Another Charge Spoon user here, wouldn’t even bother trying anything else now I’ve found something that works so well for me.

There is a large auction-based popular website with a seller that has them for £17.48 including delivery brand new. Thats where I bought my last one. Not a huge outlay if you don’t like it either and they seem to sell very quickly second-hand

“Don’t look down the business end”

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Get down there and watch, seriously, its an amazing, unbelievable, wonderful sight seeing your childs head pop out. And by the time she lets you near her again you’ll have forgotten all about it!

There’s big cat sightings all the time in the woods around the valleys of Stroud. There’s even a resident crackpot ‘big cat expert’ called Frank Tunbridge that the press always wheel out. Last year a deer was found dead and the finger was instantly pointed at a big cat for some reason. Even went off for DNA analysis but no feline DNA was discovered

Jury is out as far as I’m concerned…

Changeling

Expected it to be a chick flick for some reason as Mrs Wilko recommended it. Good god how wrong I was and was completely blown away by it – no film has ever had such a lasting impact – the fact it’s a true story too. Unreal

Worth the change? I would say, most definitely for performance and reliability reasons. Don’t think I’d use Avids again. If for no other reason than I’m a serial bike tinkerer and if I get the urge to bleed my brakes Shimano use good ‘ole mineral oil. None of yer paint obliterating DOT stuff.

Elixir R to latest SLX

SLX more outright stopping power but the Elixirs felt more progressive. Now I’m used to it I prefer the more ‘instant bite’ feel of the SLXs.

SLXs do not squeal when wet! I tried everything to stop my Elixirs from squealing horribly in the wet, searched every forum etc but couldn’t stop it. Some people dont suffer from it but I’ve read of a lot that do

No-one’s recommended he ‘bang her back doors in’ as he suspected 25% of us might do. Anyone like to oblige? I can’t even bring myself to say it in jest

Yeah I’m warming to it actually. Knowing the sealant will go through the valve stem has helped massively

Thanks for the input all

spoon / cheez – putting the sealant in seems like the faff to me hence investigating if it is possible to get an almost as good result without using it. For some reason the whole sealant thing is putting me off. Maybe I should just bite the bullet and get on with trying it.

I was hoping to hear some experiences of people trying it which is what I’ve received so thanks for that guys

br yes UST generally are, hence one of the reasons I mention in my first post that I’m thinking of trying Purgatorys which are about the same/slightly less than my 2.35 high rollers in weight. Not UST, 2bliss. So I was wondering if anyone had got them to seal minus fluid.

I understand the whole puncture thing, but I never seem to get them other than pinch flats (I’ve gone and said it now) so I still thought the lower rotating mass, less chance of pinch flats and lower pressures would be worth trying. Couple of tubes in my backpack, Bob ist dein Oncle as they say in Germany.

I’m not completely averse to using the fluid but if they sealed up fine without it, then I still get the benefits of lower rotating mass, lower pressures and reduced chance of pinch flats

Just fancied trying it first without fluid, but yes looking through all the info on the Stans site it looks like I’ll be fighting a losing battle

Thanks anyway

Thats right, you don’t have to ‘prove’ anything but if it was me, and I was genuine, I’d sure as sh*t want to say ‘na na n na na’ to everyone doubting my integrity

Anyway, most people with shiny new kit can’t wait to post up pics. As opposed to just adding links to the place where they ‘bought’ the bikes :D

thx1138 why not silence all the doubters by posting up a photo of you and your 2 new magnificent ‘steeds’ :wink:

I have a 20 month old daughter and I struggled to even read this thread for the fear of how upsetting it may be.

