I just bought a deore HT2 for my XT cranks, £19 (wooly hat shop) and a set of the bearings munque_chick mentioned so I can rebuild the XT BB.

radio controlled car batteries?

DezB – Member
That's on the roads isn't it?
I'd rather eat my own head.

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crap idea for XC stuff then?

Kinda wish I had bought a 11-32 instead of the 34 for the kit thats waiting to be fitted, I got to love the 34's for running 1×9 locally but now I am down to 1 bike I want a setup that will do any ride I go on without swapping stuff about and the odd XC race, maybe that would have just about got the the closer ratios I was looking for, dont matter much, winter is coming and it will grind itself to pulp quick enough a 32 next time.

bit of a highjack, sorry.

Have you tried a triple but with a road cassette?

I have found recently running a std triple and 11-34t that the jumps on the rear cassette are sometimes too big and wonder what a close ratio cassette but running the triple would be of help? Or should I just buy 11-32's instead of the 34's??

Why spend more on the scheme for inferior lights than you can just buy over the internet?

poppa, rekon your looking for something that (almost) doesnt exist XC weight, fat mud tyres, if its really for just soft ground why are you looking at such big tyres?

I swear by swampthings in 2.1 for the winter at 600g they are in the right ballpark weight wise but are increasingly difficult to find in that size, and it come up pretty skinny.

mmmm, STW in conflicting opinions shocker..
I think it depends how good your lights are. If running 1 light I prefer it on my head but as suggested its a bit more agro, if you got something really powerful on the bars then it makes the headlight less necessary, but a nice addition, downside is double the faff/cost.

captain crash you didnt read the strip down on the dx bike light properly, it was reviewed by Trout the STW homebrew lighting guru, his "its not good news" tag was in respect of how good the light was for the money and how difficult it was to compete with, the one stripped was an early light and others since then when stripped down didnt have the same faults.
Its a lot of light for the money.

I bought the torch before the bike specific light came out, if I was buying now it would be the bike specific light.

zippy is right… ditch the frame get the scandal. 1 1/2lb there

2nd hand SID forks another 1 1/2lb

After that it gets even more expesive per gram.

it might be your dealer rather than middleburn, once I spoke to the fella at middleburn to get the part number it was real quick once ordered for rjcxtreme… Maybe not, sometimes thing run out, guess its all made in batches, contact Middleburn direct and ask em.

takisawa2, your so last year, just get the bike specific light. 🙂

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.25149

didnt think you could buy direct, when I spoke to them about a specific part I wanted they sent me to one of their dealers RJX extreme to order it but gave me the part number to order.

So you built your wife a hardtail that though very pretty indeed weighs more than your full sus, dont let her pick your bike up!!!

2 exact opposite ideas already STW rocks.

You got some good stuff there… DMR Trailstar is definately soemthing you want but she doesnt really need… be nice to buld something light for her.

mark, I am magpie, I like shiny things, I got a mat black frame on my full sus right now and its as dull as ditchwater to look at, rides brilliant and was a bargain, but it just doesnt float my boat, my high polished Ti hardtail got nicked and am looking to build all the bits off my full sus (higher spec stuff than the 400 has) onto something shiny….

Never mind back to plan #126 get the Scandal frame I got floating about polished and powder coated to my own spec.

edit… to give you a clue how shiny I like bikes, this is my hardtail that got knicked.

Mark, thanks for that, I just cant justify the whole new bike.. It will have to remain a dream.

JIM, snap up the Ti Pipdream now…..

You got a 100mm fork, then you dont really need the 456 cheap as it is, you want it chuckable and SS able, so why not the scandal and save yourself 1 1/2lb in weight.

my SC32's have a nice oil sloshy noise, its just the damping doing its thing, I never hear them out on the trail though so not that loud, can just hear a them a bit doing the ever useful carpark boing.

If you can hear them riding there is something not right I guess, or your part bat.

Nah I bought the USE from corroded, nice looking post by the way corroded, many thanks…

Not had a chance to drop the new/old frame down the powder coaters yet so not built it up..

