I pop to have a buthcers in the metal skip at the local dump most weekends (usually taking garden crap anyhow)… Nothing of any use at all this week..

Yes I am “A BIN DIVING PIKEY”

Your local tip will know what to do with em for recycling if theyre really shot.

Trout, you are at the front of the pack when it comes to home made lights, and you obviously enjoy it so keep building and selling.

Your velcro helmet mount is exactly the right mount in my opinion, you dont need anything more fancy than a velcro strap & another bit to stop it slipping, any bought system I have had I have always just ditched the provided helmet mount for something similar, or just cable ties.

I bought the chain ages ago in a sale, but used my cassette on another bike I built for the wife, and I really like XT cassettes but are expensive now, i looked at those rotors and decided against them had a nasty experience with a cheapo wavy one (Aztec) and vibrating, the windcutters look like they would do the same.

I need to take new pics of my bike as its constantly getting new bits and bobs, usually in gold…

What are the grips and end plugs? Lizard skin ones?

I need them grips…. check out my first post, plain gold anodized cage someone in the UK must sell them.
I think i am ahead, got a gold floating rotor on it since the pic.. Take special note of the gold spoke nipples on the front wheel.
Got a gold KMC chain to on when I can afford a new cassette!!!

oh and I got these back on it too..

ha ha, ws your carbon/ivory one of these Elite ones then?

another real gold….plating.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Elite-Patao-Gold-plated-limited-edition-bottle-cage_W0QQitemZ330333933536QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_SportGoods_CyclAcces_RL?hash=item4ce96fcfe0&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1683%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50

alpin you got a picture of your bike, I am wondering if ive been out golded..

anyhow here you go. Just in case there is any confusion they are not real gold…

http://www.bikemania.biz/Velo_Water_Bottle_Cage_p/velocity_velocage.htm

I put SLX mechs on the wifes budget build, they seem fine, dont know about all the other bits but the price fits..
Maybe Merlin would do you a different set of brakes if you dont fancy the SLX’s, it will definately come in cheaper buying it all in one place.

You probably got it from the bangkok lady boy site…

Having just tried to peice together a budget build and failed, (not that yours is budget) do Merlin still do complete groupset’s? you will struggle to beat buying it all as one bundle..

edit.. yep they do and it will be hard to beat.

http://www.merlincycles.co.uk/shimano-groupsets/shimano-s-l-x-groupset.html

Pop the bike upside down, spin the wheels and rest your finger on the frame or fork to steady it, point at the rim finger tip few milimetres from the rim you will see then if its the rim or the tyre.

If its the rim, then strip the tyres off and pop them to your LBS it should only be about 5-6 quid for a re tension and true, if they built the wheels for you its usually a free service once the wheels have settled down.

Ha ha, thats great…

Closer ratios at the expense of lower ratios..

FWIW I got an old Tinbred, it was polished up by the previous owner, its absolutely unmarked still, despite as much abuse as I get time to give it.
If it was painted it would look shit by now…. years down the line the scandal will look rough, the 456 wont… but its still the 456 that overlaps the most even if you swapped the forks (I dont get why anyone runs them on short forks anyhow).

Sell the Pitch and the Scandal?

You already know the answer, but I can see why its a gut wrencher..

Ti keeps its looks, but from a riding point of view, it would depend how you got the scandal and the 456 built up as to what one crosses over with the pitch or in fact with each other.

It sucks they now look shabby…

crikey, no wonder she has 3 sets of top/bra straps on…

oldgit I am supprised at you, £40 for a bottle cage, now that I dont get at all…. (I did get bought one as a gift once mind you)

Bought 2 really nice TA branded ally ones for £6 each last weekend, I thought I had paid over the odds for those as they had a name on them!!!

You will get paid out and its at a a similar value to a claim against an insured person. All claims take ages in my experience, wasnt any longer through MIB but this was quite a while ago.

Hope your OK.

Do as much as you can to help yourself, photo’s of damge, the road, detail details details…

I did it this time DezB… & I am not alone.. Removed due to poor spelling!

was they the v4 ritchey ones, I keep looking at them wondering if they are any good.

They need to be on host site first something like fotopic (loads of others) its free to host em.

jet26 do you have the pictures hosted anywhere?

Quick get outside theres a break in the cloud… 16 fantastic months ago.

And she just asked me to build her a bike up, so here that is too.

Conti twister supersonics are 350g scary fast but anything that weight has limitations on grip and robustness.. I put them on my wifes bike now the insurance is sorted.

Nice result…

The using the travel once per ride thing was kinda how we used to setup MX suspension, we were looking to bottom out on the biggest bump on the track, its a valid guidline, but better for something you do laps and laps of the same course.

On A MTB I think setting sag is the king, get that set right and you can ride around most other problems as long as your not miles off on rebound and compression (its only a pussh bike after all). Not sure about how much you need the rebound to be stopping your weight from bouncing about I thought it more for keeping the wheels from flailing about once its all unloaded, I stop myself from being bounced about by body english and being in the right position on the bike for any given obstacle.

As adeward says its about getting front and rear working together one end allwrong will mess the other up.

Dickbarton as you have changed bikes recently have you paid any attention to where your weight is relative to the cranks on the swap from your old bike to the new one? Could you be too far forward or backward on it upsetting the suspension?
Sadly the best setup bike in the world will only aid your riding, it isnt a cure, and more riding is the only way forward from there, and dont try to go too fast all in one go, up the ante gently at your own pace.

Is there enough material to drill out, re-thread and fit a helicoil insert?

I would think so, a engineering shop could advise you better though.

dunno the difference between the old and the new Hopes, have you tried some grease on the cam of the one you have? Makes a vast difference to the clamping force over having it dry.

5’s plenty, if you do want to fix it you could get it helicoiled, but no idea how much that would be.

I got an 04 edit 04 ish not sure edit, dunno what is designed for but am running 125mm Mavericks with no trouble or problems, went from carbon 440mm rigids to them and yes its slower steering, but not overly so.. Mavericks a pretty short axle to crown for their travel though…

great, was just about to buy a new cassette… OK then poke your 10 speed… until I can afford it at least!!!

Your right northwind, I think clubber has got that sussed its the ammount of teeth MX sprockets are huge… I am now convinced, ally no trouble.. bring it on..

I would love 36t on my bike, thats why I am interested, OK am convinced on the ally thing, 1×10, yeah sounds right to me, and not an overlapping gear in sight. Where do I sign up?

oh and need to see the shifter pods on their own, if you got a pic of that in your pocket!! 🙂

Fair point, something in my head doesnt like the sound of an ally ring in the cassette… Or surely someone would have done super light cassettes on the cheap before? Like the racer only ally discs.

Could just be me though… 😕

Get a lot more crap at the back, it wouldnt last like an alloy front ring, but I guess thats not its main priority as you say its damn light, think I would realistically be more interested in a lower in the range 10 speed setup that weighs more and lasts a bit longer.

But I fully understand why you would do the bling flagship model first.

Yep sure is a different colour, could be Ti?

So the shifter pods can bought on there own then no need for the brake lever etc?

oldgit might have been but njee20 is talking cassette’s

if its front rings oldgits got the numbers wrong its 26-39/ 28-42

If its cassettes I would like to know if it really is ally for the 36t..or Ti, it does look a different shade of, er, metal colour.