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- Thu Feb 11, 2021 9:59 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Anyone have a 'micro camper?'
- Replies: 50
- Views: 5378
Re: Anyone have a 'micro camper?'
- Thu Feb 11, 2021 2:16 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Do you like giant cassettes?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 4333
Re: Do you like giant cassettes?
Durability is so subjective and becomes important as the cost increases. If you buy expensive cassettes and chains you want them to last so it's reassuring to hear your experience. Intersting that the article confirms what I have read elsewhere, that the new narrow chains last well. Durability is a...
- Thu Feb 11, 2021 9:50 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Where would you live in the UK...
- Replies: 104
- Views: 8163
Re: Where would you live in the UK...
Got no strong views on this either way but it does intrigue me that people hanker for remote places or a country-cottage-with-roses-over-the-door just when they're getting to the stage when they may well start to need some obliging person to wipe their bum, or be able to drive their scooter on the ...
- Thu Feb 11, 2021 12:56 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Do you like giant cassettes?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 4333
Re: Do you like giant cassettes?
compromise in terms of ratios, chainline, durability, how fussy it is to tune into and maintian good shifting etc. Any source about compromise of durability, tune and maintain good shifting? Have you ever set one up yourself? Definately much easier and faster than faffing about with two mechs. It r...
- Tue Feb 09, 2021 2:26 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Do you like giant cassettes?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 4333
Re: Do you like giant cassettes?
Chainline - set it once and forget about it. No different in that respect to 2x or 3x setups. Durability - changed the cassette and chain the other week. They'd been on for two years. I might get better life out of a more expensive cassette and chain but I don't know. YMMV, HYOH, etc. The chainline...
- Tue Feb 09, 2021 9:52 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Do you like giant cassettes?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 4333
Re: Do you like giant cassettes?
When 3x and 2x was the thing it was straightforward to get the ratios you wanted and even some spare capacity in reserve... 1x may be great in some ways but there is always talk of where you have to compromise in terms of ratios, chainline, durability, how fussy it is to tune into and maintian good ...
- Mon Feb 08, 2021 1:33 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Do you like giant cassettes?
- Replies: 54
- Views: 4333
Re: Do you like giant cassettes?
The 10t sprocket must wear pretty quickly? Probably not a problem when you are mainly off road and use it to help you on shallow downhills on the odd bit of road or smooth track but for sustained use it seems a bit dinky.
- Sat Feb 06, 2021 3:38 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Apparently this bothy is on the HT550, which is it?
- Replies: 11
- Views: 1258
Re: Apparently this bothy is on the HT550, which is it?
I have spent a night there. Stove chimney wasn't comnected when I was there last. I'm not sure if you are 'allowed' to sleep there but nobody turfed us out. There are camp spots nearby too and the ride down the glen is really nice. The estate is doing some interesting things land management wise,. O...
- Mon Feb 01, 2021 10:41 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: More Bottom brackets
- Replies: 11
- Views: 704
Re: More Bottom brackets
More BB talk, but less controversial this time. I’m sizing everything up for a belt drive. I need to get a perfect chain line using a square taper axle. So.... if the axle length changes the change one can expect at the drive side is half that of the overall change. Is that correct? Eg. Current len...
- Fri Jan 29, 2021 9:35 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Jones truss fork on another bike ?
- Replies: 34
- Views: 3248
Re: Jones truss fork on another bike ?
Coastkid managed to fit a truss fork on a Moonlander
http://coastkid.blogspot.com/2013/04/su ... t-and.html
http://coastkid.blogspot.com/2013/04/su ... t-and.html
- Fri Jan 29, 2021 10:11 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: A 'gravel bike' for mountain bikers.
- Replies: 69
- Views: 5793
Re: A 'gravel bike' for mountain bikers.
As a mountain biker, I've always struggled with the idea that 'gravel' bikes as something that greater opportunity. In my experience, most gravel bikes actually hinder where and what I might choose to ride. Yes, I would feel differently had I approached things from a road background but I haven't s...
- Fri Jan 29, 2021 9:49 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: A 'gravel bike' for mountain bikers.
- Replies: 69
- Views: 5793
Re: A 'gravel bike' for mountain bikers.
Intersting bike. Is it a Jones?
- Thu Jan 21, 2021 10:13 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Sidetracked Magazine Issue 20 Cover
- Replies: 65
- Views: 5684
Re: Sidetracked Magazine Issue 20 Cover
My thoughts exactly.Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Thu Jan 21, 2021 9:40 am I just think he looks a tw@t*
*I appreciate that's not very helpful but you asked what I thought.
