AFAIK forks come ready for 160 and frames ready for 140 so you need a 160/180 pm/pm adapter – but someone will be along soon to agree or correct me !

Cant wait to get home and try a load on them……….erm, does that make me a bad parent?!?

Tip: If you use ebay for free junk removal, use 99p start price not £1,000!

just like the chief, I just unscrewed the cover at the back inside the oven, unscrewed the element and took of the 2 connecting wires and replaced it from I think elementman.

Yes but very heavy and I am in surrey

Never got on with normal – I mean what is normal about your shifters working in opposite ways? So I have no plans to 10sp this decade.
Jimmy how much ?

?? Std raceface worked on mine

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As said, it could be paint crack where metal isnt joined from slight flex = no problem

As also said, it could be paint crack from slight flex that aluminium is intolerant of and could start to affect the welds either side forming fatigue stress fractures over time. Actual time depends on loading and frequency of that loading. Fatboy bouncing around heavily will affect if more than skinnykid only riding gentle xc!

If you have warranty then let them know and ask them why your paint finish isnt fit for purpose, even just as a marker for a later frame failure claim.

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Metal will bulge, bend and distort all over the bike in microscopic amounts during regular riding all the time – the elasticity ensures it pops back into it’s shape.

That’s the problem with ally frames, the high strength alloys are for strength not elasticity – so are highly prone to fatigue hardening

My advice is be VERY careful, powdercoat is very tough, maybe even tougher than the ally substrate, I had a right mare cleaning threads on a MX bike frame. Most of the hole I left sacraficial bolts in but couldnt undo the buggers the powdercoat was so strong.

Thank you for the reply Matt.

Look forward to receiving the bits.

Wow! Is that IT? You ask too much, and give too little. Those high expectations don’t reflect in your mirror do they!

McMoonter if you still looking I have some 46/47 Oregon ones, leather with rubber soles and steel caps, they look and feel just like sturdy walking boots. Email me if you are interested

This what we were all waiting for, and in the circumstances it is not unreasonable. For the masses it is necessary, enforecement has to be seen to be done, but relatively few people rode corkscrew, bombholes, rollercoaster etc. Watson’s wander was a rooty bog not a trail.

However as long as there is Gorrick and races at Swinley, there will be sneaky off piste left from the races that can be used by the few.

‘ Over the wire ‘ Bagshot Heath

I heard there may be a rideable route through the back of pennyhill, does anyone know? Else where do you normally go, up Maultway or climb over under the pylons?

Silver birch bark and pine cones found lying around in the woods. Strips of silver birch bark and cones are both brilliant firelighters, full of oil/resin.

Nothing! (as in, what’s wrong?)

Humans cope in 2 ways in my mind, rationalise or compartmentalise. If you aint doing either then you aint coping = depression. The latter is pack it away and( try and) forget, Bill Clinton could apparently do this like a light switch, but course its always there waiting to get you again and when it does it has not moved on. The first is work through it and come to terms with it, this what trauma counselling is and is the hard road, seems like you both need this help.
How can you get your lad to look forward to the positives when you can’t. He first needs help by you going and getting help with your rationalisation, own negative feelings about this unfortunate thing and guilt/frustration as a parent and as a man you can’t change or fix it.
My 9 yr old born with congenital kidney defect and we have been through something like this but on our case less acute less certain years to get the heart of the fix, thirty courses of antibiotics in 4 yrs some 6hrly intravenous, 3 major surgery operations etc.
One of my parenting goals was to make sure waking up made my kids excited for the day ahead, not the opposite where my childhood left me. You need to get yourself help so you can help him so this too.
Hospital is a great place to show you how lucky you are and if this is all you have to cope then you are lucky indeed.

make sure you get a cert for the RSJ as you ‘could’ have a nightmare if you ever sell.

BTW RSJ is old skool – they are all UBs now.

I used supabeam, but I have also built my own wheels. I wont do either again because someone practiced in the art can do it 20times quicker at a reasonable price.

My daughter just graduated from a cnoc 16 with coaster, pedal setting was a minor irritation, and the coaster turned out to be hugely more sensible for a 4 yr old with little hands. The idea that you need to force your 4 yr old to use a ‘proper’ rear brake or they’ll be screwed for life really is a first world figment of adult imagination. Islas have such a good front brake that you dont actually need a rear anyway, and 2 rides on a hotrock 20 which is techically a wheel size too big for her and I can report she has adapted instantly to pedal setting and braking with the best on the steepest bit of the new trails in swinley.

How much harsher is the ride? I’m thinking of going 64er for my daughter with carbon forks rather than the frankly rubbish and heavy 24″ forks she has.

Worcester Bosch, Vailant blah blah blah. I had a ferroli and it was ok also had a worcester and it was ok, 2 combis I bought in last 2 yrs are potterton main and weismann 100, first size your combi on dhw not ch and second get stainless hex. Weismann 100 is the skoda of boilers all the German quality without the bells and cost.