You could try some wider bars to slow it down a bit, much cheaper than new forks.

It works out about 1 degree slacker for every extra inch of fork, so will get slightly slower steering, check out the axle to crown length of the forks you have and the forks you plan on using, if your lucky even an extra inch of travel might only be 15mm longer fork, factor in a bit extra sag and it might not make much difference at all, or could go the other way and make more diference..

I put longer forks on an 04 FSR Stumpjumper and it made the bike flipping great, I did however opt for a fork that had a lockdown feature to even things out a bit on steep climbs, but found I rarely needed to lock it down anyway..

I have spent money with most online bike shops, every local bike shop to me, and a lot of other peoples LBS too…. Isnt that enough???

ok RS I admit it, I do fancy trying something like that, as yet I dont get it, but, who knows.

Too many kids in mine… 🙂

I looked like this on saturday after an 8 hour battle with the stump. On the sunday I had one of my best races, I am not a racer just dabble with a bit of XC at a low level.
I actually damaged the nerves in my hand I think as the first 2 laps of the race sunday I could barely hold on or change gear and both sat and sunday nights were an agony of pins and needles.

Pretty sure that will be a max pressure….

Been dabbling a bit with lower pressures recently, and though there is truth in the Shwalbe finidngs (have you seen that study?), I think there is a cut off, at least for me there is, and too low is detremental to the rolling resitance.

I tried 25-30 and felt it too low for me and where I ride but have dropped to the 30-35 from the 40-45 I used to run.

My dad was at the race watching my nippers, nephew and myself, and went out on a TRAINING ride last night as he is contemplating entering Langdon, he is just over 80 never raced a push bike in his life (but does have a decnt ish bike I bought him), is there a Grand Grand Vet class or anything? I really hope he does the next one, he raced MX in the 50's so rekon he can get around OK, its only 60 years ago.

bigdawg, 8mph… jesus it felt faster than that, and your lap times were similar to mine.

With the benefit of youth and the trusty Raleigh Areana (little wheeled one) about a day or 2 to get 4-6 decent pedal revolutions in (its a massive grunt to get a racer stood up), that increased slowly until I had to stop counting and judged it by how much of the road I lived in, until I could do all the road.

Practice on an uphill, as said you gotta be able to flip it, know your going to flip it a few times but can still land on your feet. If you trying to learn clipped in you will need to go straight to using the back brake to check it in an emegrency flip situation, rekon it might be easier to forget the back brake thing and learn on flats, dragging the back brake is great once youve nailed it, but just another thing to try and learn if you cant already wheelie.

And its going to be loads harder when your older.

BUT once you have it you will never lose it, it came back real quick once i started cycling again.

Yep I am bored now… this is more like fun.

http://www.nabble.com/Bored-at-home….create-your-own-zoo…..-td3436555.html

I was going to ask how Maldon CC got gloves for webbed hands.. 😮

cheesy that first picture is a corker, the official photographer fella got a good one of a bloke losing it there too.

I wish you had taken some of the hour ride, as his £17.50 for a picture seems quite expensive.

Post one up of yourself bigdawg so I know who to say hi to..

Does anyone know anything about the Cambridge round?

edit, is the Maldon CC bloke Harry Enfeild?

mcboo he is buying a new chainset not just rings, that makes it a whole different matter.

But yeah RJX-treme is a good shop.

My Tinbred may well last forever but I will never know as the chav scum w4nkers who knicked it have not been caught yet…

Shame you EBB broke, it can happen to any bike..

solman I think mcboo is reffering to buying just the XT rings, they are a stupid price on their own, there was a thread about it the other day something like £120 just to buy the rings and you can buy the whole chainset for that kind of price. thread below.

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/sorry-what-to-sell-for-chain-rings

Nearly time for a Kolsh eh toomanybikes?

I was just bimbling about on the classifieds and there is a 400mm Ti post for sale, its a smaller dia but a shim would sort it… Might be worth a look.

Maybe he thought the prisoner was undercover police and you had been aprehended for impersonating a police officer.. 🙂