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Sous-Vide. Or boil in the bag. (But Don’t Boil it.)
Largest sauce pan you have fill with hot water, You can use a cool box and boiling water from the kettle.
get to 60c, pop your meat in a zip tie bag, push out as much air as you can. Season with garlic if you like.
Lower it into the water for about 30 min.
Get everything else you are having ready, open a bottle of plonk.
Keep an eye on the temp of the water, there are charts online for the temperatures for different done-ness.
Get a frying pan really hot, seriously hot mind.
Get the meat out of the bag and season with a bit of S&P
30 seconds on each side.
Plate and eat straight away.

Perfect. But a bit time consuming.

This got me thinking………..
Supermarket sells steak already vacum packed, so I stuck the oven on and put in a wok filled with water at 48* ( wok is the only thing I had big enough) and set the temp to 65* ( bit of experimentation here to find the constant desired 48*). Stuck in the room temp steak and left it for a couple of hours, then stuck it on super hot griddle to colour. Pure genius 💡

Their bearings are sh~t.

Yelli Screamy wheelbase (medium – 100mm) 1084mm, HA 68 degrees with a 120mm fork
Trek Stache wheelbase (17.5 – 120mm) 1128mm, HA 68.3 degrees with a 120mm fork

so that’s only 44mm difference, and the YS wheelbase would be a tad longer with a 120mm fork

can it really make that much difference to the ride?
The Yelli is 2cm shorter in chainstay length, this gives the playfulness. Short chainstays on a 29er is the key, which is why the new Specialized Enduro 29 will be a big hit.

Check with this first, should help you decide.
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In that “type” of bike anyways 😉

Any 29er with chain stays longer and HA steeper than the Yelli is a fail.

Put a length of nylon webbing though the silicon case and tie it to a brake gear cable, if you a barreling down a rough trail and the garmin becomes dislodged, the strap will help save it bouncing away into the forest.
Actually garmin should design their shells with a securing hole for this purpose.

And it all goes silent again.

Where can I buy spares ie the sliders and top and bottom collar?

Yep, well kind of, 27.5 at the back 29er up front, 140mm travel 2007 Cannondale Prophet.
Ventana El Chuco is full sus designed to run at 69*

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Modified mine, their 90* is a bad idea, breaks cables so I replaced with following. I also didn’t like the lever so got a suntour remote fork lever on ebay. Also drilled the cable end hole out a bit so it fits standard brake cable. Now works much better but can’t seem to find replacement sliders for it and I find the spring is very stiff compaired to my Gravity Dropper. Still it’s ok for £70.

Thats 5m between the cut out walls, 11m from support to support. The ends would be left in, the door ends would be solid glass (glass bricks maybe) with the doors left as shutters.

For insulation I was thinking 2″ of spray on expanding foam + plaster board on the inside.

I like this but want more space hence the over roof

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FS, stick it in a pocket in a good plastic bag wrapped with a rubber band.

My Chicken Chineese style soup
Stock – Left over roast chicken, remove remaining white meat, stick carcass, skin, left over vegs + 1 sliced tomato into pot, fill with water and add whole dried chillies, small handfull of whole pepper corns, 3 cloves and bay leaves, salt and simmer for 1/2 day then strain. Stick in fridge until the day you want the soup

Large pot, boil stock, add soya sauce, thin sliced carrots, then thin sliced mushrooms, pac choy and 5 min noodles, after 5 min take off heat and add remaining chicken meat. gobble gobble. Timing of adding vegs ~ noodles to get crispy vegs and cooked noodles is the aim. Very high heat is the key.

Nope, but weeing in the back door is 😈

Forgot about that chinese one, nice.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Chinese-Army-Paratrooper-Military-Shovel-Q4-with-sheath-/261172264843?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3ccf147f8b

Chinese Army Paratrooper Military Shovel

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9 speed 11-32 rear, 20-32 up front

Ripped mine off in the mud as well. Made a mod since then it had worked flawlessly. (3 layers off orad bike inner tube)

Oh bum, running my 800 with Openstreet as well. (accidently deleated my garmin maps and didn’t want to buy another)

All it will take is a downhiller to win the world champs on a 650b and the rest will pick up and notice and evolve………Top level racing is always looking for the slightest advantage. This trickles down to us lot.
You may call it marketing BS, somewhat true.
But here’s a thought
Will The Orange 5 be around in 5 years time in its present state? Doubt it, if so it will go down down like an Austin Princess.

I have replaced my Switch bearings twice in 2 years.
Now I will get better bearings.
Interesting article here about bearings.
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I crashed in Wales in the knee pads, landed on flinty rock at speed, the pads ripped, then twisted around my leg thus exposing my knee cap to the rock. They now sit in a drawer in half taty pieces marked for light use only.

So how many days did it take to build the bike? 😈

Well done mate, good to see a young bloke getting know how to build his bike up from scratch, there are alot of d@ickheads out there who would be just running to mummys bike shop. 8)

The new specialized enduro 29er has got everyone running back to the drawing boards 😀

If Alcohol was also involved then that is why.

Bump just in case others have got something to add

They drive like crap. Gearbox is horrible. Mine was like a broomstick in a bucket of tar. Same as everyone else, I’ll mention rust. Not just on the Vito, its the same with sprinters too.
Want my advise? Here it is anyway. Buy a transit!

Interesting, I have a mate with a Transit and he is not happy, I have the Connect and it is a POS.

rust should only be an issue on pre 2007 vans iirc , after that they have galvanised bodies

Thanks that is a great help

speak of the devil
http://www.pinkbike.com/news/First-Look-Specialized-S—Works-Enduro-29-S-E.html

430 chainstay is very impressive for a big travel 29er.