Mountain Biking

TheBrooder · 23 May 2019 at 12:58

I've just ordered an Amazfit BIP, it works with strava and has GPS and it's around £50.

Beerbaron · 24 May 2019 at 14:52

I use a Garmin Edge 1030 and with Garmin heart rate strap.

Repta · 25 May 2019 at 08:39

Beerbaron said:
Might be difficult to find one in that price range new. Take a look on Pinkbike - https://www.pinkbike.com/buysell/

TallPaul_S said:
It might be a few quid more than £100 (£140 or so looks about right) but the one up components dropper would work. It's 150mm drop, but can be shimmed down to 100mm or anything in between. It is also one of the shortest droppers in terms of stack height. They've just released a new version so you might be able to get the old one cheap.

Beerbaron said:
Chain Reaction Cycles have some deals on Brand-X Ascend dropper posts. Just received an email from them.

Cheers for the help and advice. Got a brand X ascend for myself and found a KS eten I on pinkbike fir the girlfriend.

bloodiedathame · 12 Jun 2019 at 12:17

Booked Bike Park Wales for the 30th June. Looking forward to that!

Megahurtz400 · 12 Jun 2019 at 12:37

bloodiedathame said:
Booked Bike Park Wales for the 30th June. Looking forward to that!

Very jealous! Really want to get back here at some point but having a hardtail means i'd have to hire for the most fun, and once you do that, hotel etc. etc. it all adds up fairly quickly

Have you been before?

rhysduck · 12 Jun 2019 at 12:51

Megahurtz400 said:
but having a hardtail means i'd have to hire for the most fun

RUBBISH! I have just as much fun on my HT than on my FS.

Begbie · 12 Jun 2019 at 12:54

rhysduck said:
RUBBISH! I have just as much fun on my HT than on my FS.

Agreed, I've taken my ht down some pretty gnar stuff. It's always fun.

Unlikely. But has anyone been to lake Garda? Off with the girlfriend soon, and wouldn't mind a half day riding.

bloodiedathame · 12 Jun 2019 at 12:56

Megahurtz400 said:
Very jealous! Really want to get back here at some point but having a hardtail means i'd have to hire for the most fun, and once you do that, hotel etc. etc. it all adds up fairly quickly

Have you been before?

Not been before, taking my HT. It's got 2.8 tyres though and the uplift takes max 2.75. Could deflate and take a pump

DomBruv · 12 Jun 2019 at 12:59

bloodiedathame said:
Booked Bike Park Wales for the 30th June. Looking forward to that!

I'm going on the 29th myself

Megahurtz400 · 12 Jun 2019 at 13:16

rhysduck said:
RUBBISH! I have just as much fun on my HT than on my FS.

Begbie said:
Agreed, I've taken my ht down some pretty gnar stuff. It's always fun.

While I love some hard tail shreddage, nothing beats plowing rock gardens on a DH bike!

That and i'm not in a position to be buying new wheelsets anytime soon!

bloodiedathame said:
Not been before, taking my HT. It's got 2.8 tyres though and the uplift takes max 2.75. Could deflate and take a pump

Take your track pump up the top on the first uplift and lock it to a fence

Begbie · 12 Jun 2019 at 13:18

Megahurtz400 said:
While I love some hard tail shreddage, nothing beats plowing rock gardens on a DH bike!

That and i'm not in a position to be buying new wheelsets anytime soon!

Take your track pump up the top on the first uplift and lock it to a fence

Yeah I've destroyed a few rear wheels in the past few years now

Megahurtz400 · 12 Jun 2019 at 15:01

Begbie said:
Yeah I've destroyed a few rear wheels in the past few years now

I’m far too fat and need to focus on getting the miles in before sending it first too

Ske · 13 Jun 2019 at 09:08

I'm back on my HT for a few weeks whilst Orange respray my Five

Riding the Blues at BPW on the HT is way more fun than riding 'em on the FS. Not sure about all the Reds though - I've never tried them on the HT.

Megahurtz400 · 16 Jun 2019 at 20:11

Haven’t ridden my bike for a week or so due to there being a problem with what I thought the freehub having too much playing meaning as soon as you shift up the cassette gears are skipping up and down all over the place.

Took it back to Evans as it’s still under warranty, only for them to call me over to the workshop and show me that the second biggest ring on the cassette on one side was folded outwards at nearly 45° haha!

After a good laugh at myself the guy hammered it straight but think it’ll be new cassette time soon, on an 8 week old bike

bloodiedathame · 16 Jun 2019 at 20:29

Just skip that gear.

rhysduck · 17 Jun 2019 at 10:30

How did you manage that?

Megahurtz400 · 17 Jun 2019 at 23:24

bloodiedathame said:
Just skip that gear.

Haha he managed to mangle it back straight and it seems to be working ok after a quick lap around the block

rhysduck said:
How did you manage that?

They said it could have been changing gears under high torque/low cadence, so grabbing for a gear while pedalling hard.

Obviously this is something I always avoid as it not only sounds bad but can obviously cause something like this! Must just be me being unfit and grabbing for those Eagle gears haha!

varial · 18 Jun 2019 at 20:27

Off to hamsterly forest for first time this weekend. Anyone know of a good campsite which isn't to strict on noise and staying up late? Maybe a fire as well? Only ones I can find seem rather strict as per the norm. There's an awesome site near bike park wales where the guy put us in the far corner of the field so we could have a fire and stay up late

kefkef · 19 Jun 2019 at 13:43

Helvellyn on Friday on a Hardtail.....

bloodiedathame · 19 Jun 2019 at 16:52

kefkef said:
Helvellyn on Friday on a Hardtail.....

Yeah, nah: https://youtu.be/4BiW_49OF3A?t=471