XC in Cornwall - any willing volunteers ?

allthegearnoidea

had a very wet, muddy slippy slidey ride round the woods today!! (both illogan and tehidy)
a few branches down in the wind cleared out the way, a few more dog walker branches moved an cleared! but appears somone has taken it apon themselves to Rip out the ladder drop on the xc loop! thought it may have been forestry guys as theyve been busy out in the woods but they simply wouldnt leave it where its been left!!


not sure who or why did it as its not exactly been hurting anyone over the past 3 years i know of it beeing there!

anyways, was a great laugh out and about and have to say waterproof 3/4's and knee warmers Rock!!

FSR_XC

We're slipping . . . .. bottom of page?!

Rockhopper update

Clarks S2 brakes arrived and fitted yesterday. I now have the bike as I want it (for now).

Also bought a service kit for the Hayes as waiting for the seller to get back to me is getting tedious - one moment he'll pay something towards the problems, then . . . . . . . :roll:

Fully serviceable Hayes 9 will be for sale soon.

allthegearnoidea

be interested to see how you get on with the brakes Mark, often looked at them for budget stoppers, (crc oem sets)
one of the lads that rides with us has been using the skeletals and rates them but only moved on from cable discs to them,

warm18

Anybody heading to Minions tomo?

allthegearnoidea

i'm not but is normally quite a popular one!

Foobies

FSR_XC wrote:

Rockhopper update

Clarks S2 brakes arrived and fitted yesterday. I now have the bike as I want it (for now).

what you make of em so far? I've had one on the back of my bike for a while now and stopping power is pretty good for a 40quid brake imo! thinking of getting one for the front too as soon as ive single speeded it and no longer need a shifter, (ive got shimano brake and shifter combo atm and cba to buy a shifter only to not need it after christmas!)

billynobates

EVENING ALL.......i know there has been changes regarding your web site so i'm guessing this is where i need to talk about possibly hooking up for some rides at Chrimbo time? :P

FSR_XC

billynobates wrote:

EVENING ALL.......i know there has been changes regarding your web site so i'm guessing this is where i need to talk about possibly hooking up for some rides at Chrimbo time? :P

Send me a message when you are down. I should be able to do a couple of local (from St Columb) rides while you are down.

FSR_XC

warm18 wrote:

Anybody heading to Minions tomo?

Ade

Didn't realise you were back. Fancy a night ride next week?

FSR_XC

1st ride on the Rockhopper with the Clarks S2 brakes fitted and first impressions are very good.

Bedded in quickly and after some pretty hairy,muddy and rocky down hills, I would say they are comparably to the Elixir Carbon fitted to the Stumpjumper. Feel is good, as is braking efficiency.

Only problem I had was with the reach adjuster. Using Shimano shifters I occasionally found it difficult to get to the finger (down change) shifter. You can't quite get a finger fully in the centre of the button as the adjuster is in the way. Minor issue that I only noticed a couple of times.

Recommended.


However I do need to sort that rebound. Couldn't keep my head still on some of the descents. Not good - it gets a bit blurry!

warm18

mark

hello mate, i would be up for a night ride, would be my first! i dont have any lights thoguh with me at the mo. do you have any spare. you on the same number? if you're free in the day ill be around too.

sadly couldnt make it to minions today sadly. maybe in a few weeks.

allthegearnoidea

sounds good mark!
had a couple of rebound moments like that, hurts the arms some hey!!

billynobates

FSR_XC wrote:

billynobates wrote:

EVENING ALL.......i know there has been changes regarding your web site so i'm guessing this is where i need to talk about possibly hooking up for some rides at Chrimbo time? :P

Send me a message when you are down. I should be able to do a couple of local (from St Columb) rides while you are down.

