Mark W

Sounds like a lot of the time it's event organisers who have to sort the live stream stuff, so it's not really a UCI thing as such. That player just wouldn't work for me...

There was the Spank Spike Race 33 which is the latest version of the Spikes. Weird it's cracked the inner wall like that either way - be interesting to see what Spank say!

Magura brakes feel much more like a rim brake in terms of lever feel than Hopes too. Think it's mainly down to the springs in the levers, but they just feel a lot more responsive and lighter at the lever. MT4s if you want to save a bit of weight (get some Jitsie pads for them) or MT5s if you want a bit more power (Trialtech/Jitsie MT5 pads again). HC3 blades are a worthwhile investment too

Nice work Ricardo, good to see how your riding's been progressing That 360 nose tap drop thing looked big! Liked the line on the hip earlier in the video too

New promo video for the Bronson - nicely put together Apparently if you've got surprisingly delicate sensibilities the drug references are upsetting, so be warned...

It is, yeah. Word re: Carousel. I was mainly waiting to see how horrific that'd be on the inside-cockpit view, but makes sense that he just nibbled the outer edge of it. That short-shifting on the way out was quite something too. all the torque please

This is f**king rapid.</redundant statement>

That to-pedal line was quite cool actually, was an interesting surprise. Can see that Shintaro (still always type it Sintaro, not used to the change :p) has pushed his riding a bit for this - his clips on Instagram have generally been really good, but he's raised the bar a bit in this one. That flip was serious business too, especially seeing as it almost went a lot wrong in the clips at the end.

...and? Or if we're going to keep the whole "faux bantz" stuff up 'coolstorybro.jpg'

Nah, but the way you were putting it implied people who weren't buzzing about being left in the lurch for months were the ones at fault. If you haven't been on TF for years and aren't aware of the situation you're getting yourself into then it's understandable to be wondering what's up, as Dave was when he made this post.

Fairly legitimately in a twist though? If I bought something for a reasonable chunk of money and didn't hear from the seller for a long time I'd be a little concerned too.

I'm out of the loop with the Car thread and didn't realise you had that going on - nice work dude

Cool - just need a couple of bolts then

AFAIK they've never made one that takes 8mm bolts. They did button head M10 bolts that required a 6mm allen key, and they did M10 bolts that took an 8mm allen key, but aside from a QR I thought that was about it. 6mm allen key/button head bolts: 8mm allen key/not shit bolts: Both are M10 with the same pitch (1.5 from memory).

Typically you can get away with a reasonable amount. I've seen some fairly heavily scratched carbon bars and forks keep on going, but it's worth exercising your judgement with that. If it's a deep gouge then it might be worth keeping a very close eye on it to see if you can see the start of any cracks form, but if it's just a little scratch here and there it's all good. For strength, the Crewkerz or Clean forks are the way to go. The Crewkerz forks require a through axle front hub which theoretically helps stiffen up the front of your bike a bit, but if you've got a standard bolt-in front hub the Clean forks will be the best for you. Going for the Clean forks gives you a lot more flexibility with hubs you can run which is worth bearing in mind.

Just came here to post this - some really, really good riding in that! Nice work from all of you guys.

To be a little more constructive - it might seem like vlogs are all candid clips thrown together, but they're never that straight forward. For example, if you thought taking the bike out looked shit you can just do it again and pretend that was the 'real' one rather than making people watch you do the same thing twice, when it's not exactly scintillating footage. Most vlogs are edited to be quick and choppy to keep people's interest, so taking your bike out the car then coming back and telling people you're going to do it again, then doing it again, isn't really sticking with that. Obviously it's your first time doing it so it's never going to be perfect, but just try and have a bit of a higher quality control on the go. If it doesn't need to be in there, don't put it in there just because it's 'only' a vlog.

Fair play for getting it done dude At least you can both move on now without it hanging over you.

+ don't f**k someone who can directly impact whether you keep your job or not.

Unless you're planning on spending the rest of your life with her, you're going to have to "face up to it" at some point. Why waste a month waiting to face up to it when you could just do it now?

If you want to bin it off, why not just bin it off? It's a prime time if you're going to be mega busy with work stuff as you're essentially cutting the umbilical and she'll have to face up to it, rather than hoping she somehow reads between the lines and takes you having taken a new job to mean you don't want to be with her any more? Life has enough drama in it already without artificially creating it for yourself needlessly.

That suspension bounce at 1:05. Yes.

In the mean time, the bolt-up QRs worked better for me than the paddle types do. You lose the QR functionality for obvious reasons, but they do tend to hold in place better.

Unfortunately not, sorry. They're completely different hubs, so there's no real 'kit' (bearings, end caps, etc.) or anything available to do that.

I assume Kloe Kardashian, the Nottingham Post and "Hot Insta Babes 2" were thrilled.