@cougar I think i bought the last 3 bottles for Christmas presents not me

The SE doesn’t have Face ID

We have tublesss Schradar valves, why did Presta end up being the tubeless standard, was it because they had a more readily/commonly removable core. When I camee back to MTBing in the early 2000 most rims where drilled for Schrader with a adapter for Presta.

@ayjaydoubleyou It doesn’t work like that, it knows if the keys are in the car or not. I’m forever unlocking the car from within the house by sitting on the keys if that was the case the car would be long gone.

The SE and 11 have the same processor they should perform near enough identically, its down to screen size and quality, camera and touch vs Face ID. Personally I much prefer touch ID and find Face ID hit or miss and its unless with a mask.

I’m not sure this is the solution but Presta valves have no place on a mountain bike feels like the last hangover from road biking left they are fragile I once broke snapped 4 in a row on a ride in the lakes in the pouring rain it was proper grim and now with tubeless they are prone to blocking. If you were start with a blank sheet of paper you’d never come up with the Presta valve, it should go the way of quick releases, rim brakes and threaded headsets if you ask me.

On my first trip out in our new (to us) T5 Caravelle my lovely son managed to stick a fork in the leather trim on the door and pull the in-built blind out as the electric door was closing completely destroying it. At the time I was furious, on reflection both weren’t really his fault I shouldn’t have had him in that position to do the damage. The interior is absolutely trashed now after 10 years of abuse if it happened now I wouldn’t even bat an eyelid

I’ve got a couple of the kids bikes running 1×9 with and 11-42 cassette and an extender works fine with just a NW chainring

When we first moved into our office we had the printouts of the calendar. We then got the smart panels linked to outlook, now we have those but also if its free you can tap the panel and get and instant 1 hour booking to the nearest 30 mins which works really well. Unfortunately i have no idea how it works but its integrated to Outlook.

What toaster ?

Is it an 11 speed hub ? If so do you have the spacer with the 11 speed MTB cassette.

I think you might have wait for the new ultegra 12 speed to land or buy an Xdr freehub.

As a middle class T5 owner who’s planning to buy a SUP, am I going to survive the summer. It’s intend for the kids (all good swimmers) to jump off in small lakes in France and Spain with BAs (think max Grasmere sized rather than Windermere) and maybe for me to go on the canals around home. No intention of using it at sea or on a river. I had an incident when I was younger were I was left to drift out to sea by a dodgy windsurf school and was put off water sports for 2O years. I’m now a decent open water swimmer and swim outside through the winter. I don’t see this having the same risks discussed in this thread other than those you associate swimming and playing in open water or am I missing something.

The person that looks after my bikes after doing exactly what people are suggesting here starting mobile and then getting premises and building a successful repair business has had to close due to not been able to get parts. It may not help that he looks after the higher end where the part shortage is worse, he didn’t deal with too many BSOs as they are catered for elsewhere in our town. I’d really think twice about setting up now plus for a lot of folk disposable income is about to tank as fuel, gas and electricity and the new taxes kick and a potential interest rate rise and you aren’t aiming at the budget market with Stanton and Orange.

I don’t know much about West Wales but I think it has pretty low population density will you get enough footfall to sell enough bikes to make it worth it.

I’d get a gravel frame with good clearance. I’ve done everything from full Ironman, 140 mile mixed terrain, big gravel rides and mountain bike trails by mixing between 28 slicks on 700c, 33 and 35mm gravel and cross tyres and 42mm on 650b. You’ve got the wheels already by the look of it.

I like Boardmans and myself the wife and kids have had lots of them over the years. The only complaint I have about my MHT 8.9 is the paint is crap. I,m not precious with my mountain bikes as I rarely sell them on an and fall off a lot. 2 years it looks dreadful, to be fair the kids MHT 8.6 with a gloss finish look fine. I know how important this is to folk on Singletrack so it would be worth investigating.

95% of bikes come with sub £200 wheelsets as stock, the trails are littered with the dead especially when it rains.

I think that 10-51 is exactly the answer when i started back mountain biking we had nine speed triples with a 11-34 cassette. That range has been eroded by 1x and this cassette gives the range and the same gears and both ends as that 9 speed system.

As someone who trashed their body over-training, I feel your pain. I took three months out one year to do strenth work I quite enjoyed that until I pulled a muscle deadlifting.

A few years ago I had to do 6 hours of physio a week mostly core strengthing and I found it massively tedious, so much I now struggle to do the physio I’m supposed to be doing as I’m fed up with it.

I’d keep riding wind it down 50%, gentle gravel rides no power meter or speedo, and few efforts to keep that some of that hard-earned fitness, then mix up strength work with some pilates with the rest of the time so you don’t get bored. I’d deffo see a good physio to get the right stretches and strength work some of the stretches/exercises need to be executed with precision to be effective.

The other thing to bear in mind is your tendons are used to a certain degree of load, stopping suddenly can cause problems. My adductor tendinopathy had come back after 2 years as I stopped doing anything to see if my torn knee would settle down. If you do stop taper down, as well as tapering back up when you start again.

The cassette linked above is out of stock but other places have it for a more cash, Decathlon do an 11-36 that would be fine.

