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Never heard of it. But I don't want more paperwork/admin in my life. I write a couple of notes in google calendar, usually about powermeter battery replacement times so I know going into an event if it's fresh or not. Tyres and chains and all that other shit, I do when I remember or before an event. Like, my Stanton is 1% wear and I have a 0.75% one here which I presume was what I thought was my new replacement one (doh). I have a reminder in google that tells me to check chain wear each month but when you have so many bikes it's easy to just go "oh well I'm not riding that much it can wait".

I need to service the RD on the Stanton, the clutch is basically non-functional, so I'm kind of leaving it to do all at once.

I'm assuming you do the maintenance for Ms Hippy too just to double it all up.

I lived in Queenstown for two years, fergburger got a lot of trade at 3am from me. This was 13 years ago.

She does quite a lot (because I'm too lazy to do her stuff as well)

She's bled brakes on the 26er in Poland for example and she was the one that measured my chain and told me it was at 1%. She does my bar taping because I don't do bar taping. All I need to do is get her building good wheels and I'll have a complete package. :D

Then again, she did just let her cranks fall off on a ride last year and has a tendency to ignore noises that subsequently result in exploding rear wheels...

My GT LTS retromod thing is sitting in pieces at the moment as I’d decided I didn’t need two very similar, singlespeed bikes and the Rock Shox fork was leaking but I’ve bought one of the cheap Yari forks from wiggle for it and I’m thinking I’d like to rebuild it and chuck some gears on it so it’s a bit different to the Honzo.

There’s Microshi(f)t Advent mini groups (mech, shifter and cassette) on eBay for £115. Read a couple reviews which were mainly positive, said coming from 12s you’d maybe miss the smaller jumps between gears but coming from ss I think that’ll be fine.

There was an SX Eagle group on here but seller isn’t responding, not sure whether SX or Microshit would be better?

Edit: I really can’t get excited about the prospect paying £60-70+ for a 12sp cassette so that’s why I’m considering the Advent 9sp stuff.

SX is pretty poor. It's just not stiff enough to get good shifts. NX is better, especially the shifter.

yeah fair. I find it pretty handy, especially as I move parts between bikes a lot.

you can set triggers for service intervals (mainstream parts have them set out of the box), based on mileage (eg chains, brake pads), or ride time (fork servicing), or elapsed time (sealant). I still manage to ignore the reminders though

How long you there? 14h isn't too bad unless it's a few days. Make the most of being relatively near while you are. I squandered my time there a bit and it's one of the few regrets I have.

Cool, I’ll no bother chasing that anymore then.

If it’s not the Advent stuff it’d probably be some 10/11sp Shimano stuff which would likely be a used mech and shifter from eBay with a new chain and cassette. Brand new Advent > used and possibly abused Shimano?

Saturday to the following Sunday

Enjoy. Hope the weather is good. Some nice mountain spring weather will be awesome.

Still no Madison account? Hit up a local friend with one and check out the groupset bundles page. 10 speed deore linkglide upgrade kit (shifter, mech, 11/43 cassette, chain) going cheap, I can send it to you for £120+postage and still make a few quid and the linkglide stuff is meant to last a load longer.

Nah never sorted one.

I've asked someone if they can get me a price. Cheers.

Advent X is ten-speed and well liked, and can be found quite affordably. By the accounts of everything I've ever read, SX is pretty bum. (Worth noting that Microshift drivetrains have different cable pull ratios to both Shimano and SRAM).

SX mechs are dog shit, some have too much play from new to work across the whole cassette and others don't take long to get there.

@M_V
This looks good value re groupset..

https://www.cotic.co.uk/item/outlet_SLX_M7100_1x12_drivetrain

https://www.wideopenmountainbike.com/2024/01/orange-bikes-to-call-in-the-administrators

Hardly surprising, but sad to see such a huge brand from my youth go tits up

From around 2000 until 2007ish, it felt like every other bike out on the trails was an Orange.

Sad to see a brand like them go down the pan but in the last five or so years, everyone I know who had a full sus Orange cracked the frame in one way or another.

I definitely feel like they’ve gone from in my youth I’d have seen one and been like “ooh an Orange, noice” to now just being like “huh, an Orange”.

@snottyotter linkglide upgrade kit on order, cheers for the heads up.

Interested to know how it works, I've not played with any linkglide stuff IRL yet apart from a brief look at ice bike last year.

Interested to know how it works,

My only geared bike currently is running a three speed Brompton hub.

The last time I had anything with a derailleur it was 5 or 6 cogs squeezed onto a Hope trials hub, the derailleur was an m700 series XT one and I was controlling it with a friction thumby.

Ie, don’t be expecting an in depth analysis from me!

Spirit of the forum in full effect.

I went to Pulau Ubin yesterday- it was a lot of fun.

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