Isn’t the whole thing about Raw is that they are kinda raw?

Yeah, that was why I was just curious if that was the norm :) The rest of the frame is fairly immaculate. Had a look inside with a torch and it seems fine, just an unfortunate place for a mark, the first place I look :)

Chucked a mail to On-One regarding getting the wrong model and they replied very quickly, chucked me a set of tyres since they had no more V1s in stock.

Very impressed to be honest. Really seem to have picked up their game in the shipping/support department. Lovely looking frame too, looks like a lot more work went into them compared to the old version.

Edit: Actually, bit too off topic, starting a new one :P

Which companies do offer warranty on second hand frames?

Ibis do, if the break is a manufacturing defect. Otherwise they’ll offer a cheap crash replacement. Top company!

Ah well, cheers khani! :)

Yeah :) They do 23″, but they’re getting to be a right rip off. £1500 for XC 30 forks and Alivio on a Camber, cheapest Epics are £2600 now (with X7/X9 bits).

Cheers for the swift reply by the way!

Plan b is giving up on suspension and just getting another Scandal to be honest!

Oh actually, quick browse and it seems it’s probably a bit short.

http://twentynineinches.com/2012/02/29/titus-cycles-rockstar-on-test/%5B/url%5D

Good chunk of the comments moaning about lack of XL. Bah! Just one company should release a decent sized 29er xc full sus frame for sub £1500, you’d have a monopoly.

On a similar note, the Ouya makes a good media box :) $99 with a couple of wireless pads, much to my surprise XBMC (Android version) runs fine on it already and the pad bindings just worked out the box. Merrily runs stuff like Netflix already too, should be good.

Indeed, from the safe confines of the Apple ecosystem they believe the world outsides is fraught with terrible software and devices made of bendy plastic. Realistically the competing products have been pretty much level pegging for a couple of years now, for less money.

My Nexus 4 and Nexus 7 combined are still £100 cheaper than an iPhone 5.

I still wouldn’t buy any of them. They cost a bomb and do very little, they should cost the same as a low end netbook. And have a keyboard.

£159 for a Nexus 7? :) Works fine with bluetooth or USB keyboards (mouse too if you really wanted the whole hog). You could even remote desktop to your desktop PC with Splashtop if you desperately needed a full laptop experience.

Netbooks were a great idea, I found them painfully rubbish though. Instead of a powerful device running a slim operating system/apps, they were a low power device running apps drastically too expensive for them.

Cheers for the info Wobbly :) Just to clarify, the op wasn’t a dig of any sort. Literally just curious, mine was bought second hand way back and I had no idea what it was. I’ll have to have a look tonight.

Not that it matters hugely :) Don’t seem to see much scandium about anymore, now than Niner have gone back to standard aluminium as well. Just seems to be Kona sticking with it.

Another +1 for the Nexus 4 here, might just go for the 8gb though. Stream music via Spotify, keep a few downloaded locally but a gig would more than do. Sync photos to the cloud via Dropbox. The memory is only really for apps and games here, even then I quite like keeping it tidy rather than filling it with rubbish.

Using an SGS2 at the moment, which Mazuma and co would buy for £150. Makes it a pretty cheap upgrade for a big leap.

The idea of using a clean Android 4.2 build is appealing as well, using Cyanogenmod 10 at the moment.

Done, I’m horrible too. Where do I collect my slightly shonky fair trade iPhone for £800?

So very intuitive.

Or just press the power button on most modern PCs, they’ll shut themselves down.

On the antivirus note, it’s really not essential, went for years without. Modern virus checkers are fairly tidy though, no more grinding your PC to a halt. Using Avast! at the moment which is free.

Just looking for something similar myself, very short notice. Do like the look of that last one, cheers! :)

Doh, husband’s account…

Would be even worse if you had a horse there slobbing with you.

True, the rag and bone man has refused to move the horse carcass from my garden though.

Entry level dressage horse for the average person, about the same price as a mid range full susser.

Yeah, but that’s a second hand horse. You’d get a new bike for that!

Couple of years down the line and you’d need a new one due to horse fatigue as well. You’d be better off ditching dressage and just getting a Halfords horse-shaped-object while learning.

What sort of money is top end stables and food for a year? I take it we’re not talking Finish Line Dry prices here?

Definitely Highlander 5 here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=tWkPBt_qgu8#t=233s

Usually enjoy crap films, that one really pained me though :?

Well somehow my name ended up an amalgamation of other people’s names on the team, the riders on each team were totally mixed up, we ended up in the wrong category as a result of this. Even though we’d paid for a team of 4 chaps, we somehow had a mysterious rider called “?” who was clearly female, as we ended up in the mixed category.

Something did go a bit wrong this year, constant calls for teams to check in as the timing made no sense.