I am glad that I did though, reading the posts it is actually inspirational, and shows what a lovely race we humans can actually be when we aren’t bickering about insignificant crap

bruders my sympathies are with you and your family I can’t begin to imagine what you are going through. I hope all the kind words on this thread are in some way helping…

Ha, I guessed what the content of this thread was going to be before opening it

My Elixir R’s were the same from brand new. In the wet it’s embarassing – everyone can tell what a mincing gaylord you are by the very audible brake squeal indicator. Searched forums, tried everything to make it stop. Eventually I found a very simple cure that has worked faultlessly ever since; swapped them for the latest SLXs

Arrggghh ‘destructions’…

Seriously though, there’s a ‘how to’ video on the Notubes website that explains exactly how to do it and he fits it straight to the rim. Even roughs it up first with some fine sandpaper

Speshpaul – did he? I didn’t watch it enough to catch him saying that, fair enough, he has redeemed himself slightly there!

Who is the authority on what can be classed as cool and what can’t then?

Remember the ‘Cool Wall’ on Top Gear. Jeremy Clarkson decided which cars were cool and which weren’t. Does anyone on here genuinely think he was in any position to comment on what is cool and what isn’t? Just look at him!

Same goes for words, you might not think Shred (picking a random example) is cool, but the teenager flying down your local dh track, clearing doubles you could only dream of might think so :D

Its got to be age-related I reckon, there must come a point where it just sounds wrong using skate/surf-talk

Any excuse to post a pic of my bike

And you can get them for £17.48 on the large 4-letter auction site. I’ve had 3 on various bikes, very comfy, I find them durable too. Wouldn’t perch my precious ar5e on anything else now

OP – there’s nothing nasty to flat on any of the marked DH’s. The new track GBU (good, bad, ugly) has the 2 biggest drops. If you’re not used to drop-offs they might look a bit daunting. Not going to estimate a height, suffice to say they’re way bigger than anything a trail centre black might throw up. Ride round them if you don’t like the look of them

Sorry, just looked at my post. Really, as a responsible adult I should say ‘yes, wear a full face, especially as you are on an uplift day and likely to get a little carried away with all the other guys ripping it on enduro/dh rigs’

Depends on how fast you are planning to go! Nothing too scary there, although on some of the bigger stuff (drop offs on the new GBU track for example) you might want one for peace of mind. But even the bigger stuff can be ridden around anyway.

Plenty of people session the dh’s on trail bikes with trail lids at FoD

Have a blast, great fun place to ride

Blackspire stinger fitted my V2 with SLX 2×9 with an additional 2mm spacer on the drive side. Had no adverse affect on the chainline and performed flawlessly. Not sure if things changed in that area for the V3 mind…

Seriously whatever possesses people to spend money advertising something on ebay with absolutely no chance whatsoever of selling it

Hilarious though :lol:

Darcy a slightly crass comment, but there may be some truth in it. Same as if the carers are a ‘bit thick’ in a nursery, the children may not learn much from them

We scrape by on my wage and Mini-Wilko stays at home with her Mum, who luckily is very smart. So this has lead to Mini-Wilko being very advanced obviously :wink:

Beautiful dogs, if we didn’t already have a 19 month old little girl, mental lurcher and whippet I would re-home one at the click of my fingers.

When you turn sideways and disappear

There are studies that show the benefits of children going to nursery, and studies that show kids are better off at home with their Mum. Pick the ones that suit your situation, read them and ignore the others.

Children are very adaptable and he’ll be fine either way. The important thing is if he’s happy and secure at home, he’ll be the same when he’s in childcare

Ooh is that the protocol for when you’ve built up a bike – post a pic on STW? In that case :D

The manual is good, but it doesn’t actually tell you how to pull the outer through the chainstay. If you haven’t done anything like that before, or any electrical installations where you pull cables then its not obvious. The important thing is to first remove the plastic guide at the back of the chain stay (which the manual does mention TBF). You can use some strong tape to connect the cable outer to the piece of plastic that is already through the chainstay and carefully pull it through.

The problem is if you use too much tape it will be too big to pull it all through. If you dont use enough tape, it wont hold.

In the end I didn’t bother with the piece already through the chainstay, its not needed. I just inserted the outer into the chainstay, gently pushed it through and it pretty much came straight out the hole the other end. I think I used some tweezers to just help it through.

