I've been in and out of serious cycling for a few years, but now I've moved up north with so much fantastic singletrack and Bike Parks, it'd be rude not to get back into it!
Just looking to re-frame and gear my current ride as its a bit too Jumpy and free ridey to pedal almost anywhere uphill.
(Hopefully that works, on iPad right now)
Looking to sell the DMR Bolt frame for about 350, and buy a used Cotic Bfe and full shimano XT 1x11 transmission.
I can get the bfe frame for about £175 so it should be possible to do the transmission with the change (I think, maybe a bit more)
Any other Mountain Bikers up Edinburgh way? I could do with some company to show me the pentlands etc. only really familiar with Glentress and Inners.
Who rides what then?
'Awibble'
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Vintage v400mh mahogany topped dreadnought acoustic FS - £100
Vintage v400mh mahogany topped dreadnought acoustic FS - £100
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i love my cotic !
Loads of good places near Edinburgh to take mountain bikes, although highland Perthshire is more spectacular.
I work at 18 Bikes in the Peak District, mainly in the workshop and I'm chief wheelbuilder.
As for what I ride, my mountain bike is a Santa Cruz Tallboy Carbon with a fairly nice spec. I've also got a Genesis Vapour cross bike and a Genesis Equilibrium road bike with full Ultegra and Chris King etc.
Sadly since lockdown the offroad stuff is in Weymouth and I am in S Oxfordshire (not known as the capital of RAD). Just had a good ride this morning and spent a couple of hours cleaning the two road machines as I'm about to sell the full on carbon one.
My toys at the moment...
Big bouncy Cannondale with wheels and bars upgraded to carbon. A decent long Reverb dropper in there and a Butcher/Slaughter combo tubeless. Brakes swapped out to Hope 4 pots and the drivetrain is now XT11 speed with an XTR shifter. Got nicked but I got it back three weeks later all perfectly intact and undamaged.
Rigid Cannondale, has an eccentric bottom bracket so it is occasionally run as a singlespeed. Brilliant for the Berkshire Ridgeway and general hooning about:
Bouncy but no suspension On One:
Lockdown road rocket, Planet X Carbon Evo Disc. Tubeless Scwalbe on upgraded wheelset.
My current favourite. Lightweight belt drive madness all rounder for everything from commuting to off road/gravel riding- BMC MC01 Team Machine with Hunt Aero Light wheels and a lot of Easton carbon bits running 28c Conti 5000 tubeless:
I now mostly just ride my road bike on rollers in the garage in the evenings just for fitness these days. Did manage to get out for a bit yesterday though, it's much better riding for real! Now the evenings are getting nicer will try to do it more often.
Bike wise I have a CAAD8 for road and Dartmoor Hornet for MTB. I regret selling my YT Wicked, was a really fun bike and could go up as well as it did down. Hardtails just aren't as fun, even for milder trails I prefer having both ends of the bike doing the same thing - when my daughter is out of the child seat I'll be getting another FS frame I think!
I've been looking at gravel bikes but need to line a few things up financially before I can go there. Some lovely bikes on here again.
Current bike is a Cannondale CAAD8 with Fulcrum wheels and just ordered some Conti GP5000's 28mm, should be more comfy for when the weather gets more clement.
Tempted by a new "something carbon" later this year, currently torn between a 'Dale, Cervelo or Pinarello, problems, problems, haha!
I totally agree. Full bounce or rigid for me. I had a Fatty with a Bluto fork and hated it so went back to rigid.