you’ll have yourself a nice carbon beast by june

back off everthing….put a cd between yours pads and pull lever to bring the pads in, undo the caliper bolts put the disc back in reset the caliper and then check the resovouir it may need filling up

job done

don’t feed your dog human food……our westie had problems with sloppy sh!te..and we found out the people that had him before us used to feed him what ever they ate and it took us ages to get him off it and stop him begging for our food

we tried just dried food and he got bunged up so he now eats tesco’s own dog food or winalot, with a little dried food and mix it acording to how sloppy his sh!te is

certain dog treats will do it also

my advise is get him back on dog food and dog treats fast, no matter how much he refuses

my advise would be not to spend 2k on a race bike and to buy a winter bike for around £500-600 maybe a tifosi alu or sumut steel and if you take to road biking then buy a race bike and keep the winter bike for when the roads are wet

my ventana x5 takes some beating

i find squeeling brakes really good for shifting walkers

ok here we go

it now has custom painted easton forks and skinny wheels

i wrote out the post then thought better of it thought better of it

and as for not posting on the chat or bike forum much…i do read a lot of them and have done for years but its not often i need advise, not on mountain biking anyway

and if i can give advise i do

beltin i think i know what i’m doing now!!!!!!

but could i change my route whilst i’m out? in other words do i have to plan every route i go on? and can i attach it to my stem rather than my bars?

sorry if you already explained the first qeustion but i’m complete novice with this kind of stuff

cheers

it depends what your doing, like vortex said they can take a real beating so you can whack 6″ rockers a coil and some big forks even triple clamps or all i use it for is mainly pretty rocky singletrack and i find the 5″ rockers and rp23 fine… plus i don’t want to drag the weight of a coil shock around with me

i see why your troubled tho as i’d never even seen one of these before buying this

here i am……..i hav’nt rode this half as much as i’d of liked recently so it may be a little early to tell but so far so good, ive done rivi a few times which is a fair test for any bike and it seems to track like my old horst link 5spot but is a million times stiffer….it is bike you have to ride tho not just point downhill and hope for the best, if you know what i mean

as for climbing its fine, crank the rp23 up

and the build qaulity is fantastic

Bolton are maybe playing better but they have never played good football, they just don’t have the players to do it.

I’m a Wigan fan and have been for 30 years, and we still have 2 big players out from playing them thugs from Horwich almost 2 months ago, so don’t tell me they play good football.

Oh and Mr Sparkle, yes my team are in the lower reaches of the prem and unless we improve could very well end up in the champioship, but ive seen my team rise from literally the bottom of the football league to the premiership and how many can say that?

Bolton football………not a chance, i’m sick of hearing how they’re playing better football, this maybe only because they could’nt play any less.

with the likes of Kevin Davies

they’re a pub team

managers that play this style of football should be outlawed, along with the likes of Bolton and Stoke etc….cloggers

another vote for the smart lunar, its really good especially in fog

zokes………ive been doing the belmont for years, and its the worst ive ever seen it

we saw an old bloke go down the icr on a unicycle

btw the belmont descent wants leaving alone until spring, and then it will want some serious work

bit hard to come by especially second hand but a ventana x5 seems to tick all your boxes

i hate this review system

i’m trying to watch it with a dog pestering to go for a walk and the damb fire won’t work!!!!!!!!!!

cos i don’t wana contaminate my brakes, ive heard having even a bit of dot 4 in a system that uses mineral oil makes a balls of them

cheers everybody

cheers and will just flushing it through move enough fluid as not too contaminate my calipers?

i know all shimano brakes use mineral oil, thats why i want to know if the fluid thats in at the moment is the correct stuff

silver spokes and black nipples

my mate has the same combo and they look good, suprisingly enough

i only wear knee/shin pads on my local which is rivi and qiute rocky in parts and just the soft knee pads at trail centres

but my mate wears a full facer everywere as hes always falling off

oh my wifes obcessed with them, she goes twice every year, and i would’nt other theyre utter crap

its just 4 karaoke singers or 5, that can’t even sing

that fat one and the little gay one have got to be the worst singers on the planet

ive seen a few people ride with theyre levers like that, god knows how and why

that seatpost is just so wrong tho

anythings worth a shout

mushrooms in a curry?

i guess you’ll have a deep fried mars bar instead then!!!!

mite not be oem i bought a ful xt setup not long back and it was all boxed

must of been a cathlic pie, with the pop being here and all that

i just use normal fork oil in my phaons and they've been beltin

are'nt they made by vauxhall? my mate has a 56 reg saab diesel and has had no end of bother with it

horst link turner 5spot, best bike ive owned easy, climbs well, geometrys sorted, rear end tracks perfect (maybe too perfect come to think of it) and the bushes make it last forever…….. with a little grease.

i lose around 3-4mm of travel and if i put less in negative or more positive thet top out

cheers, what manual did you use to do this?

bikewisperer. would busted o-ribs cause a lack of compression? and are these standaed o-rings or do i need to get them from magura, is the damper a sealed unit i.e. you can't change the oil in it?

ive changed the oil (just for my own piece of mind) and did rivi last night, they seem fine so i'll just keep an eye on them and possibly change the seals in the air chambers and give them a complete overhall myself later on in the year

peterpoddy, do you have any good links on how to do this? and were is best to get the seals from?

thanks everybody for all you help

theres defo no air been transfered into the negative chamber, its the first thing i tried

i'm gona change the oil in the lower legs and see what happens

do you just put oil in the lower and non in the top?

and does puting say 7.5w oil in instead of 15w alter the spring rate or compression any?