The difference is mostly do you want to buy for a shop and have their help/backup or just buy direct from canyon and take the risk with sizing and hope not to have to send anything back.

I had to resort to getting a THE one in xxl as the only thing that fits. Only used it once in a year though. (Email mebif you want it cheap)

175mm black available now all other sizes/colours spring iirc.

30mm axle to be used with their bb.

SKS chromoplastics ftw, mine have withstood many crashes and work great.

That doesn’t mean it snapped in half though does it.

Troy Lee shock doctors

Ebay, factor in the fees but seem to sell for more on their than here/PB and have a set time limit for people to buy as well so speeds things up.

They just annouced the new frame today available from feb, so if you are getting yours before then it will be the older one. Different geometry as well on the new frame.

Just pay it back. They can request it back so might as well just get it over and done with.

I don’t think they are the much wider. I am currently having a problem trying to get my rear i23 to seal around the valve (used several different valves)

They have a load of frames ready and paint them in batches so timescale varies. They might be doing the green ones today or in 2 weeks time.

So how much should you expect to pay a professional mechanic for his time and the many £1000’s of tools we have to purchase (and replace) ?

£11 for half hour is very cheap. Most places are around £40/h so £20 for half

10 months of my current job in LBS. Never stuck with anything else more than a few years hopefully this will be different.

You will need a new wheel/freehub to run an 11spd cassette.

Dangerously laid back personality, I don’t seem stressed at all at any time despite being through some of the most stressful situations you could ever imagine.

Also I have a Hole in my septum (nose) that I can poke stuff through (reserved only for when I am drunk and want to freak people out)

Epic, comfy enough and fast

Not worn the chin guard yet. Saving it for the occasional uplift day really rather than my current full face that takes up loads of space and has been used once…

I’ve had my MIPS super 2R for a few weeks now and it seems good so far, I don’t remember I am wearing a new helmet which is a good thing.

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All works fine just a bit heavier in the cassete and cranks(and no carbon)

The power and adjustment of a hydrolic caliper without having to use specific shifter/brakes.

I had a mk3 with 160 and it was a handful uphill, front wheel wanted to jump up on anything steep so you had to get right over the front, bit was great coming down. O think 140/150 would be the sweet spot.

I might have some spare (not trek) but should work. I will check tomorrow.

A reason to go for the whyte is the frame bearing warranty that you don’t get with most brands.

Bolt circle diameter, just means the four holes on the chainring will line up with the 4 on your cranks.

Pretty much all (including yours) shimano cranks are 104mm BCD, the new xtr cranks are 96mm so not interchangeable.

No the new xtr ring won’t fit as will be different BCD to your old cranks. As they will be 104bcd, you can use a raceface or similar narrow wide ring.

Ispec just means shifters can mount to brakes etc so still clamp to bars.

Just the fact that they have a proven track record of reliability but the guides don’t.

I work in a shop and we sell loads of shimano brakes (mostly deores) often as replacements for old knackered avids/Hayes etc and haven’t had any returned with problems at all.

I like them, always had shimano brakes but bought a new bike with guides and almost took them off new to sell but thought I would give them a go.

They work great and have a much nicer feel than avid trails I previously used(and hated), no plans to change them and they have not had to be touched in 5 months of riding.

Having said that if I was buying a set of brakes aftermarket it would still be some shimanos…

Cheaper places are somewhere like risca or abercarn right in doorstep of cwmcarn and not far to Cardiff.

I recently sold a recently traded in one of the same age with bog standard spec for £350 so £500ish is about right.

Check out the specialized cadet shoes, recessed cleat and look like trainers for a less bike shoe look.for

Sounds good pretty similar to what I built onto my dialled alpine frame.
Would look at cranks and wheels 2nd hand as you can save a lot, (got saint cranks for the price of new zee and they worked fine).

Would spec a dropper post too.

Out as no rounds in Wales…

I know your pain I had several as a kid, once when I was on holiday I was in absolute agony beyond anything else I have ever felt in the end my ear drum perforated and it was a while before it got any better don’t get them any more though.

A mates dog used to eat knickers off the washing line and all that would come out would be some elastic stuck out of her arse, for my mate to have to pull out…

The big problem with that older ones was the saddle couldn’t be lowered much. Not sire if they have changed this, I would look at the frog tadpole as this is the best one around at the moment IMHO and cheaper than the cube.

There won’t be many reviews but there isn’t much to review with a balance bike

This ramping up you mentioned can you please explain???

“Ramping up” is when a fork gets progressively firmer towards the end of its travel. So you can run a lower pressure making it more supple in the first part of the travel but it won’t bottom out easily as it ramps up enough further into the travel (usually achieved by volume spacers)

Obviously I can order and send back if the incorrect ones are sent, but I’d rather do without the hassle if I can avoid it.

So buy then from a shop where you can see them first.

I used to only have hardtails but now I can afford a FS (due to staff discount rather than having loads of money) and honesty with a modern fs that weighs as much as some of my old hardtails and excellent suspension there is almost no reason to have a hard tail other than cost…

Vx220?
Sort of an Elise but a Vauxhall so nobody will pay it any attention.