+1 for Conti 4Seasons/Ultragators. That double vectran layer does the job. I live at the wrong end of Hackney so glass a plenty. Only punctures have been a snakebite and strip of sheet metal both on the canal…

Where is Malverinstan? Did you mean Malvern in which case never mind to far 😛

Unless its for purely cosmetic reasons: yes.

That surly’s pretty light! Weighs less than a 2.2 Conti protection I would imagine it would be more along the line of theWeirwolf something with a bit more casing to support the expanded volume would have to weigh at least 1kg no?

My mum has 2 standard poodles… I named them Toto and Dotty 😛

I caught whooping cough last year, lasted like 4-5 months.

Seriously i thought that was some Victorian shit >.>

UNIFIED REMOTE!!!! Will change your life!

Also:

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running!

Burn him!

Also confirming other bikes can be fun! Having a blast thrashing the roadrat round town/canals 😀

My hope ceramic lasted nearly 2 years of all weather riding (will replace with steel bearings along with new cassette/chain and an oval ring once spring hits) so £7 aint all that bad.

As im sure others have said if you want more durability you’ll have to outlay some more cash at the start or suffer a significant weight penalty… You pays your money you makes your choice ^^

Open the floodgate valve fully.

If that doesnt work you need to bleed the remote.

honourablegeorge – Member

njee20 – Member
they’ll capture more of the OEM market

Not convinced that’s the case, SRAM 1×11 is everywhere on new bikes[/quote]

I would imagine they will take a big chunk out of the top end market where the only competitive options for the last years product cycle were XX1+rockshox.

XTR Di2 + the new fox’s would get my money if budget wasnt a concern.

Not really true as he mentioned a windfall.

Its very possible to save up to be able to afford something as a one of that you absolutely wouldn’t be able to replace on a whim if you snapped it…

TBH i’d save the cash and go for something your going to feel comfortable riding on, the last thing you want on a very techy track is to be thinking about your bike rather than your riding!

Just got a 38t Superstar NW in the sale to go on the GF’s hybrid

pictonroad – Member
Lezyne pump. Unscrews the valve core every time.

Complained to the shop, was SOLD another adaptor, metal into plastic thread stripped in one use.

overpriced shiny crap

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Ahh its not just me!!! My mate was pissing himself when i managed to completly deflate both my tyres while attempting to give them a small top up, that is until i reminded him he had sold it to me then he shut up p quick! 😛

Anyone heard about the DOVAL rings??

Was looking at the 110BCD 40t for the roadrat…

I think there is a big difference between maintenance and servicing.

The former being perfectly manageable at home with a multitool and for those confident enough bits for the brakes/chain (TBH I wouldnt be comfortable doing those without having been shown, its a bit subtle to learn of youtube).

Proper servicing on the other hand would require at minimum a work stand, wheel stand, vice, casette tools, hub tools, bb tool and plenty of space/time. Imo the outlay for tools could only be justified if you had at least 2 very active mtbers or a whole family riding regularly. For 1 person it doesn’t make sense, if you look after your bike it shouldn’t come over £100/year for parts and labour + a good shop will give you a warranty on work done and the knowledge that someone much more experienced than you has been over it.

Ofc if you fall on a shit shop that all goes out the window and i really don’t know many good bike shops, most random encounters ive had were laughably bad.

Im very fortunate in that my one of my best friends owns a bike shop and is a wizard mechanic 😀 He got me back into MTB’s about 4 years ago and built/serviced my first bike while i watched. By the time i upgraded to the Soul a year n a bit later i was confident doing general maintenance and all the basic parts of the build.

Now i just abuse his tools and bring him lunch or beer, still get him to do the indexing and spoke tensions as i doubt I’ll ever be that good 😛

What CZ said, in some cases flashing a custom rom can unlock larger capacity if the manufacturer has been lazy and not updated the firmware for the model.

cookeaa – Member
Actually a bit more poking around and it turns out that schwinn did precisely what I described with their “cantilever” cruiser frames.

Good old Sheldon says:

it was what Schwinn called a “cantilever” frame, where the seat stays pass by the seat cluster and continue on in a graceful curve to join the bottom of the head tube.
1950’s engineering…

WTF am I looking at O.o

12+ Miles a day commuting
Get on the MTB most Sundays, during the summer I was getting a couple of rides a week on the trails in the Olympic Park on the way back from work.

Anyone have experience with the Cateye Rapid 3? About to pull the trigger on the one with the ICS mount adaptor as the Blink gets such terrible revies. I want to be able to leave it on the bike while im at the pub etc, got a knog strobe under the handlebars and a joystick in the bag incase i need visibility.

