As the title really....does anybody know if there are going to be any new 29+ tyres released this year? My chupacabras are light and roll brilliantly in the dry, but try to kill you when it's damp or wet!
I know about all the current ones, but would love a conti x-king in 29x3"!

I don't want to upset other members of this forum, it's an excellent place here, with top people, who all do the thing I love doing, some of them quasi-famous, due to me watching their blue dots in various races! But, it seems to me, that Mr Shand has taken one of these... http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/...

But both salsa and on one frames are unique to them, not copied from trek, who spent over two years developing the design with the elevated stay, and then bought of the peg, before putting a pretty frock and lipstick on.

I'm certainly not having a go at shand, quite the opposite. The fact is, that I love the 'one man in a shed' aspect to brands like Shand....there are many other up and coming frame builders who I hold in the same high regard....I'd love to have the balls to create something individual and special th...

Ah, bugger....I have a 100mm x 10degree rise to swap for a shorter one!

It's an interesting reply and standpoint, as well as a good go at justification, but like most people on the forums apparently, I don't buy it. I've followed Shand on Instagram for a while, and as I'm not a social media obsessed teenager, that's praise in itself.....I only follow about 5 people/bran...

I don't know how light people want a bike to be, but my large stache 5 comes in about 26lbs without trying....and even though I'm a ~~chunky~~ powerful chap, I've yet to notice any flex around the BB....

Nope.....have a read of this. Two years in R&D.....

http://www.tetongravity.com/story/bike/ ... ntain-bike

The early titec J bars (jeff jones's first effort, sold under license by titec) can be picked up for £30-40 and are very good if you can find them....if alpkit ever get round to selling their Fu Man Chu bars, they will be £25 quid and are almost identical to Jones bars....a slightly different radius...

Even the generic one is a trek stache copy!

Sorry I'm late getting back....a large is too big for both the spearfish and the trek stache, so I'm out :0)
Great price though!

Sorry gari, what size is the revelate tangle?

I don't think he's got a sat nav with him!

A decent budget option is the clarks foam grips for old school touring drops....they sell em in packs of 4, and they are so long, that you have to cut them down for 710 jones bars....and they come with a set of bar plugs too, all for £5 from halfords or £4 from sjs. So that's 2 sets of decent foam g...

It's good sub standard, that coffee stuff!

Ah, cheers though /0)

Sorry if I missed it, but who is selling the £30 gilets?

It is on my bucket list for sure.....if my knee would just settle down, I might start to think seriously about it

They are all suffering, I'm sure, but they all look so damn happy about it!

This thread, and the one on the other similar forum, gives me great hope! Don't take this the wrong way, and it's obviously not aimed at 'our' svelte forumites taking part this year, but there are a decent amount of *ahem*, chubby oldsters taking part this year...and, as I myself am a bit of a chubb...

I've got a little knipex (ooer!) ...it's a 5" one ( double ooer!!)
Excellent little adjustable plier with flat surfaces, that doesn't damage nut surfaces, and grips with very powerful force, so doesn't slip.

Just to say that I've got a stache 5, and it's an incredibly versatile bike.....29+, normal 29", and 650b/B+, if you are that way inclined! Sliding dropouts, light as buggerey (mines around 26lb without trying) and that lovely shade of Miami green!

Bargain ;0)

I like them ^
Let's just say that I also have a pair of 710 Jones loops on my spearfish, and I hear that the fu man chu are VERY similar when compared side by side....

There may or may not be some out and about......

You should hold fire for a bit.....the alpkit 'Fu man chu' will be out shortly

Woo-hoo....laamey motherfucker!

What a heartwarming advert.....I wish I could just pay you the money to look after it for you until it went for another epic adventure......just for giggles, what sort of part ex are you interested in?