As a Parachute owner I would not want to have a chin first wipe-out, but – touch wood – I have never had a chin-first crash. That said I'd rather go chin-first in the Parachute than in my normal open lid. My crashes tend to be wash-outs on corners or slow offs. On one such off at the bottom of Cave Dale I cut and bruised the side of my face and broke my glasses wearing a normal lid. I'm sure that wouldn't have happened if I had been wearing the Parachute.

They are what they are. More protection than an open XC lid, less than a full face. That's what I wanted and that's what it gives me. I've never actually heard of anyone who's had a face-slashing incident with a cracked chin guard

had this too. Fitted new bearings (bought from local bearing supplier), still play. Phoned Hope. They suggested that some bearings are not engineered to good enough tolerances. Bought a(nother) new bearing and voila.

Interestingly I could feel the play in the brand new bearing just by wobbling the axle on the bearing with nothing else assembled.

I like these music posts, but I’m struggling with the concept of “most recognisable”. A lot of the ones above would not be instantly recognisable if played by another musician in another musical style. Is it the notes or the way they’re played?

Or shall I just get my coat? 8O

what

Perhaps I should qualify that the people I know that HAVE ridden it and think it is not easy and should be graded above red are capable of 14 runs in the Endurance DH on the proper DH track.

Duly qualified

As per other replies, I do this on my overseas hols, no loctite and no issues

Similar thing happened when Peaty rode outside the tape at Fort Bill a few weeks back. I guess since he didn’t make the podium he wasn’t too bothered

tree-magnet, how much did all that cost? 8O

Frame size can make up to a pound difference between the smallest and largest sizes

as can dodgy fishning weighing scales from Aldi :D
My Whyte 46 is 28.5lb according to them, but do I believe it?? Nope

I wonder if the forward thinking Californian pioneers of our noble sport ever wonders whether there would be 50 posts devoted to splitting hairs on the categorisation of a purpose built gondola fed DH (freeride) track as they pushed their bikes up a dusty fireroad in their jeans? Unreal.

:lol: +1 and I’m not even that good a rider! I saw this track “in the flesh” and to be fair from right back at the gondola station, but it looked pretty easy from that distance. Even on the vid it looked fast and flowy rather than technical. Seriously, if watching that vid worries you there are plenty of natural trails that you should avoid like the plague

I’m a convert to SLX for the rear mech. I got one cheapish (£35 I think) so not a total disaster if it gets pranged, which I tend to do a lot with rear mechs. CLumsy, me

I do wonder what the point of having an XTR mech on a 6″ trail bike is

However I do agree that this is a very valid question :? Unless you’re made of money I wonder at the sense of fitting an XTR/X0 rear mech to any bike

If you are a weight weenie why did you buy a 6″ travel all-mountain bike?

Surely every genre of bike deserves to be as light as possible – budget allowing. IMHO weight always matters. All mountain bikes do go up as well as down you know

perhaps the question should be who doesn’t

If you’re like me the best helmet is the one that fits – and there aren’t very many of them. You’ve probably heard this a million times before but try them on. The “best” helmet might fit you like a thimble on a big toe

HTTP404 – explain yourself. Why is a software firewall needed as well as a nat firewall in a router?

darn, I didn’t know I had to stand up for it to be a manual :?

I “accidently” found that magic point for a moment or two but panicked and fell off the back. At least now I know what the balance point feels like and it was a lot further back than I was expecting.

I’ve never lost the chain between the ring and bashring

clearly I must have bought the design-fault then. It would explain why it was so cheap and brought from under the counter at a certain big bike shop in Cheshire :?

don’t we all :roll:

come up to the Peaks and do some of your 15 milers up here – you’ll go back to East Anglia and gobble up the miles :D

fair point PP, yours is one of the prettier Truvativs. Mine was considerably less stylish. Do you have any issues with the guard being severely flared away from the middle ring? I found I was quite regularly losing my chain down there. Not had the problem once with the much flusher fitting e13

If they are the same size I see no reason why not, but I’m sure some more experts will be along shortly…

If you’re bothered about how a bash ring looks, then you don’t really need one, do you? They are there to be abused in my book, not to look good.

:lol: :roll:
I used to think like that and had one of those awful looking cheap Truvativ jobbies too. Thankfully one impact too many cracked it and now I have a much better looking (albeit much dearer) e13.

I have a few from this range and they are all excellent. I’ve no reason to suspect this will be anything other than the same high standard

i can buy a bunch of grapes but prefer to buy a bottle of wine as it saves all the complicated wine making bit

nice one
:lol:

Home brew kit from hardware shop

+1
I just went to a home brewing shop to get some. Pence. Various syringes left over for child’s illness and sorted…oh and a jam jar.

+1 for Oh Brother Where Art Thou

cheers for the tip. Got some goodies ta

find the clitorus and the prostate

are they the new reds at Glentress?? :lol:

in defence of mk1fan, why are some of us friendly STWers giving him grief? He asked a simple question about forks did he not?

Here’s my question. Would it be wrong to replace the forks with some rigid carbon ones?

My answer – no

Just a point not yet mentioned. In my learning days I found suspension (or at least cheaper suspension) a hinderance going downhill. When riding timidly and slowly with lots of front brake it was too easy for the fork to compress when hitting an obstacle, not rebound, and then over the handlebars we go.

To also add I ride a 6″ full susser on some days and a fully rigid with carbon forks on others. I love them both and don’t miss my hardtail at all.

trailquests are nothing like racing

When the UK mountain bike orienteering rider overtook me, believe me, I put race face on (didn’t catch him tho’!) :(

It seems that most people on STW race for the fun of it rather than the burn of it. It’s nice the be part of an event

Once this tax is in place do you honestly think that its going to stay at £6 and all be spent on broadband expansion? If so I think you’re being naïve

There never seems to be a middle ground between cynical and naive does there? :?

I do get “this document contains no data” sometimes

guilty of skim-reading too but couldn’t resist a contribution. Some of you sound a bit luddite here. Not that long ago many people would have thought a land line was not essential but I suspect that proportion has decreased markedly. Broadband will be is going the same way. And why not? My ISP is investing in up to 20Mb lines which I will get for no extra charge, so I don’t mind 50p a month to extend the broadband network. More IP telephony = cheaper call costs. Yay!

I have WB on my 26″ hardtail and LOVE them. Don’t notice any flex though

I have a Whyte 46 and I thought that was noisy. Wasn’t planning on getting a new bike, but after hearing the Orange-clatter not sure they’d be on my short-list if I was. It would drown out my “wheeee” and “vrooommm” noises :lol:

Like throwing a bag of spanners down the side of a mountain!

that’s the one!

kramer, don’t tell me that! My LBS stock Scott and there is no way my wife has got over the last expensive bike purchase yet :-)