RX-8? They’re very cheap to pick up, good fun RWD cars and can drink petrol like nobodies business.

£5k? Here, take two!

I’ve got one, couldn’t care less about the 4G personally, quite content with 3.5G in the brief times it’s not on a LAN.

As mentioned, the battery life is staggering, the best smartphone I’ve had by absolutely miles. Very good screen, no yellow tint on mine. It’s also been very stable, someone made a remark at work about Android being unstable, so I’ve resisted restarting it over the last month. It’s currently sat on 46 days uptime and counting, no crashes or slowdown 🙂

I used to change phones every year, Galaxy S2, Nexus 4, Xperia Z1, this is the first time I’ve got absolutely no desire to hop to the next one. It does everything really well!

Well, the HA would stay he same, but the BB height would increase – unless you reduced the tyre profile

As above, the shock was changed to one with a shorter eye-to-eye, which effectively lowers it in it’s travel.

6’6″ and my 61cm CAADX is huge, bizarrely it feels longer than my 61cm Tricross or 62cm Canyon. I’ve actually stuck a shorter stem on it and moved the seat forward.

Another thing, other bikers nod at me on the Varadero, they didn’t on the supermoto! 🙂

^ that. My current stress is what big bike to get 🙂 I don’t fit on the XJ600 bikes the instructor uses, so he’s advised buying something to learn on. Obviously don’t want something with a super high CoG, don’t want to spend a fortune either.

Pondering a 2008-2010 or so FZ6 Fazer at the mo.

Varadero 125s are awesome by the way, mines done 30k miles, been nicked at one point in it’s life and it still zooms along. So much more torque than my little supermoto thing I had before, it pulls to about 60, then tapers off, maxing out at about 70 (with a 15 stone, 6’6″ man on it).

There used to be (possibly still are) two older identical twins who I’d see walking to work in matching outfits (inc. briefcases) when I used to live in Leamington Spa

Yeah, they live fairly close to us. I ride past them in the morning quite often, they’re still about 🙂 Quite often seem to be nattering on, I can’t help but wonder what you’d have to say to someone who is pretty much yourself, living in the same house, wearing the same clothes, watching the same TV.

I don’t think 27.5 lbs ( without pedals) for a 650 Five

Pfft, (without wheels) maybe 😛

Will the bookmarks on the factory browser disappear?

The bookmarks should be stored in the cloud, do you have a desktop PC running Chrome? If you sign in as the same user you should be able to see the bookmarks there.

Edit: Oh, you did say the factory browser. Assuming it’s not a Nexus, this probably isn’t Chrome.

I believe apps I’ve bought already will download automatically from the store?

When you first turned the device on it’ll have asked if you wanted this behaviour. Failing that, the Play store has a “My Apps” section, this will have a list of everything you’ve installed, in chronological order. So it’s usually easy to figure it out.

Have a quick peep at https://www.google.co.uk/contacts/ to ensure it’s backed your contacts up. If not you can toggle this behaviour on the phone.

it doesn’t really make sense and if true would suggest some kind of shift (Even if only on tablets?) to x86

There’s a couple of x86 tablets about, Dell have done one (http://www.dell.com/us/p/dell-venue-8/pd). It’s still a bit shonky though, really wouldn’t be a good fit for a Nexus.

They’re trying to get Android applications running natively on Chromebooks too, which would suggest they want solid x86/ARM, as they can use either.

On a slight tangent, if anyone is looking for a cheap internet machine, you can pick up Chromebooks for £150 or so now. The Intel based ones are crazy fast compared to tablets. Finding I’m using mine a lot 🙂

Very much doubt they’ll dump Snapdragon, especially not for Intel. They’d have to swap to Android x86, which is rubbish. I’d say a Tegra K1 is more likely than Intel, the Tango prototypes they had at Google I/O were using them.

I’d agree with Nexus 7, the new style thin one, lovely thing 🙂 Used mine every day at work, it’s been completely rock solid.

We went with http://www.rhodesroads.com – it was fairly relaxed but covered a good 30 miles or so, a mix of offroad and country road. Very good way to see some of the countryside and little villages around there.

