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

Just use a triple chainset with the big and small rings taken off, middle ring lines up well enough with the middle of the cassette

So square taper is easy to adjust chainline? Is that done just with spacers in between the shell and BB cup?

I know it's not as important as with SS, but I want to get the ring roughly in the middle. I have a Pauls chainguide I picked up on ebay.

Square taper bb just means you can specify your axle length, not adjustable as such, there's no spacers so you need to know what you want before you buy it.

external bb is more 'adjustable' (if you really must) because of the three black plastic spacers, shimano bbs will come with an info sheet telling you how to set the spacers correcty in case you want to use a bb mounted chainguide.

The ring will be central if you do as tester says and remove th eouter and inner rings from a three ring chainset

I took the inner and outer ring of my crank, and cut the old worn outer to make the washers as that is what I had to hand, works well and puts the chain central.

Selling my Evo as im flat broke :(
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http://www.lfgss.com/thread119914.html

Cool, thanks. I'll just get whatever I can get for cheap then

MTB Aerospoke Renaissance

Hmm, a yellow pair of those and I could be on the way to recreating my favourite childhood bike.

Any thoughts on here of the Salsa Spearfish L3?

Stedlocks has a Spearfish. He seems very happy with it.

Intriguing. I'm window-shopping for a new bike at the moment.

Check Sam at singular, loads of bargains on his twitter account

Anyone doing the Southern Trails Shackleford ride on saturday? A friend has persuaded me to signup for the long route..... Any advice to someone who's done plenty of road sportives, but never anything like this and actually not a vast amount of mtb experience!

That looks like fun.
Jealous

Come along! Entries available on the day......

No car
:-(

How are you getting there?

We'll be leaving from Haggerston at 7.30 if you want a lift.....or Godalming station is a couple of miles from the start....

Check Sam at singular, loads of bargains on his twitter account

What's his username? Singular MTBs seem a bit... Old fashioned to me.

What's his username? Singular MTBs seem a bit... Old fashioned to me.

https://twitter.com/singularcycles

Normally found in Friston Forest and around about on the South Downs if anybody fancies an SS tour.

Shackleford Ride was great...if muddy! Beautiful day, great route...must do it again when it doesn't involve so much ankle deep gloopy, gritty mud and flooded paths! You don't get much for your entry fee tho....a drink stop and I'm told there were some gels/energy bars at the start but I missed them completely.... On balance, a great day out...
The gpx files for the routes are here in case anyone's interested.

Spoke to a guy about an hour ago at some lights. He was on an 11 speed hub geared 29er, but somehow he made it look, cool?

Apparently he was at epping yesterday and its a fun fun fun mudbath.

I need another bike for mtb, I don't want to break the Cannondale.

Looking cool on a 29er! U mad?

Are you sure that he wasn't just really small :-/

Surely the whole point of mountain biking is mud? Some of my favourite memories as a kid are steep downhills that are so muddy that you have to get off and walk the worst bits. And trying to plough through 30 ft long puddles that turn out to be 2 ft deep with lots of soft mud at the bottom. To my mind you haven't been MTBing unless washing clothes is a three stage process - hose clothes down whilst still wearing them; hand wash to make them washing machine safe; washing machine.

Anyway, I'll be downloading and riding those routes I reckon, so close to home.

Hmm...maybe I'm just a jessy mtb'er then! Or been listening to my wife who was a big mtb'er at home in NZ - she doesn't understand my idea of mtb in the winter + road in the summer!