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:) from the mechanics fb group.
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got a 22t front ring should be easy to wheelie, bike stormz street cred for a few seconds until i fall off the back.
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Or just walk up the steeeeep bits
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Still got some might go 2x9 :)
look better than those 50t rear sprockets :)
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Hmmm
That's sealed the fate on one hardtail frame then......soon to be for sale....
For extra rad moments i have an old SX Trail to recomission into a shuttle monster. The KM for Trail and Steamroller for hack, could sell the 853 and keep the fork as a spare for shuttle monster.
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Just been looking at specialized and they are speccing TranzX posts, i gotta feeling that's the same factory as Brand X ?
Might get round to building the KM up as technical trail slayer, dropper post would be useful :)
Moving house soon, should be within 2 hours of most of the Welsh Bike parks and Trail centers.
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Kinda echoes the retailer reviews @pit :) which is good to hear.
Not really looked into them for years, all had suspect reliability and only in 30+ seat post sizes.
Was taken back to see some for £650 with bluetooth ? :) and at the time crank bros and Thomson came out the pricing was a bit steep we thought. -
Revising bike stuffs.
Anyone here used a "Brand X" dropper seatpost ? they do an external cable and in 27.2mm diameter. Seem reliable and score better than the more costly ones.
Thinking of bucking forum general thinking and actually getting rid of some Beiks and condensing what i have against having stuffs in boxes not being used.
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With the other 2 try imperial or a Torx bit.
Had success with torx because americans like to mix up imperial and metrics sometimes :)
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Moving house soon so packed all books away.
Did get a recent one from waterstones, best stories of fishing from last 200years (or something like that) The hook for me (epuh) was the back cover about a bet about casting from a hotel to the Thames...... this involved an employee from Hardys being lashed to the chimney of a hotel and making a fly cast to the Thames. :)
If it's not windy shall attempt to not catch fish off Dungeness in the morning :)
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And another to waste some time while at work........
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I lack finnese, do i lob out 1/4lb of lead or 1/2lb of lead weight :)
Quick youtube guide to float fishing.
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Doing better than me, haven't caught anything yet, only had a few pulls.
Must try Dungeness again maybe the Thresher Sharks have gone now :)
Floats are a minefield too, from ultra light quill floats to heavy duty sea floats and all inbetween, mine are polystyrene cigar type that use 13 grams of weight.
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Try fly fishing :)
About 50lb braid with a profiled synthetic outer layer, the line is the casting weight, the weight is built into the forward portion of the 30m length. I get to play with...
Floating (simples)
Intermeditate or Hover (sub surface floaters)
Sinking (simples)
Sinking but graded to inchs of sink per second of time (ballache)
But using freshwater line in saltwater alters things.I got 4 spools loaded up with used line but unsure what they are :) the floaters easy, but what i think is a sinker sort of acts like intermediate in salt water.
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Not really a coarse float fisher and sounds like your using very light gear.
Could be...
Too many split leads on line.
Weight of line or current pulling line and float under.
Hollow float ? taking on water and gently sinking.
Bored fish taking the piss :) -
The scooter thing cropped up on youtube feed the other day.
Think it was Goonsquad off to buy a cheap boat project, stopped off in the city to try the scooters for rent. They kinda are nobs in cars and started joking about the scoots being slower than expected, which by the end of the rental they where glad they had been capped to 15mph and not the rumored 25-30mph...... America or Canada. And user protection was t-shirt and shorts and baseball cap so an off and tarmac interface at 30mph might have battered some sense into them quicker. -
Someones nicked the seatpost and saddle from one already :)
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Off to view an auction on Friday for classics.
Going off the supplied photos on the website both cars i like look allright.
However..... after running the plate numbers into the Gov.uk MOT history checker i get a wild story of one car (Healy) being a drive away job. The other car will need trailering away, new tyres, new king pins, brake work, probs lots of welding etc etc so i can rule that one out.
Going to view anyway, might watch the sale and see what they go for as the auction house are not putting guide prices out so far :(
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Bread Fans will feed the Budgie
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:)
Would adopt but not in london.
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Several weekly/monthly paper mags in WHSmiths on coarse fishing or Fly and sea fishing or just punch in your question to Youtube for a video answer.
Fly fishing is as i am finding out a very complex pastime with subtle variables depending on what month it is that could all be solved by lobbing a grenade into the water but that's unsporting and too cost effective. :)
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The numbered scale around the spool tells you how much line the spool will hold in differing weights.
Normal practice is to get a spool of larger diameter line say 15lb and wind that on to fill up the spool, then add the 100m of lighter line, not likely you will have a fish run and strip 100m of 4lb line in a river or pond/lake :)
As to quick links... as already noted you can either tie on a small gemini clip hook or a small swivel, for the fly fishing i use a fine quick hook tied to the leader so i can just clip on/off flies over cutting off and retying.
If your in London visit Farlows at 9 Pall Mall and grab a catalogue (free) and up the road on the way to the tube station is the Orvis flagstore, grab a catalogue from there too, both are more Game and Fly fishing but worth a wander into :)
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Guess i am not hip as i have no clue to what goes on in this thread most of the time :)
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Why would you drop 2 tonnes on a watch ?
Are you suggesting i use a 2 ton motor vehicle to run over one ?
LFGSS
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Meet up by arrangement at Ashford International train station or Stratford or St Pancras as I am outside London. Ideally meet up early weekend mornings.
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Moving house early August, having a clearout, if no interest it goes back in the attic/garage.
So a bundle of stuff. A used 2010 Atom lab Pimp2 Frame. Boxed. Overall in very good condition having been heli-taped (tape removed) some marking to dropouts as you would expect and to rear caliper mount from fitting wheels and caliper. Can be run with 24" or 26" wheels, it will swallow a 26x2.5 Continental DH tyre with plenty of mud clearance. Couple of minor chips. A scuff along the top tube left side from muddy leg armour. Daytona Triple Butted steel tubeset.
Comes with seat post clamp.
Comes with brand new Thomson 25.4x330mm seatpost, this post is new and never been fitted, comes in bag. At the time I could only find short BMX seat posts in 25.4mm an being 6' 1" tall I needed more post...… had to special order 2 Tommys as at the time I couldn't find anything else long enough, the used one is on another frame.
Comes with one New in tin with joining pin never fitted Gusset 1/2 link chain, also one used, condition unknown, length/links unknown Gusset 1/2 link chain in plastic bag.
A crossover design that was as happy with a rigid fork for street/park or 150mm fork for DH park or race. A one size fits all frame.
Needs an owner to ride it hard and free it from being prisoned in an attic :)
£150