The group split into two in the middle and the guides took us on a longer ride to a local beach, even after this they were keen to keep going. The sun was baking and it was mid afternoon so I called it a day! 🙂

http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction_Review-g189449-d4891951-Reviews-Rhodes_Roads-Rhodes_Dodecanese.html

Another Joe Blow here, done stacks of tyres on it, usually don’t even bother removing the valve core. Had a few hideous ones that have required tons of foam and manic pumping (that couldn’t have sounded much worse), but they usually go up easily. Did some Butchers/Purgatory last weekend 🙂

I’m using Shimano touring pedals, same interface as the mountain bike ones but lower weight than XTR.

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/shimano-pd-a600-spd-touring-pedals

Single sided but you get used to it quickly.

Woke up feeling hideous due to surprise hayfever. Accomodation I’m due to stay at in San Fransisco in a week, cancelled unexpectedly. Evans claimed to be delivering a bike today, instead a rear light and jersey came.

All a bit first world problems, if I’m honest 🙂

Also assuming you mean Z1, where you keep saying X1. There isn’t a modern X1, the last one was:

http://www.gsmarena.com/sony_ericsson_xperia_x1-2246.php

I’ve got an Xperia Z1, took a while to warm to it, due to it being a huge slab of glass. Finding it really usable though, great call quality, magnetic charger, Sony’s skinning of Android is nice and lightweight, very good camera, waterproof! I wash it down post rides and don’t worry about the rain.

There’s tons I love about it. If I were buying again though, I’d get the Z1 Compact. I wouldn’t get too caught up on the wording, it’s still bigger than an iPhone.

Prior to this I had a Nexus 4, never really felt the love for it.

I wish bottom brackets would figure out what they want to do and catch up.

Good work 🙂 Do you have a Just Giving or similar set up?

Not sure what’s going on with their naming tbh. Given the Carve, err Crave mess recently, I’m surprised it’s not the Cerve or something.

48.2″ on the XXL Stumpjumper 29er.
46.2″ on the 22″ Orange Five.

Yeah, Fives are odd, the cable routing is about 15mm from the back of the seattube. Swap to 1×10 and it looks like you’d have tons of room.

Depends on the bike, I bought a Canyon road bike. If the frame was rubbish I’d flog it and buy a different frame. It’s still cheaper than buying a big brand name.

On the mtb front, I love the way people jump straight to comparing meaningless components like cassettes. I’m sure the weight, high end forks, rear shock and wheelset would make a noticable difference. The Giant is more in line with the £400 cheaper AL 7.0.

I think I’m bitter though, I ride XL bikes and no where ever stocks them anyway. To Canyon!

Ibis Mojo, after drooling over them for years, realised the fit was absolutely terrible for me. Bought second hand so didn’t lose much.

Funny that Metas get metioned a bit in here, they do seem to be a bit marmite. Loved mine, it’s probably the only bike I’ve sold that I really regret.

That’s why it’s a mystery.

Mine handled the same to be honest, I can’t see why it would feel like the head angle was steeper? Have you forgotten to do the back wheel? 😛

40c is 1.5″, shouldn’t be that radical.

Stumpy FSR 29er seems very popular with all who have ridden one, absolutely loving mine. Fastest trail bike I’ve had by a mile. Got the frame for £650ish, a set of 130mm Maxle Revs for about £300 from CRC, very cheap build.

http://www.bikescene.co.uk/FullSuspensionFrames-18.html

Probably not many sizes left now though.

Sorry about side-tracking your thread OP, but Toasty the XXL stumpy must be enormous?!

Hehe, indeed, I do occationally wonder if I’ve gone a bit far. I’ve got very long legs though and 21″ bikes end up having a 400mm seatpost maxed out, it’s quite nice having the saddle at a normal height, in the middle of the rails, short stem etc.

It was bought from Bikescene a while back, I haggled a 23″ hardtail into the deal while I was at it:

Yeah, not really helping my case but the Stumpy FSR 29ers are lovely. I don’t find it as keen to leap off things as the Five, but it’s very swift, massive bike but never feels like it’s in the way. Even around tight switchbacks.

