to get one as I just got a thermoball hooded jacket for christmas

I think some you should get off yoir high horses here. The OPs wife could be working full time and if theyve got a couple kids in childcare that could be up to 2k month (mine was and still is 1.4k a month) that doesn’t leave much to spend on new cranks. In that circumstance the child benefit would been significant contribution to disposable income.

I’ve got a ridgeback melody you could have for a lot less than £150 with free spokey dokeys

We have a T5 Caravelle and we absolutely love it bought of a guy who’d specced it to the roof but used it to take his kids to school in (which distroyed the DPF). After spending a few thousand getting it sorted its now perfect for our family (5 of us).

Used for our annual trip to the Pyranees, as a day van, we sleep in it occasionally and use it as a mobile living room. It came with a diesel heater that runs off a second battery and you can set a timer.

If was to do it again might go for a California Beach but to get full leather and the heater would cost nearly £40K.

Getting ready to do Drum Mountain

Kids in the back

argles gazost

top of the superbangeers

double post

http://boardmanbikes.com/hybrid/hybrid_team.html

10.1kg rounds to 22lb less than £700 if you buy on-line

You’ve all ready bought a bike your not happy with don’t make the same mistake again by buying an internet bargain that costs even more and doesn’t fit or you don’t get on with.

I bought the Boardman full sus last year and on paper it should have been great but i just didn’t get on with it. Rode it 6 times around Macc forest and sold it to my mate who loves it for half what I paid for it as I knew it wasn’t right for me. I also bought a medium prophet frame and built it up but it was always a little to small for me and in the end after about 6 years I sold the medium and bought a large and its ace.

Don’t rush and make sure you get a test ride I would have known after 5 minutes I didn’t like the boardman.

I’m the same I know sounds daft but I hate the stuff. Needs sweetener,coffee, tea, juice or alcohol added to make it palatable. I really struggle to drink from my camelbak as I don’t like putting energy drinks in it, might try some of those cheap I ectrolite tabs from the PSA

Axe edge moor above a cloud inversion (fog) in three shrires head.

last week in Macc forest

This week at Teggs nose

Try owning by caravelle 500 road tax, even though identical ones built the year before and after are 225 but I still get charged as a van onmthe m6 toll egen though it’s classed as people carrier.

Love it though

Three weeks running ordered a washing up bowl three weeks running asda sent me the same cereal bowl.

you have to ensure that your staff have used the correct cover on their tps report