a better question might be why aren’t the seatpost height adjust systems as reliable as the one on my office chair? The answer I would imagine has a lot to do with weight.

My bank called me the day after I used my card to buy a DVD from CRC last week, some topups and a kitchen! apparently.

Money refunded by bank and new cards, bit annoying though :(

google for 7001 2RS, take your pick.

I just had an ACL rebuild on my knee, and was given an Epidural (its apparently better for getting you up and about faster). It felt a bit odd honestly, and when the guy with the needle in my spine grazed a nerve and my leg spasmed I felt pretty worried, but apparently its normal…

The only real downside for me was waking up from the anesthetic about 5pm, and not being able to take a piss until 3am, at which point I filled two of those cardboard bedpans to the brim, one after another :D

you could do the motorbike thing, and wiggle the chain on the cassette.
Not much wiggle: chain ok
Lots of wiggle: time for a new chain?

Me (93kg and “aggressive” riding style) vs Grizedale Pike/Hobcarton End) on a newly built Meta 55 with 160mm Hayes Nines (didnt have the right adaptors to put my usual big rotors on): Cooked out the back brake in the narrow bit near the trees (10 minutes of descent?)
The next week, same bike, same brakes, 203mm rotors: No fuss.

I used to cook out a Hope Mini Mono on my first bike pretty regularly with a 180mm rotor, then upgraded to a 200mm before I went to Morzine the first year, and it didn’t cope well at all.

Doing the mega this year with a newish set of SLXs with 200mm floating rotors and no issues, the previous year with the aforementioned Hayes Nines they were getting quite iffy in the trees.

Big chunks of Wall-E are pretty low on dialoge

Ive snapped a headtube off casing a 20 foot double. I came to still holding on the the bars, even though the rest of the bike was quite a way away.

To be fair, the previous day I had hit a gate that “jumped out” at me on a descent in the peak quite hard.

haha, I have this vague image of a poor Commissaire type looking down everyones trousers at the start line to make sure nothing is clamped too tight.

Am I right in thinking that they are talking about banning them for XC race use? (If so I might buy some as it would mean that they seem to work!)

The guys I knew with them all cracked them :(

I would like to be the “Avalanche Technician” who sets off the charges in Chamonix to keep the risk down.

Flying around in Helicopters, blowing s**t up! Yeah!

A bit like a lorry driving past 2 streets away in Cockermouth, no shaking just a faint rumble.

to recover my stolen bike

did you get the bike back?

Grandaddy? Toyota adverts, among others

Only film ever to have any effect on me that way was the part in I am Legend (which was generally shocking) where the dog dies. Was pretty glad I was watching it by myself at that point, as it was pretty embarrassing.

On a slight sidetrack, watching Up In The Air by yourself in a generic hotel room, while on business was pretty depressing.

AlexSimon – Didn’t MBUK do something like that years back, with Hans Rey as the evil guy and Martyn(sp?) Ashton? and Martin (something) as the good guys in 70’s stylee?

Cunning Stunts or something like that?

Had it on VHS I think.

our new Samsung telly only outputs stereo through the TOSLINK, so regardless of the audio fed to the telly over the HDMI cable, the surroud sound system we have dosent work properly. Looking at ways of sending the audio direct from the source XBMC PC to the surround system, but it seems like a massive oversight :(

no worries, cheers man, might take you up on that when my ACL is fixed.

you got it sorted?

Right, so some not very clear pics of a set of SLX cranks, and a BLackspire stinger on my beloved Mbuzi

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This one might be the key, its tight, but there is about 3mm between the plate and the granny ring:
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Hope this helps!

