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I remember quite fancying one of these when they were new. Ended up with an X1 which was comfortably the worst bike I have owned. It got stolen and I thought that was the end of it but no, the police recovered it and the thieves 😒 Police: "here's your bike back" Me: 'yay...'

I briefly had a RC127+ I just bought it for the parts (£850 for this whole bike!). It was far too small for me but I did take it for a spin and it felt pretty good :)

That's about 10kg more than what I want to be carrying anywhere but in general, yes.

But that's just business. In every sector of our lives there is someone finding a solution to a problem we weren't aware that we had. I don't begrudge anyone doing that and we are all capable of deciding what we want to spend money on

Just finished building this up and it is replacing my Scott Scale. I didn’t want to depress myself by weighing it but I think it’s a whisker heavier than the Scott. However, I wanted a bolt through rear so I’ll accept the trade off. Anyway: Enve MTN forks Reynolds Assault LE wheels Schwalbe...

Centrelock looks much neater. I do have 6 bolt on most of my bikes but that's just because the disc interface is very much a secondary consideration after wheel/hub quality

I know some frames and forks with IS mounts needed a lot of shims to space the caliper far enough in. I guess Magura were compensating?

I don't really understand drop bars at all. People keep telling me they offer more hand positions but I have just found it to be a range of uncomfortable positions. The ergon grips on my riser bars give me much more support and comfort without needing to change position. All just seems to be...

I remember having Curve canti's on my Kona. They weren't bad but not a patch on the V's everyone else was starting to get into. I snapped the bridge cable on the rear and, not having a spare, I just used zip ties to bodge it up. I have no explanation for why but this massively increased the...

This is the bike I do most of my rides including multi day trips. No mounts for racks or guards and I wouldn't want them. If I can't fit it in my saddlebag or backpack then I don't need it. Photo was taken towards the end of a London - Brighton - London trip during the heatwave last year...

My main issue with the setup I had is that I just couldn't get the crankarms to stay tight

Isis was only cool for about 10 minutes before Hollowtech II stole the show. For what it's worth I had a Truvativ Giga Pipe back in 2006 but replaced the whole setup fairly swiftly!

nah, that was when they moved to IS.

There was a yellow Z2

I think Cheng Shin have actually overtaken Continental now

It's not impossible but I'm not sure what either company would stand to gain

Hope XC at a guess

Hope used to offer custom discs like that to anyone for an extra charge. I think they stopped doing that along with the lightning rotors as they kept cracking

I think we both got bargains. The advert said they needed work but pumping up the forks and bleeding the rear brake didn't take much effort! Hope you have a similarly easy time with the Whyte

It’s the 2011. Last of the 26ers I think