Ali C

here you go

nooooooooooooooooo!!! listen<< Beard<< Hope!!

yep, specialised have been there done that! They use a shock with an oil filled tube with a weight on a spring, when the bike hits a bump, the weight is forced down and it exposes a valve that allows the suspension to be active. on the flat the weight remains in the same place and blocks the valve locking the shock out. The "brain" needs to be as vertical as possible for it to work (hence some funny looking shocks on the epics. Is only upwards mostions that open the valve too, so pushing on the saddle or pedaling forces doesnt effect it making the bike pretty efficient. its a smart idea though, simple but clever.

kings are over priced especially when you add in the extras you need, hd axle, funn bolts and steel freehub body! even then the flanges still snap. I had a king for 3 years, it was cool, but things kept snapping and eventually I couldnt get it to stop skipping (near full rotations). I have had my hope for a year now, I broke a bearing in two weeks, but it was a different bearing to what they use now and it didnt help with me not putting the hub back together properly! Even with the bearing shagged, it still has never skipped! its been the most matenence free bike part I have owned (other than my front hub)

love them! I did the biu ones and came 3rd (as you know as your bro came 2nd!) but I have always wanted to do the uci ones, they look awesome! I hope I can get to some uci events this year, maybe I'll see you there Ash?

cheers dude, good idea! heres actual pictures and a little artical of the quarry (and proposed idea) click here

this is what I would like to get built: The quarry is dam big! theres plenty of parking if they allow entery a bit further up in the quarry. Heres some pics of the actual place: see pics here, taken from Singletrack

looks like bruno is still shit hot!

Thanks for the link, thats got loads on info in, will be really useful! I will show this topic to people involved, it seems most of you would be willing to travel a long way to ride it, thats great to hear, thanks for all the feedback!

1 month max I recken. I reccomend a hope mono, cant go wrong with one of those.

cool vid, I liked it, you are improving pretty fast too, nice one

hahahaha, thought you would like it Ads

I was in Singapore!!!! Ace country, best I have been to! soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo HOT! Vid was cool, nice to see the place again, thanks for putting it up Tom

they are meant to be threaded though? thats how bolts work. anyway, if they are stripped. you could drill thought the bash and just run long bolts and nuts (depending on setup).

would look nicer with a lower bb

local bikeshope Ride-On are involved, I will ask them. Not sure if the scheme you said would be totally apropriate as ita all un manned, but we'll see.

yeah, TOO HIGH!!!!!!!!!! my ashton proto will be mint with 15-20mm rise

down is the new up, no more than 20mm....EVER!!! listen to me, I have a beard!

havnt asked yet, no doubt somthing will come about when the presintation is done, but as it is riding is encouraged up there, theres no disclamers or anything, so maybe they are sitting on a time bomb, but there must be somthing that can be done otherwise it wouldnt have gotten off the starting block.

I guess I'll go too

only ever seen 2 people shooting rabbits and a couple of dog walkers, its on the moors with no lights or anything, its not shomwhere chavs go. Its going to be unmanned, so paying for stuff like parking might be difficult, I'll ask about it though.

I am pretty sure its open to the public

theres going to be a 30 mile xc loop, plenty of xc riders will drive for that so I should think there will be camping and stuff, I cant promise that its in the same quarry though....I'll ask about it next time I speak with them, I agree that it would be dead handy to have.

you know where lancashire is dont you? well its the east of it bout 2 hours for you I think, maybe less

not sure, this one stopped being used 80 years ago, theres no buildings or anything up there.