Let's offroad / mountain bike / mtb / ride dirt

XTR Di2 tho

Would need one with slightly more lively paint tho

Picked up a Dialled Prince Albert full build last night... I need to give her a few good rides, but in the meantime I have a few entirely related questions...

Has anyone got any experience of a Prince Albert with different travel forks and what did you think?

I know they are meant for 120mm to 140mm travel forks - would you consider running 100mm travel forks?

Anyone want to buy a set of Manitou Minute 100mm travel forks (9mm QR)? What are they worth in very good order?

Anyone got a nice and hopefully cheap set of 120-140mm travel forks (I'm a sucker for fox but anything considered)? [26" / 9mm QR]

"anyone got some crappy 26 rim-brake wheels lying around they dont want? I am spending all my money on silnylon recently but need to get back into the woods. Anything cheap and not likely to kill me considered!"

No, sorry. Total tangent but your last sentence reminded me of a mate who rides a ribble road bike... last time I saw him he was running the most insanely worn front wheel ever, with such bad rim wear that when he took it to a shop to be trued the manager refused on the basis that he was not prepared to risk his staff's health working on a wheel that could explode at any minute. Not sure whether there was any reality behind his comment, but gut feel from a non-expert on rim wear would tell me to keep well away from the wheel under any circumstance where forces are acting on it (riding / spoke keys).

Hmmm if you want a well spec'd F29 it's carbon or carbon these days. Christ.

@653-7410 well, yeah, if you let the air out obviously there's no danger of it exploding. He was probably just trying to sell a new rim, which is fair enough, because there's no point truing a rim that's going to die in the next couple of weeks.

The one I breifly used rode best at 120mm. 140mm jacks the BB up too high IMO.

Cheers. What sort of riding were you doing on what sort of terrain?

Swinley, but I'd have happily ridden it in Wales with the same fork.

Hmmm if you want a well spec'd F29 it's carbon or carbon these days.

Ask Matt if he'll build you a Talbondale :-)

thx.

Inaugural ride on the Scandal.

Need to dial in tyre pressures but fit seems good. Some very odd cable routing from On-one which I think they revised in later editions.

Nice - where was that taken?

Super racy saddle to bar drop.

Swinley. Wet sand on a brand new drivetrain was a bit painful.

Photo's taken slightly from below so it exagerates the drop somewhat - felt comfortable for 50km today anyway.

Ah - did you go off-piste?

Did 50 miles of bridleways and lanes around Gatwick today - my CX bike is encrusted with sand. Least it just brushes off.

Got any of said routes on map? Getting bored of going Swinley with downhillers who practically live on the babymaker and cringe at going anywhere else

Crowthorne's where it's at yo.

https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/637111494

I was at swinley today... Took my friend there for the first time, he stacked badly at the end of the blue... Now in hospital!

Wish there was a way to thank the guys who stopped and helped?

he stacked badly at the end of the blue... Now in hospital!

Yep that's Swinley.

Wish there was a way to thank the guys who stopped and helped?

Swinley forest Facebook group?

Ah, that must have been why we were diverted away from that last fun bit. Hope he's okay.

Just picked up one of the Prince Albert 29er proto frames from Mike at Dialled Bikes after nearly two years of pestering him to check his stockroom.

It is wunnerful...

Maybe his stockroom is a bit on the large side :-)

Unless someone else did something similar yup.

He'll live... Nothing broken, but hobbling a bit!

Cheers @Howard will try...

That looks like the CCTV from our stock cupboard at school...

Swinley = fast trails, sudden erosion induced camber changes, polished surface...... I try to hold something in reserve as I really don't want to crash on some of it. I now tend to head off to Tunnel Hill etc where it's softer, slower and less sandy.

Southern XC has a round at Checkendon which is fun, flat, rooty and near home.

Your description sounds about right.

I would like to head out to meet the trolls and will eventually... But I do like swinneley too!