help, been unfaithful to HOBBY

p.s.

being a nag - you shouldnt leave your bike on the biggest chain ring and biggest gear on the cassette. you can see the deraileur stretched to its limit in the photo.

nag over

 

hehe, I wondered if anyone would pick up on that ya I know, I keep telling Dom the same thing, problem is its so hard to operate the left changer, that I have got in to the "bad" habbit of just using the outer chainwheel. I guess this is also the problem of having Mountain bike gearing rather than Road gearing.

 

You can do a basic truing yourself with a spoke key... if it's kinked one way just tighten up the closest spoke that goes to the other side of the hub and it will put it back.

You'd end up paying the same as you paid for the bike for brakes, but if you want something good and low maintenance buy a used set of Magura HS33s on ebay. They don't go for much and they're the most powerful rim brakes you can get.

 

And here is the evidence at last :

 

Well done Galahad. Looks like you had a lovely day for it. And what a lovely sight to have on the horizon as you get near to it.

 

That was mid-september. The first day was very cold, but we had no rain and the second day was gorgeous. The Mt St Michel was visible from as far as 25 km. Only problem was the crowd, thicker than usual, there for the equinoctial tide tidal wave.

 

What are you on about, I do more riding in the winter - cold, wet and snow are when it gets interesting.

 

Besides, you don't have much of a choice, do you?

 

You do have a point though at least we dont have riots in every town and city!

 

Touché

err

ever heard of Birmingham?

 

Actually I'm from nearby, nice parry!

 

Not when I only use my bike to commute, it's not

Besides, it gives me a few months to go deaf using my discman and catching up on music listening

 

never realised there was so much interest in mountainbiking around here

Having moved recently from around north yorks area down to sunny Hartlepool, I seemed to have lost interest in it. I want to get back into it, but cant see there being many great rides around here..

anyone know any?

 

I dont know Hartlepool at all.

You are nearish Durham though, if you can put your bike in the car get to Hamsterly Forrest (nr Durham) for the best that Cty Durham has to offer. I miss the place sniff...

Your local bike shops can probably tell you about the other local places if you ask.

You could also try the sustrans website to find former railway lines that have been turned into bridleways.

Speaking of bridleways, if you have any stables nearby, the horsey folk are bound to know where all of the bridleways are.

Just some ideas

 

there isna nice trail (tho haven't tried it myself) around eden..which isn't too far from you...but if you go further inland - county durham - there are some amazing rides...derwent walk, waskerly way etc...goto a information centre - they have the brochures there...

 

I've found some of my best MTB routes by simply buying the OS map of an area, then planning a ride based on what sort of terrain the bridleways have.
You learn very quickly indeed how steep a hill is based on countours..

 

bought a 'new' bike this week.

Ive always had hardtails (will always have a hardtail), but wanted something for more nutty stuff... wanted something inexpensive and second hand, but that was originally a great bike.

Blast from the past with a piece of MTB history here


you like?

 

Wahey, it's spongbob's brother, pedal bob!

Seriously, other than the lack of stickers that looks completely mint and original. Even with the old Rockshox cable-operated hydraulic caliper disc (not sure about replacement pads for that).

Definite bit of cult kit there.

 

Powerful looking beast!

Maybe it's the picture, but didn't you notice that one of the tubes is bent?