Hope this helps

I bought one purely for training purposes, it helped me push bigger gears on climbs basically. On a road bike, on a steep climb, you simply have no choice but to maintain speed and sweat it out, or get off. Gearing of an MTB allows you to just trundle up hills at a snails pace, spinning like crazy. Helped my leg strength and endurance no end. And served its purpose – helped me to enjoy MTBing even more!

Went off topic there – in answer to your post – some discouraging words about road bikes – they smell and listen to One Direction

“thanks guys, you’ve put me completely off going… I had been toying with the idea of taking my car for a go, but now I’ll think twice. :o)”

Probably no bad thing – on a good lap it can be the best bit of tarmac in the world but usually its hell – its nicknamed the green hell for a reason. Its both ends of the spectrum – one lap had me screaming out loud with adrenalin as my bike left the ground dropping into a dip, few corners later flying over a blind crest at 100mph and narrowly avoiding a VW Sharan with a family inside doing about 40.

After my experience I mention earlier in the thread, I would never, ever go round it on a bike again, no way Jose, especially as I now have a little daughter

It’s the most amazing/tragic place both at the same time. Did some laps on my motorbike a few years ago, it’s mad to get overtaken on a corner by a skyline gtr going sideways. on my last lap saw no less than 8 crashes, 2 of which were other bikers right in front of me. One guy was alright but the other smashed his head into some Armco at the top of Hohe Acht and when I got there to try and help him his helmet had disintegrated and the front of his face was missing.. People die there all the time, the statistics get dumbed down.

Got carried away, in answer to the question the games do a good job of teaching you the lefts and rights but some of the elevation changes are unbelievable, the designers of that circuit must have been insane

Seriously, did no-one ever tell some of you – no-one likes a tell tale :lol:

Its a tough one, if you speak to him, he might suddenly have it in for you and start plotting your downfall. Do you want to lose your job because of a bitter pot-head? What sort of relationship does he have with his boss? What sort of relationship do you have with his boss? Beware office politics.

Of course you could just do what most office workers do – gossip behind his back. By the time it gets round everyone and back to you he’ll be a 60 a day recovering smackhead who is now addicted to pot, having an affair with Jill from personnel (beacuse they coincidentally booked the same day off together) who cross-dresses in his spare time.

Obviously they both have their plusses. I had both consoles for a while but ended up selling the PS3. I found the Xbox live online experience better than the PS3 and worth the money. The Forza leaderboards are brilliant, okay there’s cheats at the top of some of them but thats pretty much irrelevant for the average gamer anyway. I spent weeks crawling my way up the leaderboard of the Top Gear test track, to the point where I had to master manual gears to gain valuable tenths…

“Daft as it sounds that would probably help as it’s much harder to lug around or conceal an assault rifle.”

Interesting and probably made as a throw-away comment, however I can’t help saying the Connecticut shooter managed okay, as well carrying Glock and Sig handguns

“Tell that to the 24 people who are still alive, and their families.”

I’m saying that it’s an unthinkable tragedy if even one person is killed.

“The problem is that the US has got itself in a right mess with guns and there is little political will to address it. Some weapons make mass killings easier than others, therefore it makes sense to ban these types of weapons first. They have no justifiable need for them and it may be something that is actually achievable to deliver without having to amend their constitution”

Agreed. But thats still papering over the cracks, and not actually addressing the cause of the problem.

The type of gun is pretty much irrelevant. They are all designed for one thing – to kill. If a guy walks into a room with a break-action double barrel (fairly easily obtainable here in the UK) and takes out two people and then gets stopped while he’s reloading, dare I say it, its just as bad as if 26 people die. The fact is human life has been taken.

As a slight side note I find it chilling that technicians sit in a laboratory performing experiments with bullets to make them do as much damage to human tissue as possible.

Its not the gun, as the title of this thread initally points out. Its the mind controlling the finger that pulls the trigger. ‘Ban this or that type of gun’ reactions are just the very beginning and the tip of the iceberg of the problem.

Yeah forgot about Demon Boyz, good shout aa rec rec rec recca recca recognition

Stoked!

A 75 / 25 ratio of imperial leather talc and cathedral city

I think, or it could be the tink dralking