Good plan but I’d sneak up on it a little, soak it in some release agent, give it a little tough love with a few short sharp taps with a hammer (obviously you might want to protect the surfaces) and for good measure a little heat. Then go ape.

New caliper installed and bled, I’m a coming

And he delivered a shiny new Hope caliper to replace the one I busted last weekend. AND it’s the RX4 PLUS with bigger pistons and much larger pads, it now officially supports 180mm disks. If it’s better than the original then us on dropbars are going to be very happy. Big thanks to Mr Tim Pie for t...

benp1 wrote: ↑Thu Jun 24, 2021 1:05 pm You guys should try an eye mask and ear plugs. I've had proper lie ins in my bivvy!

Aye, he has

Nice! That’s the sort of thing

middleagedmadness wrote: ↑Tue Jun 22, 2021 9:50 pm Got to admit Steve , even by your standards Saturday was exceptional

Bit of a bonus to honest Stu, see I get to upgrade the caliper to the RX4+ for more power AND my gears are now working better than before after some serious hanger alignment tool work, quite liked the mat though

Walking into a pub one cold wet January night with Mike and the lad behind the bar casually mentioning 'we don't serve food'. You can imagine how he took that :wink: Can’t have been as bad as when a pub in the black mountains told Pickers that they weren’t serving pudding, nearly welled up he did :...

ScotRoutes wrote: ↑Tue Jun 22, 2021 8:57 pm I got out of bed one morning to find a massive digger coming to knock down my house. The day went from bad to worse as I ended up on a spaceship and discovered that my best friend wasn't even human!

On my last little trip I managed to break a Hope RX4 caliper, shortly afterwards I bounced my shiny AXS derailleur off a tree severely bending the alternator dropouts. When I went to have a well earned rest my mat delaminates resulting in a night on the boards :lol: So make me feel better, what are ...

Strangely looking forward to this although the route will most likely break me :-bd Talking of broken I’ve a busy Thursday evening, drive back from London, pop into Tim,s to borrow a mat, call at parents in and hopefully pick up a fresh rear caliper (it’s being delivered there, unfortunately they do...

I used one for ages with a large Alpkit double ended drybag, used some coraplast (the stuff that house for sale 'for sale signs' are made of ) as a stiffener, worked a treat.

Great night out despite first breaking a Hope caliper Then bending my hanger by bouncing off a tree, was topped off by my mat de-laminating and sleeping on the boards, quality entertainment
Thanks to all the locals for the guided tour

Bulls on Parade- Brass Against
I forget who here recommended them but I now love them.

JohnClimber wrote: ↑Fri Jun 18, 2021 10:52 pm
2) It might make Stuart crack a smile when he receives another order

Easy now, they are good, but don’t expect miracles

<r><QUOTE author="RIP" post_id="264713" time="1624002426" user_id="3749"><s>[quote=RIP post_id=264713 time=1624002426 user_id=3749]</s> Nice pic <E>:smile:</E> .<br/> <br/> Caption Contest? (*)<br/> <br/> (*) only one rule: the caption must have the word "Stu" in it somewhere <E>:grin:</E> <br/> <br...

Muc off sealant in 300mm sized bottles for £6.99 in Aldi, I brought two :-bd I had a load of grief with Muc Off sealant. Kept losing the seal on the rims in the wet. Same thing happened to another couple of people I know up here. Might just have been a bad batch but my LBS have stopped selling it a...

ton wrote: ↑Tue Jun 15, 2021 5:12 pm with the Moors 100 being called off again, i have just entered this again.

i have tried this twice and failed both times. fingers crossed this time.

Same here, not sure if I’m scared or excited, apparently they have some hills?

Definitely still in Stu, Moors 100 has been cancelled now so need a weekend out

Another Smoove user, the last bottle was £14.99 on Amazon. Admittedly not cheap but it works out ok as it lasts ages longer and it’s worth the entry cost just not to have a filthy black chain after one ride.

I had a close encounter of the deer kind up on the Lambourn downs, about 6 Roe deer suddenly bolted from undergrowth along the trail, all of a sudden the greenery just sprung to life all around me, nearly filled my bibshorts

Good brake modulation goes a long way but ultimately I decided that road bike brakes just don’t cut it off-road. I swapped out my sram red calipers for Hope RX4’s and have been happy with them for the last two years, I’ve saved the cost in disks and pads as the hopes seem to last a lot longer. Shima...

Here’s a solution which might work for you, inspired by the Curve cycles GMX+ which has two mounts high in the downtube I’ve used a pair of Rixen Kaul bottle mounts. They fix using a steel band, by splitting the band between the two you can mount them either side of the tube. I don’t normally need t...

Found a stray IPA so Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska will round the evening off.