Slow Rides For Unfit People - Rutland ROAD Ride Sun 9th Sept

puddle-rider

GRRRR I hate setting up mechs!!

I hope Mountain Mick has better luck than me it's just taken me 2 hours of faffing to get new mechs, shifters and cables installed and working, rear mech went easy, front mech still a complete mystery to me but at last it is working, worse thing of it is after a shake down ride it'll probably need fiddling with again :evil:

mountain mick

Cheshley wrote:

mountain mick wrote:

kangaroo wrote:

mountain mick wrote:

well i'm just waiting on the rear deraileur to arrive before fitting the new cassette, chain and the gear shifter's.

have you got new front rings as well

no not yet wait till there worn out, but i'm on the look out now for a new seat post and handle bars, possibly in carbon for the Bling factor so anyone got any idea's as there's that many on the market it's a mine field out there.

Forget carbon seatposts mate, more trouble than they're worth and SOOOOOOOOO easily damaged. For seatposts there is only one option, Thompson Elite. I have one on the Road bike and when it needs a new one (or I find myself with £70 quid I don't need) the Spesh will have one as well.

i might have to check out tomorrow the size i have on now and take a look at that Thompson Elite looks great and cheap

Cheshley

puddle-rider wrote:

GRRRR I hate setting up mechs!!

I hope Mountain Mick has better luck than me it's just taken me 2 hours of faffing to get new mechs, shifters and cables installed and working, rear mech went easy, front mech still a complete mystery to me but at last it is working, worse thing of it is after a shake down ride it'll probably need fiddling with again :evil:

so do I, that's why the shop does my gears for me. I'll have a go at pretty much everything else tho

Nalla

I love fiddling with me gears! They sometimes even work half decently when im done too....and sometimes they jump and ghost shift halfway up a steep climb. But the time it takes me to get them sorted is getting shorter and shorter.

kangaroo

Cheshley wrote:

kangaroo wrote:

are you mocking my quest to find the ultimate tyre

No such thing mate, tyres for gravel, tyres for hardpack, tyres for mud, tyres for downhill, tyres for uphill........

Personally, in the (admittedly limited) number of tyres I have used, I have struggled to find a difference between them.

to a certain extent its true that there isnt a ultimate tyre
but there is a tyre thats best for me and my style of rideing

Frostys

mountain mick wrote:

Cheshley wrote:

mountain mick wrote:

kangaroo wrote:

mountain mick wrote:

well i'm just waiting on the rear deraileur to arrive before fitting the new cassette, chain and the gear shifter's.

have you got new front rings as well

no not yet wait till there worn out, but i'm on the look out now for a new seat post and handle bars, possibly in carbon for the Bling factor so anyone got any idea's as there's that many on the market it's a mine field out there.

Forget carbon seatposts mate, more trouble than they're worth and SOOOOOOOOO easily damaged. For seatposts there is only one option, Thompson Elite. I have one on the Road bike and when it needs a new one (or I find myself with £70 quid I don't need) the Spesh will have one as well.

i might have to check out tomorrow the size i have on now and take a look at that Thompson Elite looks great and cheap

mmmm Thompson Elite check out this Mick

http://www.merlincycles.co.uk/mountain- ... tpost.html

Nice and cheap.....

mountain mick

Cheshley wrote:

puddle-rider wrote:

GRRRR I hate setting up mechs!!

I hope Mountain Mick has better luck than me it's just taken me 2 hours of faffing to get new mechs, shifters and cables installed and working, rear mech went easy, front mech still a complete mystery to me but at last it is working, worse thing of it is after a shake down ride it'll probably need fiddling with again :evil:

so do I, that's why the shop does my gears for me. I'll have a go at pretty much everything else tho

Well i've got the front deraileur shifter on and it only needed small adjustments but it worked stright away must be first time luck. Its the rear i'm not looking forward to as there's a new chain, cassette, gear shifter and deraileur to fit and set up :?

maloo

where is everyone biking this weekend then ? need some ideas

kangaroo

friday and saturday = cannock chase
tuesday = the peaks

sparrowlegs78

i'm going nowhere bike wise ..got in laws to take to the steam trains on sat (nephew loves em), then meal out with my 90 year old grandpa sunday, then Chipping Steam fair Monday.....then I'm old on tuesday lol
Caz xx

mountain mick

i'm off no where apart from WORK but then tuesday looking forward to cut gate might be bit damp as we've had a few shower's over here in royston the last few day's, but should be a good ride

Cheshley

Just local woods over the weekend if I get chance but joining PuddleRider, Roo, Mick and Nalla for Cut Gate on Tuesday.

