Weekend in Bruges with the OH and some good friends, glorious weather more relaxed than I’ve been in a long long time. Just taking a moment between beers before we get back on it.

Mine started getting thin and that was it off with the lot. Short is much easier, but I still miss it.
Go to a decent barber though, worth the money, IMHO obviously.

Step son bought a used one in excellent nick and absolutely loves it.
Other than that I can’t be much more help.

Been using Viewranger for several years on different phones, found it to be great.

Tim is my first name and I’ve run a pub in Bath since 2004 called The Raven[/url]
We even have a Mountain Bike Team, that would be Team Raven 😆

My ‘favourite’ are natural trails. However, I do like both, and trail centres are especially good in sh1tty winter weather if you fancy a good fast blast.

+1

It’s a mood/weather thing with me and the nearset centre is at least an hours drive away, which may have some bearing on my opinion.

S’all just riding and that’s always better than not riding.

I seem to get through wheel bearings faster than suspension bearings/bushings, but I suppose it’s about £90 a year. Though I tend to just replace the lot once a year anyway.
Never had a shock or fork professionally serviced in 12 years of riding full sus, change the oil myself twice a year and make sure the friction surfaces are clean. Yet to have a problem. Yet!

guess I’m naively wishing mag reviews were just honest and impartial.

Even if they were, they are still someone else’s opinion and taste. I’ve tested bikes that magazines and friend rave about and found them, after I’ve tested them, to be a bit MEH! IMHO obviously.

I’ve never been offered a test of less than a full day and I’ve never paid for it either. I’m spending a lot of my hard earned and I want to be as sure as I can be that it’s worth it.

I ride the bikes I can test.

+1

I bought a bike once, and only the once, after a quick spin round a car park. It was the worst bike I’ve ever owned and not cheap.

I will never again buy a bike that I can’t test off-road, ideally on a trail that I know.

At 17 I had a 125cc trail bike, lots of girls around the local little “jump spot” Recreation ground, so me and a few mates were trying to get the highest, furthest in the air. Really gave it some effort, great jump, perfect position on the bike, everyone seriously impressed until I landed a foot from the chainlink fence. No time to brake, OTB with a bit of a girly squeal, if I remember rightly.
Walked away with no more than bruised pride though.

BMI is a general guide, there are other (better?) ways to measure, but I like this one…

just see if anything wobbles that shouldn’t when you jump up and down naked.

and ask yourself am I active? am I happy? No one else really counts.

I use the Poach pod silicon jobbies and they’re great, IMHO.

Warm them in the boiling water and melt a small knob of butter in the bottom before you put the egg in.

I have a Reverb that’s getting on for 4 years old, never had it serviced, aside from cleaning the exposed surface every ride. It’s been covered in sh!te and under water on river crossings.
Just starting to think that I should get it serviced, but it hasn’t developed any fault of any kind. Though now I’ve said that it will probably explode next time I use it.

How about these guys Pedal Planner[/url]

I agree with Mbnut, you could do worse than come down to Bath/ Bristol area. Great transport links South Wales, Exmoor and the Cotswolds easy travelling.

Any plans will be stuffed up once London disappears up its own arse after the next banking meltdown.

😆 😆 😆

As above, the right clothing and just go, once you’re out it’s great, so much better than not riding. It’s great getting back covered in mud and dripping like a child again, as if I was ever anything else 😆

Although, I am also put off by strong wind, round here it always seems to be a headwind no matter which direction I ride.

The 650’s and 29ers were all tucked up safely.

😆

Just put a new Cane Creek DB inline on my 26″ Rocket, absolutely fantastic bike, as flying monkey says “I have no desire or plans to go to change wheel size” or indeed bicycle.

Just replaced a Vip’r with a Cane Creek in line on my Cotic Rocket. It’s like night and day, the CC is far superior IMHO and you can get it serviced easily.
I wouldn’t bother with BOS again.

If you can an in-line Vent Axia with a humidity sensor. Works well for a long time, worth the extra IME.

Time, acres and acres of time. Anything else is just fluff.

I’ll be there and it’s looking likely that Team Raven[/url] will be well represented. Always a good crack.

Apologies for the out of date site though, just realised how long ago I was 50!

great video, made me want to join the club…. the Enduro club.

Oh, hang on, I already ride my bike so I must be Enduro!

Have to say, it’s the “new” wheel size that interests me the most.

gonna book a couple of demos. 😈

I’ve still got the original Reverb on mine which has been in use for the last 4 1/2 years and never needed to be bled or to be pumped up since fitting. Never serviced it, just clean the muck off it after each ride and give it a squirt of Fork Juice.

This^^ +1

Windows in the back doors, so you don’t pay commercial vehicle tolls.

Make sure it’s registered as a PLG , not a LGV or you are limited to 50 on single carriageway and 60 on dual carriageway roads. That doesn’t seem a big deal, but two speeding tickets later it gets annoying.

Still happy with my 26″ wheeled version.

Looks as good with mid-sized wheels though.

Always had just one bike. Cotic Rocket, 26″ wheels natch, at the moment. Excellent for anything that I throw at it.

Surely that’s a manufacturing defect and therefore warrantable?

Keavney’s is probably a few “Now that’s what I call music”compilations left in the back of his car.

I sincererly doubt that his “love” of music extends that far, unless it has lots of his own voice in the collection.

fisher fat possum is the worst ever mtb product.

I got caught with one of those too…..utter rubbish

Not worth the effort IMHO, just stick a new one on Disco brakes

@DBW, I’m sure you’re right sadly……. apparently it is imminent, but so is the second coming of the great prophet Zarquan 🙄

Happy Cotic Rocket owner here, not sure when the 27.5″ wheeled version will be ready though

Eddies in the space time continuum…….Eddy? Eddy who?

I’ve only ever had one at a time, I can only ride one each ride anyway.

Android to Chromecast and Sony telly works very well here.

It’s not the new wheel size that’s the problem at all in my view, it’s the refusal to support existing legacy bikes that most people own – therefore forcing upgrades at a time when a lot of people are pretty skint.

Let alone skint, if you’re happy with it why change?

My, probably unfounded, fear is a lack of affordable spares for my bike before I’m ready to change it.

Still choice is good, right?

Too early for beer? You’re awake aren’t you?

+1

Happy birthday, seems like a long time since i was 40….oh wait it is!

Vend is quite good for retail, I believe, but we haven’t found it good for hospitality.
We’re going over to Intelligent POS.

While you’re looking at accounts package, take a look at Xero, working well and cheaper than Sage.