Mountain Biking

Malt_Vinegar · 30 Sep 2015 at 09:47

How are you cleaning the bike after the rides?
Did you inspect the cables when they came off? Rusty/frayed/kinked?

baz_ · 30 Sep 2015 at 11:04

Desperate to get back out on my bike, Currently got a Boardman Pro 29er

great bike

kaotikuk · 30 Sep 2015 at 14:56

No sharp bends, the routing is spot on.. Cables were fine also, like said its all brand new stuff. Cleaning wise, bucket, muc off brushes and muc off stuff for the chain etc.

I will check the deurailler when i can.

I know its never gonna feel as smooth as when you first put new cables in, but ye dunno!

gettothechopper · 30 Sep 2015 at 15:13

if the cables are all good it wont be the mech
it'll be the shifter

Supercow · 30 Sep 2015 at 15:49

Have you tried peanut butter on the cable inners?

rhysduck · 30 Sep 2015 at 15:59

kaotikuk said:
I know its never gonna feel as smooth as when you first put new cables in, but ye dunno!

Of course it will.. just use decent slick cables and decent quaity outer cable.

Not sure if Supercow is serious :confused:

merlin · 30 Sep 2015 at 16:24

Supercow said:
Have you tried peanut butter on the cable inners?

Crunchy or Smooth?

kaotikuk · 30 Sep 2015 at 17:33

Maybe the LBS are just using dire cables then!

rhysduck · 30 Sep 2015 at 20:31

Is this a good price for a set of Pikes?
http://www.bike-discount.de/en/buy/...apered-ml15-matt-black-grey-461903/wg_id-5224

Supercow · 30 Sep 2015 at 22:05

merlin said:
Crunchy or Smooth?

Crunchy ofc

rhysduck said:
Is this a good price for a set of Pikes?
http://www.bike-discount.de/en/buy/...apered-ml15-matt-black-grey-461903/wg_id-5224

You don't want DP, you want Solo air.

rhysduck · 30 Sep 2015 at 22:08

Why's that? Solo Air's are a lot more expensive!

milko · 30 Sep 2015 at 23:26

Looked on alltricks?

Solo Air work better and less to go wrong too. Seems to be the prevailing wisdom anyway, can't say I've tested back to back.

Juggy1985 · 1 Oct 2015 at 05:12

The new bar and stem combo thst i want! But probably will never afford.

http://m.pinkbike.com/news/pacenti-pdent-handlebar-stem-review-2015.html

gettothechopper · 1 Oct 2015 at 08:53

Juggy1985 said:
The new bar and stem combo thst i want! But probably will never afford.

http://m.pinkbike.com/news/pacenti-pdent-handlebar-stem-review-2015.html

Send me your old bars and ill hit them with a hammer

Juggy1985 · 1 Oct 2015 at 09:04

gettothechopper said:
Send me your old bars and ill hit them with a hammer

But there the carbonzzzz

rhysduck · 1 Oct 2015 at 09:47

milko said:
Looked on alltricks?

Solo Air work better and less to go wrong too. Seems to be the prevailing wisdom anyway, can't say I've tested back to back.

Yup - Solo Air 150's are £90+ dearer than the DP 150's.

Any reviews online from testing to say that the Solo Airs are better than the DP's? Can't find any.

From a pure budget point of view it's hard to ignore the DP's at <£400 for a fork. I'd prefer the 160 DP/SA but 1cm isn't going to make much difference to me I don't think.

Supercow · 1 Oct 2015 at 10:47

You can;t add volume spacers to the older DPs either. So not only are they not as good out of the box as the solo air, they're also a lot worse compared to a solo air with tokens in.

BaJ · 1 Oct 2015 at 11:24

rhysduck said:
Any reviews online from testing to say that the Solo Airs are better than the DP's? Can't find any.

I've never seen reviews directly comparing the two, but I've often seen a bike reviewed with DP's fitted where the reviewer has mentioned they'd of preferred the Solo fitted.

E.g. http://www.pinkbike.com/news/giant-reign-275-1-reviewed.html

Sorry, but Giant's choice of a Dual Position RockShox Pike was the only fail in the Reign's grocery bag. Test riders commented that the standard Pike was the better performer, with smoother small-bump performance and a better spring rate

L_mo · 1 Oct 2015 at 12:55

Supercow said:
You can;t add volume spacers to the older DPs either. So not only are they not as good out of the box as the solo air, they're also a lot worse compared to a solo air with tokens in.

Hi! I've fitted tokens to my dual positions, made a massive difference. Why Rockshox don't provide them as standard is beyond me!

$39 , but totally worth it! Link here if anybody is interested

http://mavericksuspension.com/product/rock-shox-tokens-pike-dual-position-air-fork-6/

rhysduck · 1 Oct 2015 at 14:36

Hi L_mo
That's the ones I was looking at if I go with DP Pikes.
A set of DP's plus tokens should come in around £410 (2015 Pikes) versus a set of Solo Airs at £515 (2016 Pikes).

I fail to see how a set of Solo Air's are worth £100 more? :confused:

I just don't know what to do