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Tom Dowie at chicksands

Anyone interested in some X Fusion Velvet forks? Tapered steerer, to fit 26" or 650b wheels.

#spam

Sheer carnage in the downhill world champs at Val Di Sole. Many crashes, broken bones, riders being knocked unconscious.
Three riders have been stretchered off the track in the men's race so far and there's still more than 50 left to race.

Fucking hell. Here be the line.

Nice video on Pink Bike of the trails around Swansea, ridden by Chris Stares and his dog. Rode with this guy earlier today, really nice chap.

http://www.pinkbike.com/video/454022/

am looking for nice condition and niceish quality 9 speed shifter and rear mech
it is replacing an x9 set up, rear hub is shimano so theoretically there should be any compatibility issues if i go shimano should there ?

x9 / x7 / xt / deore

anyone got anything going ? used considered

I've got a good condition LX 9spd rear mech.

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/279927/#comment13073512

I've got a 9 speed XT shifter. £12? Or £25 with 9 speed XT cassette? Deore 9 speed black derailleur £5? I've got a XT 9 speed derailleur somewhere, but I couldn't find it the other day.

Awww trail dogue looks happeh

hmmm might combine the lx rear mech with the xt shifter

the shifter is a ok is it ?

@ bn can i collect the rear mech on the badgers ride ?
@ 606 you around in the coming days can pop over to leyton tube if that suits

Yes, I'm around. Shifter works fine.

@ bn can i collect the rear mech on the badgers ride ?

Yep, £10 collected. Will pop it in my bag today, so I don't forget.

Just don't ever throw a stick for trail dogue. It'll never leave you alone after.

That was brutal! When you consider how capable modern DH bikes are, that course must be absolutely terrifying.

"66 degree gradient"

"Aggressive geometry", no?

Got a linky? I want to see the carnage.

Watched it here. Couldn't really tell you where the crashes were though.

http://www.redbull.tv/live/AP-1KRDTX1YN2111/uci-mtb-world-championship

It's about as aggressive a DH track as I've ever seen before.

Cripes

British Cycling tweeted a link this morning of the full run shot by Rachel Atherton's go pro. Apart from the opening sector and the finishing sector it was pretty much all through the rootiest, gnarliest wooded section I've seen.

Set rebound speed to ridiculous

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRlgkF3cL6o

Normally I look at DH tracks and reckon, "Yeah, I could get down that*... reeeeally slowly...", but Val di Sole just looked utterly brutal.

*Big gap jumps excepted.

When the mega-gaps are the easy bits...