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

If y'all are not aware Pinkbike and Singletrack World are both giving away free stuff every day until Christmas. Pinkbike one is really easy, you just click the button every day, the STW one you have to watch a video. Some pretty good stuff in there like ENVE wheelset

https://singletrackworld.com/2018/12/christmas-countdown-day-12-win-an-x-fusion-manic-dropper-post/

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/win-a-joystick-prize-pack-including-bar-stem-grips-and-saddle-pinkbikes-advent-calendar-giveaway.html

~80 deg seat tube angle

surely, as the reach on mtbikes becomes longer, the bars will finally become too far away, and thus, eventually, we will see a ST more than 90º...what a glorious moment that will be

It will be a new epoch

Rear wheel at Chingford Station, front wheel at High Beach..

Rear wheel at Chingford Station, front wheel at High Beach..

Enough about your new bike already

...saddle at the tea hut

Can we get a @Tijs photoshop in here please

I'm retired, my dude.

...saddle at the tea hut in the stratosphere

eventually, we will see a ST more than 90º

Almost there

10 whole degrees to go

Endura showed me a video with Danny McKaskill riding around in their MT500 stuff this morning, which has made me want to buy some - the power of advertising!

However, there appears to be no stock of it anywhere (the jacket, specifically), anyone know where I can get one, or something equivalent?

New toy. Expect me to be injured soon.

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Your shins are gonna be a mess. Pics when you stack pls.

Those Octane frames at Chain Reaction are £129.99 at the moment.

Don't suppose anyone has a spare 11 42 cassette hanging around...11 speed for standard freewheel...Got gifted a used groupset but it's xd....

You can get the SLX 11-42 cassette for non-stupid money on CRC at the mo.

How used is the XD cassette you have, and which one is it?

Pretty good. It's an xg1150, so lower end sram. It was swapped out for a rohlhoff after a couple of months.

Appear to be about £80 new, Interested at £35...would go most of the way to a new slx then...

Yes please! On the assumption that it’s in good nick id have it for £35. Got a photo? Much of the paint worn off?

I’d be proud of myself, if I had actually given this thing any air above a high kerb.

Back to the dungeon for another frame tomorrow I guess :(

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Anyone a spare 11-36 10 speed cassette?

Yep

Yep

Sweet. How much?
Also that X0 mech I got off TVH, will it squeeze under a 42 or best stick with 36?