Mountain Biking

Andrew Moore said:
The plastic cups that hold the bearing have a notch at the front and the rear, rotate them around at the top or bottom etc to get your desired head angle. The notch will always need to face forward but as you have one on the front and rear, rotating just makes one a rear and the other a front and then the other way around once turned 180 degrees.

I have no idea what mine is currently set to although I think I have a steep angle at the moment. Ill check when I can mind.
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Do i just loosen the top cap and stem bolts? and twist them 180 degrees? mines in the steep angle at moment... just wanna see what the slacks like.
 
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meh? said:
Do i just loosen the top cap and stem bolts? and twist them 180 degrees? mines in the steep angle at moment... just wanna see what the slacks like.
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Stem pretty much needs shifting up about 8mm in order to allow everything to be loose enough to move/twist around and for the bearings to not drop out. Then align the notches in to the grooves again once at 180 and your golden.
 
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Nice and clean.
 
Will be giving mine a clean tmo ready for kashima dropper! The white looks really nice, saw one of the one77 in that bright blue with white forks today, wanted to hate it, didn't.. lol

Did you have a go at changing the headset cup position?
 
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I love the blue but hate the white forks for some reason. Yours makes me want a Matt black one

Yeah I pulled the stem off and had a look but didn’t get any further. I did notice I have a cable what’s plugged in the front of my headset. Dunno what it’s for ? Any ideas?
 
meh? said:
I love the blue but hate the white forks for some reason. Yours makes me want a Matt black one

Yeah I pulled the stem off and had a look but didn’t get any further. I did notice I have a cable what’s plugged in the front of my headset. Dunno what it’s for ? Any ideas?
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The little rubber grommet comes off and the reveals a plug. This is wired direct to your bike battery so you can get yourself an ACID head light if that’s your thing, I was hoping it would also allow for a cable to provide power to a USB for a phone or garmin but I haven’t been able to find one.
 
Andrew Moore said:
The little rubber grommet comes off and the reveals a plug. This is wired direct to your bike battery so you can get yourself an ACID head light if that’s your thing, I was hoping it would also allow for a cable to provide power to a USB for a phone or garmin but I haven’t been able to find one.
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I was hoping i could use it for the purion 400.

What bars are you running? The stock ones are a little too low for me, I’m 6ft6 so I’m thinking about some 30mm rise, I would go 40 but I’m not a fan of the looks lol.
 
meh? said:
I was hoping i could use it for the purion 400.

What bars are you running? The stock ones are a little too low for me, I’m 6ft6 so I’m thinking about some 30mm rise, I would go 40 but I’m not a fan of the looks lol.
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Surely looks come secondary to function. I had 60mm rise on my previous bike.
 
meh? said:
I was hoping i could use it for the purion 400.

What bars are you running? The stock ones are a little too low for me, I’m 6ft6 so I’m thinking about some 30mm rise, I would go 40 but I’m not a fan of the looks lol.
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I could tell looking at your bike you were on the XL or larger (if they do it). Im 5ft10 but with a long torso and short legs so a large fits me with the reach.

I went with a Renthal 35 35 stem bringing the bars closer to me and a 30 rise with 760mm width on a Renthal Fatbar Carbon lite as I had it off of a previous bike and it works well on this one. I also raised the stack by around 10mm when I swapped in the Factory fork. All in it made the bike 20mm narrower I believe and raised the bars 25mm in total (as stock bars are a 15 rise I think?) whilst pulling the bars closer to me by around 15-20mm bridging the gap between a medium and a large for overall reach although its still closer to the large than the medium.

You can always size a large down a little if needed but sizing up a medium can be a headache and it very rarely works.
 
Don't hold your breath, apparently only 400 Miths came to the UK, all of which have been sold.
You'd be lucky to get one before 2026 if you haven't pre ordered one already.
 
famas said:
Don't hold your breath, apparently only 400 Miths came to the UK, all of which have been sold.
You'd be lucky to get one before 2026 if you haven't pre ordered one already.
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Not a bad thing, getting a bike ready for the crap wet and cold weather so you cant fully enjoy it knowing something new and better may be around the corner would put me off with a queue that long. It does look really tasty but if all is to be believed with the Bosch upgrade coming May would have me also looking at some of the high end Orbeas or maybe the Crestline S160 / S180 although that bikes also limited to like 150 units of each or something daft..
 
Druid CorE would get my vote over the Unno - if that Forbidden rides anything like the regular Druid, it will be punching well above its stated weight category and their geo will be very well tailored to the platform.

Unno looks nice (although the carbon layup is not in the same league as something like Hope's HB916, at least from what we've seen thus far) but the lack of cable-routing for a rear mech and the speed sensor being built-in to the rear disc seem like odd choices.
 
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