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My trailstar was one of the most fun bikes I've ever ridden

This will be porn

that's what I'm now wondering

Just a local one in Leicester, only 8 seconds off the record, might have to do some training before the next one. I think all of the fast 10s are finished now, after the cancellation of the v718 event that was so hyped up?

Absolute hero

Came third in a hill climb today, which was nice. First 25 next Saturday, which probably won't be nice

Dibs 110mm stem, will pm

How do handicaps work?

Thanks all for the advice. I'll wait and see if we can find an owner, ideal situation is she's got one and just comes to us for a bit of attention

Cheers for the help guys. My mate's got cats so I'll borrow a carrier and try and take her to a vets if the collar doesn't yield any results

After a little advice, if you would be so kind. Moved into my new student house over the weekend, and on monday this little person turned up:

No collar, and looked like she needed some love, so I gave her a saucer of milk (for which I was subsequently told off by my vet student girlfriend.) Left her out a tin of food last night, which got eaten, and put out another one today which she turned up to eat after about 5 minutes. She was more than happy being stroked and made a fuss of, and took a few tentative steps into the house.

My question is what should I be doing with her? I'm probably going to put one of the RSPCA paper collars on asking any potential owner to phone us so we know she's not stray, but where would we go from there if she is a stray? I'm more than happy to keep feeding her, but not sure what would happen over holidays when we all go home. Also, any food tips? Preferably on the cheap side. She's been getting Morrison's own tins so far, I've been recommended mixing these with some dried food?

That Raleigh just doesn't do it for me :(

Bit in bold, is that even english?

It climbs really well, nothing particularly slack about 68.5º HT 72.5º ST angles. Same as other tried and tested AM frames, like the transition transAM. If you look up the Ragley Blue Waffle, some have only 100/120mm forks, but find one with 150mm forks like mine and they are pretty slack too. I didn't want 'safe' xc geo. I wanted slack, stable front end, short ETT, and basically fucking rad. Your ragley has a slacker head angle (67.5º) and 1/2 a degree steeper seat tube angle (72.5º), and I reckon that's with a 130mm fork too. So make it a 150, and it's slack!

Maybe tilt your head to one side while you look at it and it won't offend you so much. The first photo the bike isn't level too, so maybe that makes it look worse.

Chill, just making a few comments, it's still a sick bike. Guessing it's custom?

For some reason Ragley quote their geo with a sagged 140mm fork. Static geo is a 65.5 degree head angle and a 72 degree seat tube. I'd still argue that your st is slacker, but whatever.

Gets run at 110mm most of the time as I like the lower bb, but gets wound out to 140mm for uplift days

It's an all mountain frame, not a fixie.

Thanks for the clarification, but that is super slack even by mtb standards, can't imagine it climbs very well. Which is my all mountain frame has a fairly steep seat tube (ragley blue pig)

Very slack seat tube?

You know the builder? Is it the guy riding?

Don't know him, but I don't think he's the guy in the picture

I would say no, too deep. Specalized's new carbon clincher wheels don't have bead hooks as they say it's not a problem with lower mtb pressures, and proper bead hooks are hard to make in carbon. See here http://singletrackworld.com/2012/08/eurobike-your-starter-for-ten/

Anyway, we digress...

My gloves have a perpetual odour, irrespective of washing

^this, though most of the xc racers at the olympics were on tubulars

Have you tried washing it?

http://www.bikerumor.com/2012/09/14/bike-ahead-revamps-one-piece-full-carbon-mountain-bike-wheels/

HHSMTB?

Built by a guy on STW, he's made loads of mad bikes

http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/worlds-first-folding-recumbent-penny-farthing

Is the disc wheel for sells?

Also, spotted this outside the Colosseum when I was in Rome. Mad drillium, I think this is the logical thread?