Recent content by 2manyoranges

A recent Pinkbike poll showed that grips were one of the first things which riders replaced on stock bikes. My own relationship with grips has been a bit up and down. In the 1990s I used foam grip a lot. They really helped with trail chatter. After a full two or three days' riding on the South...

explanation? .... different worlds I think. your world of tyres our world of tyres Oi! where have my knobs gone!!!?

'user was banned for this post' - intriguing ....

....nice insights and facts. Yep quality has increased massively - I remember the early Schwalbe Marathons which threw you on the ground in the wet - it seemed enough for tyres to be black and round - now they indeed grip and protect. I am getting good mileage and use with care, and run my...

Thanks-be to the cycling gods for the LBS....long may you live....

There's been something weird going on with tyres for quite a while. In the far far distant mtb past (around 1992) I used to look at a rear Ground Control and see that a number of knobs were missing and the rest were worn to almost nothing, and the remainder were cracked and broken. Time for a...

grief I was totally off - even the wrong nation! that sort of trail was completely illegal there until recently... https://www.tetongravity.com/mountain-biking-in-austria/

Nice location and photos - desperately looking at the profile of the mountains in the horses-head-bench shot and at the lake in the first one - I assume just South of Lake Geneva in the Thonon area? But that's just a wild stab.

Great thread - hardtails. The biz. Taught the Grom on hardtails. Now he's on 160-200 both ends. And good. Very good. 1983 Dawes Ranger. Bedstead. Farm gate. 1985 Cannondale M600 - nasty little thing in the end. Stolen. Not sad. Back to steel. 1986 Marin Palisades. People laughed when I put a...

Sold one stanton ti 26er last year - many many timewasters - I wept when it went out of the door...but dried my tears on the seat of the replacement Switch9er ti. Yum.

Cambridge being Cambridge I stepped into a quiet residential road only to have a bike sweep swiftly around the corner and narrowly miss me. Normal stuff. But it was a very interesting ancient 1950s thing. With VERY slack forks. Lots and lots of forward sweep. And then in the opposite direction...

should add that these were great when the Grom was small - enabled me to build some 26 judy's tuned for a small one....he was 9 through 13 when I used those forks installed with these springs to produced forks which genuinely matched his weight and speed.

no you are right they would have been updated anyway even without the SRAM acquisition. BUT just LOOOOOK at this. Chain porn.

Available now on ebay...

I should add that the best chain can be obtained by stepping into a Tardis and doing short time travel back to 90s and then you can walk into any decent LBS and buy a Sachs Sedis 9 speed chain. They were incredible chains - really really well engineered and ....GONE...