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Yeah it's a Mongoose, one off I'm afraid just for Mr Akrigg and based on proper oldskool geo so BB drop and the like.

Same, love me a mod for playing on!

Should be in the angry thread this but why the f**k don't people attach pics rather than post a link which I can no longer perv over as it's been removed

Link please, can't be arsed wrestling with the forum search engine

Just moved all the computery stuff into a new thread to free this up for moaning and bitching that we can all understand

That frame is nowhere near scratched to death, and for £125 you got a bargain!

Sounds like pretty standard service from him

This is a great video for learning them if you've got somewhere suitable to practice

They're Selcof boost forks, think they're only available from Planet X so if you want a pair it's worth sending them an email.

Taking a rough guess at the spec I'd be happy to part with £200-300 for it, lower the better though. EDIT: Just found it, Middleburns, Pro 2 hub and tyres are alright. If you can get it for under £300 it's a bargain, could easily sell the 'burns and Pro 2 if you wanted to go FFW and only other thing to potentially change would be the front brake.

That's exactly what I thought, all the trails round here are what I rode in my teens on hand me down cheap rigid bikes so I know they're just as fun. Yeah couldn't really knock it at that price, tyres are a bit iffy but other than that it's spot on for now.

Yeah she's a Jack Russell, the smallest of 6 pups and turns 9 weeks tomorrow

I can't even consider a mortgage for at least another 4-5 years and I'm 38 next month so not a good prospect! Never been good with money/savings but hoping to get on top this year with lots of overtime and getting 100% debt free other than the car payments but then I'm the only earner here and with 3 kids (who eat like adults) it's hard work. As for your situ Ali you just need to look at it as getting your foot in the door for a couple of years then hopefully wheb you've got some money paid off you can move on to something better. Anyway, in other Happy Thread news......

My latest acquisition, On One Big Dog. Sold the full susser and got this for some more speedy runs on the road and light trails. And if I decide it's too hard I can get some forks to soften the front end up.

I can't believe you're using a list of people's social media posts as a potential source of truth. The world would be such a better place without Facebook, Twitter, etc...

Ah well the well travelled wheel dream has come to an end by the looks of it. The tracking number shows that they're (or whatever is actually in the package) out for delivery on the Isle of St Thomas in the British Virgin Islands. So they almost got the country right On the plus side I put a claim in through PayPal and they refunded me within 5 minutes!

Wet weather means rain which means floods which means no trains running which means I can sit at work eating cake and drinking tea and "not" watching Guy Martin shows on Channel 4

Ordered a pair of rims from a potentially dodgy website (but they were cheap enough to not worry me) and the journey around the world is hilarious. I can't quite understand how the cheapest shipping option takes the parcel on the furthest journey, surely that costs more? So far after originating in China it flew over to Miami and is now currently in Puerto Rico with an expected delivery date of this Thursday. Looking forward to catching covid from it if and when it finally arrives, intrigued to see if they're still straight and round when they land

Even worse than that, it's not even a bike site it's one of those sites that lists literally everything, bike stuff, random clothes, household goods, you name it they probably sell it!

I managed to find a website that had DMR Backlines in stock so ordered a pair. Slightly dubious about the whole situation mind as the website was in French, based in Canada (which explains the language). The rims were extremely cheap (£40 posted) but are now on their way, not sure what's gonna arrive if anything but the price isn't that much so won't be the end of the world of it all goes tits up. Interesting thing was when I got the shipping information from them, the rims were shipped from China and went to America via USPS and have just yesterday passed through customs in Miami. God only know where they're going to end up but will be interested to find out

I was same but Revolution instead of Evolve, I did upload it to Vimeo but looks like my account has been deleted at some point

What should have been a quiet nightshift where I can get a few hours kip has just turned after a report of someone ready to jump off the viaduct. Transport police and my manager are on their way and I could have sworn I heard a scream about 20 minutes ago but could easily have been something innocent and my mind playing tricks on me. Needless to say I'm wide awake now

Power put through a DJ drivetrain is nothing like the power put through a trials drivetrain, especially for a big chunk of sexiness like Luke

Why not a screw on freewheel?

Wouldn't really make any difference whatsoever, if anything performance would be slightly worse. The split lines would be pushing the pistons in and the crossover would just hold fluid. You could potentially split the hose and then split each line again to run feeds into both holes in the slaves but I can't imagine it would improve the feel. Either way it would be almost impossible to bleed the system.