What area are you based in?
Mountain Biking
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What area are you based in?
Gisburn is my favourite trail centre, even the uphill stuff is interesting but can also be easily bypassed if you just want to session the downs.
I Live in dewsbury so quite a bit of a trek there its not super far i just had bad timing with weather
You should ride at Wharncliffe and Grenoside woods
I have been meaning to check them out sometime
Depends if my legs heal up, i put some minion DHR ii 29x2.6 doubledown maxterra's on my bike and have to admit am not enjoying them, feel really slow im going to check to see if theres something wrong with my brakes tomorrow and swap the tyres back to the forekasters to see if it was the tyres, my bike seems to be slowing down whilst going down a slight decline
A dhr will be slower than a forecaster as it's a complete different type of tyre. A forekaster is an XC focused tyre, so designed to maintain speed on flatter cross country trails. It's faster rolling. A dhr stands for Down Hill Rear tyre, so that's going to shine downhill when you need more grip.
It's grip will be considerably better though so it really depends on where you are riding.
I've pretty much always ran DHRs or similar.
You can easily check if your brakes are dragging by just flipping bike upside down and spinning wheels freely.
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We did Bike Park Wales yesterday - the weather was warm and sunny with the trails pretty much dry.
Tomorrow : Cannock Chase, looping Upper & Lower cliff and the DH area
Monday : Forest of Dean DH runs
BPW yesterday
did that and the brake pads were touching the disk, managed to make a better but it still sounds like its touching a bit, put the forekasters back on and took off the DHRs, as someone who has to ride to trails and use trains the DHR's would have just put me off
my back tyre seems to be buckled somehow, going to avoid taking them on trains during really busy periods from now on as people just end up banging into your spokes. will be taking it in for a service next week
Do you know how to align your brake calipers?
Just loosen the caliper bolts. Squeeze brake, and while it's still squeezed tighten the bolts. Then when you release it should be aligned better.
If it still needs tweaking then just do it visually. Maybe shine a torch through brake and make small adjustment to make gap even either side.
YouTube is a good source for all bike maintenance stuff.
yeah thats what i did, loosened then squeezes brakes and tightened and it made it better but its still slightly touching but doesn't look like its slowing it down much.
That's not how you should align calipers because the pads could be worn uneven or the pads could be moving in different amounts. Center the caliper over the disk with no pads, then fit the pads and get the pistons all moving the same.
If the disk is only touching now and again, it's the disk that needs adjusting.
Well it's never failed me in 20 years so I'll not over think it
. It's certainly the fastest and least faffy way to get it close enough.
Riding was awesome on all of these days - the whether is currently perfect for riding, sunny; dry and not too hot.
My son is progressing to the really big jumps now. i'm not there yet, my excuse is being older getting over the mental block on the bigger stuff is harder
We will be doing 417 bike park tomorrow : https://417bikepark.co.uk/
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Good stuff, Im hoping to visit bike park Wales sometime this year, Wish I had a car but have got a good incentive to pass my driving now.
I did go to Dalby forest yesterday on the train, had to cycle 12-14 miles from Malton train station to Dalby forest, did the blue trail and then just under half of the red trail but it started getting dark (was around 8pm at this time) and my second battery that I had brought for the trails was down to 1 1/2 bars so called it a day and cycled back to Malton train station, the bike ride to and from the forest is scarier than the trails loads of cars coming behind you at 40mph
The trails are quite fun at dalby forest if the train station was within 4 miles of it id definately do a trip or 2 a every month
it would be nice if they let you take bicycles on buses
I did go to Dalby forest yesterday on the train, had to cycle 12-14 miles from Malton train station to Dalby forest, did the blue trail and then just under half of the red trail but it started getting dark (was around 8pm at this time) and my second battery that I had brought for the trails was down to 1 1/2 bars so called it a day and cycled back to Malton train station, the bike ride to and from the forest is scarier than the trails loads of cars coming behind you at 40mph
The trails are quite fun at dalby forest if the train station was within 4 miles of it id definately do a trip or 2 a every month
it would be nice if they let you take bicycles on buses
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Amflow just dropped a new bike with the new M2 motor for £3,999 : full carbon frame, 800Wh battery, wireless shifting, 3x flip chips for geo adjustments
Lot's of other eMTB's launching with the higher end M2S motor as well. Including the Atherton S170e
Lot's of other eMTB's launching with the higher end M2S motor as well. Including the Atherton S170e
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They look good, when I was looking to get a eMTB at the start of the year the local bike shop told me to hold off until the announcement as they will be worth the wait. Going to get the PX Carbon Pro need to order my cycle to work voucher first.
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