And today I did......

[The Ken]

Poolio it is a good feeling when the young'uns big you up, happened to me a few times, they just don't realise you don't need 6 inches of travel to ride down a hill or over a jump

 

[poolio]

Aye! With the elastomers as shot as they are, I dare say I had much more than an inch travel to play with, but in fact it's all you really need - unless you're doing those silly monster drops.. but who wants to do them!?

 

[zigzag]

Laced up a rim with the Marzocchi QR20 hub last night for the Moho. Took me all bloody night, and of course I still need to tighten and actually true the bloody thing. As usual, I forgot everything I learned when I did my first wheel, so there was much lacing/unlacing of spokes until they stopped resembling a plate of spaghetti.

I also find myself looking at roadie bits and bobs again... Big.eck kindly donated the Trek 1000 frame, forks and red flip/flop wheelset to me on Sunday in lieu of petrol money! So the good news is, it looks like I've got the basis of a winter training bike - the bad news of course is there will be some spending involved. It's a 2001, so it's neither retro nor modern - not sure quite how I'll build it, head says 'keep it cheap', bike-snob says 'invest in parts you can re-use when you move up to something decent'.

 

[RobMac]

Started riding the 40 mile round trip to work again today, I equald my best time going to work and thats after a long break from it. Didnt cough my lungs up and was pulling like a cart horse :twisted:


Very enjoyable

 

[dyna-ti]

Won £150 on a scratch card[i buy about one a month,+ yes i know im a lucky so and so]
Popped into the city centre and bought myself something not bike related.

A new monitor
I feel all flash now

 

[clockworkgazz]

you could have at least posted a picture of you surfing some bongo.....

 

[kaiser]

Today I washed and cleaned the Ritchey, feeling the need to strip it again and check its ok Big tidy up going on and I feel there will be a few more casualties!

 

[Rumble]

Ebay impluse buy tonight - saw it looking all lonley with no bids and thought, well you can never have too many rear mechs...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI....eName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1439.l2649

Don't know anything about these - are they any use or total trash? Either way it'll find a home! Any idea if it uses the normal shifting ratio or needs a SRAM shifter?

 

[big.eck]

it's just a re-named sram esp mech they work well but don't like hitting the ground hard

 

[Rumble]

Yeah, I knew it wasn't an uber-rare Shimano ESP!! Does it need 1:1 or 2:1 shifters?