The thing with Kona's is, I never rode one that was rubbish to ride

The coke can tube wall thickness on my big unit was a joke, didn't last a year and they refused to warranty it

Brand to avoid for me

Looking for recommendations for a full suspension bike for HT550 and similar challenging routes, I know you can ride anything but looking for something to complement my cutthroat Rider is 6'3", not light, uses combination of bar/seat/ frame bags normally and or an aeroe rack, frame ideally suit...

Well that's immaterial, trouble with the UK cyclists is they the love to invent niche stuff and then have my tribe is better wars on the net This is actively encouraged by the cycling orientated media outlets and brands I have done a lots of things on various types of bikes none of which define me ...

Might be interested, did you find the Shimano freehub and which one is it?

Just me who thinks we've been beneath a full eclipse for the last two months?

Based on the met office app you've been basking in sunshine compared where I am

There are occasional reports of otters in the upper reaches of the irwell, when they reach the fishing lodges they are no longer sighted.....

I could be wrong though?

Are on about tailfin or aeroe?

I have the aeroe pannier rack, the only difference to the spider is the top plate which works with panniers

The failure I am refering to is of carbon frames with aeroe racks fitted

having previously been here other than they were on the Mainland and 7000 years ago we were connected to the Mainland As you were connected to the mainland for 6000 years after the ice sheets retreated it may be a fair assumption that at the time of separation beavers were on the island, how long t...

I'll have to see what happened to the proposal to introduce them here.

There seems to be a well organised guerrilla group helping with reintroductions hence beavers being found in places where they haven't been officially reintroduced

Stu will be able to get Welsh beaver balls for his bowstring......

One picture I have seen

https://images.app.goo.gl/nVSi19K6nvdB5Xwi8

I own one, happy to have it on my steel and alloy frames, won't be fitting it to the Cuthroat

Spider version discounted here https://winstanleysbikes.co.uk/aeroe-spider-rear-rack

I put my seat bag on the top plate of my pannier version. Any robust dry bag will be fine, use long tpu straps to hold it in place.

Run it with a single pannier for commuting down that canal

I have the pannier rack version

It's great for switching between frames but is heavy, it slipped once loaded asymmetrically but that could be down to not rechecking the tightness of the bolts

Some failures allegedly on carbon frames, I'm fine with it on my steel and alloy frames

Alpkit have an new 900g tent, the Ultra 1.

Looks the same as https://www.sportpursuit.com/catalog/pr ... id/2679553

But with carbon fibre poles

Axle spacing?

Only thing not pictured is the bike storage

Fair enough, but just thought I'd add some balance. I've met Mark and Chipps and they were at neither end of the knobhead>>legend continuum. In my experience one comes across as disengaged and the other definitely occupies one end of that spectrum, he's probably offered to fight as seems his style

cheap

I have something very cheap, XL frame, steel frame and forks, brazings for cable discs, QR, very tatty

and then there’s people defending the group in the comments

Because they do the same

If that means putting wind farms on top of every hill in the country then that's what we have to do. I cycled through what was at the time of construction the largest land based windfarm in England today and it wasn't turning nor were all the other wind farms I saw on the skyline Wind isn't reliabl...

The biomass/wood power stations are particularly bad, as I think they rely heavily on imported fuel from North America. One in Cumbria I am aware of from a few years ago was trying to be reliant on their waste and local short rotation coppiced willow, the willow having significant positive side eff...

I forget exactly but I'm sure it's something like 8000 tonnes of concrete per base.

At 2.4 tonnes per M3 that's a lot of concrete

due to capitalism we want everything cheap Pretty certain the average person in a communist country wants everything cheap as well It's a sad reality that infrastructure projects like wind farms, reservoirs, incinerators, nuclear power stations etc do little for the people who live in the areas tha...

Just saw this as well. Wonder if Alpkit are struggling? They did seem to go all in with Sonder, I wonder if they've been caught out by the great bicycle bubble burst?

Possibly clearing stock and managing cash flow to fund egravel bike stock? It's the mtb's that are on SP

Go on, I'll have it

Let me know how to pay