Dammit’s adventures in mountain biking

Protec your wheels on those chilly winter rides

Apex casing - thicker sidewalls than a normal Evo, so like a Maxxis DoubleDown

Presumably I wanted the non-Apex, E-25 (whatever the fuck that means) version?

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2.5" Rain Kings, swapped out to 2.25 to get rolling again (race)

If your rides going to be muddy then 2.25 may be winners and save the frame and fork brace from being very highly polished by the grinding paste from the packed out tyres :)

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E-25 is e-bike 25kmph approved or some other German nonsense, but that's the one I'm planning in buying, yes.

Not that that makes it a cross country tyre. Double Hans Dampf is a reasonable option as well.

Can't say I've ever noticed sidewall stiffness, until I got a superracecondom Nobby Nic from @Howard which was almost unrideable at lower pressures.

Nobby Nic mounted after I got my air cylinder up to "not sure about this" pressure.

But definitely not the SuperGravity, that's the stupid heavy enduro/light DH one

Well, the 2.6 MM is going to The Shelf Of Doom, where brand new bike parts go to never be seen again after I bought them by mistake.

The Shelf Of Doom, where brand new bike parts go to never be seen again after I bought them by mistake.

I call that LFGSS classifieds

did you fit it and therefore can’t return it?

In a fit of enthusiasm I re-cycled the packaging, an action which some might consider to have been somewhat premature.

Is it not forum procedure to now build a whole bike around an obscure component?

MTB compounds are fucking shit. Usually I just give up and buy the first correctly-sized cheap thing.

Someone should make a nice comparison tool perhaps. No mortal can pick the optimum for their needs when there's 5 manufacturers each with 17 versions of their 9 different tyres.

Have y'all considered just buying Bontrager tyres. Idiotproof

I hear the E-Thirteen TRS Race is good too.

Goodyear Newton ST as well.

So much choice...

Both tyres stayed up overnight, which is nice. Adding sealant later today and riding on the weekend, and through Christmas hopefully.

12.3kg for those keeping count.

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Can you id your fireplace? Looking for one of this smaller ones for our garden house.

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Any truth in the rumour that you had it modified so it could burn NOS bike components?

It only runs on NOS NJS parts.

I had the bike turned upside down for a few days whilst I buggered about with wheels, putting it back onto it's wheels and both front and rear brake levers are going to the bars unless you pump them a few times - is this normal?

Largely, yes - any air that was hanging about in the reservoirs has now migrated in to your callipers. Expect brakes to be shit for a few runs until gravity migrates the air back.

Ideally there shouldn't be any air but it's an open system so it's difficult to get rid of all of it.

To prevent this in future toe strap the leaver to the bar with either the wheel in or the bleed block before upside downing the bike.

That used to be a quirk of some systems years ago.

General form was a few pumps to reset everything, if brakes returned to normal then a system quirk.

If the brakes don't return to normal but feel spongy/soft then a rebleed as air is in the system.