saw a solaris (in green) recently and it looked stunning. I'm a massive on one fan, i've just bought #5!, but i would be very wary of their carbon after a number of horror stories of friends, must be 4/5 mates bought whippets and all have had problems. front mech mount falling off, creaking BB inser...

2012-04-20_16-01-09_327 by <JamesD>, on Flickr

heres mine at the start of a ride.

love it it's a great bike. soon to be my only mtb...

nice bike. i think it used to be mine. :D

looks like my scandal that replaced it than it did when it was red!!

decathlon water bottle mounts will work to add bottle cages there

http://www.decathlon.co.uk/apb-300-bott ... 66980.html

Piece of insulting tape to seal them.

that's what i do.

i'm 5'11" & ride an 18". i run a 100 mm stem with swept back bars/ prob need a 80mm stem on 'normal bars'.

I could probably get away with a 19.5". where are you - there are loads of people with them & people are often happy for you to have a ride.

no idea about the solo but 2 of us shared the outer of a laser comp for the bb200 & it work surprisingly well. :)

the first night i tried my micro tarp (batwing shape) we had more rain than any other night for the entire year :shock: i think we had a barbecue that night too!! :lol: we were sleeping in a pine forest, where there are kind of ploughed mounds where the trees are in a line. i was on top, in the morn...

this wasn't the site i was thinking of. but the same idea...

http://lightweightoutdoors.com/?p=2193 :D

yeah. make me an offer. :)

would a gas stove not be lighter?

i'm sure i read a (us backpacking) website a while back where the guy had calculated how many days of meths equalled a gas canister & stove. i think that at around a week a gas can became he lighter option...

hi,

the creak is from the interface where the LH arm and the axle meet; they came loose once and creaked ever since.

cheers.

i use an ancient garmin geko. it has no mapping functions (from gps's i've seen with os map functions they're not ideal). so after plotting a route on memory map and uploading it you have 2 navigation screen options; there is a compass type screen which shows direction & distance to the next way...

got a few bits to go. XT cranks. Visually good but they creak a bit; hence the low price. £20 ultegra cranks. std double - bought second hand and never used 172.5mm £40 32T alu bashring. worn to the rear but the front is in decent nick. £8 44T XT/ SLX chainring (i can't remember) 9 speed, brand new....

Waist deep on the Monks Trod the year before.

It's a rite of passage.

+1000

i've been over it and everyone else should have to too. :twisted:

just stay out catona's prawn ring. lord know's whats in it

is getting a route off nick/ someone off the internets any different to me sitting here with memory map never having been to wales?

i would go for a 32/ 35c tyre. I'm currently running paneracer pasella 28c on my commuter on a mtb (19mm internal) rim and i wouldn't recommend narrower than that. i think i ran 25c on the same rim but i can't remember... michelin world tour in 35c are cheap (bit heavy) but roll & grip well and ...

will the shock not move & cause wear?

what frame? could you strap past the shock and onto a frame tube?

good question. given your situation i would try and plan the evening meals so i didn't end up with m&ms and a snickers for tea!! breakfast - danish /cheese straw/ flapjack / cake bar whatever i fancied really; if your carrying on riding there's no reason why it can't be the same as riding food. ...

i need a tashe like that. :?

looks like a lovely trip. i need to get back to mid wales...

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when you put it like that i don't want to find out!!

i blame/ thank sheldon for setting me on to the one-speed path of the righteous. :D i built up a SS mtb in my final year of school with only sheldons site as a reference. 6 years later i spent a good proportion of my final year at uni converting a 1989 raleigh into a fixed wheel with only sheldons s...

So our planned route (southampton- poole- isle of wight- southampton) was abandoned wednesday as riding buddies started dropping out; so a new plan was hatched... So we got the 2 o clock train out of Southampton friday lunchtime heading west, i won't bother describing the typical hassles of UK bike ...