BMI is utter bollox for anyone fit and active…

My weight has gone up from typically 14-14.5 st a year ago to 15-15.5 st now – in pretty much direct correlation to the amount of riding that I do. The more I exercise, the heavier I get.

Depends what you do, cyclists/runners it's quite often sensible and a decent way of comparing 2 people of the same discipline.

It obviously can't compare fitness of a boxer and a long distance runner directly. A lot of pro cyclists sit in the low-middle of healthy though, Lance Armstrong is quoted as 22.8? He clearly can't be exercising enough!

215 pounds last week, or 97.5 kgs.
212 pounds yesterday, at the same time of the day, or 96.1 kgs.

6'6" tall so 24.5 BMI currently, should be around 22 if I get to the target.

Not sure how much will just be the cheap, water loss gains so far though. I've gone for eating fairly normal, dropping chocolate bar snacks and really upping exercise (with protein + carb drinks to recover). I've gone from about 30 miles a week, to about 80, nothing too extreme.

Are there any good body fat testing tools now? The little electric things used to seem to wildly veer either way by 2-3%. This was an older one though, have they come along at all?

Wow, lots of people joined in now, if we all lost the claimed weight that'd be the equivalent of one of these according to google:

8 mile commute here, rode in with the wife yesterday and had a 10mph average, rode in by myself today and got 15mph. Fairly speedy Tricross bike and country road/bridleway path.

Can't see myself getting to 20mph average! :)

25mile commute

Eek, must be hard finding the correct balance with a 50 mile daily commute. Surprised you have the energy for it with curry and chips for lunch ;)

Seemed like a perfect time for this, 6'6" and 15 stone 5lbs yesterday, which is about the highest peak I've hit I think. Rubbish at dieting but very competitive, this should be perfect :) I've been about high 13 stone a few years back so it's a realistic target.

Vowed to bike in at least 4 days a week (5 knackers me for the weekend ride!), 8 mile each way so fairly easy start to the day, then riding every weekend at least once. Went for my first jog of the year last night too, don't want to eat just lettuce too much, trying to eat decent sized meals and exercise lots. Lots of milk/protein!

Porridge for breakfast and no sweets at work (which is my downfall as they have a tuck shop).

In the last year I've broken 2 carbon frames, purely through sitting on them on a huge seatpost and being overweight. My new Mojo frame is in the post so the race is on!

Still time for a late entry? Chucking an email now!

Cheers

The text at the top is done in the same way as the print on the old black Carbon Zaskar Team, to be honest mine looked a bit toss from close up, fantastic from a distance though. Similar lack of cheesy cosmetic layer as well.

Oh, I came in here fully intending to say the Charge Spoon.

I thought the Formula FX felt similar actually, with it's curious pretend rails.

Ah perfect comparison Chris, I think I'll just go for the i900 :)

6'6" here and used to run a 410mm Thomson, it was always about 20-30mm past the minimum point though. My 367mm didn't feel quite long enough and I didn't like running it at the extreme. That said I did just manage to break my Mojo on the top tube though:

http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?t=616505

It's currently in America getting the front end swapped by the fantastic Hans. He's put it down to a manufacturing fault of 07 models but I'm still a bit paranoid.

TYVM!

Another +1 for Nanos here. V8/12s were always too small, these things are a much bigger flat platform, really well sealed too.

http://cycle.shimano-eu.com/media/techdocs/content/cycle/EV/bikecomponents/WH/EV-WH-M775-R-2769A_v1_m56577569830625008.pdf

Going by that, yes, they're cup and cone. The cone bits you tighten are the sloped bits in which tension the bearings against a cup inside, labled 6 on there. There's a matching one on the other end that's a bit more fixed.

Tools are easy, you just need a couple of cone spanners, an allen key set and some general squirty grease. I used to use Rock N Roll Red Devil grease.

Owned 2 XT M775 wheelsets, rode both for about a year, maintained both after every ride, swapped bearings when required, tightened cones. Broke both rear hubs in different ways. One the sealed freehub seized, the other the cones buggered up and tightened themselves while riding, squishing the bearings and knackering the axle/cones, another common one.

Owned 2 Hope Pro 2 wheelsets, rode both for 10-18 months, both run exactly the same as they did when they were brand new, without touching.

Edit: Oh and come to think of it, that's not including the 775 factory wheelset, which I sold on here after not much use, it always felt a bit flexy. It seemed to have a curious manufacturing fault with the threads inside, sorted on Warranty, quite possibly why I found it flexy in retrospect.

Yeah, bit of a last minute idea unfortauntely.

My Specialized tyres have all gone a bit oval after swapping them around a few times, never seem to be able to get them sit right. Curiously when I use them tubeless they're fine though, go up to 60psi and I bet they hop into place?

Then lower pressure back down when seated obviously.

CRC warrenty dept is &$%@, been avoiding them for ages.

How so just out of curiosity? I had a Garmin Edge 500 with a duff line on the display I wanted to get sorted. The line isn't really an issue though and I'm not sure I fancy a big downtime.