Is it fairly discreet or should i sacrifice some functionality for the form factor?

Butcher?

O.O they actually had them there and knew you were looking to buy one and wouldn’t let you roll them down the street???

Thats pretty poor…

Well the whyte and orange outspec the bird. They are pretty much identical spec to eachother however the whyte has a hope rear wheel and slightly more aggressive geometry so that would be my pick. If you can get them on b2w does that mean you can try them at your lbs? Because that would be the obvious choice…

Ran a SS version up front for the last 2 years still plenty of life, really nice tyre , great mix of speed and grip. Only swapped out as i wanted to try something a bit more robust. Gotta say i wont be swapping back, found the sidewalls of the schwalbes to flexy on my HT even with the snakeskin. The extra confidence from protection contis is way worth the weight penalty (for fun rootyness anyway if speed is your thing or your on a 140mm+ FS then stick with the schwalbes)

Protection versions don’t have made in Germany on it as the protection logo goes there. Afaik all protection versions are black chilli though…

Accuweather, used it to chase a small patch of sun across the Indian subconitnent for a month in mid monsoon… We got rained on once!

Originally built my Soul with low rise 711mm havens, was agony! Swapped to 38mm Rise 685mm EC70’s and its perfect… v0v

06 Spesh Enduro is a good shout!

Can be run at 120-130 as thats what the lower end models were sold with but if you get the elite/sworks you could upgrade to 150-160 just sell/swap the rebas for a pair of vintage 36’s like i did 😛

Frame and shock was £250 iirc (came with an rp23), way to much bike for most of my riding but i really wanted to build an FS and had always lusted after an S-Works :O

Drop an old one by the LBS, throw them a couple of quid and ask them to leave it in the parts washer for the afternoon?

Butcher or Baron depending on how much slop youre expecting, i dont like the feel of rear mud tyres (storm/beaver) unless im actually pedalling through deep mud so tend to stick with a middle ground tyre for the rear (Purgatory or Trail King).

I stripped and upgraded my gals Marin Kentfield for her last birthday with a load of s/h stuff. Literally kept only the frame and saddle as she finds it comfy.

Any reason it needs to stay 8 speed? Shifters cost very little… Only spendy bits were Exotic 29er rim brake fork to replace the >2kg “trekking” forks, some as new fulcrum 7’s from fleabay and a pair of Conti 4 seasons so we split those.

Bar, stem, headset, chainring and some wellgo pedals from my parts box, then s/h 9spd xt mech and shifter, Avid SD 7’s, gravity light crank & bb, thomson post and some lockon grips from classifieds, 9spd xt cassete/chain from crc all under £150 iirc.

The frame was a nice 1.6kg jobby so the whole thing is now ~9kg, utterly transformed. I was quite jealous tbh!

If you want to use the new BB you will need a compatible chainset so look for 2h deore or 105 on the classifieds. i think the front chainring is the same or at least compatible for 8 or 9 speed though i may be wrong… For chains check the KMC ones on ebay if CRC dont have a deal on the one you need. Depending on parts and labor costs can actually end up cheaper fitting a new M-part or cc headset unless you have a nice one you want to keep.

Ive got a baron coming in the post this week, will try and remember to post a side by side pic next to the butcher.

Get some second hand 717’s built onto Hope with nice spokes, should be on your budget in decent knick (even if they come through with knackered bearings its just a matter of liberally apply t’ammer then popping new ones in, costs about £15 for both ends). Will last forever.

Didnt like that move Rossberg made on Bottas. Really showing his colours there, so childish, he clearly had the pace to pass him with ease, loads of laps left to make the move, no danger from behind and no chance of catching Lewis.

If Bottas hadn’t been 110% on the ball that woulda been both their races over right there. Stoopid! Could see Bottas chatting to Lewis about it as they were getting their caps, in my mind the coneversation went (“Dude your team mates a nutter!” *Lewis looks over grudgingly at Rossberg* “You see the shit i gotta deal with!?!”)

Looks nice.

https://www.cotic.co.uk/product/roadrat in sora/disc spec is the same price i think. Depends if you want steel or ally…

Lush!

Wwere you using a mobile connection? Much much better chances i’d say i think the mobile browser configurations allowing for longer server calls gives a distinct advantage.

Got through after 15min, sold out a couple fo minutes after finished my transaction

25min to sell out! Insane and a testament to how much work they did on the backend for this year, all went really smooth. last year took 3 failed attempts to get through due to the server crashing, took over an hour…

Free pump track? Yay!