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

"morning!"

The rocks are real through there

I survived a day in the Peaks on 125mm rear travel, I would've gone a bit quicker with more but genuinely think my brain wouldn't have kept pace with line decisions*
Living in Sheffield would be enough to swing me towards a Cotic of any flavour

*who am I kidding. Point'n'hope.

lol yeah I smashed my rear wheel up going down Devil’s elbow on my hardtail, it’s not super forgiving. I was glad it was just my wheel though, and not my face as well.

I have a theory as to why that is which I'll share off-forum

Hope you’ve got some snide juicy gossip?

Bugger. Starling charge an extra 10% for cyclescheme customers - something to do with commission, it doesn’t sound unreasonable - so that’s a £500 kick in the balls. Let’s hope Cotic don’t do similar.

That's a right scam. Velorution also add a charge, though only 5% - refused to buy through them because of that. They are creaming off the saving you are making as a customer.

https://help.cyclescheme.co.uk/article/281-is-the-retailer-allowed-to-add-a-fee-onto-my-cycle-to-work-package

I've got a 450 and 500 coil in the post

450 showed up this morning, feels like it's giving the right support now. Although I only rolled round the garden on it, without a chain, which I immediately forgot, tried to pedal and almost went over the bars in front of the neighbours
Will be giving it a proper test at Peaslake over the weekend in biblical rain, apparently

I thought Saturday was meant to be ok- has that changed?

Ah. I see it’s turned into the apocalypse.

My missus is the kind of person that still messes up "lefty loosey" and yet she ordered a bleed kit for the Voodoo's Formula brakes off Polish ebay, watched a youtube video, managed to open a stripped out bleed bolt using the rubberband trick and fix the brakes all with 0 patronising from me. So proud. Lazy cow still hasn't taken the battery out of the car though. :P

I guess they are covered by clause 2 there, given that they are building the front triangle to order.

That said they don’t assemble their complete bikes, you just get all the bits separately, so they’re saving on labour there.

Meh.

Mountain biking is amazing. Had the most fun on a bike in ages.

Is there a great difference between 27-30mm rims for 2.4-2.6 tyres?

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Please tell me that's a before photo.

Where's the shitfromabutt?

Maybe at a stretch, except they are only adding it for the scheme - if you buy with cash you get the regular price. Personally I'd avoid on principle cos that really pisses me off.

Oh I only use it for Zwift. No SFAB feature yet :(

Haha

@Bodz
https://www.wtb.com/pages/tire-rim-fit-chart

Oh yeah, I’m going elsewhere. Shame as they are lovely looking bikes.

Similar to @Bodz question above. I'm planning to run 2.35" tyres. I have the option of buying some 2.6 or 3.3 internal wheels. Both fit according to the chart above. What's going to be best for general off roading.

26mm for 2.35 imo. I've got 35mm internal on the front and it was a bit too much for a 2.6, but 27mm on the back is great with a 2.35 (and a bit small for 2.6).

Sweet, cheers

Now I just need to ride it/find out why more people haven't done it/break something

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I've stuck with the factory base tune, for now. I'm assuming that I can't migrate over the tuning TF did to my Air IL, because it's a different curve (air vs. coil) - someone correct me if I'm wrong?

Lovely bike, what is it?

Sheffield

Don't all you northern lads ride Orange 5's? I thought you were issued them at birth ;)