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Ohh this ones back. I've got Hope Mono Mini's on my new bike now, so I've gone hydraulic. Three more plus points for discs: 1) changing pads is much easier, and quick. 2) there's that nice smell after a long descent. 3) Bleeding is a bit of a PITA, but isn't required that regularly and...

and thing is.. tyres for tubes are thicker. guy i bought my bike from was running a tubeless tyre with a tube in on the back as it stopped him getting punctures after he kept getting em at his local.. food for thought!

Re: Bought this lot of XTR goodies from velofrog. As other feedback indicates, arrived all nicely packaged - each item individually bubble wrapped, then all bubble wrapped. Cheers!

funny.. i only came across those cree lights again on a fb mtb group a couple hours ago, apparently dealextreme is the place to get them

I find these stories about booby trapped trails appalling, it is a bit difficult to police when the trails are off limits outside events but doing things that could maim or even kill aren't the answer. Thankfully my local haunt is The Quantocks (mostly the combes at the north end) where there...

Re: ** XTR M970 Shifters, Mechs, Cassette etc ** done :)

Re: ** XTR M970 Shifters, Mechs, Cassette etc ** Make it a round 100 and I'm in :)

Re: ** XTR M970 Shifters, Mechs, Cassette etc ** how much for both shifters and both mechs posted?

Re: ** XTR M970 Shifters, Mechs, Cassette etc ** Could be, whats the cassette knocking off?

Love a 10 minute google-fu challenge, and think I have have found something super close. check out the rear dropout area. only thing is, the lower arm isn't exposed carbon too. other than that its pretty much spot on, so could be a similar model, or a model from a year either side of this...

http://www.pinkbike.com/news/Beginners- ... -2012.html so its XC for people who can't pedal up hills, and for those who want do more jumpy DH type stuff?

Thanks, I'm stoked and wishing I could get out on it more :) looks like i've got another mate getting a bike in about a month, so i'll have 3 separate groups of people to ride with, as well as being on my own. I've probably spent another 100 on tyres, tubes, new locking grips, the seat post...

yup, and exactly the same practices and cork sniffing snobbery exists with the guitar world too.. for example. fenders product lines: usa > fender jpn > fender mexico. squiers fender product lines: jpn -> korea -> india/indonesia -> china story goes the korean factories (samick and cort)...

This piqued my interest as I found some compatibility charts related to freehubs when looking at a bike that had an issue with its freehub (lesson there was, avoid older XTR hubs) didn't find much about this apart from : http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic ... ette-issue

Went for a little ride yesterday. Parked low, I really struggled climbing up to the top of Quantocks. However the bike was awesome, its light, chuckable, climbs really well and i've got more grip - places where my hard tail would spin I found a breeze, and it has better traction through the...

ok.. fitted grips, saddle, new tyres+tubes, pedals, qr seat clamp + transferred all my stuff to the camelbak ready looks awesome now. but again, being xmas. more family stuff going on.. so quick go on house scales.. now 27.5 lbs up from 26 lbs (11.8kg up to 12.5kg) hoping to get a ride in...

Been on quick shop this morn - tyres and tubes (specialized ground control) - hope qr seat clamp to replace Allen one And a camelbak mule, as bottle fitment doesn't look great Need to do the above, swap almost new wtb seat from other bike and fit the new grips then pics. Using house scales...

thanks! might be able to do better than that - mrs bought me a 4k gopro type cam for xmas :) just need a chest mount main thing i need to do is swap out the 1) seat (he's kept his favourite, so i've got an ugly one!) and 2) grips were shot, fortunately i picked up a new set of my favourite...

quick update. forgot to mention the guy raced xc and was once sponsored. bike was built to order after the (non mtb) accident. he did race on this too (not like he used to be able to he says).. he also used to work in a LBS, so its meticulously maintained. almost everything is 'race face'...

have a look at my recent post here, i had the same budget and have ended up with nice xt spec bike, for exactly 500 quid.