Mountain Biking

Begbie · 25 Apr 2015 at 22:03

Good excuse to replace the rim and run tubleless! I couldn't go back to the faff of changing tyres!

Forgot I had this photo. Taken the other week at roughly 2500ft, at Torridon. Mostly a waste of time as the snow was at points 3-4ft deep. I hit one snow patch that looked rollable and flipped the bike landing on my face in a pile of snow :/ Once it eventually cleared it was awesome though. Rocky steep, technical, fast. Incredible.

20150412-DSC01230 by martinbegbie, on Flickr

rhysduck · 25 Apr 2015 at 22:09

It doesn't need replacing as I have a tubeless wheel replace it with I just can't find my damn Hope hub kit to do it

Plus I have a spare pair of 26" wheels (Superstar) here that are brand new... Bought them in error thinking they were tubeless

savagesam117 · 25 Apr 2015 at 22:22

I cannot wait to pass my driving test to come to Wales and ride, there's no where reslly I can ride without travelling. Surrey hills are the best place and that's still a pain! And I can't even post a picture of my bike, I don't take pictures of them until they break

Juggy1985 · 26 Apr 2015 at 05:42

savagesam117 said:
I cannot wait to pass my driving test to come to Wales and ride, there's no where reslly I can ride without travelling. Surrey hills are the best place and that's still a pain! And I can't even post a picture of my bike, I don't take pictures of them until they break

I live in Leicester, the closest even remotely decent ride for me is cannock and thats 60+ miles away so at least £30 fuel there n back

. Bike park wales is a good 3 hour drive, can do forest of dean in 2 1/2 hour. Sucks proper when i see cow posting he been out 200 times to the coolest places in a week n i get to ride cruddy cannock once maybe twice a month

Supercow · 26 Apr 2015 at 07:36

Which SS wheels do you have Rhys?
Most of them are tubeless ready

Begbie · 26 Apr 2015 at 10:33

Juggy1985 said:
I live in Leicester, the closest even remotely decent ride for me is cannock and thats 60+ miles away so at least £30 fuel there n back . Bike park wales is a good 3 hour drive, can do forest of dean in 2 1/2 hour. Sucks proper when i see cow posting he been out 200 times to the coolest places in a week n i get to ride cruddy cannock once maybe twice a month

Know them feels living in the south west. Loads of xc riding, but no proper descents. Feels like your driving forever for mediocre trails.

Moving from the Highlands is my biggest regret ever. Can't wait to eventually move back. Riding everywhere, and Hills, proper Hills!

rhysduck · 26 Apr 2015 at 11:01

Supercow said:
Which SS wheels do you have Rhys?
Most of them are tubeless ready

AMX rims on Switch Ultra hubs. They're not tubeless (conventially), and I'd rather not porch around with an inner tube. After ordering I didn't realise they weren't tubeless and SS won't take them back. I do have 2 inner tubes from yesterday I could maybe try. (It was during the sales so it was a little impulse buy - should have waited for the Tech4 wheel set a few days later!!)

SS will rebuild them onto other rims for me for £30 a rim though under their Crash Replacement scheme. This I may do when I get a new frame.

Draeger · 26 Apr 2015 at 11:04

This is probably a daft question but I'll ask it anyway.

Some of the bolts on my Cube Acid are looking a little shabby, the 4x stem bolts in particular. I see loads of stem bolts on fleabay for sale but are they generally one particular size on most bikes? Not sure what size to get?

rhysduck · 26 Apr 2015 at 11:13

They wont all be the exact same size (the 4 stem bolts will). Just take one out and measure it.

Draeger · 26 Apr 2015 at 11:21

rhysduck said:
They wont all be the exact same size (the 4 stem bolts will). Just take one out and measure it.

Cool. Measure the length of the bolt you mean? What about the 'M5', 'M8' prefix size thingy, how do you tell that?

rhysduck · 26 Apr 2015 at 11:27

M = metric
the number is the thread diameter.

Edit: yes sorry measure the lenght of the bolt and thread diameter.

Get down to a local hardware store, they should have plenty of stock.

Draeger · 26 Apr 2015 at 11:29

Cool, ta. So I imagine I'd just measure the bottom of the bolt from one side to the other to get the diameter in mm?

rhysduck · 26 Apr 2015 at 11:49

That is how you generally measure the diameter of something yes

Edit: I believe it should say on the head of the bolt?

Draeger · 26 Apr 2015 at 12:21

Okeydoke, cheers dude!

booyaka · 26 Apr 2015 at 18:54

Another £1000 FS bike - not to be sniffed at.

http://www.bikeradar.com/mtb/news/a...he-1000-full-sus-weve-been-waiting-for-44171/

Looks decent and good spec.

gettothechopper · 26 Apr 2015 at 20:00

did the mbr trail in the sun today at coed y brenin was pretty nice apart from the moral sapping last big climb only to find no payoff for all that climbing!

did antur stingog in the rain and wind yesterday it was savage

my hands hurt

Supercow · 27 Apr 2015 at 13:32

My body just refused this weekend, and said “nope”. Couldn’t drag myself out of the house at all as I just didn’t have any energy!

Kinda regret it a little bit now, gagging to ride now that I’m at work

rhysduck · 27 Apr 2015 at 14:13

Don't you work in a bike shop Cow?

Still feeling the effects of my OTB at Cwmcarn on Saturday.
Sore elbow and thigh. New tyre needed for the back too.

Supercow · 27 Apr 2015 at 14:22

rhysduck said:
Don't you work in a bike shop Cow?

Still feeling the effects of my OTB at Cwmcarn on Saturday.
Sore elbow and thigh. New tyre needed for the back too.

Nope, just used to own one / part run one for pocket monies / get stuff cheap.

As with a large part of the OcUK demographic, I work in software development

rhysduck · 27 Apr 2015 at 14:55

Ah fair enough.

Been looking at Aeris review all lunch time.. so much want