You’d get away with 9 speed cranks but a lot of the higher end ones that are around are 175mm which are left because they are long this may or may not be a problem. They also may have a different bottom bracket the one in the link is octalink, some are square taper. The current deore triple is hollowtech 2 the same as your current crank but the ones I found where 175 and around £100.

Make sure you get a new chain too and bottom bracket which ever you choose.

Just get a Zitto one from Aliexpress £35 and lighter.

If you get the above cable hydro brakes. I’ve got a unused Sora groupset (without the cranks) you could have for not a lot of cash it previous gen doesn’t go under the bar tape.

You could do easy and within budget especially if you’ve got the brakes with a flat bar but then apparently it’s a hybrid not a gravel bike. You could stick micro shift or Deore on it, use cheap mtb crank with a nw chain ring of choice.

Ive also got some older 10 speed tiagra shifters a little battered that need new hoods, pair that with a 9 speed mountain bike mech you can get a 36t cassette on the back and probably bigger with a roadlink if you wanted to go single ring.

I don’t think you will get hydro and drop bar in your budget at the moment.

Chris at Bespoked in Macclesfield is highly regarded.

Split the chores. I do cooking and shopping, mrs does ironing and washing clothes. Get a cleaner it makes sure you tidy up a least once a week, we really missed that during lock down.

If you have kids split the drop offs and pick ups. I do everything on Monday Thursday and Friday mornings and Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Wife does the opposite. The spare time is ours to do as we please guilt free. Every night involves multiple drop offs and pick ups as we are about at peak after school activity with three kids.

BBC say it was live bullets in the gun.

I’ve used the Decathlon chest one for years ( I’m on my second one) and as said earlier it provides a good flood to see where your putting your feet but i usually use it in combination with a headtorch when i need more focused light for picking out details or navigating.

We eat mostly fresh veg, salad and a lot of meat don’t really eat processed food but when I buy some thing like burgers or pizza for the kids they’ll be a the top end of the price range rather than the crap they push out for kids. Im sure if I used Sainsburys it would be closer to £350 a week at least.

When we were on hols particularly rural Spain to eat how we ate at home was ridiculously expensive in fact it was almost cheaper to eat out. Probably the real price of non intensively farmed foods

Family of 5 mostly shop at ALDI usually around £200 to £250 depending on what crap is picked up in the middle isle.

Watch last weeks location location location. They were looking around the villages between Wrexham and Chester.

My kids certainly enjoyed it when we strayed upon it.

@four despite not being able to tell the diffrence between your and you’re I could easily afford to spunk more but I wouldn’t brag about it or I don’t moan about not being able to do it when people including members of this forum are suffering due to the component shortage.

@four your in the position to spunk 3.5K on a groupset for a toy and your moaning you can’t get it. My friends had close his bike repair shop and lay off his staff because he can’t get get components. You come across as an entitled $%£@

Interesting one this, I’m from Leeds and I foremost consider myself a Yorkshireman ( I live in Cheshire). I have absolutely no affinity to Leeds. Where as I suspect that folk from Liverpool, Manchester and Newcastle have a much stronger affinity to their cities than their counties.

That route goes right past my mum and dads house on the Colton/Whitkirk border, might combine it with a trip over to see them if I can extract it from Strava

Had mine Friday no sore arm but felt crap with headache and brainfog over the weekend felt fine on Monday. I had no reaction to the Covid jab or previous Flu jabs.

They are always really expensive in camera shops and places like curry’s. People go in buy a camera and the up sell them the SD card for a massive mark up. As above I’ve bought loads from Amazon and had no problems but always from Amazon and not a third party.

I think your last point is the biggest one for MTbing much more the road cycling often requires folk to drive or fly to do it. I question that if I lived in an area unsuitable for MTBing if I’d do it at all. We went through a period of driving to trail centres to help improve the kids riding in a more controlled environment but after a while I felt that it just wasn’t sustainable. We holiday near them now so we get a weeks riding for one journey. Since the first lockdown I’ve switched to gravel biking as it gives a wider range of rides without needing the car.

No, it’s from last year, I just don’t photograph my living room that much. It’s to give the room a focal point that’s not the TV. The room is gas centrally heated, so it is very rarely used as a fire only to boost the temp mid-winter.

We have one new our new extension, we looked at both Wood and Gas but baby Robins aside we felt that either due to inconvenience or the fact they kick out so much heat, it wouldn’t get used that much and we’d spend most of the time looking a metal box in the corner. With the electric one, you can have the effect on all year round without the heat

I think ours looks good ( i was against it at first) and when people have looked at photos of the room thought it was real. But you are spending a grand on a glorified fan heater.

I think the VVT signs are great and the clever bit is the signs that tell you you’ve strayed off the route which you can do if your’re riding fast. Which also act as a back up if a sign is missing. I was just interested to see what people felt about waymarking. TBH I always have the IHN map downloaded on my phone with the GPX if i can get one loaded onto it in Backcountry navigator and onto my Garmin as a breadcrumb trail. But i prefer not to have to use them. As for the KAW I’m sure the waymarks would would get vandalized which is a shame, we did the white rose way a few years ago and the signage had been deliberately moved around to send you in the wrong direction.