It was a while ago now, but I put a Kinesis on the front of mine. Cost about £100 from my lbs iirc.

Most courier-bag brands do lock holsters; bagaboo, chrome, etc.

I had similar noise with a Conti tyre. Turned out to be an excess bit of rubber on the bead that came into contact with the tape when there was weight (me) on the wheel.

Looks fine to me. That’s not a seal, those are spacers for preloading the bearings.

I’ve got some of the Race Face ones, Agent I think they’re called. They do the job so I’m happy, but no experience of others (other than some very old Endura).

I use poc index air and troy Lee ace. Not much difference between them; troy Lees might be ‘airier’ but poc work with touchscreen (troy Lee might nowadays too, mine are a couple years old).

Sometimes you just know from the thread title that a thread is going to be good.

Bet whoever was talked to at CRC is having a great day taking the credit for everything working as normal.

Any BB deep stream crossings lately? I’m with hols on this.

RIP.

0 to -5ish: synthetic l/s baselayer (most often HH), some roubaix-ish Decathlon softshell from their running range (mesh back, like their cheapest cycling one but better cut), bibs and RF Agent shorts, kneewarmers or pads, cheap XC-skiing socks and Teva Links or Mavic Crossmax something-or-other if on SPDs.

-5 to -15ish: same as above but add a brynje underneath and some tights.

Never overheat and rarely freeze (the exception mostly being longer, faster transports between trails). If I know I’ll be stopping for longer periods I’ll take a packable Lundhags primaloft jacket in my pack. It’s honestly taken me years to work it out but this combination works best for me. If I wear any more while riding I boil over very quickly.

Rode Shimano for years before switching to Time (Z freerides, MX2s and 4s) maybe 10-12yrs ago. Much prefer Time. Tried Shimano again briefly and all the same problems I’d had were still there (unwanted releases being the biggest). Word of ‘warning’, the latest set of MX2s I bought last year came with some new kind of ‘beginner’ cleats with a 10-degree release angle.

Time.

Iirc, they only fit in high-volume or debonair cans.

Nah, it’s you who’s gotten wider.

2011 Reverb. It’s getting a little sloppy now. Chances are new bushes could keep it going another few years, but, honestly, I’m ready to just let it die now.

1st gen Zee rear mech. The clutch would die before you even had a chance to install it on a frame if some people were to be believed, but I must be lucky.

No text, just that old pic of Gee Atherton naked (if text is necessay, then, Bregante’s or “It’s all about the bike.”

A recommendation of what not to buy: the Cane Creek one. It’s overly complicated collection of undersized, all differently sized little screws that manages to be pretty unergonomic despite being adjustable in every direction.

Of others I’ve laid my grubby fingers on I’d probably go for the WT. One Up’s is too much plastic.

All forums are communities.

STW is perhaps a pretty extreme version of this. I know lots of people from here and it’s genuinely made a positive difference to my life – Hit the North and the people I’ve met through it have given me a sense of confidence and self belief I never knew I had.

Totally agree, and that’s what I meant about STW having a good balance.  Those threads are really just a minority of what gets posted (I’ve pretty much never read them), where some is straight forward ‘does X work with Y?’ stuff and some is community stuff.  I’ve learned things from and shared things with people on here that I’ll probably never ride with, about trails I’ll never ride on bikes I’ll never own, and more, but one of things I appreciate most is that it’s still a relatively large and open group compared to some of the more ‘insular’ forums.

Is this a ‘P’ thing?  Honestly, I’ve missed the conflict some of the people here are mentioning.  i just assumed the forum had slowed down a bit because it had literally slowed down and become a bit of a pain.  I came less for a while, but it seems to have picked up a bit again.  It’s still not what it was, perhaps, but it’s a lot better than most.

I think the idea of a forum being a community vs ‘just a bike forum’ can be stretched too far sometimes and STW gets it about right.  Bikeradar and mtbr are extreme examples of this where one became pretty much just a minority gang of online friends who’d get overly defensive against new members and regurgitate the same crap ad infinitum, and the other has been organised to death based on percieved cycling niches and geographies.

Wild guess: yer lbs-man was mixing them up with Look.

Note – my wheelset doesn’t have boost adapters.

Pretty sure there are ‘universal’ ones.

I honestly used to have no problem with packs and thought people who complained about sweaty backs were a bit weird, but I’m willing to revise that position after having used my Dakine bumbag for a little over a year now.  The full Camelbak still comes out for longer rides, or often in winter, but the Dakine is my first choice for anything else.

It’s clearly a bb5, but it’s probably worth a shot.  I bought a pair from another seller years ago for something like £10 when all other stores were charging £30 an end.

To be fair, its better than CRC, where you can filter and sort to your hearts content but then every result youre interested in is out of stock and only tells you its out of stock when you try and add it to the basket

There is a filter to only show in stock items ;)

if its a dairy bull

That’s not milk.

And another sweaty baldy here.  Bell Super 3 is actually one of the better helmets I’ve tried.  It is warm, but it’s better ventilated and has better pads than ‘cooler’, lighter helmets I’ve had so it’s really not noticable. I’d definitely buy another.

Plenty of life left in it.

If it’s an option, the stiffness and damping of a Pike would definitely be preferable.  A (old) revelation would barely be a difference, and the weights are also negligible.

You can also add the £40 a bottle finishline stuff to the list of I won’t be buying that again.

Was thinking of trying some in place of Stans.  What didn’t you like about it?

There was an updated/long-term review with q&a with Finish Line on bikerumour, iirc, and it turned out they’d only really tested it with a couple of tyre/rim combos that they already knew were optimal and that it was very hit or miss as to whether it would work with anything else.

Update on Öhlins website says they have a fix, but it has to be approved by some American consumer authority type thingy before they can tell anyone the super-secet details of how to apply loctite to threads.  Why that means all their customer outside the US should wait is unclear.

Honestly, I think mine look like that, but haven’t caused a problem.  Their reply sounds little overly defensive (without having seen what they are replying to), but as BB say I wouldn’t worry about it.  Shimano are generally pretty good about just replacing anything that seems faulty within warranty time.

Precisely why I didn’t choose them last time I bought pedals (ended up with Hopes). Big, wide platform was what I was looking for, but short axle just made them same width as most others, effectively. Still think they look lovely, though.

Spring side is just old RS Dualair, but the neopos and damper carts are pretty snazzy looking. To be fully ridiculous it needs 3 air chambers like Öhlins.

Quite simply, the worst time to sell and the best time to buy…..

This.  I’ve been on both sides, picking up parts for peanuts, and getting zero reponse to selling parts in the autumn that then cause a bidding war when I try to offload them again in the spring.

Is it just fore and aft play that feels like up/down?  In that case it’s bushes (mainly the top one I believe).  Rockshox has, or had, full videos of a strip and rebuild, in English, on their youtube channel.

add insult to injury people buy parts on the web then expect him to fit them.

Nothing wrong with that. The shops I’ve used have never had an issue either.

My LBS are openly happy to do it.  They get business without the need to stock 57 different varieties of BB/pads/axle/chainring/headset.

Yeah, it’s a 24mm axle like Shimano. The fancier RF ones are different.

I was just going to randomly guess it would be a Knipex plier wrench and it would seem I’d have been right.  That’s how good they are.

Very on/off I’d say after coming from Hopes and older Shimano 2 pots.

Open rebound/buy a different bike.