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Pipedream Alice?

Photos never to do the trail justice.

Good progress, trail building is good for the soul. I really need to get back out and do some maintenance on my local ones.

How long is your trail?

They are great bikes. I had a first generation Flare which I loved unti it was stolen.

That cable routing was always a pain.

I've a new standard front wheel waiting to be fitted. Still tempted to get a better hub with cartridge bearings. Any recommendations?

Long term I'd like to get a Kinetic's disc fork.

Thanks. What sort price is a wheel? Need to do everything on budget at the moment.

Need to get my bike road worthy again - when it was put away the headset was notched and the rear rim had a hole in the braking surface...

What's the best replacement headset I can fit? Ideally something with cartridge bearings.

Will need to rebuild the rear wheel but fancy going from the 3 speed hub to single speed - is there good 3rd party wheel options or should I just buy a Brompton wheel?

Has anyone fitted a Tubus lowrider with a 2.1 tyre?

Thanks! That looks sufficient for carrying lots of stuff.

Cheers for the photos. Any chance of a picture with the bag open?

I'm using a flat bar so hopefully don't need to worry about over filling the bag.

That bag looks spot on. Some photos would be great - thanks.

Best bag for the pizza rack?

Looking for a holdall/duffle bag design, something I can open and pile the shopping into.

Quite like the idea of the Lomo waterproof bags.

Setting the bike up for emergency shopping trips when baby supplies runout.

Thanks!

Photos of the crane lifting the mast please of you go that route. I like cranes...

No longer required. Turns out it doesn't fit my fork.

Excellent! Need a video when it's finished please. What motors are you using?

Wow! Love reading about the adventure.

Cheers. Might need to try riding the bits from St Mary's Loch to Moffat at some point. I've ridden the Innerleithen to St Mary's enough times now.

What route did you take?

What's the default off the shelf rear wheel?

Think my hub internals are about to explode based on the various noises. Needs to be a 29er with a 142 hub with thru axle.

Its for the xc/gravel/hybrid bike - so tubeless and usually a 2.2 tyre.

That takes me back in time! Never had any sets myself but I remember going to an aquarium and they had a massive display underwater of these sets.

I think it depends on which Trail Centre in Scotland.

My local ones are Glentress and Innerleithen - biggest difference between Scotland and BPW is there's not many jump lines up here. Glentress has some good stuff - I spent several hours today with friends doing a mix of the trail centre stuff and the off piste trails - but it feels like a place where you do a circular ride and take in various climbs and descents.

The Innerleithen stuff is mixed again, you have the xc trail which is fantastic, a good solid climb up to Minch Moor and then a fun descent that makes all the climbing worth it. Theres also all the DH trails and the other off piste stuff that you can winch and plummet from (or use the uplift). It's also fantastic, only one jump line but plenty of steep, technical trails as well as some faster flow trails. Best thing is most start off the same fire road and end roughly in the same place and the hillside is like a rabbit warren with all the old race links. Then there's also the golfie on the other side of the valley.

For me, I visit BPW once a year if I'm lucky. I like that I can choose a particular feature (like drops) and practice away on them. Same with the smaller jumps but that's not really my thing. My perfered trails at BPW are the more technical, natural lines or the fast flowy stuff.

Basically I think its all good, but the whole Blue, Red and Black grading doesn't really match up at all.

Other trail centres I could comment on are Laggan - so rocky and different to everything else but in a good way. Also worth doing the brown side across the road.

Nevis Range - good mix of trails in the woods, mix of xc and steep natural stuff. Plus there's the gondala which gives access to 3 trails - 1 being the DH world cup track. All are a fun way of spending a day learning all the features.

Thanks.

That looks interesting, got any more details about it?

Did the Edinburgh Alpkit winter gravel ride today. A nice dusting of snow/ice going through the Pentlands.

Wet and muddy but the trails were fun.