Awesome By the way is St.Columb Mtb central for you guys or did you somehow know that's where i'd be spending Chrimbo?...spooky :shock: Anyway, i'll be up for rides on Thursday 23rd(anytime) Friday 24th(till early afternoon) and possibly Boxing Day.

jonnyc2420

oooohhh! i'm back down from day after boxing day till 2nd week of jan, just outside st columb (Tremayne) if anything going on or anyones about?

allthegearnoidea

keep an eye on www.cornwallmtb.kk5.org for rides and directions if you dont mind a 20 min drive or so from St Columb, good fun group, like a good ride, but also like a good ride with mates!
also are the Cornwall trailriders on facebook, if you want a fast paced 25-30 miler starting at very early for a sunday o'clock in redruth (08:30),
or nobble Mark (fsr-xc) for rides about St.C.!


Been a goood week in Timmo land this week!! Picked up and pimped a tag along for the bigger littlun after getting on very welkl with one over the summer, so have been doing the school runs on it (actually recon its quicker than using the car!) much to the pleasure of Jorja! and also took her up the park yesterday on her lil bike and took the stabalizers off for the first time! First push and she was off! pedaling and gone! Awesomely Proud fatherly moment!! she rode around the park for half an hour and then wanted to ride home! got to the shop and she was so tired bless her but she insisted on riding!!





after a quick splash of pearl black (what i had left over in the shed!) to tart it up!


a bit of girlyfying much to the happyness of my girly!! (looks better than it is lol! an hour with the masking tape and paint!!)


takes a bit of getting used to the wobbling on the back but is worth it!! especially when yo uhear her chatting away to you!!!

very proud fatherly week this week!

FSR_XC

warm18 wrote:

mark

hello mate, i would be up for a night ride, would be my first! i dont have any lights thoguh with me at the mo. do you have any spare. you on the same number? if you're free in the day ill be around too.

sadly couldnt make it to minions today sadly. maybe in a few weeks.

YHPM

FSR_XC

billynobates, jonnyc2420

PM me when you are about. I look on here most days.

Hopefully going to be around over Xmas (still trying to sort something out with my mum).

24th in the afternoon could be a good idea.

jonnyc2420

will do - also up for night riding, but meeting strange people in carparks is not as well thought of as it used to be.......

allthegearnoidea

oooooh, prospect of a snow ride Morrow!!! Wahoooooooooooooo! 8) 8)

FSR_XC

I've been playin' with the idea of a website: http://cyclestuff.terapad.com/

Any thoughts?
Comments?
Ideas?
Content to give me?

allthegearnoidea

thats alright mark, missed out cycle logic and hayle cycles from the shops list, (and the barn)and freeriders from the groups, but looks alright! will have a look on the big computer tomorrow as on the netbook at the mo,
bikebiz is a good place for news too if your looking a blog type style,

had a cracking ride yesterday, porthtowan, chapel porth, watch the crossers appear around the headland, make a LOT of noise and dissapear off up the coast path tp return us to the peaceful silence! up the beacon, bridlelaning around, down into the valley between porthtowan and mounte hawke and back to porthtowan, great laugh as usual, 3 new peeps turned out in the cold with 11 usual suspects, 5 other usuals couldnt make it but would have been a good group size then!
Love the run down to chapel porth, just missed out on 25mph by .1! gutted, great blast down though!
can Highly recommend Bounce balls Spirulena energy/protien balls! Very good and remarkably tasty too!

FSR_XC

Timmo

I've not finished the lists yet. There are plenty of others.

Plenty of clubs to go too - eg Cycle Logic, Tri Logic, Falmouth Wheelers.

It's adding stories etc on a regular basis that will take the time.