Dan

got an Mbuzi with a stinger on it in the garage, I can take some pics tomorrow. Went on with no spacers on a 36.24 just clear of the bash ring

We were up there on Sunday, the sign says that the top third is shut, when you ride up to the top of spooky wood you are guided down the push up track (fairly tech singletrack if its damp) onto the pushup firetrail, and then in on a small and fairly neat linking trail for the bottom third or so of spooky wood. As I understand it, you could rejoin the trail as it enters the trees, but the diversion rejoins quite a bit lower down. Other than that we didn’t see any closed signs.

had some lightish weight Kona trousers a while back that were pretty awesome, less lining below the knee to give it some clearance around knee shin armour

I lived in Joburg for a few years growing up, and this brought back some childhood horrors about the Parktown Prawns that I assume these ones were named after:
Parktown Prawn
We used to trap them under big saucepans when they got in the house during storms, and listen to them clinking together as they tried to escape.

Love the movie though.

Dan

Nice shot Clare!

Im in Dirt this month :D but its a pretty tiny pic :(

Thats the Parr thing?
Looks really good, its more along the lines of the Avalanche Enduro style I think, like single runs rather than as many goes as you can be bothered with (I actually prefer it, bit more relaxed).

It should be really good fun, if my knee has been stitched back together
by then :(

Bit different in that the suffering and adventure is not self inflicted:
We Die Alone
its a bit WW2, but quite entertaining.

drop the rear brake and get a Hope Moto V2 with the vented rotors instead?

Mate (120kg+) bought a set on the 3rd day in the Alps, after setting fire (really!) to a set of 203mm Hayes 9s.

I use one on the back of my DH bike, and even without the vented rotor find it dissipates the heat much better than most other stuff I have used (Im 96kg in armour) when Im riding in the Alps.

Dan

Love mine, use it built with Pikes and heavyish kit for everything from BMX tracks to singletrack in Les Arcs.

Only wish it had ICSG tabs, other than that its perfect, love the short chainstays that make it super easy to flick the bike around

Is the geometry adjustable or is the rocker link slidy like that Yeti DH bike?

Looks nice

see, my mum told me not to play with my knob, or it will fall off, and given some early problems with nitrogen charges escaping out of rebound knob ports on Romic rear shocks, this is something I have adopted for my biking too. Not faffing with the kit I ride faster, and faff less.

why on earth would I want too? IMHO Lockout is for people who arent smooth, and I set and forget my compression.

Simples.

I use the third option, use the end of a gear cable, with the blob bit inside the cable hole, and using the now stationary cable to set and lock off the compression setting.

Same principle as running a normal mech as a single speed chain tensioner.

cool vid, seems to have coped pretty well given the low light!

did you get any good footage of the mine descent?

I demo'd an Ariel, it rips, great fun, a Meta5 killer. Not that heavy compared to the sort of stuff I normally ride (beefy meta5, meta4X and most recently a Morewood Mbuzi (beefy Alpine 160)

It shares a few features with the Meta5, like the rear end could be stiffer, but it is soooo much fun it really doesnt matter.

demo one.

Dan

Ive been wondering about this too, far as I can figure its a standard attachment top and bottom and should just fit.
Ive been thinking about trying to pick up a shagged set of 66s or something to strip the internals out of, try for some proper open bath oil and coil action

I have a feeling its probably ok, you can just make out the shadow of the curve in the far stay on TheSwedes second picture above, I'm probably just being paranoid (previously a Commencal owner, had 4 frames in 6 months), but would be good to get someone with one to have a quick look. The back ends of the two bikes are quite similar in size and shape generally, I don't think it would be necessary to curve the swing-arm to fit tires in.

yeah sorry, lets try again with pictures.

Mbuzi (with potentially unintended curves) is Grey,
Izimu is blue, and tubes are straight

I change my chain and cassette at the same time, the trigger for the change is the second time that I split the chain cranking it (or when they feel like they are about to). They normally last around 6 months of riding 2 or 3 times a week in the lakes (I ride 4 or 5 times a week but have more than one bike) (when I lived down south and rode mainly in the Peaks and at Cannock and Chicksands it was more like a new chain and cassette every 2 months).

I hose my bike down when I get home, and lube the chain.

take them to bits, pour in new 7.5wt oil, slather the internals with grease, put back together.

simples.