You could try some Cannondale dealers and see if they’ve got any old broken Jekyll frames lying about that have been replaced under warranty. They’ll have no use for the shock. We did have some but recently threw all our frames out (and not in Britain).

brant – Member

I keep wondering why Shimano make you add spacers behind the cups to move them out, rather than on the axle to move the crank out.

I have a plan.

I ditched the spacers on my HTII BB / Saint cranks on my BMX cruiser and used Raceface spacers to improve the chainline / remove play. The cranks broke but that’s another story…

Birmingham was a bit tongue in cheek. But much as I didn’t want to end up in London for two days on my honeymoon, I had forgotten how cool it was to be in a place with some culture. Sure Vancouver has plenty of glass buildings woo hoo!!! A couple of people have mentioned the word ‘nice’ and that sums it up for me. It’s nice. Nothing wrong with that.

Yeah, but other than the view OUT of Van, what does it have to offer than the likes of London or any other UK city doesn’t? The nightlife sucks, the beer is expensive, even cheese costs a fortune! Stanley Park is nice enough, but it’s just a wood and there’s not exactly a shortage of trees in BC.

very surprised we have not yet had any rad gnar riders from BC on saying you only need 3″ travel.

LOL – well I’m riding a 4″ travel 4X frame and a hardtail in BC this year ;-)

Buy anything…..it doesn’t really matter as long as you enjoy it.

Personally, I’d spend as little time in Vancouver as possible and spend the rest of the time on a road trip to places already mentioned (the Icefields Parkway is a must). I live in Vancouver too, and as cities go it’s harmless enough, but it’s a soulless place with hardly any communal areas and what there is is being knocked down to make way for apartments.

If you want to go shopping and look at bearded fixie riders which is about all downtown Vancouver has to offer then you might as well go to London. A bit like Birmingham, the best part about Vancouver is it’s location / potential for escaping elsewhere.

Some shots of B.C. and western Alberta:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=9460&id=666307809&l=be7c87a8a6

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

What mrmichaelwright said.

LOL…

You can do 7ft drops on a rigid fork with the right tranny. Totems / 66s would be overkill unless you are hitting rough DH runs.

If what you want is a fork that will be not too OTT for long XC rides but stiff / strong enough for a trip to Chicksands or the like I’d stick with a Lyrik or 36. I’m living in the sickest, largest E-pen!s waving biking area in the world and only have a Pike this year.

Aye, should look like this:

Does anyone pay big money for used bikes though? It has to be pretty special / rare in order to keep much value. Same for expensive cars. The original owner gets to pay an enormous amount of money in order to get the latest / greatest, and then gets bumr*ped when trying to sell it.

Yes, unless anyone specced the brake to have something else on it.

To be fair to MBUK, the article was ripped from NSMB so it’s hardly likely to be Shakespeare prose ;-) It’s all about the brobecues, techgnarlogy, and other rather splendid words.

Vancouver:

Awesome night.

Preferable to building in Stoke I guess.

TJ – no, I’m a cycle mechanic and I installed the headset (and it’s replacement) myself using the correct tools. The issue was with the top seal on the headset clamping too tight against the steerer which stopped the SFN from working which in turn would never fully tighten the headset properly unless I used a big hammer….

TJ, the problem was doing my head in and I assumed it was the stem that was at fault so swapped out the Thomson that was on it and bought the RF. The problem persisted. So that was a bit waste of money. The problem only stopped when I changed the headset. The fork in question was a 180mm 66 and Whistler BP is known for killing bikes.

I’ve met 2 guys who’ve managed to seperate their head tubes from the rest of their frame – one meta 5.5, one Supreme DH. Both were guides so had given their bikes some hammer. Both were sorted out under warranty reasonably quickly, although the 5.5 guy ended up with a black front triangle to go with his existing white rear.

I beleive Solamanda had, and broke, one too.

Another one went too. Which meant a 100% failure record for the guides who chose to ride a Commencal! Hopefully things have changed as this was two years ago now.

Is the chain too short, taking into account the rear suspension action? I’ve snapped mechs in my time by making this error…

It shouldn’t matter if it does loosen – the stem is holding it together

You’d be surprised how much leverage the fork puts on the headset, and in turn onto the stem. Even with a Raceface Diablous stem and the stem bolts done up stupidly tight, the headset would work loose with one run down Whistler Bike Park unless I took every last bit of play from the headset. I ended up having to hit the top of the stem with a hammer to take out the play, although the ultimate (and better) solution was to ditch the headset.

