I’ve heard rumours you can see the top of snowdon too, but i’ve yet to see it, or blackpool tower. But then again its often cloudy at the pike

The steps of death?? Where are they?? Another Calderdale feature no one told me about!! Karma i suppose, i’ve a few secret spots!!!

Big dummy sir it is you and your ilk who have brought the skool to Calderdale and kept it there and one day i shall venture Brantwards for more enlightenment but i shall say this first, my skill and gnarl were earned in the 70’s upon a blue Royal Enfield with cow horn bars, frame angles didn’t matter, suspension was a mere twinkle, and the moorland bomb holes we jumped out of have long since been reclaimed for agriculture, i can truly say ‘i remember this before it was fields’. So i shall venture to Tod one day but it will not be to buy into a lifestyle, only to enhance it and move closer to the light…….

Jesus, Calderdalians, we all think we’re Ted Hughes!!!

I’ve been going up hills in Calderdale for 20 years and i have to admit i’ve always preferred to look West at the top but i musn’t have the right kind of eyes………. or perhaps i couldn’t see for my Orange glasses if you get my drift???

I think CJ does a pretty good job of smug too!!! Hats off to the people who can remember things!!!!

What’s Calderdale new skool??? And what was Calderdale old skool?? I was unaware we had a skool in Calderdale???

Wilf Lunn, all round contraption making hero is the only acceptable geek in my book!!! We could just go on And give the answer to every question as CJ is a tw*t!

On fire do some ok stuff,

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/Brands.aspx?BrandID=388

The foam warning is or was on the warranty page on the orange website!!!

Oh its signals from space? I thought it was my brakes squealing!

Nah, choose my passing spot perfectly for max effect!!! I say passing spot it was more me going off a six foot drop and one of them doing the chicken run while the others stood at the top scratching their arses.

My Patriot was pretty loud til i wrapped an old tube around the swing arm, its that big old hollow frame amplifying the sound!! Dude at orange told me about a fella filling his with insulation foam to stop the noise!! Classic.

Well i’ve never ridden a trail centre before but from what i’m reading there seems to be a lack of community at some of them?? I’ve encountered mostly good, friendly people on the natural local stuff (apart from one occasion with a group of arrogant fellas on expensive specialized who were def in the category of all the gear no idea, very satisfying to smoke them on a downhill run, proving you cant buy your way into a life style). So please tell me i’m wrong about trail centres cos some of em look ok!!!

As for the fella barging past, total git. if your downhill run is really that important to you stop, turn round and do it again. Courtesy and manners cost nothing.

They dont look nearly as nice as Hope, but i’d suggest they may brake better! For 395 tho i’d want ABS too.

So they stopped?? Mind you 500 a corner i bet they didnt sell in buckets!

I’m surprised showa didn’t carry on into general mtb fork making, or are they a subsidiary of honda??? I’m also waiting for Brembo to get into mtb brakes!!

I’ve heard it can be terminal,but i’m sure theres a ‘bodge’ for it!!!

I’d be tempted to try without sleeve too, and if it works over compensate for missing spacer with a **** load of grease.

Im sure i saw one for sale somewhere for about 15k, cant remember where tho. You just wouldn’t would you tho, you’d have to make your own spares!

weird, i cant imagine the inner spacer being too big, and if its plastic it can hardly push the BB out the other side. sounds thread related, whether its on the frame or the BB i dunno!!!

I remember the ‘secrecy’ surrounding the gearbox, but didn’t it just turn out to be an enclosed cassette kinda set up???

What BB you trying to put in?? Tho i’m geussing they all have similar length threads.

Old Honda DH rig, thats their ‘amazing’ gearbox. Only ran it for a couple of seasons.

I just put a hope BB in my patriot, got it chased and faced just to be on the safe side. Went in no probs.

You might wanna take it to LBS and get it chased.

Are you using the correct amount of spacers?? orange are 73mm BB so you’d need one spacer on the drive side.

This should help

http://www.orangebikes.co.uk/main/techfaqs.php

Im refurbishing a set of pikes and as far as i can work out you can convert air u-turn to coil u-turn, i could be wrong. It looks easy enough to convert but it depends how mechanically minded you are. Having just stripped down some pikes i can assure you its messy!!!

Cottage cheese and kiwi fruit on a sun dried tomato foccacia bread, I have my butler cut the crusts off after he’s pushed my bike to the top of a run.

Cant wait!!!

I dont, i cant get Walter Raleigh out of my head, sorry, *grabs coat and heads for door*

Was it actually built as a mountain bike or a BMX cruiser??

Just think about it people, you’ll cringe when you get it

I think i get the picture, i realise “happy to do Indian” may be a bit of a ‘carry on’ type opportunity

I’m quite happy to do indian before a ride though, washed down with much cobra

Walter?

I cant eat chinese on the eve of a ride, all that MSG doesn’t half dehydrate you for the morning.

I ordered one, she should arrive next week

i should wear a gum shield, knocked two teeth out recently, seperate rides. but where would the fun be if we were all wrapped up in cotton wool etc etc

Dont go for 661 veggies, those things cause some serious chaffage behind the knee, i’m just about to order some kyle straits, found some d30’s cheap on ebay but missed em, d’oh

Wow, a kind of eugenics i suppose, wasn’t Hitler having a bash at that??