Had this with a set of RLTis bought from On One. Knackered seal inside, posted back to O-O and the forks were replaced by SRAM. It did take 2 weeks though…

After doing the bottom of the corkscrew and the ski run on a 150mm fs I’d question the “easily”. Yep, you can do them on a hardtail,and probably on a cx bike if you’re man enough (I’m not)but the popularity of the runs since the uplift started means they’re pretty beaten up now. Still bloody good fun though

I’ve not ridden Cwm carn for a while so my memorys a bit hazy. Anyways, the dh runs in the fod are a fair bit shorter than CC, but there are plenty of them. Corkscrew, sheepskull and the ski run are all very good runs plus there’s flatlands, the OC and others to mix it up from below where the uplift drops off. Features / drops are smaller (from memory) than CC but plenty to keep you in your toes. Google pedal bike away or fly up uplift for postcode / directions

I’ve got a summer season 456 in green like the one above. It’s a great colour but fortunately I like my eyes / friends (as in I’d like to keep them) too much to do that to it! My eyes are bleeding… 8O figured it now, the tyres are an anti-theft deterent!

The intense looks nice.

Err.. isn’t that a bearing in the swing link? Just checking as in my experience Spesh only put bushes in the eyelets at the end(s) of the shock, and everything else uses bearings.

The drain holes are called the trabecular meshwork and work pretty much as Stoner describes. If they block it can cause high pressure (IOP) with similar results to glaucoma.
the op to remove the fluid and floaters is called a vitrectomy, and is generally not nice. The two are connected as IIRC floaters can block the meshwork.

Just to throw a spanner in the works, how about a standard enduro? sits between the 2 travel wise and they’re pretty capable alround. I’ve seen riders out on the enduro evo and it’s a LOT of bike for normal riding. Great for dh stuff but maybe a bit much for day to day.

+ however many for kipford. We’ve tried Dumfries for food and beer and not had a great experience. Spoons is ok, got ripped off in the curry house across the road from Spoons and didn’t find any of the pubs in town that friendly

Remember to fill + THEN – to the same amount starting with both empty( to Say 100psi), they should work without a reduction in travel. If you were to check both at that point the + would read higher than the -, which is normal. My dual air pikes and revs only reduced in travel if a) they were borked or b) I’d played with air pressures without starting from empty.

Cheers for that Mister P. Is there any idea on pricing compared to the 2012 ones?

Couldn’t find a pitch then Widge? Co-incidentally I’ve just bought a 2010 stumpy frame to build up

only just got round to posting. I really enjoyed it, seemed pretty chilled and the course mixed up the local stuff nicely. 2 crashes here,stages 1 & 4. amazing how quickly you’re back on the bike when the clock’s ticking! My only minor gripe was the marking in a couple of places, passing the start of stage 5 on the way to stage 3 (confusing) and the end of stage 5 (the pit) where there wasn’t any. However, overall superb and I’ll be strapping a race number on again :D

I’m a very similar height and my mates medium is a bit small. It is a 2010 version tho, don’t know if the new ones are longer?

ps no 63 here. feel free to wave / point / laugh while I’m riding…

it might not be gloopy mud, but it’ll be bloody slippery still. swampys staying on here…

where’s the bike gone widge?

gave up on the tyres sans tubes, old skool it is! Drying up here a little, may be a last minute change required… looking forward to it

did it last year (75k). there were some keen people (which we weren’t) so we just cruised round and enjoyed a really good ride. just don’t stay in the pub till 2am like we did

‘rakers are fine as long as you don’t ride many roots or rocks. I’ve just refitted swampthings for the weekends racing activities…

chief, I did try earlier this week when putting one on the front and it didn’t go well. I may be resorting to tubes… I was hoping I wouldn’t need the swampies but but no luck with the weather / conditions it seems. apart from the verderers it’ll be bogging

I’ll be there, I know most of the trails so it’ll interesting to see how they link them up. Tomorrow or Saturday will be spent trying to get my swampthings to run tubeless just using a trackpump… looks like being pretty wet!

they’re not the fastest, but I’ll only be running one on the front. I’ll happily sacrifice some climbing speed for grip on the downs

much appreciated all. I’m doing the gravity enduro in the fod Sunday & thought I’d put some proper rubber on the bike as it’s looking pretty wet

same tyre, cool. I rate em, there’s lots of roots round here and tyres like the trailraker get a bit nervous on them I reckon

It’s an excellent trail, I’ve ridden it a couple of times as I live locally and really rate it. A couple of the ups are pretty severe and greasy after the rain so there may be some pushing! After the recent rain it’s pretty slippery (mud over hardpack) so be prepared for some slidyness. Not harder technically than the Monkey from what I can remember.

