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Why not Scalpel?

It's pretty easy to set up detachable cabling runs to swap a light on or off a rack (or have multiple of the cheap B&M rears). On my partner's bike I have the light, then a separate cable that runs through the rack, then another separate cable from the dropout to the front, which I can attach the light directly to, on a little mount at the dropout, if I take the rack off.

If you already have a dynamo obvs, probably not worth the faff if you don't!

https://www.starbike.com/en/manitou-mezzer-pro-suspension-fork/

Yeah I'd post. I'll check how much I paid for them and get back to you

Got a pair for sale if you want to find out. Silver-grey, not fluoro yellow, unfortunately.

I used a set of Racelines for actual mountain biking for ages and thought they were brilliant, personally

Joined the Pompino club!

(Briefly. Going to off to a friend in Sheffield soon.)

I'm thinking of those long drags of pavement next to screaming trunk roads that I sometimes run into

There's nothing like that. All the back roads around there are fairly quiet tbh

Is anyone looking for a 27.5+/29 fork? I'm getting a financially painful urge to move over to a coil fork but I'd have to sell my Manitou Magnum Pro (functionally identical to a Mattoc Pro 2). 100-140mm, IRT (dual positive spring) upgrade. It's an absurdly good fork, and extremely easy to tune and service.

There's one scratch on the working part of the right stanchion but it has been carefully polished back so it's not a functional problem. Other than that it's been meticulously maintained with regular lower leg and air spring services, and I can supply it with the tool kit, spare seals and fluids. HMU. I'd like £400 for all that, negotiable if you don't want the IRT or service parts.

I think you can buy the be-porched fly separately to put over a normal Spur

We have a Big Agnes Copper Hotel, which is the same as the Spur but with a mahoosive porch. It's so good

Everytime someone posts about Shimano brakes I think "countless reports of wandering bite points and leaky calipers!"

Forever in his shadow :(

too big for him

since when am I short?

Dibs when you sell

I had to cancel my preorder due to lack of funds :(

Specialized Grail

Old style Hans Dampf, hard compound. That list is pretty dated.

And also mostly pointless for real MTB tyres.

You can't get good grip in mud and reasonable rolling resistance without going to a smaller tyre.

Bontrager XR Mud and Specialized Storm are both good XC mud tyres in 2.0" that are still quite fast on dry ground, but you'll have to give up some cush. I've ridden both, the Bontrager especially, for years and years, and I really like them, but I don't place that much importance on volume and that's just how I learned to ride.

Otherwise you just have to put up with an intermediate conditions tyre that doesn't clear mud very well and will slip on climbs if you're not careful. Don't get Nobby Nics, they're shit. Maybe a Hans Dampf. Someone can probably chime in on Vittoria options

I mean it's awful any way you swing it

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/15/tresspass-trap-law-land-travelling-people-rights

The petition misses the point that the changes can be used to target protesters, like the XR climate strike camps, no?

Additionally, the original consultation questions were absurdly leading

Is there anyone making reasonably-priced lightweight coroplast or fabric-on-frame cargo boxes? I need something lighter than the 9kg folding box I currently have for my trailer. 200L or so. A big duffel of some sort could work too, but would need a stiff base. Must be pretty waterproof.

Oh and I swapped the Nitto for a Soma Portola bar which is a great shape but possibly the worst-made handlebar I've ever owned. The bends are so poorly done I couldn't clamp the levers to them before the bolt bottomed out. Had to put two 3mm can shims on each one before they held fast. Cannot reccomend

Yeah, I really like them. On a new set now, with the Addix compound. They do wear a bit quick and I had an annoying puncture right in the middle of a centre knob that kept reopening, but they're very fast, comfortable, and are way better than I'd expected on singletrack. Vast improvement in ALL areas on the slick 48mm GKs.

Might try some Marathon Almotion for winter, I need to retape the wheels anyway

I think its the orignal fork, thats been modified by August Frameworks

This

I've gone back to Dura-Ace XTR 9sp and cycled from Norwich to Edinburgh but I still haven't taken a single decent picture of it.