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Recurring brompton servicing question time, where’s currently the best place to get mine serviced? Think new BB, maybe headset, frame bearingy things.

Ideally Sheffield/Leeds adjacent but happy to post if that’s the best option.

Nice!! How much clearance have you got with a 1.75 inch tyre? I'm pretty tight at 47mm. Did the pasela go tubeless easy? I'm losing patience with the passive agressive bubbling of the horizon's.

Ahh that explains a lot then, definitely felt nice even with the massive load. Assuming because the 650b has the same circumference as a smaller 709c tyre that doesn't affect trail at all? Only helps to contribute to the more comfortable ride and better feel.

Well spotted. It's actually a disc trucker fork in 700c so 390a2c, got it as the fork that I could've had from cotic was mountless. It's 10mm too short so makes the head angle half a degree steeper and drops the BB a bit, still handles nicely though.

Thanks for the compliments.

Flaps are made from 2mm thick rubber sheet off eBay. A 300x300mm sheet did all 3 flaps with spare enough for an extra one. Attached the rear flap by drilling and zip ties, the front is bolted using the bolts for the stays and the scobleflap is attached to the bolt that attaches to the chainstay bridge. Only downsides are that I Could maybe do with 3mm rubber as the scobleflap is a little flappy, but due to it being in front of the tyre hasn't been sucked in yet, and also it says the type of rubber has poor resistance to oil, so not sure how it will degrade over time with oily spray from diesel etc on roads.

Link to rubber below:

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Rubber-Sheet-SBR-Various-Sizes-1mm-to-10mm-Thicknesses-/121284416452?var=&hash=item1c3d1d53c4%3Am%3Amx5C_rWH5dDQqVk4NurbXLg&_trkparms=pageci%253Aa78fea09-4db7-11e7-acf6-74dbd1808f0a%257Cparentrq%253A912425ea15c0a884c1350d51fff47c72%257Ciid%253A7

Cant describe how joyous it was to ride down a damp towpath and emerge completely dry, first time with proper full coverage flaps and I'm converted, loving the #scobleflap

Finished my 650b Cotic Escapade this week, lots of fun to ride and so floaty! Christened it on a trip to Aldi where it capably handled a full front loading of assorted tins and meats. Went tubeless today, currently have a very slowly leaking rear but the front seems all good. Overall I'm enjoying it a lot!! Just deciding whether to spend a bit more and go all black on the components or not as it was a bit of a parts bin build.

As far as I know the adapters are universal, I used some old formula ones I had knocking around when installing my BB7's. My BB7 came with an adapter anyway, but only for 160mm front and 140mm rear, so maybe worth mocking up the brake/rotor fit with the standard supplied fittings and then working out which to buy (I know from building a few mountain bikes that a 180mm adapter on the front only gives you 160mm on the rear sometimes, if that makes sense). However, cool bike!! I look forward to seeing it built up, this was one of the threads that made me finally pull the trigger and order my cotic.

I use the little sliding clip thing that would attach it to a brake bolt, fold the brake bolt bit flat then use a jubilee clip through/under that and round the brake bridge. Hope that makes sense!!

Edit: didn't realise how much of a dredge that was, referring to attaching aka mudguards on stupid downward facing brake bridge thing (like 3 pages back)

I currently have the saucony swerve for my long stuff, it's soft but very comfy and seems to offer some good feedback, despite being quite 'entry level'. Seem softer than my wave riders I had before but not overly so, I've always preferred harder shoes. Never ran in hokas so not sure how soft it is in comparison though. I'd second the fastwitch being a race only shoe, mine are very hard, wouldn't want to wear them much over 10k.

I know what you mean, I keep looking at a longer route down to Bordeaux from the St Malo area then riding across to Narbonne again. Just a case of finding the time, as they always say the hardest part of any trip is getting out the door.

No worries, if there's anything else you think of PM me or reply on here and I'll try my best to answer. Hope you have a great trip! I loved it when I went and am very eager to return.

Yeah I rode on 28c too, if you could go bigger then I would just as some of the route can be a bit bumpy with tree roots sticking through the tow path, but 28c tyres were easily enough.