I’ve got a 22″ Five, I was actually considering getting rid of it, as I generally ride my (even bigger) XXL Stumpjumper FSR 29er. Two trail bikes was a bad idea as we generally only get to the woods once a week max.

2012, black, kashima RP23, maxle rear end, tapered steerer with Hope headset. Looking at my gps logs, it’s done 357km total, oops. Let me know if you’re interested at all, happy to sell as a frame alone.

6’6″ and the fit is very comfortable here. I’ll undoubtedly regret selling it, but I’ve currently got 5 bikes, the wife has 2 and my cycle to work voucher is due today! 😉

I always seem to get trail focused full sus, they’ve been great on loose uphills, but never a patch on standing on the front end of a hardtail sprinting. I did ride an Epic and really like the efficient feeling stood up, it’s a lot of money and extra weight to blow on such a fairly minor change though.

Fully rigid with bigger tyres was my favourite, got used to riding everything I ride now on my full sus. Really need to build that bike up again 🙁

http://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/FRPXDH29MTBDISC/planet-x-dirty-harry-29er-mtb-disc-frame

(Or a Lurcher for the same price, if you have a history of exploding things)

I’m in a similar boat, although looking for something more on the do-everything front, rather than a speedy CX, it’s replacing an old Tricross.

Not the best value out there, but I’m quite keen on the look of the Crossrip at the moment:

I don’t think the bikes are a similar spec;

XT/XTR mix v XX1
Crossmax ST wheels v SRAM Roam 60 carbons
Formula R1 w/ 200 & 180mm rotors v X0 Trail w/ 180 & 160mm rotors
V8 pedals v XTR Trail

Easily a whole kg there at least.

A kilogram where? The wheels, pedals and brakes weigh much the same. Given the above info there can’t be more than about 200g extra weight in those 3 combined.

Nice! Sponsored by Hubba Bubba this season?

Thing is… you’ve got a heavy frame, heavy wheels, average forks, run of the mill groupset. That’s not a light build! Foam grips and a KCNC stem do not a weight weenie build make!

Totally, the frame is a bit crazy, it’s heavier than the old Scandal it replaced, plus the fat PF30 bottom bracket adapter. Quite what makes it S-Works I’m not sure.

My point was more than 27 pounds isn’t hugely heavy, middleweight sort of XC bits on a hardtail comes to roughly that sort of figure. I’m 6’6″ and 15 stone, the last time I had a bike lighter it was rubbish, Stans 355 rims didn’t work at my weight 😛

My S-Works M5 Stumpy, with Racing Ralphs, Rebas, full XT groupset, 1800g 29er wheels, foam grips, KCNC stem and EC70 carbon bars weighs 27lbs, with pedals. Going by my Feedback scales.

If I removed the frame and forks, it would still be a lot heavier than some quoted on here.

My Stumpy FSR is 31lbs, with Revelations, triad rear shock, full SLX double groupset, no dropper post. There’s a pound wasted in it’s wheels, but then I’d add a pound by putting a dropper on.

I’ve given up trying to make bikes light! 🙂

http://www.merlincycles.com/crank-brothers-iodine-2-wheelset-29-70043.html

Slightly shonky choice perhaps, the newer ones seem to review pretty well though.

I think I will to be honest 🙂 I really can’t be bothered with going that far! We don’t have a garage so it’s all on our driveway. Fortunately the nature of the problem means I can zoom it down to the garage anyway there’s only 1 corner on the entire route and it’s a left hand turn!

Cheers for the tips all, I certainly learned a bit poking around the fuse box and swapping the relay 🙂

Loads of top games on the WiiU still 🙂 We own a PS3 and Xbox 360 too, more often than not I’d rather just get the games on PC though, you get a better product, for less money and don’t hog the TV all night.

Lots of 2-4 player coop games on the WiiU too!

Edit: Oh and you can play all your Wii games directly on the WiiU too, all your wiimotes work fine. Very handy given how expensive they are!