Then, all I have to do is direct people to it and see if they keep reading it.

allthegearnoidea

got out for a good ride today with 3 good riding buddies and traildog!! cracking blast down through illogan woods, up to tehidy, good blast around and out to north cliffs, first section was great then we hit some Incredibly Gloopy, sticky, clingy nasty mud! Paths looked like hardpack as the summer but were a nightmare!
t the top of the secomd down and up my tyres were 2" wider in Mud! :shock: poor bike doubled in weight! then a minor disastor!

bit of SS bodging by the guys and we were sorted1 all be it in 17th gear and 36t!! bl##dy hard going that was haha! Hellishly slippy final run down to portreath but a lot of fun!!
al cleaned now and with old XT on, chain all powerlinked up nd ready to go!
but proper muddy!! :twisted:
remnats of mech


with old mech attatched and ready! but still SS



gonna mail madison about the mech as where its gone it shouldnt have! should have bent the hangeror pinged the bolt not sheared across the limit screw area!! you never know, may get a good outcome!

FSR_XC

I feel for your wallet if they won't replace it.

allthegearnoidea

yeah tell me about it!!!! if its not warantee'able then i will mostlikely stick with the old Xt for a while and invest in some Breakaway mech bolts!!! most this range of mech is discontinued by madison now so not sure how i'll get on but cant hurt to ask can it!!

few pics of the area,






looking at it, there really isnt a lot of metal in there atall! the inside bity went first and there Really isnt a lot there and then its twisted the OUter section! all from a bit of mud! :shock:
could understand it if i'd been Ful on DH'ing and took it out on a rock!

got to replace a spoke tomorrow that went on the way out of portreath (box of spares in the shed!) and lube up the chain but otherwise its good to go, just minus the Shiney rear mech!

FSR_XC

Added some more on the 'site'.
http://cyclestuff.terapad.com/

I would like to get some links to routes from people to share.

What other info would be nice to see?

FSR_XC

Further updates: http://cyclestuff.terapad.com/

A fair bit of info on there now.

Timmo - if you want to update the Cornwall Mountain Bike Club stuff let me know.

Input, comments and content from anyone is very welcome.

allthegearnoidea

thought i'd pop on and incase i dont remember to post between now and then! Wishing everyone A Very happy Christmas! hoping for lots of Shiny new bike bits all round!! and a good new year!!

Mech was sent off to madison last week! waiting to hear back from them! they say they think from the pictures its been Dragged but assured them its not and by the Lacking in any marks on the cage enough to say its not! but we shall see!!
hoping for shiny new xtr'ness!!! 8)

FSR_XC

Timmo / anyone

The website is filling up with information.

If you get a chance, any feedback (what's missing / wrong etc or what else it needs) is very welcome.

I also want suggestions for events.

http://cyclestuff.terapad.com/

BTW the news feed hasn't been working for a few days.

I'll probably send an email out to all the clubs and shops to get their feedback over Xmas - then start shouting about it properly.

allthegearnoidea

events wise, soggy round 2 &3, bonty 24/12, mud and sweat turkey burner, freeriders are planning a dartmoor day again may april time, dont know if theres any more from the idless series, but seem to remember most of us found out after the event unles you used or popped into cmc!

the site looks alright but being brutally honest it seems to have been written / made with out any form of charachter (sp??) it reads fine just doesnt have the Spark that some do, Think CRC in comparison to all terrain cycles, ATC does the job it needs to, lists things clearly etc, but CRC's site just feels inviting!

why not get a couple of guys on trailriders to mail you some blog posts?? i know a lot of mid week riding happens there, same for some of the one and all guys, maybe young Joe williams?? have a young outlook on the cycling scene??

i know its put up as a proffesional site, but sometimes needs to have a light hearted out take imo,
i used to have a site for my littlun (jorja) from birth up to she was 2, used to to blog for her, add pictures of what she'd been doing etc and sent it round the family to keep them informed, sadly, when orange swapped over the site makers to the new site, despite migrating my old site over, they lost all of it, (was a free site) didnt bother making a new one for one reason and other, wrote it in a very Child friendly way in what you'd imagine she would have said herself if she could and it went down Very well,
i know a site for your daughter and a cycling site are complete opposites on the spectrum but both can be made fun!