The good news is that the SPD's have finally come off, I had to take it to the shop to get it done tho, so I'll be on flats for Cut Gate which I think is a good idea

@Frosty - That's a damn good price for a Thomson Elite post!!!! CRC have them at £62. I see that they now make the Thomson Masterpiece, 40 grams lighter but over £40 more expensive at £107 :?

kangaroo

kev from the bike shop has lent me his big tuff peaks and lakes tyres to go the peaks with
so i have a nobby nic on the back and fat albert on the front both in snakeskin and tubless
think i might have to nip out now and test them

puddle-rider

Hey Roo,

I heard on the local grape vine that the Werewolf Drop has been turned into the Werewolf slope, any news?

kangaroo

ive heard this as well, im off to check it out
i also here there is now a chicken run in place
i will report back later

mountain mick

hey guy's all new parts now fitted and working but yet to try them out off-road.

First impression's very nice

http://www.flickr.com/photos/44868051@N ... 022723135/

Darth Paul

Niiice blingy orange! Was the handlebar-mounted tap expensive?

mountain mick

Darth Paul wrote:

Niiice blingy orange! Was the handlebar-mounted tap expensive?

the tap was pretty cheap but it's a pain having to carry my own supply of water, i fitted it so i could clean my bike on the go

puddle-rider

Roo, There is definately a chicken run in place I used it last Friday!

Mind you the surface and direction makes it almost as dodgy to us wimps as the drop!

puddle-rider

@Mountain Mick,

Very Bling

Mind you goes lovely with that colour Trek.

mountain mick

puddle-rider wrote:

@Mountain Mick,

Very Bling

Mind you goes lovely with that colour Trek.

Yeah could of gone for a gold colour but went for orange the shift change feels sweet
cannot wait to have a good run out with it tomorrow then a serious workout on tuesday

Cheshley

mountain mick wrote:

puddle-rider wrote:

@Mountain Mick,

Very Bling

Mind you goes lovely with that colour Trek.

Yeah could of gone for a gold colour but went for orange the shift change feels sweet
cannot wait to have a good run out with it tomorrow then a serious workout on tuesday

Mick, I refer you to my previous comment.....

mountain mick

Cheshley wrote:

mountain mick wrote:

puddle-rider wrote:

@Mountain Mick,

Very Bling

Mind you goes lovely with that colour Trek.

Yeah could of gone for a gold colour but went for orange the shift change feels sweet
cannot wait to have a good run out with it tomorrow then a serious workout on tuesday

Mick, I refer you to my previous comment.....

Remind me which comment was that?

kangaroo

weirwolf drops update

yep theve definatly been playing with the drops, in fact that first drop that a lot of people have problems with is more of a rocky slope now, its still a steep slope but i think more managable.
as to the chicken runs. its been brashed off. so there is now no chicken run, but the new slope on the drop is easier to walk down, you can even use the rocks as steps

heres the picys

kangaroo

mountain mick wrote:

hey guy's all new parts now fitted and working but yet to try them out off-road.

First impression's very nice

http://www.flickr.com/photos/44868051@N ... 022723135/

those look the business

mountain mick

kangaroo wrote:

mountain mick wrote:

hey guy's all new parts now fitted and working but yet to try them out off-road.

First impression's very nice

http://www.flickr.com/photos/44868051@N ... 022723135/

those look the business

Cheers not too bad to fit aswell did'nt take too long but did take it steady so not to mess it up

kangaroo

i think i might have found my new favourite tyres
fat albert 2.35 snakeskin - front
nobby nick 2.25 snakeskin -rear

only took them on a small test ride today but so far there riding great
nice light weight to them, i got up the first hill in middlering without much problem at all
not the fastest rolling, but grippy
nice and large. the front one is has a really nice volume to it and floats over stuff really well a bit like the eskar does (one of my favourite features of the eskar)

mountain mick

kangaroo wrote:

i think i might have found my new favourite tyres
fat albert 2.35 snakeskin - front
nobby nick 2.25 snakeskin -rear

only took them on a small test ride today but so far there riding great
nice light weight to them, i got up the first hill in middlering without much problem at all
not the fastest rolling, but grippy
nice and large. the front one is has a really nice volume to it and floats over stuff really well a bit like the eskar does (one of my favourite features of the eskar)

Well Roo i get my Maxxis Ardents tomorrow so i'll be probably be using them for the first time on tuesday

kangaroo

nice, i saw some ardents in a shop today and they do look nice
which size did you go for, cant remember if i asked or not

mountain mick

@ roo i think it was the 2.25 i've gone for