Not sure the process is the one to go for if you want to have a lighter bike… my mates one was 34lbs stock. With a lot of £££ upgrades is now closer to 31 but still weight considering another brands bike of the same travel/spec would be a few lbs lighter.

You can tell the insurance company and pay an excess have a bit of cash towards your stuff and have higher premiums…

Or you could tell them a stone flicked up from a passing lorry and smashed your window. This wouldn’t get you any money for your stuff but would mean it only couonts as a windscreen claim and the excess is usually quite low and doesn’t normally change your future premiums…

+1 duct tape, super sticky

Carbon Diverge?

He was injured and only did one full run first take…

Makes it all the more impressive.

Campag are fulcum hubs aren’t they? or the other way round…

either way get the mavics

Rim width makes a big difference the tyres I love on my modern wide wheels feel horrendous and squirmy on old narrow rims even when pumped up to higher pressures.

IF you train 99% of the time on your tarmac or whatever you probably get more out of sticking with than rather than using a slightly more aero harsher bike in a peloton.

£12.50

Hans dampfs fit the bill perfectly

2.4″ – Nope
Light – Nope
Fast Rolling – Nope

yeah they are perfect 😉

Diversions still there for now

Routed my warranty replacement reverb hose all the way through the holes in the frame without putting any of the grommets on first…

I’ve got a wet/dry Panasonic foil and it is great, good shave and lasts a good few weeks on a charge.

It makes sense, obviously last minute tubeless set up could be a faff but if they are only back up then tubes should be OK, also saves swapping cassette and aligning brakes for new wheels etc

Just swap to the beavers on the other wheels?

Takes 5 minutes if you use the tubes and will save you at least a pound…

Hardtail?

If you can afford to spend £200+ on a new shock you can spend £100 on a service on the current one surely?

Chromebook?

As long as general use doesn’t involve installing specific programmes then they are awesome.

Peanut butter and jam sandwiches ftw

in the compound the same?

I think we are over thinking this…

People who buy oranges like to buy stuff that looks the same as it did 20yrs ago.

This is much more compatible with 650b than 29″ 😉

Just realised my coment last night made no sense, I thought it was about the five 29 not the alpine 5…

As long as you don’t expect them to actually be good flat pedals then go for it.. .

Personally for a bike that might get ridden to the shops now and again in normal shoes I just use proper SPD pedals because they are fine with trainers for a leisurely ride anyway.

sram

23 mins leisurely uphill ride to work, ~9hrs of talking/messing with bikes and 13 downhill minutes home.

Isn’t the alpine five just the same thing with a longer fork and heavier/burlier build kit?

So it hasn’t really gone just got a different name

I’m probably getting the Trek Stache 29+

Ideally i’d get some light XC wheels tyres for it also to make it more dual purpose.

If you are considering hope cranks, there is less… well crank to hit.

So a hope 175mm crank has less crank arm after the pedal thread than most.

My mate does… It works apart from pulling to the right a bit.

Legal standard for a new bike is 2mm for disk 1mm for rim brake…

On cytech course we had to get below 0.2mm to pass. 0.1mm is achievable so 4mm is pretty bad…

Had a pair in DT 350s seemed great easy tubeless and stayed true with 17st of very unsmooth rider.

I’ve got some of the geax on my commuter, bought for a fiver a while back.

They are ok but had quite a few puctures

Why didn’t you like the whytes or scots

Cheers for the info Denis.

I am in south wales actually, I’m 5′ 8″ so planning on getting the 18.5″ with a short stem,hopefully I will have one soon but thanks for the offer.

Just wondering how you are getting on with it a bit further down the line?

Just sold my full sus and looking at ordering one of these.

UK distributor for DT Swiss is Madison

Frog 43 or 48 (14″ and 16″ wheels respectively) my boy just about fitted the 48 at 4 so skipped the 14″ is flying around on it now only a few months later.

That was Ali G’s immigration policy wasn’t it?

“Only let the fit ones in”

clearly someone shat themselves in work and nicked your trousers when they disposed of their soiled ones (which means they probably went commando).

Specialized Fatboy in the sales.

No

Well maybe the new 2016 34 if that is not what you have