MacRetro chat and rides thread

[Jamiedyer]

Happy Birthday!
Have a great day

Jamie

 

[DynaCol]

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Cheers guys, I'm fully expecting it to pass without any fanfare lol

I'm still just trying to understand how 42 has crept up on me like this! Maybe time to buy myself another bike to take my mind off it :mrgreen:

 

[RobMac]

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Maybe time to buy myself another bike to take my mind off it :mrgreen:

It works for me :mrgreen:

 

[clubby]

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Maybe time to buy myself another bike to take my mind off it :mrgreen:

It works for me :mrgreen:

Aye, but you're trying to get one for every year you've been alive

 

[velomaniac]

Has he got room for 100 bikes :shock:

 

[clubby]

Has he got room for 100 bikes :shock:

No, but that's not stopping him trying

 

[RobMac]

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Are Hope H/sets and B/brackets any good?
Went on CRC and read some of the feed-back on Hope H/sets
and it wasn't great :?

 

[clubby]

Had them on the Ibis and didn't never touched them in 3 years and were perfect. Bottom bracket was transferred to Jones and did an extra year of riding without any maintenance. Got two current bikes using the headset and one with BB and never had an issue.

Particularly like the headsets as you can buy the upper and lower separately making it much easier to get the combination you need for all the sizes around today. Also easy to get spare crown races if swapping forks around. Replacement bearings from Hope are expensive but cheap to get from local bearing supplier if ever needed.

Bottom bracket expensive compared to XT but if you like to fit and forget I think they are worth it. Headsets are as good as Chris King but half the price.

 

[RobMac]

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Cheers Clubby

 

[epicyclo]

Re: Re:

Are Hope H/sets and B/brackets any good?
Went on CRC and read some of the feed-back on Hope H/sets
and it wasn't great :?

Yes they're good unless you're one of those numpties who likes to jet blast his bike clean and then whinge when his bearings don't last long.