What frame and fork are you using?

Early Frames such as on one fatty, surly pugsly etc used rear disc spacing on the front

Front disc spaced 135mm hubs followed later.

Budget?

Front or rear disc spacing on the front wheel?

Looking forward to this Zero free time this week, new frame has arrived but not sure I’ll get time to build and test before the weekend. Even the plan b bike needs bars and brakes swapping back over, no idea where any of my kit is and have t even looked at the gpx! Standard last minute Friday night ...

Defo got a salsa bar in the garage if of interest

Brand new in box Rockshox Recon (silver I think) 100mm travel 110x15mm axle (boost) Will clear a 29x2.8” tyre Never been fitted to a bike so steerer is uncut Sale includes a set of unfitted slik graphics in orange and white camo https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/mobile/rockshox-recon-silver-rl-sol...

Tandem? there must be something obscure

Whilst riding the fatbike to work this morning, i wondered what the oddest bike to achieve a bearbones200 black badge completion. Given bearbones is a niche subset of the cycling world, i imagine there to be a strong show of hands for singlespeed, fatbike etc completions, but is there any impressive...

Comfort is king. That is all

I could make use of the frame bag, I will take it and list some things up on here in exchange.

Pm me over a PayPal address and I’ll send some tokens for postage/beer/whatever

Mixed terrain / winter commuter : Sonder Camino al. Parts bin build mix of apex and 105. 1x11 38mm pathfinder pros, nothing else to say, just works. Road bike: unbranded carbon, carbon rim brakes, mix of force and rival, 1x11 done around 15,000miles. Adventure bike: Smokestone mr harry, 29x2.6, off ...

Jumbo Jim’s in 26x4.8 on offer for £32 at merlin https://www.merlincycles.com/schwalbe-jumbo-jim-addix-performance-folding-tyre-26-268000.html If they were 4.0, I’d take up the offer of 2 for £30 each :cry: Shame they don't say if they are the TLE (tubless) or for tubes on their page. I've just mes...

Bigger tyres is the answer, comfort is king.

It’s why I specced my adventure bike to clear up to 2.8”.

Rode 4” tyres as a drop bar setup for gbduro and was one of the few people at the end with zero hand issues

Interesting the different distances it took them to reach cp1. Fiona rode a lot further than some of the others who beat her to cp1. I’d be useless at picking the optimum route! Richard gate is another to keep an eye on, met him a couple of years ago on the dales divide, he’s doing it as a pair with...

I have a camino as my commuter, it’s great for the odd bridleway and mostly road (running specialised pathfinder pro tyres tubeless) The current frame design v4 is slacker and overcomes toe overlap issues for all sizes. Wouldn’t want to venture off into the wild with it though for multi day stuff or...

Would be interesting to overlay the route against the gravel dash 100 Charlie used to do and see how much shared route there was, that was a brilliant days riding, did it a couple of times.

Might have a look if I get 5

ITT maybe?

Found a Great interview with sofiane on the bikes or death podcast, check it out.

Managed a black completion last year with just 1000miles in the legs all year come November. Having a young family and a big house diy project as well as limited commuting due to covid destroyed any regularity, didn’t do any training at all. All that happened relative to when I was fitter and strong...

Hefty discounts on funky looking red loop bars, there’s a flared gravel one and an mtb one

https://www.bikester.co.uk/red-cycling- ... 44913.html?

I’ve just chucked a drawing in the pot for what I want - I was going to write need but there is no need, it’s all want. I loosely drew up the smokestone mr harry on the back of finishing gbduro on the bowti fatbike, it’s aim was to cover all the shortcomings of the bow Ti as a bikepacking bike. Migh...

Bearbonesnorm wrote: ↑Mon Jul 04, 2022 11:04 am

Is that an option Stu or do you need us to decide well in advance?

I need to know before the routes are sent - so around a week prior to the start.

Just enough notice to not be able to trust the weather forecast at all! Love it

Alexinthepeaks wrote: ↑Fri Jul 01, 2022 1:28 pm Im in - with two black badges, is it about time i do the 300?

I’m in exactly the same boat! Although 200 was enough type 2 fun both times!!

Yep, whilst not common, lauf failures do and have happened.

I know at least 4 people who’ve had issues, lauf are very good with the customer service though, never had issues with my carbonara or trail racer (x2) ones I used to have

rules be rules i guess. Theres more of a benefit from the mental assistance of teaming up than any aero benefit of sharing the load IMO.

Company keeps the chimp at bay so they say.

Are abe and Ben riding this as a pair? They’ve been glued together for over 200hours, can’t see how that can class as a solo classification if they are not racing as a pair.

Also interested