mate of mine had a whyte 46 and got the alpine link fitted, and the frame bottomed out with the link pushing on the seat tube or something like that anyway it made an awful mess.

we use halfords professional at work

good enough to use and cheap enough to lose

merlin are defo hand made, i know cos my mate does them at his home

oh to be sliced up in a kinky sex game with foxy knoxy

hand built every time

had some speedcific hubs with niobium rims and sapim cx ray spokes biult up from a bloke in usa Mike Garcia, think he's gone bust now, but these were pretty cheap they are about 1350 grams and have been absolute crackers never skipped a beat, best wheels ive ever had and ive been down the old fucrum, kysrium, campag route

hardcore uproar by together….sheer class, i never get sick of it even now… oh those nights at wigan pier

guilty……of being sexy as ****

cheers vortex i was'nt sure, only ever had a quick blast over there? we usually do the belmont from the mast, darwin tower then white coppice

is there much there?

turner 5spot horst link, just because it did everything well

i park on white coppice cricket club car park and its at the top of the road……I THINK…. am i on the right one?

the pink is a stock colour

i bought the frame second hand with the intension of having it powdercoated before next summer

i like my hustler, the pretty low bottom bracket and slack head angle make the bike confidence inspiring and it has an endless travel feeling, you can really burst out of corners which i love the most

i don't think it climbs to bad although my pro pedal setting is qiute firm, when i can remember to turn it on

mine comes in at 30lb which is'nt light but my cranks and bottom bracket weigh a ton

oh and its stiff

i also had a handjob a couple of years ago which was the best hardtail ive ever ridden by a country mile

mines a real mons bike

sold mine a few weeks ago

really quick when pedaling on descents and the flat stuff but can feel twitchy at times, they climb great

the VPP system takes a bit of getting used to and does give you kick from time to time

make sure you shock is set up spot on or it will feel like a bag of shite

if its a small or medium frame you might want to watch you fork dials catching on the downtube

overall i enjoyed mine

mine was the first orange 5, in fact 3 of us bought them and every one had alignment problems, and as i said they just twisted the rear end which looked aweful on close inspection

as for brake jack it does exist some people just don't notice it

but the differance in a horst link and a single pivot in terms of brake jack is a little more than marketing crap

i too have ridden horst link, vpp, four bar and single pivot and by this i mean owned not just ridden for 10 minutes, and there is a real differance some have positives and negatives obviously, but the orange 5 just did'nt cut it for me.

i had really bad brake jack with my 5

but i did'nt get on with it at all

bottom bracket was too low, a 5" head tube on a small frame is terrible

oh and an uneven rear wheel, in fact my mate sent his back to rectify this and they just twisted the rear end and re-sprayed it

just push the thing back on it'll be fine

i do both, and love them both

i find a change does me good and keeps me even more interested

i took my turner 5 spot to bob jacksons in leeds and they did a fantastic job

i think the calipers look fine its the lever end i think looks bad

too be honest my XT feel very much like my old magura louise FR's

i also ran a set on both my hardtail and full susser for a couple of years and would definatly give them a go again

i was abig fan of maguras i had a couple of sets of louise FR's i swore by them, but when i went to the BAT version i felt really bad fade on long descents

i was unsure about buying them but i've tried hope, magura, avid and they are best brakes ive had even though they look crap

the modulation is they key for as i'm not very heavy but lever feel, bite point, power, they just feel spot on

i was a magura fan until the set of louise bat ones kept fading really bad

your right there its not being scared but disturbed by them

blair witch project and amityville spring to mind

the thinkers do me

just don't get 3, bad reception and the customer service is diabolical

sorry i'm affraid i bottled it this morning

oh e-cheques do my nut in

everytime somebody pays me with one on paypal we have a fall out as they can't seem to grasp that it has'nt cleared

it growing on me,

but i got some serious grief at work today

it was great

its all or nothing i'm affraid in this game

i already had white forks but i must admit the saddle, cables and grips were bought specialy

that saddles a fizik gobi, i re-covered it at work

my wifes words were "your not gona ride that are you?"

i'm sure it was for sale at halfords and on ebay, but i can't find it anywere now

i had a nightmare with my gravity dropper, would'nt come up at times, kept dropping for no reason

oh and your not that far from Glentress, it always try and nip across when up there visiting

wifes brother runs a hotel there

it can be a bit rough especially at night and theres a few scallies knocking about probly from the large council estate down the road

some cracking pubs open during the day, really friendly

my summer was spend building a conserverty (too keep the wife happy)

then i built a garage for bikes obviously (too keep me happy)

then next week i'll be biulding up a nicolai

so next year i'll be happy

i put 34psi in a 2.3 (schwalbe sizeing)

tyre pressure can drive you daft

Cullen-bay you really are a tit

perhaps we ar'nt all brought up with a silver spoon up our arses

were i live a lot of people join up there are'nt ,many jobs crime rate is pretty high so a lot of these lads have bad homes or zero prospects, so too me credit to them for wanting to do something with there lives.

so we carry on sending young lads to slaughter UNPREDARED, for a so-called war that we can little afford win let alone win.

a lot of my freinds joined the army as i come from (what is called) a deprived area, one has died, one shot in the arse and another has done months in sellyoak after bein done by a land mine, who has just on the road to recovery and just found out he has to go back.