The MTB thread

[Paul the 6th]

Originally Posted by fizzwheel

One more thing.. Does your employer do a cycle to work scheme or anything like that. Some employers do if they are a big company and the subsidise the cost of the bike. It can work out cheaper buying your bike that way... it doesnt always work out cheaper it depends on your earnings and tax bracket etc.

Just another option.

self employed

[fizzwheel]

Ah Ok thats not going to help then is it

OK one more place that might be worth a read is here

www. bikeradar.com

Theres a forum, with alot of cycling geeks on there, but it might give you some more food for thought as to what you want from a bike.

[Paul the 6th]

Originally Posted by fizzwheel

Ah Ok thats not going to help then is it

I'll have a word with the boss and see what's what

Originally Posted by fizzwheel

OK one more place that might be worth a read is here

www. bikeradar.com

Theres a forum, with alot of cycling geeks on there, but it might give you some more food for thought as to what you want from a bike.

nice one fizz, venom has just mentioned a mtb forum as well - will check them out later

pinkbike.com has a good forum, but beware of cocky canadians/americans/brits etc

[Paul the 6th]

anyone seen this yet? while carrying out a bit of research, came across this on the mtb forums.... mental skills & dangerous lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLzGj10fg2g

Gotta love them boys

Took a nice little trip home yesterday and to work today, adds about 2 miles to the journey and around 10-15 mins to the journey but wayyyyyyyy more fun, through a set of woods and across a couple of grassy tracks. Happy days, won't be doing it every day though

[northwind]

1:28, nearly riding into a police car fail. Skilled but they're still c***s. No wonder so many people hate cyclists.

Was at glentress tonight, jockey wheel fell out of my rear mech so I had to turn it into a singlespeed But that didn't work very well with no tensioner so I gave up on the whole chain concept after about the 4th time it jammed up- after tubeless, the next cool trend will be chainless, it's AWESOME. Luckily, it broke after we did the main climb so I could roll almost the whole rest of the way, pumping every rise and fall. It was brilliant I ended up going faster down a lot of sections than my usual, I'm a bad comfort braker but tonight I wanted to keep the pace going. Ended up with my forks locked out too to get the most out of pumping the slopes.

Not sure I recommend it exactly, but it's a great laugh. I think if we'd stuck at it I could have rigged the mech as a tensioner, or maybe just found a combination of gears that didn't just shift and jam all the time, but I'm glad I didn't, rolling is more fun than singlespeed.

Originally Posted by northwind

1:28, nearly riding into a police car fail. Skilled but they're still c***s. No wonder so many people hate cyclists.

Was at glentress tonight, jockey wheel fell out of my rear mech so I had to turn it into a singlespeed But that didn't work very well with no tensioner so I gave up on the whole chain concept after about the 4th time it jammed up- after tubeless, the next cool trend will be chainless, it's AWESOME. Luckily, it broke after we did the main climb so I could roll almost the whole rest of the way, pumping every rise and fall. It was brilliant I ended up going faster down a lot of sections than my usual, I'm a bad comfort braker but tonight I wanted to keep the pace going. Ended up with my forks locked out too to get the most out of pumping the slopes.

Not sure I recommend it exactly, but it's a great laugh. I think if we'd stuck at it I could have rigged the mech as a tensioner, or maybe just found a combination of gears that didn't just shift and jam all the time, but I'm glad I didn't, rolling is more fun than singlespeed.

When i used to ride ramps/parks with my mates if a chain broke it was just an excuse to try everything backwards!

[yorkie_chris]

Originally Posted by Paul the 6th

anyone seen this yet? while carrying out a bit of research, came across this on the mtb forums.... mental skills & dangerous lol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLzGj10fg2g

Lol t wats!
Moderately amusing to think about the inevitable time when someone gives them a good kicking though.

Who is soundtrack?

I'm just jealous that my filtering in London was not even half that speed, only when I followed Terrayakichicken on his 675 did I speed up