He may be a nice guy but he likes like a tw@t.
Not that I don't mind.
- Fri Jan 15, 2021 2:42 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Taking a knife to a gunfight.
- Replies: 59
- Views: 5693
Re: Taking a knife to a gunfight.
Ok let me re word that. There are no good gravel roads south of the border apart from fire road double tracks and the odd stretch here or there..... And there is nothing "local" to me whatsoever. I'd say that if you don't mind riding in NRW forest, Wales has a fair amount of gravelish roa...
- Thu Jan 14, 2021 10:19 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: 'Made to lose' :???:
- Replies: 29
- Views: 2665
Re: 'Made to lose' :???:
Well the advert must be working to some extent because even though there is a bloke with a sore throat spouting cac, it got us all looking at it and I had no idea that Focus made those bikes before.
Not that I would buy one mind.
Not that I would buy one mind.
- Sat Jan 09, 2021 11:09 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Gorilla cages on fork legs ?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 633
Re: Gorilla cages on fork legs ?
The Tailfin cages look interesting but I'm not sure they stand away from the forks looking at them.
https://bikepacking.com/gear/tailfin-cargo-cage-review/
Loads of alternatives here if you haven't seen it https://bikepacking.com/index/cargo-cag ... hing-bags/
https://bikepacking.com/gear/tailfin-cargo-cage-review/
Loads of alternatives here if you haven't seen it https://bikepacking.com/index/cargo-cag ... hing-bags/
- Sat Jan 09, 2021 2:40 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Favourite kit from 2020
- Replies: 54
- Views: 6048
Re: Favourite kit from 2020
My Stooge Scrambler IMG_0381.jpg What's it like? Are they making any more? It's fantastic. Like a big BMX I guess, but it settles into bikepacking duties really well too. Stooge have previously only done one production run of each frame. All the Scrambler frames have now sold, but I reckon there wi...
- Sat Jan 09, 2021 12:16 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Favourite kit from 2020
- Replies: 54
- Views: 6048
Re: Favourite kit from 2020
What's it like? Are they making any more?
- Mon Jan 04, 2021 3:04 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Photos you have taken in the last month of which you like.
- Replies: 1461
- Views: 403944
Re: Photos you have taken in the last month of which you like.
Thanks. It was a lovely morning... And a good way to start the new year. Here's hoping we can all get out to the places that make us happy over the next months.
- Sat Jan 02, 2021 12:38 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Photos you have taken in the last month of which you like.
- Replies: 1461
- Views: 403944
Re: Photos you have taken in the last month of which you like.
Yes, that's it. A quick dawn paddle on the morning high tide.
- Fri Jan 01, 2021 10:14 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Photos you have taken in the last month of which you like.
- Replies: 1461
- Views: 403944
- Mon Dec 21, 2020 1:16 pm
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: fs, Surly ecr. XL SOLD
- Replies: 8
- Views: 1056
Re: fs, Surly ecr. XL NOW SPLITTING
How tall are you Ton?
I want an ECR... But at just over 6 foot I recon I'm a bit short for it!?
I want an ECR... But at just over 6 foot I recon I'm a bit short for it!?
- Fri Dec 18, 2020 1:40 am
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: What are you listening to now?
- Replies: 1154
- Views: 213103
Re: What are you listening to now?
Thanks to Romesh Ranganathan and his "Christmas special" I'm now partial to a bit of "Peat and Diesel" from Stornoway https://www.peatanddiesel.band/videos I recon that Peat and Diesel are bloody brilliant too. To be fair to Rom, that wasn't a bad programme either. I think he wa...
- Tue Dec 15, 2020 2:03 pm
- Forum: Classifieds
- Topic: wtd, XL hub geared bike.
- Replies: 4
- Views: 616
Re: wtd, XL hub geared bike.
i had seen that on the bay Hamish, thanks tho. :-bd i have a ecr, and keep thinking about just buying a hub and new wheel and doing it myself. but the rear facing dropouts are a pita. something with a ebb would be a lot nicer. I had a Thorn with an ebb which was great, but it did mess with my seat/...
- Tue Dec 15, 2020 1:56 pm
- Forum: General banter
- Topic: Rohloff chainset ??
- Replies: 37
- Views: 1557
Re: Rohloff chainset ??
gonna press the buy button on a rohloff for my ecr. as a big lump of a bloke, i tend to spin rather than grind. so i am wondering what size chainring i should be looking at ? and ideas for a crankset too. thaks. One thing to decide is whether to go quick release or threaded/nutted axle. I have QR o...