As for the route, here's the strava track from the campsite at Creon (amazing site with a pool and lovely restaurant) down to the super U in town and then on to the McDonalds/Super U at Eysines, once you're at Eysines it's all very straight forward, just follow the cycle path to the sea! If you look at the rides either side of that on my profile hopefully you'll get a decent idea of the rest of the route, linking from the canal to the Piste Cyclable Roger Lapabie can be tricky but from what I remember it was signposted okay. You can orger a map off a French website too, google voie vert or route entre les deux mers and that shoild find it I think.

https://www.strava.com/activities/367111501

As far as campsites go, the Camping Municipal at Valence D'Agen was great, an easy days ride frok Toulouse, when you get into town on the canal come up onto the road and turn left away from town, follow the road and go straight over the roundabout and the campsite is next to the horse stables on the right, the campsite on the left of the road was pretty dodgy so I'd avoid that one ha ha.

Another good campsite was at La Reole, just before you cross the massive red suspension bridge down a little road to the right, it was basic but did a job.

Best campsite of the lot was definitely at Creon, Camping Bel Air (I think) as I said great restaurant and bar and swimming pool. It's a little bit up the road (uphill with your back to the town) past the car garage as you cross the road on the cycle path in Creon.

Once you get past Bordeaux too the sea there are plenty of campsites on the coast, I stopped at the last one you come to before the sea, they were pretty expensive and this one was the cheapest but most basic, had everything you need though and lovely little wooded pitches.

Hope all that info helped!! Sorry for the wall of text, it was a couple of years ago so I suppose routes/repairs might have happened to different bits of the route but to sum up, it's easy to navigate, lovely countryside and an abundance of cheap well appointed campsites.

Rode it fixed on 66gi a couple of years ago, anywhere mid 60's will be a good gear I think, the section from Toulouse to Bordeaux is the best looked after too so ther'll be no problems, can recommend a few campsites along the way too if that's your thing.

Hardest part was linking the cycle route coming into Bordeaux to the path to Lacnau Ocean and then on to Arcachon. If you want/need i can dig out the strava route out of the city for you.

Yeah the gulf colours are what sold it for me really, it's such a nice look.

And yeah I think set up identically it's only about a degree steeper in head angle isn't it, so in terms of us mortals the oka and sham are probably pretty interchangeable ha ha. But with 26inch wheels and a 150mm fork that should be extra long and low and properly rowdy.

Only just seen this after I posted, great choice I know you won't be disappointed

Had the same debate as you last October, weighed up the Oka, Shan, BFe, Soul or 45650b

In the end went Sham and have absolutely no regrets. Figured any propensity to full on downhill riding vs the oka or soul will be offset by it being a hard tail in terms of efficiency.

As for lack of 853, the Shan has absolutely magic grip and small bump absorption for a hard tail, I keep thinking I've broken it each time I ride it!

Hi guys, just to let you know frame is no longer for sale as a return has been secured despite being past 30 days!

Sorry if I got anyone's hopes up,

Thanks for looking, Mike

Just in sticker and will remove without a trace, just a vain attempt at trying to convince myself to keep it!!

Yes a return is an option I'm looking into. Just thought seeing as I'll have to post it back etc that if I could get it to another cyclist who'd appreciate the frame then I'd rather do that even if I lose out on some money in the process.

Out of interest, how good is the frame built up? Can you convince me to keep this ha ha.

Very true, all the extra bits I suppose?

Price drop to 350 or near offer to reflect my foolishness.

Geometry: mine is a size 'L'

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Hi all,

For sale is my Ritte Crossberg frame, fork and fittings. The frame was never built and only taken out the box once. Can't justify its existence due to mounting tuition fees and too many bikes in the flat.

All the reviews say it's a great frame, this one has a 55cm top tube and a 57cm seat tube.

Along with the frame I have the following:

Problem solvers front mech pulley.
Came creek 40 headset.
Dimension (cheap) seat post clamp.
FSA carbon fork steerer bung.

I'd like what I paid for it 399.99 but because I'm a gent I'll call it 399.

Based in Birmingham, collection ideal but I could post/get a train somewhere, I'm flexible and will discuss with the buyer.

In my experience it either works great or goes bang and has to be sent back, that being said I've never serviced my original one and that's been going strong for 4 years of jet wash and Lake District. As for bleeding, never bothered just shortened the hose at the lever end and screwed the barb back in, since then it's been perfect.

For the price of the giant one though it's probably worth a punt just to see how you get on. I've heard good things about the new fox post but I think that's a case of many nice, many expensives.