I don't think I'll trigger the speed cams in a bivvy, all should be fine.

You have to tell us where from. It's the rules.

Sounds a bit like the generic Sunset MTB deal they always seem to have on.

http://www.sunsetmtb.co.uk/shop/index.php?product_id=1427&category_id=81

Err, plus some haggling!

I'd always give a shot, if you can find a cheaper price online ask for a price match. Quoted a generic "10% of all 2010 full price bikes" offer at Evans to get 10% off my Tricross recently at the LBS.

If anything they seemed delighted to get a customer who walked in and knew exactly what they wanted, without any hard sell.

I've been keen to go on a few adventures this year with a bivvy and a few bits in a rucksack. The Malverns are about 40 mile down the road and seemed like a good target. How legal is it to just go exploring up a big hill and chuck down a bivvy in a quiet spot?

Careful planning doesn't appeal.

Yeah sorry, I didn't mean they had 1 in stock :) I meant I ordered 1 tyre, and they were "in stock". I realised afterwards that did look a bit confusing.

They're still in stock now come to mention it:

http://www.on-one.co.uk/i/q/TYKENE/kenda-nevegal-folding-mtb-tyre

I'll give them a call later and see. Getting a bit drowned in it at the mo, Mojo broke and was posted to America, tyre didn't come, cycle computer came from CRC with a broken line. Retail therapy has backfired.

Email: info@on-one.co.uk

If your enquiry is relating to an existing order, please include your order number in your email. We'll make every effort to respond to your email within 1 working day.

I'm at work, I've mailed as suggested on their website. Forwarding the order details. They're a company who does their business through a website, I'd assume this is the norm.

I'm just curious if anyone else has had issues recently really, if it's a stock issue I'm assuming a few people have had the same?

Toasty, didn't necessarily 'believe' the post, just thought itinteresting, yours though is very interesting too.. but would you have posted it without the negative post though?

Definitely, I only spoke to Hans yesterday, I'm absolutely over the moon with their support right now :) Well timed thread.

I was completely ready to jack it in and find a new frame. It's been ridden for over 3 years anyway, he was well within his rights to tell me the problem was caused by me, instead I get a sparkley new 2010 front triangle, and ensured the problem which I had was very specific to 2007 XL frames and has been fixed in 99% of cases now.

I just found the negative one interesting, if that really is the case those frames had delaminated round the shock mount all would be replaced anyway. Although the design stays the same, they're still focusing on fixing any areas which have issues, like that. Absolutely no sign of issue in that area on this frame.

I don't think the Mojo is the lightest carbon frame available anyway. Being a XL type chap its not too much of priority for me as I need the components to be reliable under my own frame

Oh and mine weighed in at 26.9lbs with hefty 520 pedals and a sensible build :) Light enough to easily heft about with 1 hand over fences and things. The frame was 6.28lbs with seatpost clamp, Float R shock and Lopes Link when I got it, can't really argue for an XL frame.

Personnaly I thought skyline's comment was the most telling ,and if I was going to buy a Mojo, it's comments like that, that I'd want to hear and investigate further

All those still paranoid of carbon, the Ibis warranty is completely rock solid. My >3 year old frame developed a worrying mark on it yesterday, I contacted Hans and he's asked me to send it off to be replaced for free. The issue was something specific to XL frames from a few years back. I'm not the original owner, nor is the frame within it's 3 year warranty, I've pointed both of these out and he's still 100% fine with replacing the entire front triangle for a brand new one.

There's dozens of cases of this happening all over the MTBR forums. The 3 year warranty period beats most boutique bikes in the first place, most will haggle no end to try and stop you actually using it. I'm chuffed to bits and would merrily buy Ibis again. Lapierre, Orange, Commencal, Santa Cruz etc, all offer very rigid 2 year frame warranty offers.

I ordered something midday Wednesday, arrived today, first class as advertised. Just think you've been unlucky. They did only get round to sending it yesterday though curiously.

If only pump tracks would go up in popularity, I think the muscle groups it works would help boost handcars into being a more viable form of transport.

The Monkey is right next to a railway too, it'd be perfect.

One of those pretty white and black Mojo HDs please!

Good stuff, handy thread as we're staying around there in a week or so. Is it mainly full sus, Ibis Mojo sort of trails, or more Spesh Tricross CX bike sort of thing?

Agreed :) Far more exciting than my route in (and about twice as long!)

Crotch cam worked well, wonder how it'd fair on a mtb offroad, never got on with helmet cams.

On the slightly silly bearing note, what it did eat through very quickly was the bottom eyelet bushing on the shock. I've seen a good load of these on the owners forum. This was swapped with a BETD Hula Hoop one. It's eaten that too, I think the wear on the reducer shortened it's life. Through all the faffing I noticed the bearings were rough, due to the design a few are fairly exposed so they've been swapped too.

