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

Not yet tried any of the sealed cables yet, got a set of Gusset compressionless cable (front & rear inners & outers) for £14 which was pretty awesome. There are no breaks in the cabling anyway on my MTB and the BB7s include some quite nice little seals for the cable end.

I'd recommend either BB7's or Hope.

BB7's are simple & effective. Hope spare parts are easy to get hold of + they're the easiest hydraulics to bleed ( imo )

the most recent XT brakes are great, previous ones not bad at all either

My decade-old BR-M755s are still going strong

Everyone still up for a big LFGSS ride Saturday 14th then?

that is a Friday! and am busy on the 14th, 15th and 16th

what aobut the 18th or 20th?

Yeah, either of those work for me. Swinley is always better midweek anyway.

Some of us have jobs.

How about 24th? Burn some calories to make room for Christmas dinner, and put in your last bit of training for the Boxing Day 10

Hmmm, could be tempted by the 24th.

If any of you folks are interested i'm going to pop my 1989 Rockhopper Comp up for sale in the very near future to free up funds for my latest project. Will stick up some photos this evening.

Retrobike forum >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

;-)

Already put it up there a while back. A few people saying how nice it was and it was a bargain but no actual bites!

Hmmm, could be tempted by the 24th.

Me too - in the morning though...one of Jame's suicidal 10am at the look-out starts :)

have suggested another mtb day at swinley on the 18th, anyone else interested in coming

Yeah, probably

Yeah - if I can sort out the bike.

Defo on for the 18th! Not on facebook, will pm you my e mail as no longer 'working' which means less time on here!

Just had a 2 hour blast round Swinley. I'd forgotten how much more you use your upper body whilst mtbing, aching like fuck now!

Coming on Tuesday?

Should be

Coming on Tuesday?

The fuck is this? I was looking forward to hearing you gurning up the hills of Kent.

sorry, have to be back early tomorrow so Kent is not a goer

the plan for tomorrow is to meet at 11.30 at the lookout

See you there. Grey skoda, white boardman - expensive tastes me!

Just had a 2 hour blast round Swinley. I'd forgotten how much more you use your upper body whilst mtbing, aching like fuck now!

How muddy was it?

It was pretty good actually. Quite a few puddles but nothing major. I'll be on an orange Ragley

How muddy was it?

Swinley is very free-draining, being on sand ridges of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagshot_Formation so there isn't much mud. Mud would be nice compared with wet sand.