Big shame about the track too, it was genuinely good fun in the dry. Shocked at how badly it knackered it with about 1 hour of rain, we rode last year as well and it did similar but recovered.

I did enjoy it, we’ll be back next year too undoubtedly, but it’s a shame about the niggling little issues through lack of organization. No idea who’s responsible for any of it, but it clearly reflects badly on all the big sponsors proudly proclaiming they’re hosting the event.

Shall be running CX tyres next time

Much better idea.

2.0″ Beavers were too wide on my Scandal 29er + Rebas, still had issues with them clogging up late at night at SITs. Going slowly didn’t help.

Disappointed, I assumed you were hearing little jack russelly voices.

£1,000,000 for a Veyron, what a rip off! You could get like 50 top end Mondeos for that!

There’s always going to be someone happy to pay top dollar, so there’s always going to be companies selling things at that price. I can’t think of a market in which this doesn’t apply.

Besides, sounds cheap to me, you could buy the top end model of every major brand for less than the price of this toilet.

Android phones are fine on aeroplane mode using the GPS, used my old G1 in a similar way. The battery lasts for ages too, you can always turn it off and upload data via wifi when you get home too.

If you have a Spotify paid account you can even offline sync a load of songs before you go out and use it at the same time as Endomondo. Endomondo mutes the music if it wants to talk :) Buying a cheap Sony phone specifically for this for jogging with, as they pair with ANT+ devices.

Do any shops have these in stock now, or is everywhere ordering in as required?

Have to say, I’d be tempted :)

Good to hear they’re starting to come into the country, quite intruiged by the Superlight 29 here.

Alloy or carbon? Noticed the alloy ones seem pretty scarce at the moment.

On an old note, interesting to hear the Galaxy S 2 felt lardy compared to a Desire, when it’s both lighter and a good 30% thinner.

Galaxy S 3 is about level pegging with the One X, both a similar size/weight though.

My main concern with an iPhone would be the weak crystal glass they always seem to use, I’ve exploded a Touch, and curiously so has a bloke sat a few desks from me. All the Samsung phones use very tough gorilla glass. My old SGS1 has been passed onto the missus now and the screen still looks brand new, after weeks of being shoved in my saddle bag.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18856922

Whoops!

EDIT: This is Mrs Toast on Mr Toast’s laptop. Again, whoops!

http://www.deagostini.com.au/ilovehorses/%5B/url%5D

Hmm!

http://www.mobiles.co.uk/sony-ericsson-xperia-mini-white.html
http://www.sonymobile.com/gb/products/phones/xperia-mini/%5B/url%5D

Little thing, £3.75 a month with enough data to keep Endomondo or Strava going.

Dimensions 88 x 52 x 16 mm

Supposedly (although I’ve not tested it), supports ANT+ for heart monitor support in Endomondo. Android 4.0 (ICS) is out now for them and working well, quite powerful for the cash. Not the same as the X10 Mini, this is a newer version.

Trek Fuel Ex 7/8/9? The 8 seems like a bargain this year.

Any of the Bikescene frames?

It’s a shame you said no ST4, as they’re doing them for £699 :)

News just in, second hand on the forums is cheaper than buying in the shops.

On-One carbons are a 970g (£175), Singular Steel forks are 1100g (£40 off someone who doesn’t want/need them on the classifides or I think some people got them new from singular) so that’s almost £1 per gram saved

£175? Where did that number come from. They’re £150 at the moment, got mine for £100. Weighing them now they’re 945g with 180mm brake adapter and a crown race, cut a few inches off the end.

Pretty sure you can buy OO carbons second hand too if you want.

Loving my carbons, alarmingly flexy (200lb/6’6″ rider) but they’ve been awesome. Randomly put them back on tonight actually, I’m constantly in turmoil over whether I prefer them or the Rebas.

The new one is much more beefy, I think they’ve changed it to split from the ASR5 a bit. Quite a bit heavier too though, even the claimed weight jumped up by almost a pound, can’t see them exploding in the same way.

Halfords do little Cree torches too, bit more expensive though I think, like £15 or so. They also then do their own range of bazooka sized torches which give out absolutely no light.

Certainly not a carbon one, it’s got welds for a start :P

True, not been any huge weight savings to be seen from it though. Loads of light 1500g hardtail frames made out of well butted tubes ten years back, now you get 1500g bendy hydro frames.

All the scandium frames I’ve seen were just plain tubing, as far as I know due to the scandium making the aluminium more brittle and awkward to work with.

Haven’t been scandium for a good 3 years now. Still made out of decent grade aluminium now though, just curious really. Not much is made out of scandium anymore it seems, Niner stopped using it, Kona still uses a bit, not much though.