got no specific experience with this sort of thing but have been thinking for a while now that its time to give something back, tried going down the volunteering route for the NT and similar, but it very rapidly became tedious and not rewarding (and yes I know how selfish that sounds) But, I am more...

a third wave rider just finished in nine days thirteen hours, I seem to recall saying something about racing Tom

photographs used the wrong way round means no credibility, at all...

cheers Stu, it wont be 6am I can assure you

can I ask a dumb question, is it a problem to arrive before 12 on Saturday ?, I'll be riding on Friday, sleeping somewhere, then turning up, it'd seem a bit daft to be sat outside the front gate waiting for the bell

please say so if it is a problem though Stu

I suffer from it, hightened after three months touring in new zealand early last year (and thirty years of using air tools) and a new job as a bike shop spanner monkey meant that I finally went to the docs and got it checked out, had several tests done (including one for ulnar nerve damage as the gu...

Anyone else coming from the Manchester area ?, am thinking of a mix of road and off road on my Straggler

july sounds good, I can ride there overnight after work

and beer, yep

food, yup

music, not arsed

£20, bargain

Hi Paul, Steve from KP here, I'm very happy with my 29er crud guard on my Krampus,

and glad to hear you are enjoying the bike, I'm going to fit an expander on the back of mine having fitted yours and seeing how straight forward it was to set up

assuming it ever stops raining.....

if it helps, the weather is fricking awful here, you arent missing any trail time :)

in stock at Keep Pedalling, and Shona is running some on her Thomson, apparently sharp enough to send her OTB once they bedded in

http://jeffsbike.blogspot.co.uk/2015/09 ... ottle.html

this looks interesting

tried a ti set years ago, didn't get on with them at all

recently got a carbon set for my Jones plus after my woodchipper experiment failed, still not quite settled with them yet partly because I've not settled with the bike yet

might try the esi grips instead of the ergons I have fitted

dunno about Gary fisher but Keith Bontrager is constantly testing new stuff that goes out with his name on it

Endura MT500s and Sweet Cheeks chamois cream here, no issues on long days out and repeated days out Used to use Assos minty arse lard for years till I tried the sweetcheeks stuff in NZ, was so impressed I imported some Also, firm believer in the idea of UCT, uneccesary chamois time, get em off as so...

excellent piece

not harsh at all, in fact a very reasoned reply to someone who hadn't even bothered to check what BearBones actually is..... this need to name and compartmentalise an activity annoys me, since when did having fun on bikes have to be called anything more than that ? yours grumpy anti social bastard :-)

cross bikes are great for bikepacking with, and getting lost is ace.... eventually

to be honest its hard to tell them apart, which surprises me !

2 Fargos here, a 2011 cream and a 2014 blue both been ridden lots, offroad and on not had any issues riding offroad but then I'm not a demon descender, have got around Coed Y Brenin and Penmachno respectably and this weekend done 150 miles of mixed terrain if there was a fire in the house I'd be tor...

nice video and some lovely imagery, but I did chuckle to myself, seems that the alpha males are dumping their fat bikes and will soon be overlanding now that its been given the thumbs up from the freeride brigade :-) the bike looks okay but I hope that the importers have plenty of spare linkages and...

see you there

noticed that mine was quite notchy when packing the bike ready for a flight home, put it into the fork and it felt fine, took it out and still notchy, didnt it notice when I first got the wheel not unpacked the bike yet so no idea if its borked or not, its done about 4000 miles, of which maybe 500 p...

just got back with 1500 miles in all conditions on Knards, only time I slipped out was when it was really raining heavily and the trails were slimey

Chronicles are a great MTB tyre but for what you are doing I go Knard every time

a weekend of rain and sleet and restless legs, not good for the soul