Spooky are doing their own importing now direct from the US, White mountain were bringing a few in previously. Horror taxi is $860 = £523 plus postage and taxes i reckon about £650- 700 to your door

Yes struggled to find any UK dealers , send them an email they got back to me straight away, was looking at the sakura myself but now thinking its all about the Spooky Horror taxi, uses the dropouts from the sakura , would be interested to find a Uk price though

Is your account protected against theft ? Spend the lot and then phone up and say your card has been stolen.

Just out of interest what does hora do for a job that is so stressful?

If i could be arsed i'd like to find out the average number of bikes owned by stw's , i'm thinking around 5 at this rate!!!

Depends on the supermarket, ive bought booze at 3 am in a large tesco's in liverpool but not allowed to at 11 pm in sheffield tescos.

Hi any other suggestions, please

Whats the long way home jacket like? i have the outback from a few years ago is it similar?

Afraid not this is art after all. She looked like a right minx though, the funny thing was the artist was absolute crap and after having her sit there for over an hour went, "this drawings crap if thats the case start again" the poor girls face dropped.

EDIT: the link for the lady isnt working try this instead

No drinking coffee and doing my masters dissertation. and sawthisyoung lady in a life drawing class.

My commuter was 100 quid, its a rigid and i had lots of spare parts paid 45 for frame (tange 2b sunn) and fork, headset and bb 35 for rear wheel and 20 for disc caliper. What you need is some good karma see if anyone has any freebies going , i can donate the left hand crank from a 96 GT LTS DH and some magura brake mounts… 😀

thanks fat fish very helpful

crouch_potato – Member

Stonemonkey, I find myself quite jealous of you if you are lucky enough to own that sunn (closet sunn fan here). I take it it’s a bmix of some variety? I never saw one in that colour though.

Thanks bought it off a guy from here, my 2nd sunn. Think its a 98 model i had a team one with R mech hanger and obyss fork in the team blue from bercy about 10 years ago and my aim is to recreate it with this. But the yellow is almost to nice to scrap.

I have one of these

The brunette in the blue shirt is a stunner.

No my current car is an 02 astra. So is the standard 968 the one to go for then the sport followed by the clubsport as it will be for everyday use not trackday fun. Love the look of them and heard about teir legendry handling.

This is not the sort of positive feedback i was after 😀

Lanesra – Member

Surely only 853 steel should be classed as pure steel, everything else is a poor imitation, imo

i disagree, plus how many complete 853 bikes are there

tazzymtb – Member

do the nuts up tighter and the squirrels won’t try to nick ’em

Brilliant just brilliant

It needs a beat, a beat !!!

Bit like a hangdrum

As above really BC really need someone at home all day or another dog for company and stimulation. Lots of exercise is a must amd agility or flyball is good as it stimulates them mentally is well. I used to hide treats in the house and the dog would search for them very methodically. Thinking myself of getting another dog and would go for a collie cross, both in terms of temperment and health issues eg hips etc.

Thanks will check them out.

Bump

Had mine for 6 months , had a few problems with the sticky pistons but when their working well they are up their with the best of them performance wise.

Yes it was good fun last year lets hope theres good weather this year.

I would have kicked off big style, it amazing how so many “hard bastards” shit themselves when theres a real chance of scrapping. Although as my dad used to say dont worry when there shouting its when they stop you want too worry.

problem solved, turned bike upside down when i did -ve pressure, riggt way up it read 165psi not 135psi.

Ok just checked my forks set them up as above for 135 -ve and 125+ve i’m 14 stone amd they are sitting on the 110 mark with no-one on the bike and feel as soft as shit. Whats the problem here then? the 454 dual airs

Congrats, not just on the child but on the liverpool shirts. come on the red men!!

Depending on the hub , could be that the cone nuts are loose, or the wheel isn’t in the dropouts properly.

Gutted for you, fight hard for a warranty replacement.

bugger missed it will it be on iplayer i am a lilly “press the mute button” fan

I have to say that for all the money we spend on kit, MTB’ers as a whole are particularly bad at having lessons or technique sessions to iron out failings in our skills.

Straightliner, i agree with this , even more how often do people actually practice skills on their own, i never go back andrepeat a section / think about what i’m doing on a ride at the time i might do it the next week but i think i will start to spend more time practising sections on the trail

Thanks everybody ,

Buzz some good ponts there, in regards to point 5 this is what ive been trying to achieve , by increasing traction by compressing the bike , in a similar way to driving a car and you weight the front to improve traction via braking . The key is i suppose to find the balance between loading the tires enough to maintain grip and overloading them . I expect to crash a lot this weekend! 🙁

Any suggestions then , i’ll look at all the tire theads as well for the peaks

they’re the fire xc pro to be precise, tbh i was hoping this was the case, was out with my mate who has just bought a new trance x1 with kenda nevegals i think, and he took far more speed on two fast “s” coners than i could , it was his first proper ride on the bike as well and my back brake wasnt working but still , it pissed me off.

I bought a 25ltr and 20 ltr after my stuff got drowned after a ride and my phone broke, the 20ltr is better for cycling with the side pockets and bungees that can work as a compression straps. Have yet to use the the 25ltr (jaffa) was going to use it for canoeing trips but its for sale if you want

Yeah i have some copies of grip – with richie “the rocket” houseman in, what is Jerry deyer upto now and what was the reason he left/ got kicked out of dirt?

the phonebook

Use mine when standing on fire/ tarmac roads have it set as light as possible to identify poor technique. Less annoying than winding forks down on the climb up and then forgeting to put them back up again on the way down.