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Back when I was a kid we did something like 3000 miles a year as a family, and at ten I could do 60 miles off road quite comfortably. Admittedly that was more estate tracks and such more than the technical mountain trails I'd ride these days, but still. It was as a kid riding these trails that...

Some would say I'm being negative, and to be fair I probably am. The damper is properly good, but is it better than giving a Charger 2.1 to someone like Jake at Sprung and asking them to work their magic? Arguably not, and the likes of a RS/Fox/Manitou product will have a better made chassis and...

Another DH bike that doesn't get ridden much. Back in 2011 I was still working for Pinkbike and they bought this for me through the UK distributor in a lovely shade of chrome grey as payment for some of the stuff I was doing for them. I raced it that season but as I returned to having a proper...

Apologies for the lengthy post, or rather the massive amount of pictures, but hopefully this is of interest to at least one or two of you. I've not had much of a chance to ride it since this back in 2022 as the weather last year was so crap that I never had call for it, and the days I did have...

I have a soft spot for these old Treks for a few reasons. The main one is that my first 26" wheeled bike was a 14.5" framed 850 in Ice Green, and partly because a lot of the guidebooks we had back in the day which covered Scotland, and still have actually, have one of the writers onboard a Trek...

Cheers, it's nice to remind myself of stuff I've had/done by doing these. Once I've finished some other bikes off I'll post more. The race pics I *think* are all Ian Linton's, the other riding ones in the North West are my dads as he used to do a lot of the shooting for me when I was doing stuff...

Not sure I'd call him a 'moron' @Lacuna, not everyone keeps up with the going rate for everything, especially if it's been sat gathering dust for years. And if the going rate is £7-900 for a shagged out pair of nearly 20 year old 40's then the drug dealers on their electric motorbikes are...

This is a bit newer than a lot of the stuff on here but as it's still nearly twenty years old I thought it might be of some interest to at least a few of you. Back in January 2005 I 'signed' with Rotec for racing DH in the UK with their then new RL9 which was the first departure from the...

From memory (and it's a while since I actually had to pay attention to front mechs and such), M739 XT was always 110.5mm for 'standard' chainline on our bikes, whatever that actually was. What I do remember is that my dad bought a very nice Hope Ti BB for his Cannondale when it still had the...

Shimano used to publish tables in the back of all their catalogues. Sadly I've thrown all mine out a long time ago but a google might throw up something.