I was planning on buying a new set of reducers and eyelet bushings tonight actually, with a spangley tool for doing it myself :)

Don't get me wrong though, the Meta is a lovely beast, I'd get another in a heartbeat. It goes out even in the bleakest weather, then far too often gets jet washed off afterwards, so I'm sure I'm to blame.

Steve at Realcycles was fantastic too, he set up interest free and a decent deal very quickly over the phone on my Meta. There was a shifter issue which developed after the first ride, I sent it back and he sent me a replacement instantly, less than a week turnaround on a warranty claim! People post pics of themselves jumping down huge drops on that forum, then later warranty their frames without question!

the adverts showing their £1999 bikes on sale for £1987 always makes me chuckle

Leisure Lakes do some awesome deals like that.

http://www.leisurelakesbikes.com/product/genesiscore40bike2010.aspx?&id=13087

Who can resist those 0.01% off spring bargains?

You must have some strange proportions/requirements as i'm bigger than you and happily ride a 26" wheeled 21" (or could even be 20") framed Inbred

Fair enough, it's 20" though, the only 21" they make are 29ers, with a shorter top tube than a 19" Rockhopper. I even directly asked Brant and was told (rather abruptly, I assume he got a lot of these mails) that none would fit.

Chance of snapping admittedly, when they do work they're awesome fun ;)

Mine's coming up to 2 years old now without issue, I don't think the problem was quite as bad in '08 though. It does eat bearings and bushings as mentioned I must admit, the rear end is crazy active though compared to anything I've ridden.

I got it worse. I wanted to spend some serious cash on a Carbon Anthem X, but not only do they not do full bikes on XS but they don't even do the frames by themselves. So I thought ok I will go Alu since I knew 2009 Anthem X came in XS but nop in the UK no XS built 2010 Anthems so I ended up buying an Alu frame.

Doesn't sound massively worse, 6'6" here. I fancied a carbon Meta but they don't come in XL, XL Scott Genius were too small for me, XL Orange 5/ST4s are a bit too small. Pretty much every steel 26" bike frame is out. No Cotic/On-One etc, entire brands are out of my height range, and I don't think my height is that bizarre frustratingly.

Out of my 3 current bikes, I test rode NONE of them. They're all massive gambles, over the last few years I've taken a few gambles that have backfired and had to sell the bikes on at a loss. Shops just won't order in big frames unless they know you'll definitely take it. Bought a 61cm Tricross last week actually, fortunately it seems fine :)

Taken last weekend.

Are you and Mrs Toast at the launch on Saturday? If you are I'll try and find you if not PM me on the Chasetrails forum. I may have a man that can help you….

Ooh, curious. Help in which department? :) Yeah, we were planning to go along, not sure quite how though. Hiring a car with a tow bar for the day is the current plan I think.

That garage is hoping that they can buy the car with the very expensive engine fault off you cheaply, they will then just drop in a second hand engine and sell the car on for a rather handsome profit.

Funny you mentioned that, they did say £5-6k, we said no. We spoke to the previous garage which had serviced it, to moan about them not replacing the cam belt. They said it was JUST under needing a new belt (62k on the clock at that point, 5 years old), but they said they might know someone who'd buy it off us for cheap.

A bit concerned, as I've never heard of an unreliable Micra before – has it ever been serviced?

You've had it 6 years, is that right?

Yeah, it was bought 6 months old, as an ex-rental car. It was fine for the first 3-4 years, then things started going rapidly, for the past 2 years things have just been dropping off every couple of months. It was one of the random few that were made by Renault, the EGR valve issue for example is something quite common with Renaults from that era.

It was bought on the reputation of Nissan and Japanese cars in general I think, we just got a bit of a duff one. The last service was in Jan '09 actually, so technically it's a bit past when it should have been, it's not been abused though. It didn't dawn on me there was a rubber belt living in there which might explode and completely kill the car when it got over 75k miles, we were still sub 80k so it literally hit it's target and disintegrated instantly.

Anything Japanese.

What scares me about Japanese cars is the cost of fixing them, should they go wrong, sourcing parts etc. Not an issue?

6k should get you quite a bit of Skoda or Seat

Good stuff, I was picturing the worst case scenario on my ride home* actually. The more I thought about it, the more expensive cars were in my head. Glad to see I've over estimated if anything, my browsing prices on t'internet was lots of dealerships I think.

*which was good fun btw, after years of commuting on a mtb that tricross is like a rocket (and doesn't have an EGR valve or cam belt).

does not compute. You could get another 6 year old micra for less than that & probably get a mechanic to swap the engines over too

Yeah, it only cost that when she bought it. Seemed like such a barmy quote, I do wonder if they'd realised they'd us in a tight spot and could rip us off. Even at £1.5k I'd be hard pressed to tell them to do it though, that thing just chain breaks down. As mentioned before, the past 2 years has cost us well over £2k with fixes and services, starter motors (yes, plural), ignition replaced, EGR valve, locking electrics, internal wiper gubbins (£180 odd there curiously).

It's a Nissan Micra, but it secretly has Renault internals.