What headset is it? I used to have to crank down on the SFN really hard with my Hope(less…) headset due to there being too much friction between the headset parts and the steerer. ….And because I could never get the headset properly tight, it’d always work loose really quickly. Other headset only require gentle tightening of the SFN.

Has someone stolen the signs?

I thought it was the Raven that earned C’dale the Crack’n’Fail nickname…

I think it was the 3.0 frames with the 1″ head tubes. I remember head tubes lying around at races circa 1991….

I think it’s great news that they’ve outsourced their building.

Aye, the high / forward suspension action on the Empire makes for a rearwards / upwards axle path so very effective, but would be horrible to pedal. Hence the roller to match the chain with the pivot. Like a Trek Session 10.

I agree on the bullsh!t line….would maybe sell for 900 retail.

If you are concerned about capitalism, don’t buy clothes or drink take-out coffee again….

GW – Member

coz it’s not very **** low otherwise [:roll:]

LOL!

Oh……my…..God……

Are people so spoon fed these days that they can’t find trails in a small wood?

As for being elitist….LOLWTF….you can roll down the dual course on a road bike, and I’ve seen plenty of kids riding down it on childrens bikes. Grow some balls!

Dood, aye I am a married man!

OK, I’ll go into Cove and see if they’ve got anything. We’ve got posts in too but dunno what size they need to be.

Yo Al, the post length is always the same. If you don’t have any luck in the next couple of days I can go into Cove and see if they have anything. I work about 100ft from their shop. I’d have thought that a local shop should have something in though unless they are very weird (the bosses, not the shops).

bomberman – Member

Takes about 5 minutes.

someones telling porkies!

Well maybe 10 minutes but I guess it helps to have a workstand (I’m a mechanic…). If it takes a mechanic an hour to chop a hose, tap an end in and screw it into the lever then they need sacking!

Forgot to mention that once done, put the bike on it’s back wheel so the levers are vertical. Pump the levers. If there is significant air in the reservoir then the levers will move closer to the bar and you’ll need to bleed.

Take the wheels out, press the brake lever a couple of times so the pads nearly touch, pull the hoses out of the levers, chop to length, install new olive / end, stick it in the lever, tighten up lever bolt, push pads / pistons all the way back (to get rid of any little bit of air from the chopped end….and away you go. Takes about 5 minutes.

Although you might want to come up with an excuse in order to return the brakes as they are shi’ite.

Surely the top and down tubes have been welded in the wrong place??

Morning Scruff.

I’m sure I ran my Campag Centaur mtb mech on a (prototype) Campag 8sp cassette. Same for Shimano, you can use a 7sp mech on an 8sp cassette IIRC. The cable pull is certainly the same, just one extra sprocket.

The OP could have probably made another 50 quid in the time it took to bitch endlessly about utter shi’ite on here. Just go to a shop if you are that worried about on-line shopping. Be quick while there’s still some left….

Well if you are totally shredding the gnu, you’d be wearing a full face helmet (and goggles depending on the weather), but if you are in a more XC frame of mind you wouldn’t want to wear a FF unless you are a bit paranoid, and why on earth would you want to wear goggles on an XC ride? What’s wrong with clear glasses / inner tube on fork / Crudcatcher / blinking a bit?

Don’t buy this book just because I wrote it. Don’t buy it because it is laughably out of date, published in 1988, and because you won’t be able to find it. I’ll sign your copy if you do.

Ha I’ve got a copy back in the UK. Maybe I’ll go back, pick it up and post it to you :D

Yes, clearly the current three front end standards (not including Maverick and the like….) are not enough :roll:

I think Treks marketing has backfired slightly. People bang on about the 33lb 88 or whatever the weight the display bike was, but in the real world the bike weighs about 40lb which is pretty well the same as anything else in it’s class. Similar for the Remedy. It’s only so ‘light’ due to it having ghey tyres, stem etc. Throw on some DH tyres and a burlier stem and the like and it’d soon weigh in mid thirties.
The only issues with the current Trek line up where due to Giant making the rear end of the Fuel EX on the first production run, resulting in snapped stays. This got rectified and I’ve not heard of any problems with the Remedy or 88.