Sorry that you've had poor experience with Alpkit Shaf, but it's a good company, with decent aims and ethics.
Those scam sites are common - I've seen RAB and North Face versions.

I first played at 45rpm instead of 33rpm. It sounded good at both speeds

John Peel lives on.........

Massive, scary, risky but hopefully cheery move away from teaching for a while

Worked for me - 9 years and no regrets (though smaller pay packets). Best of luck.

I'm booked too. Will decide what to wear/carry on the Thursday night........

Good luck all. However sub standard it gets, just remember - at least you're not getting dragged around IKEA (not that I am either.......)

This interrupted my listening of Napalm Death's "Throws of Joy in the Jaws of Defeatism" My mate was chatting to his daughter's boyfriend and it turned out his step Dad is/was Napalm Death's lead singer - I presume Barney Greenway (ex Extreme Noise Terror and others). Tom's a big indie mu...

Brakes - try some bigger rotors, if you can, before changing calipers? After that, go cable actuated hydraulic - TRP?

The Trespass (Scotland) Act of 1865 disagrees :???: I had a pedal from Newton Stewart down to the Mull of Galloway around that week. Mostly on roads (v quiet ones) - down through Wigtown to the lighthouse and back up to camp at the castle ruin in Portpatrick. Loop north and back to Stranraer and the...

I'll try to avoid breaking any bones on icy streets this year and head north.

This is the route I’ve done a couple of times, it’s the original ‘Tour of the Cairngorms’ route that was in Phil McVanes ‘Scotlands wild trails’ book from years ago (a few years before the Cairngorm loop became a thing): https://www.komoot.com/tour/90880314 That route uses a fair chunk of unnecessa...

thenorthwind wrote: ↑Tue Aug 27, 2024 6:30 am

RIP wrote: ↑Fri Aug 23, 2024 1:02 pm Got a vague memory that it was only our professional Scottish brethren that got their acts together last year?

Only one native (Jimmy) IIRC and it was held in the debatable lands. It did at least happen though.

Dates already noted.

Did Phil frae Fife not join in?

When you say "very top section", do you mean the highest section over Bynack Barns? If so, Wotsits probably has it - don't turn right over Bynack, but continue past Ryvoan and down onto forest roads past Forest Lodge and the outer loop. More likely I think, is that you've read about avoidi...

MTB knuckle guards - £60 or Pikeman sort of gloves:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/HIKEMAN-Tactic ... JEDDVHJ2IF

29" rear wheel, Hope Pro 4, 148mm boost, Kinlin TL29 rim (29mm internal width), DB spokes. Round and true with smooth bearings. Around 500Km use, though only a couple of small scratches to show for that. 32 spokes, XD/SRAM free hub, all bearings good. Taped and valved for tubeless use. It's on ...

sean_iow wrote: ↑Mon Aug 12, 2024 8:36 pm SJS sell them but they're about £80.

He's just after the empty shell Sean, having bought one and stripped the cassette locking thread. He has all bearings etc.
If I understood correctly

I've got a Pro 2 EVO shell somewhere in the garage and will try to find it and compare.

Different size
I'd ring Hope - I'd be surprised if they didn't sell you a shell. Go for steel.

I think 10 and 11 Spd MTB are the same size/width Mike, so you just need the spacer behind the cassette. No spacer if 11 Spd road cassette.
I've got a Pro 2 EVO shell somewhere in the garage and will try to find it and compare.

ledburner wrote: ↑Thu Aug 08, 2024 10:24 pm

faustus wrote: ↑Wed Jul 24, 2024 10:39 am Yeah, I kinda agree on 'rigid', I find it a bit awkward. ...assume as an 'mtb' - rigid/no-sus is probably such a small proportion of mtbs now.

May I suggest WKR?
Wrist & knacker 'recker

You're doing it wrong matey

johnnystorm wrote: ↑Wed Aug 07, 2024 3:20 pm

unwillingness to do something a bit out of the ordinary

Wait until you find out about what 99% of the non-cycling population think about the prospect of riding a bike in the rain and sleeping in a ditch.

Just what I thought when I read that.

On Ebay.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/154865221453 This might work Stainless Steel Miter Track Tape Measure Self Adhesive Woodworking Ruler https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/aa4AAOSw9pph96-3/s-l1600.webp And threaded corner feet to level it would create space for 3D printed slider section that slides over the 40...

Talking of Stuart and bars...... I always thought bearbonesnorm was a reference to Norm (Peterson) from Cheers

https://youtu.be/uvX5pqQKIes?si=nQPmvEe4VPoO9SVw

Dunno why, I've never met either of them.

I've agreed to buy them, sorry. Just sorting out shipping.

A pair of 29er Hunt XC Wide wheels (V1 or V2, I can't remember/tell). Set up tubeless (Hunt proprietary tape on rear, but replaced with Gorilla tape on the front, to get a 'baggy' tyre to seal). Good points: Lightweight (1950gm with tape, valves and 180/160 Ice tech rotors or sub 1700gms 'bare). Bea...

78% decrease in flying insects in a decade - that's worrying.
Clegs can still get stuffed mind.