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Has anyone used Formula brakes?

Currently got some Shimano Zee on the Solaris Max, quite fancy a change and a bit of bling.

Trickstuff are a bit too pricey.
Hope are usually pretty good so a set of X2's is a possibility.
Just seen some Formula T1 Racing and they seem to get decent reviews.

Any suggestions?

Brow-furrowing article from advrider. Apparently most American bikers are obnoxious shitheads! What does the panel think? I've spent a couple of years travelling around the US, and it's certainly jam-packed with cretins...are the bikers any worse than the rest? I eavesdropped on a bunch of them on the Blue Ridge Parkway, and the stupidity was priceless. And I went to a biker meetup in Miami, which was so soul-destroying I wanted to burn everything in sight. But it's the same at the Ace Cafe or the Hog's Back.

That’s pretty much the opinion I get when I look on any American motorbike forum.
They seem to be a rather odd, tribal bunch across the pond.
As you say though, nights at The Ace are just as bad, at least they were last time I went there about 15 years back.

It turns out that if you message them asking to be removed from their database, the in-house solicitor says they'll delete your data within a month.

Depending on what speciality a nurse has they can go in to jobs in GP surgeries.

Quite a few surgeries now employ nurses/paramedics/physios directly which is seen as a way out of the NHS for quite a few.
I can’t talk about nurses but for paramedics it’s similar money to the NHS banding, no weekends or nights and still lets you pay in to the NHS pension. It’s proving popular as an escape route for some and they seem to be trying to recruit more and more.
As most surgeries are private companies now, it’s worsening staffing issues in the NHS and slowly but surely privatising my more and more of the health service.

These are a few years old, not had a great deal of wear as I never rode much outdoors in the winter!
They’re a UK45 and need a clean. Fitted with a set of Look Keo cleats.
£40 posted

I bought this to go on my wife's MTB but having tried the AXS on mine, she prefers the mechanical XT gears she has.
It's brand new and was bought about three weeks ago, sadly it's now too late to return it.
Looking for £310 including insured postage for it.

My Garmin's just started measuring this as well. I've no idea how it works but really need to read up on it.
My watch is showing mine as being 40ms which it says is balanced. I've not got a clue if that's good or bad.

Anyone looking for cheap GX AXS then you can get it for £316 here!

https://www.bikeactive.com/sram-gx-axs-upgrade-kits-c2x35731008

Use the code BLACK20 when you check out.
R2-bike in Germany are also doing 12 speed GX Eagle cassettes for about £98 with no import charges etc.

Now sold.

It’s the GPS only model.

The marks look far worse in the photo’s than they are. I’ll try and get a couple more photo’s later with the screen on so you can see it better.

Mathias Flückiger Provisionally suspended for testing positive. He’ll be out of this afternoons European MTB Champs now.

https://www.pinkbike.com/news/mathias-flueckiger-provisionally-suspended-after-testing-positive-for-zeranol.html

I've gone back to a Garmin watch as I preferred it over the Apple Watch.

The Apple Watch is a Series 7 in blue with the 45mm case. It comes with the blue strap.
There's a couple of light scratches on the screen as shown in the pictures and a small mark on the side of the casing.
The watch is boxed and comes with the wireless charger.
It was bought fromJohn Lewis on 12/3/22 so is covered by their 2 year warranty, the receipt will be sent with the watch. I also bought the two year extended accidental damage cover for the watch which runs until 24/3/24. I don't think it's possible to swap the names on this but I'll send all documentation to the buyer so they can use it for any claims if required. I'll be happy to help with any claims as it'll be in my name still.

Looking for £200 posted for the watch.

SOLD

If you paid for them with Paypal then you can get Paypal to pay for the return shipping.

https://www.paypal.com/uk/webapps/mpp/refunded-returns

I've used it quite a few times, in fact once was with PBK when I sent a dropper post back.

Did you get sorted with an Apple Watch?
I’m going to be selling my Series 7 if you’re interested?

We use them at our place.
The website always seems a bit ropey though. They seems to have a couple of sites, one for employers and one for employees, and it sometimes sends me to the wrong one when I try to log in.

Apart from the website, they’ve been good enough though.

There aren’t rafters as such. It’s an old metal framed garage with corrugated concrete panel roof. The old 50’s/60’s type with the very low pitch roof. It probably stands no more than 2.5m high and the metal frame where I can attach anything is probably about 2m high.
I’ve got a set of the TRX straps, probably cheap copies, off a mate who used them for shoulder rehab a while ago. Just need to get them in the garage and play around with fixing points for them I think.

Excellent, thanks for that.
I'll Google the exercises and see if I can put something together.

They’ll be fixed to the rafter of the garage roof. There’s not much height to it and nowhere to fix to a wall. Nowhere to fit a pull up bar either.

It’s not ideal but I’m a bit limited on space here.

Has anyone got any experience of TRX type suspension strength training?

I really need to work on upper body and core but don't have much space at home for equipment and no inclination to join a gym. I can set up some of the TRX straps in the corner of the garage.

Obviously not looking to get absolutely ripped etc, just improvements to functional strength in core, back and shoulders.
Is it worth it or are there better things to do with my time?

Thanks.
Went for the Hope X2’s in the end.
They’re better than I ever remember Hope brakes being.
Currently trying to talk myself out of upgrading the MTB brakes to some new Hope Tech 4.

I’ve got two old Ultegra calipers in the spares box.
One was suffering with the Shimano leak thing.
The other was fine.
I’ve no idea which is which.

You can have them for a fiver for postage if you want?

All now sold.

They're both flat mount.
The rear is the normal flat mount but the front is designed to work with a 160mm rotor rather than a 140mm like normal flat mount calipers. It mounts directly to the fork rather than needing an adaptor.

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This groupset has been taken off my CX bike and is in full working order.

The groupset consists of the following:

Ultegra R8070 Shifters
EW-RS910 Bar End Charger Port/Junction Box
EW-WU111 Bluetooth Unit
SM-JC41 B Junction Box
BT-DN110 Seatpost Battery
XT Di2 Rear Derailleur
E-Tube Wires in the following lengths, 35cm, 60cm (2 of), 100cm, 120cm, 160cm
Hope RX4 Flat mount Calipers with 70cm and 140cm hoses
XG-1175 10/42 cassette

The groupset is a couple of years old but works perfectly, the callipers are around 12 months old and were replacements for leaking Shimano calipers. The cassette was on a spare set of wheels and has probably done <200 miles.

Asking £550 for the groupset.

NOW SOLD