New version is of the Wicked is now on the YT website, looks very nice. MBR’s review this month is spectacularly poor, basically a padded excuse for not riding it as they don’t get on with the solo air revelation fork. I’m also interested in real life reviews as I’m very tempted to buy one so all info gratefully recieved!

bell air ti on one bike, ragley whatever on the other. SDG is better, ragley is ok but shorts hang up on the back of it. Had a WTB devo which was great but they’re pricey.

Hopton’s too short for the length of ride you’re looking for, and you’d struggle for anything much over 3-4 hours around Mortimers as well. They’re both great though.

Might be worth checking some back issues of Dirt, Billy T took a hardtail (dialled alpine?) to the Mega a couple of years back so I’d imagine whatever he ran were pretty indestructable…

Hi Widge. Try Bumpy’s mates Bob and Ruth, their lads got a medium one I think. They live in the Ross area and ride the Yat a fair bit with Bumpy.

-larrythelathe, it’s a steamer industries one (if you’re still interested!). I’ve only used one, as I’m not sure there’s room to run two without breaking something! Bergtec to something similar too. Mojo can do a more premanent fix by putting a shorter shock body on which has the same effect. The best change I made to my FTM was a shock revalve, the RP23 came with lowest cpmression damping and boost valve, which made it wallow if you didn’t run high pressures. I had both increased, so I can now run more sag.

I’m riding an ’09 (’10?) ftm, which ever it is it’s got the standard / non taipered headtube. I found mine steep (but it was cheap) so tweaked it with a longer fork (150 mm revelations), offset shock bush plus a skinnier tyre at the back. it’s around 67/68 degrees now and feels much better for it

jimster, the Shropshire one last year was great. It was the first one I’ve done and signed up for the 75k just because. Did little proper training apart from a couple of longer rides and treated it like a big day out with a couple of mates. Trails were great, with the first half being tougher than the second. Just don’t stay in the pub with the local boys and CRC guys till the early hours like we did!

hmmm… I’ll keep an eye on the website

I’ve got a 2009 ally model I picked up cheap from the old importer, built up beginning of this year (same as the one in the first MTBR review above). Comments are –
1 – Rear cable routing (through the swing link) is terrible. I bodged something using lots of tape and cable ties and full length outers.
2 – It is a touch on the steep side. I’m using a 150mm fork (instead of 140), smaller back tyre (2.3 front 2.0 rear) and an offset bushing in the shock. Much better now. Rear tyre clearince isn’t great either.
3 – shock valving was wrong (for me), causing the shock to blow through it’s travel unless set with very little sag. This was before I tweaked the geometry as well. A retune to up the compression and boost pressure sorted this tho.
4 – Now it’s sorted it’s bloody great! Light, fast and great fun to ride. Usually gets thrown around welsh / scottish trail centres, Long Mynd, FOD / Monmouth (including local’s only stuff under Staunton) and Bringewood. I loves it.

Hovever, just read this from the MTBR review above 8O

IMPORTANT UPDATE: READ THIS FIRST
We recently discovered that the FTM supplied to us by Titus for this test did not use the production seatstays. The production versions suffered a reportedly high failure rate. Since our test, Titus has gone out of business and a company has purchased their name. This leaves owners of the FTM out on their own. Based on reliable sources, the defect was bad enough that it should have triggered a recall. We would recommend owners of this model to stop riding them. The failure of any seatstay is a serious and dangerous situation.

Had we known the bike had pre-production parts, we would have never tested the bike. Since the bike did use parts that were not available to Titus customers at the time, it makes our test findings totally invalid.

Bugger

ta, thats what I’d thought

I’ll double check what size the disk is already on there and go from that. An adaptor seems sensible to reuse the existing disk, but not if it doesn’t fit!

So much for a simple task to help a mate!

Ta v8ninety, don’t know if they’re 20mm compatable though…

Cheers, thought that might be the way. could only see Magura ones on CRC, anyone got a link to ones compatable with other brands?

Well, for anyone who’s interested…

I posted the faulty post back to SS again, and after over a month’s wait I’ve been sent a new one. No explanation or appology, but at least this one works.

Looking for a skinny dropper for the hardtail now, any better ones than the HiLo? strangely enough won’t be buying a KS one.