Dammit’s adventures in mountain biking

• the cost of ENVE decals, obvs
  

Budget $6 of your time to dish 6mm to the NDS

Good £ to gram ratio on flyweight

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and in stock

flyweight

lol

I bought the 30mm internal LB rims a few weeks ago :)

and in stock

I am not, or rather I am no longer anywhere near, flyweight.

85kg of me blundering around is, I suspect, better served by the standard rims?

yeah go standard, I thought you were a weenie :'(

You animal

yeah go standard, I thought you were a weenie :'(

I'm currently trying to locate sufficient motivation to get back to 77.5kg, maybe I can buy some?

Got a saved eBay search for Bike Components auctions under £200 sorted by ending soonest, only look at listings ending within 2-3 days. Does produce occasional bargains.

IIRC, the £16 SISL2 chainset was listed as "Cannondale chainset" had one photo and one line of text and finished at an awkward hour. Holy grail of #buyer listings.

Hate to break this to you but it's all FSA-made.

ee Wings?

The Hollowgram Si chainset, yes.

I believe the SiSL2 is still machined by Cannondale in Bedford US and the spidies are made by praxis .

Did the shock ever get fixed?

Not had the time, went to Colorado and hired a road bike, went on to California and used the gym.

Last weekend I bumped the rear shock from 150 to 160, ran it in trail mode right up until the fast bumpy descent when I put it in open, where it stayed. It actually climbs better in open, over rooty/rocky stuff, which was intersting - just rolls over stuff.

I'll probably live with it for now and post it in a little later in the year.

went to Colorado and hired a road bike

Have you considered some sort of travel bicycle? Perhaps a breakaway of some description?

Or maybe a travel bike with SS couplers and some very boutique centrepull brakes, but a rancid groupset and scaffolding pipe steel tubeset?

There’s one of those for sale soon I believe

Bet it's not a 56cm frame though, so no good for me or @Dammit .

Ee wings ti cranks are made by Ora engineering tw

Back at Swinley, first time on the Scalpel.

Feels good, I’m comfortable on the bike.

Tyres feel like they have less grip than whatever was on the Marin I used before- I’m on Maxxis Ardent at 21.5 psi front and 25 psi rear.

Suspension is on “open” but feels a lot stiffer than the Marin, but better damped- less pogoing but you notice the larger bumps and undulations more.

I’m a lot faster than last time, but I feel that this is down to making myself (forcing myself!) to look at the very exit of the corner and bring the bike round under me, rather than looking where the front wheel is going.

Front wheel has slipped then gripped in one slower corner, and I got a little sideways coming out of a fast, banked downhill turn- over too fast to think “oh shit”.

Overall I really like the bike, but would like a little more grip.

I'd recommend a more aggressive front tyre...... but gumwalls.

Could also be the dry conditions. Does Swinley have loose dust or sand on the trails?

Swinley has no grip.

Except the sandy DH bit in the woods.

Oh, in that case go to Epping instead. Ardents are quite good there.