XC in Cornwall - any willing volunteers ?

Surf-Matt

Nice shots TImmo!

Watergate yesterday - had a cracking session albeit with a stinking cold (now feel dire!)

allthegearnoidea

looks good matt,

know the stinking cold feeling matey! not good, got mine from the littlun lol!

FSR_XC

First ride was excellent.

Strange having a bike that you can throw around easily.

allthegearnoidea

sounds good mark!! is nice having somehting responsive over what you used to think of as Good! (my experience here)
makes such a difference to riding!

Surf-Matt

Mark - did you get the HT or the FSR? What model?

FSR_XC

Surf-Matt wrote:

Mark - did you get the HT or the FSR? What model?

09 Stumpy FSR Expert Carbon

There's a pic in my facebook photo's

Surf-Matt

Blimey - that's a hell of a bike!! Is it a last year model (so good vfm)?

I have slight envy.,..!

FSR_XC

Yep, last years model - for not a lot more than this year's base model !!!!!!!

8)

I'm off for a night ride tomorrow night.

It'll be either Fraddon area, Newquay coast or Dunmere - not decided yet.

Anyone interested?

Surf-Matt

Actually, I'll up that to extreme envy!

I'm craving a Stumpy Marathon Carbon HT at the moment... That's a £3k craving...

Won't get one but still looking!

How is it Mark? Must be the dogs danglies?

allthegearnoidea

wahooooo!
new saddle arrived this morning!
Charge X spoon, wiggle version!


very pleased! off to fit in a mo!!!

allthegearnoidea

fitted and very happy!!!!
glad i went of rthe wiggle version over the brown, think the brown might have been a bit odd??? anyways very pleased!!






think may have to wait for a good test ride though as half term starts thursday so will have to amuse littlun instead of Howling around on the bike!!!!


Matt, when was the last time you bought a new bike!!!! go on Spoil your self!!

Surf-Matt

Looks great Timmo!

Last bought a new bike ermmm - several months ago!

allthegearnoidea

Ah! forgot the roady!

FSR_XC

Timmo

That spoon really suits the Cotic. That bike is looking really smart.


Matt

Certini did have a Stumpy HT (09) carbon for about £1100. Don't know if they still have it????

FSR_XC

Does anyone fancy something a little adventurous?

Need one more for a team to do this:
www.action.org.uk/get_involved/race_the_sun

allthegearnoidea

looks like a Great event mark! although, a smidge beyond my capabilities loL!

allthegearnoidea

matt, what ever you do, dont arrange to meet with mark to have a look at his new bike!!! You WILL end up buying one! its stunning in the flesh! Such a lovely bike in all respects!

Surf-Matt

Timmo - exactly what I thought.

Carbon HT though - hmmmm...!

Mark - adventurous? Errmm - that sounds alarming...

FSR_XC

Surf-Matt wrote:

Timmo - exactly what I thought.

Carbon HT though - hmmmm...!

Mark - adventurous? Errmm - that sounds alarming...

It might tempt you over to full bounce . .. . . :oops:

Only need one more for the team . . Matt

allthegearnoidea

haha! mark, its a bike that prolly would matey! just the small matter of the cost hahahah! very taken with it!!
anyways, no riding for me today, was desperate to get out but cold came back with a vengence last night coupled with lower wisdom tooth started mooving! OUCH!!!! so took it as a rest day! lol!
anyways, as youve seen (those on here all the time!! ) from my FB, Cycling cant be all bad for the Knackers!! unless thats just purely roady scaremongering! 8)

Surf-Matt

FSR_XC wrote:

Surf-Matt wrote:

Timmo - exactly what I thought.

Carbon HT though - hmmmm...!

Mark - adventurous? Errmm - that sounds alarming...

It might tempt you over to full bounce . .. . . :oops:

Only need one more for the team . . Matt

I'm a die hard HTer - a FS would be wasted on me and I gayed down every technical hill...

Remind what the race is just in case...

FSR_XC

This is the race: www.action.org.uk/get_involved/race_the_sun

I am certainly a bit quicker down hill on the carbon bike. Not sure if it is the extra travel, better brakes, lighter bike or if it's subconscious.

allthegearnoidea

new jersey arrived this morning! ebay bargainess, or so i thought lol! turns out to be a MX jersey rather than an mtb one, (NoFear) so appears to be made for use over armour so is a Little on the large side!!! btu should be ideal, especially for £2.20!!!!!(£2.00 postage ontop) all in for a brand new jersey under a fiver cant be bad!!

going to try and get out tomorow but am still suffering with a bl##dy cold and wisdom tooth pain, so may not be a very long ride!!! - not going to make the bodmin one as will only b able to make the trip up and sadly not the trip up, ride and trip back! gutted, (truro in the car is about as far as i can get before it saps all my energy )

orena45

I'll be tagging along for the Bodmin ride tomorrow, never ridden there so looking forward to it!

Shame you can't make it Timmo, I was looking forward to the possibility of seeing your Charge/Wiggle saddle! Saw it yesterday on Wiggle when I was browsing* and looks nice, (un)fortunately it wouldn't 'go' with any of my bikes tho!

*browsing which turned into buying some bargain Marzocchi Dirt Jumpers for my jump bike!

allthegearnoidea

I'd really loike to do this ride but just cant get the body ready lol! having to kip during the days to manage and have so little energy due to the bl##dy cold i feel i'd struggle to get out the car when i got there let alone ride lol!

the saddles nice!! doesnt 'need' to go with anything to justify a purchase though! 8) just looks cool, thats enough for me hahahaH! i was going to go for the brown version but saw this wiggle one which was a fiver less and thought why not!! seemed silly not to!!!

FSR_XC

I wouldn't fancy Bodmin Moor tomorrow.

It was cold enough when I went for a ride today. Windchill on exposed areas up there will make it very very cold.

FSR_XC

Timmo

Nice to see you out this morning.

Hope you had a good ride.

We managed 24 miles, with Kyle, Kev & myself keeping the speed up - well, we were more or less racing half the time.

allthegearnoidea

Haha! Yeah was really good to run into you guys! Had a good size group out, looked good!
Was a nice ride thanks matey, looped the woods then dropped back down to portreath and out to the barn for a natter before meeting the wife and littlun back down the beach,
Hopefully ridden out the lasts of the cold! Feel good for it which always helps!! No idea on how far it was as batteries died in the gps in the woods lol! Teach me for buying ebay rechargeables!!!!

*edit* using the trusted old string and map method!! 17.6miles for me!! good going and suprising! energy drinks have a lot to answer for!! that and half an hour chatting at the barn loL!

kyle2brown

Timmo good to see you mate. Just so everybody else knows, Tim has a GPS with a pink condom on it. Make your own judgements.....

allthegearnoidea

hahaha! You leave my Pink condomed Gps alone!

figured when it falls off due to my riding a Birght pink condom would b e a lot easier to spot rather than undergrowth Yellow! loL!

was great to see you guys out yesterday, always nic eot see other guys out and about!