I used to transport my mx bikes by just wedging front wheel against bulkhead and strapping down. Those front wheel holder things just do the same thing and are ideal – we never really worried about the back wheel it never went anywhere.

For a mx you had to use straps to compress the front forks else a good bump and with the weight etc they would droop let the straps go and fall over. So make sure you put on your for lockout or use bungees under enough tension, course if you can rig it to just strap on the fork arch that’d do it.

I have a big pot of West System epoxy at home that I use for everything and I would not trust any adhesive alone in that application, way too much force and poor bonding to the substrate esp. without acid cleaning etc, only any good as backup to a mechanical fixing (per loctite)

I know a professor in Melbourne who specialises in this kind of stuff, and is expert in loading due to WA cyclones…..but that doesn’t really help you does it.

Shhhhhh, don’t tell anyone the secrets, if it doesn’t sell you can email the seller and offer him less – because often the expectation of worth has been knocked, esp. if they are an infrequent ebay user.
Ebay mentality is predicated on a bargain – so 99p start, then with a 7 day auction bidders often invest significant time and emotional buy in to winning the item and whilst sitting around waiting the last 20mins so they don’t miss it now overpay so that someone else doesn’t ‘beat them’ – hence the flurry of bidding that often takes place in the last 2 mins.

If I were you I’d be asserting your legal rights a bit more strongly – under 6m and the burden of proof is reversed and on the retailer (not manufacturer) to prove that it is your fault.

Try getting to grips with the phrases ‘not fit for purpose’ ‘not of satisfactory quality’ ‘pieces of s**t’ – well maybe not the last one.

Letter to the retailer with big red letters ‘Letter Before Action’ sent signed for, informing them that either they sort this s**t out or you will be buying a new set of comparable forks from another manufacturer (DT Swiss I say) via another LBS and issuing a small claim writ against them for all the trouble, including fitting cost.

I once sent a digital camera for warranty repair to be told that they had found a lump of toffee inside! We discussed the options of how it was most likely to have got in there, after this they did it FOC.

Texting; am I weird?

No but you joined the ‘posting on STW am I weird’ club

Pace took over the Madsion service I belive. Dont send them to Pace, their customer service is shockingly bad. Someone recommended this guy “Fork English, guy called Tim Price. Top fella, call him on 01751 476815”.

It looks like its been designed by a hormonal teenager, who’s been up playing racing games on his x box all night

Probably because that spotty teenager is now a mahoosively well paid t’interweb / t’it wizz or banker with a W who is the average rear-engineed ferrari buyer?

This is not subsidence is it, it is plain damage. You need advice, it is not preventative maintenance it is preemtive action – you don’t have to wait for the damage to manifest and your insurers can subrogate against your neighbour’s insurers

I run 22/34 as I found it just right I seem to recall getting my rings from one of German shops just plain shimano steel, plenty of ones to be had but without shift ramps which add significantly to the cost

JamesOz – bingo!

I can’t fathom people walking on the made up trails, however I met at least 3 mtbers riding at speed the wrong way on the new one way trails having gone right past some no entry signs. And if it was anyone on here who careered the wrong way towards me and my little lass on the new ‘blue’ trail and glowered at me when you had to stop then I was just willing you to open your mouth so I could f*****g start on you!

The downhill is open but thats it and just as well the logging vehicles have turned it into a bog. Even if you sneaky ride the new armooured stuff its mostly not settled yet and like riding on sand.

Swinley is shut people.

I have bought loads from the classifieds and do a mix of PPG and PP fees depending on who I deal with. I have bought no less than 3 phones off here at £200 a pop and paid PPG for all – but I made reasonably sure who I was dealing with. Still a risk though.

If I pay PP fees I cover the fees because it is me that gets the benefit (buyer protection) – it amazes me that some folk on here think the seller should cover the PP fees!

+1 Viz the Wiz – but you(us) mini-ite all forget the Wiz was a xflow and pinto deva too! (and yes I have the lot)

+1 Two Stroke Performance Tuning, Graham Bell. Pretty much prefect.

Not sure why you’d want to be free of gas, its the cheapest way of heating you house.

You can anticipate gas (and electricity) going up by between 50% and 100% in the next 5 to 10 yrs.

The first thing you need to do, before insulation, is stop the house leaking, only then insulate it to buggery! Money spent on that is better than new CH system IMHO.

Did he pay the company for the right to park his bike? Nope, so he has no contractual claim. Does he have a tortious claim? Did they assume a duty of care, what was it and did they fail in that duty of care? Good luck with that one.

Any company insurance will have an excess greater than the value, so there is not actually any insurance available.

That mudhugger picture is a triumph of marketing over practicality – looks good, slightest hint of claggy mud and it’ll clog like a whole wheel brake. Much much more clearance required.

OP – try Zefal No-mud

Jagwire. Might need to use tape to hold them on