Mountain Biking

Megahurtz400 · 3 May 2019 at 08:11

nocash168 said:
Forgot to update this. Fell off bike Friday, thought my shoulder was just badly bruised. Still felt dodgy on Monday, went to get it checked Tuesday morning. Had an Xray and turns out I broke my Clavicle, snapped right on the shoulder.

Now stuck in a sling. Gutted! Been signed off work for another four weeks. Been off a week and I'm bored already! Can't ride bike, can't game with kb&m.

Nice to do school runs and see the wife a bit more tho. I work 4 days, she works 3 nights so don't normally have this much free time together. Can't even take advantage of that

Welcome to the long, long, long list of MTBers who have broken their collarbone!

Did my left clavicle and my left arm in one off back when I was about 15. Great because 2/3 weeks off school, bad because all I could play in that time was games that only used the mouse

Let's just day i was SICK at Simcity 4

Hedge · 3 May 2019 at 15:17

New calibre sentry looks awesome but wtf is going on with their photo on website lol.

http://calibrebicycles.com/bike/sentry/

Megahurtz400 · 3 May 2019 at 15:32

Hedge said:
New calibre sentry looks awesome but wtf is going on with their photo on website lol.

http://calibrebicycles.com/bike/sentry/

Looks like a really great bike for such a small price! If current plans work out as expected I may even have to go and look at one

It's nice to see there's still manufacturers out there that are trying to make a decent bike for a reasonable amount of cash. It seems you have to drop £3k+ on a full-sus bike these days to move away from budget parts

The photo with the kid staring at it?

Hedge · 3 May 2019 at 19:17

Megahurtz400 said:
Looks like a really great bike for such a small price! If current plans work out as expected I may even have to go and look at one It's nice to see there's still manufacturers out there that are trying to make a decent bike for a reasonable amount of cash. It seems you have to drop £3k+ on a full-sus bike these days to move away from budget parts

The photo with the kid staring at it?

Yeah and when I refresh page on my mobile I see a thermometer on a wall alongside the screen the bike is in front of lol. Certainly a strange one!

Beerbaron · 3 May 2019 at 19:35

GuruJockStrap said:
Beerbaron, have you used the trials at Rushmere and Aspley Wood?

No, i have been to Woburn which is just down the road from there.

kefkef · 4 May 2019 at 11:13

Beerbaron said:
Gwydir Forest Park, which is North West Wales.

We usually do The Marin Trail on one day and Penmachno the following day. There’s a bunk house at one of the pubs in Betws-y-coed for £10 a night sharing and they let you keep your bikes locked up in the pub cellar overnight.

Megahurtz400 · 4 May 2019 at 20:54

Hedge said:
New calibre sentry looks awesome but wtf is going on with their photo on website lol.

http://calibrebicycles.com/bike/sentry/

Popped into the local Go Outdoors to see if they've got one of these in yet, turns out they've just been bought by JD sports so haven't had any deliveries in for two weeks but might be getting one in this week!

Also found out due to the change over that the discount cards are currently free as they're new computer system doesn't work with them properly yet, so if you haven't got one might be worth popping along

Berger · 18 May 2019 at 10:38

Trying to do a little work on my old MTB.

Should this just lift straight off the fork steerer? I think it’s well rusted together...

It’s a 2009/2010 Boardman.

https://ibb.co/QCdgGGp

touch · 18 May 2019 at 18:38

This little bit is the wedge holding the bearing in place.
https://i.imgur.com/bxLRFzw.png

You need to take that out first. It might be a bit sticky because the steerer is quite rusty.

Berger · 18 May 2019 at 20:06

touch said:
This little bit is the wedge holding the bearing in place.
https://i.imgur.com/bxLRFzw.png

You need to take that out first. It might be a bit sticky because the steerer is quite rusty.

Yup you were right. I looked at it again in the daylight today, wiped it over and picked that out. Bingo in business.

Just need to get a new headset now. Semi integrated 1 1/8” it looks like. I’ll try those websites which list them as some forum info is lost to the mists of time now it’s that old.

Jonny ///M · 18 May 2019 at 21:25

Loads of ZS44 semi integrated headsets available.

I changed one on this boardman hybrid recently....

On that subject you will want to change the crown race on the fork as it will be designed to work on the open ball bearing races you have rather than a seal cartridge with a 45 degree chamfer.

Beerbaron · 19 May 2019 at 19:02

kefkef said:
We usually do The Marin Trail on one day and Penmachno the following day. There’s a bunk house at one of the pubs in Betws-y-coed for £10 a night sharing and they let you keep your bikes locked up in the pub cellar overnight.

I rode The Marin Trail and Penmachno both for the first time yesterday on my new Trance 1. Tough going doing both but good trails i would love to ride again.

Repta · 19 May 2019 at 20:27

Looking for a bit of advice on dropper posts. Trying to find a reasonably priced 100mm travel internally routed dropper for the girlfriend but can't seem to find anything in the UK. Loads of 120/125mm options but unfortunately they are too big. Anyone got any suggestions? Trying to get to as close to £100 as possible but not looking likely

touch · 19 May 2019 at 21:19

Jonny ///M said:
On that subject you will want to change the crown race on the fork as it will be designed to work on the open ball bearing races you have rather than a seal cartridge with a 45 degree chamfer.

I think that one he's replacing is a sealed cartridge bearing. It says CARTRIDGE in massive text on it

Jonny ///M · 19 May 2019 at 21:33

Some aren't though.

Though on this occasion im wrong, that headset doesn't have a replaceable bearing but the cup is the outer race with a ring holding the inner race in place. It will have a angled crown race.

Berger · 20 May 2019 at 09:41

Jonny ///M said:
Some aren't though.

Though on this occasion im wrong, that headset doesn't have a replaceable bearing but the cup is the outer race with a ring holding the inner race in place. It will have a angled crown race.

That’s right. I ordered an FSA replacement from CRC which comes with a crown race so if required I can change it. I don’t ride the bike much, used to just ride it to work/back in Aus but hammered it quite a lot over here before that.

Just thought it would be nice to ride on summer nights as a recovery ride instead of the turbo, not much fun with duff steering. The rear hub is a bit grumbly but I packed it with grease and plan to ignore it!

Beerbaron · 20 May 2019 at 09:53

Repta said:
Looking for a bit of advice on dropper posts. Trying to find a reasonably priced 100mm travel internally routed dropper for the girlfriend but can't seem to find anything in the UK. Loads of 120/125mm options but unfortunately they are too big. Anyone got any suggestions? Trying to get to as close to £100 as possible but not looking likely

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

TallPaul_S · 20 May 2019 at 12:51

Repta said:
Looking for a bit of advice on dropper posts. Trying to find a reasonably priced 100mm travel internally routed dropper for the girlfriend but can't seem to find anything in the UK. Loads of 120/125mm options but unfortunately they are too big. Anyone got any suggestions? Trying to get to as close to £100 as possible but not looking likely

What seat post diameter? There are some cx versions about but not in the bigger sizes.

Repta · 20 May 2019 at 14:08

TallPaul_S said:
What seat post diameter? There are some cx versions about but not in the bigger sizes.

Ah yea forgot that important bit of info, 31.6. Looks like I'll need to keep an eye out second hand, will see if the 120mm travel im ordering fits but pretty sure it is just too big

TallPaul_S · 20 May 2019 at 16:20

Repta said:
Ah yea forgot that important bit of info, 31.6. Looks like I'll need to keep an eye out second hand, will see if the 120mm travel im ordering fits but pretty sure it is just too big

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.