The stem is an original part. Wedge type that drops into the fork steerer. I just removed the gyro and fitted full size bars into the existing stem. I’m struggling to set up the headset now though. Either too tight or comes loose after 2 mins.

Just take a look at this absolute disregard for safety. His father should taken that bike of him and had a nice safe game of scrabble or kerplunk in the house. Crazy ❗

fairhurst – Member

We certainly like to have a tipple or two yes indeed!

If I am killed, you can say I told you so. If It is a great day out, a bit of fun and no one is seriously heart, then you sir are an apprehensive, overanxious ass.

I do think of safety of the upmost importance in this dangerous sport,take care when you and your friends do this event as rather you than me…
Now I feel guilty. We will be careful. We are riding trails that we know very well and will be appropriately protected and blah blah blah
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fairhurst’s party’s

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we have been known on the odd occasion to get wild yes.

Photocopying bums at work and keys in the bowl at home after a Bacardi breezer?
If I am killed, you can say I told you so. If It is a great day out, a bit of fun and no one is seriously heart, then you sir are an apprehensive, overanxious ass.

fairhurst, I bet your party’s are wild. We’re not doing the Red Bull Rampage on them!
Stu, every day and in every way, I’m getting better and better. just like Frank Spencer 😉

Yeah, here’s a better look at my summer boot 😀

Extreme testing (in a field)

Very low bottom bracket. Should be planted 😯

Ha, no chance. Plastered all over it like a 11 year old would do. You can have the wooden cock n balls back if you like 😆

Yes, shinsplint’s garden does look shite 😆 he collected it for me X
Any excuse to mess with bikes Mark. I wonder if I could beat you down hill on your full size bike ❓ 😛

Ive just cleaned them Stu. Hopefully the DH day will be filmed. After polishing the rims the brakes are as effective as holding out an open crisp bag so if it goes a little past the wheelie balance point, it slips out from between you’re cheeks like a bar of soap 😆
Oh and its not a bmx any more, its a micro DH rig 😉

And my white shoes Stu? Cheers peeps. I loves it.

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This place is great. They do guided rides out in groups around the Elan valley, Brecon, Strat Florida etc. The place is really well geared up for green lane weekends with big lock ups, drying room, tool room. The guides make it as hard or as easy as you want and know all the good stuff. A really nice place to stay and get filthy. The food is great and the building itself is set in a beautiful part of the country. Now I miss my 525 🙁

llanerchindda Farm

I actual meant it as in “Aarr fu f…… owler” you know, when there’s people around. Say owler instead of uck sake. But growler will also suffice 😀

Arthur Fowler

When I say crap, I mean there’s nothing really challenging. If you’re just starting out then its ok for a potter around as its littered with tracks that criss cross all over the place but you will get bored if you’re looking for techy stuff.

Salibury plain is crap unless you find the tank training areas but even then its not great and you will get chased by the mod. Secretly and quietly in the welsh forests is where its at but ssshhh.
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It’s Micks shout RD.

Todays!

Somewhere special Friday, local Bredon hill sat and Wyre forest monday with Mick Arms so might see you about.

Is the sock going to be your new juice sock?

Yes mate, 11p saving on every £400 you spend on socks. Just type the code, OVERPRICEDFAIRYTHREADS11P£400

Ignoring heat dissipation and scientific calculus jargon, its a leverage thing. A bigger disc is further away from the hub center therefore when the brake is applied, less force is needed on a larger disc than a smaller one to stop the wheel due to the distance between the two points. Ie, spin a wheel and stop it by touching the tyre, now spin the wheel and try to stop it by touching the hub flange. Simples.

Yeah, leave the air in.

Tap the threaded ends that protrude from the lower ends (with the nuts on loose so as not to damage threads) to break the seal so to speak, then pull. Simples.

To be honest, I don’t think I would like to take the gamble on doing a tubeless conversion without a beefy compressor. With some tyres Ive had to get the compressor up to 100 psi then let it rip just to get it to fill out and make a seal. Lots of soapy helps though.

Thank you Mr Tazzy for advertising your fabulous magical rings again. They are wonderful. Please may I order 11 of your 32T and 17, 37t. I want to sell them on my stall at the circus for £50 each and make a killing. I is an entrepreneur init.

Off to finish off the ice cream. £7.77!

1. It’s not an offence to be in possession of an open alcohol container in a public place. Local authorities have the power to create ‘Alcohol Designated Areas’. (They only do this when there are specific problems, related to drinking, in those areas). It’s still not an offence to be in possession of an open alcohol container, or to be drinking from it, in such an area. However, it is an offence within such an area, to fail to stop drinking or to fail to hand over the container, if required to do so by a police officer.

2. A car isn’t a ‘public place’. (Even a taxi wouldn’t qualify as a public place, although it’s arguable that a bus might).

3. It’s not an offence to have an open container of alcohol in a car.

Your call fella. Buy, try, sell if no good or wait for adjustability to arise. See what I did there 😀

All good here.

In which case, you could have just posted “I am a fat lad, do I need 36’s” In which case we would have all said Yes, your bike will surely explode if you use 32’s 😉

you genuinely do get a multiple length fork rather than a long fork with a crippled short mode

Not if they have been rider tuned by TFT 😉

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Which mine haven’t 😛

PS wouldn’t go back to 32’s on an all mountain bike for an extra inch on my plonka.

You will get a big bouncy bike to abuse down hill and a big bouncy bike to get back to the top again. Prob be ok with a low stack and or no spacers, zero rise stem. You may have to sit forward and pull the bars on the steep climbs but then you are going to be compromising the ups for the downs. Best case scenario is its much more fun on the descents and a bit of a pig on the steeps but manageable. For the record though, I use the talas a lot on my 36’s on a tracer.

A bit more here Tazzo X
More oval insanity

Original Lynskey ridgeline.
Very comfy on long xc rides. Very light build so goes uphill ridiculously well. Very flexy at the bb and you can feel it when sprinting. Almost changes gear. Scary on gnarly ish descents. Feels like its going to tie itself in a knot. Love it to bits for the previously mentioned traits.