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Thats what I did use, just didn't stick to the backings at all.

They do a 16, 18 and 22. Don't think they did a 20 though.... Best ring supercycles and ask.

I need a quick answer as I wanted to ride today, so any help is appreciated! I got my new Heatsink yellows and tried glueing them into my Phat backings with super glue, it hasn't worked at all! I cleaned the backings first, the glue stuck to the pads but no to the backings, as soon as I put any weigh backwards it pulled them straight out. What glue should I use? I used loads of super glue, all the way around the edges of the material. I thought about shot-blasting the inside of the backings? If I use a really fine shot, it won't take too much material off, just clean it and roughen the surface. I have Areldite? Would that be better?

Neither, they're completely different bikes. Gus are heavy, long low, strong street bahsing sleds, Montys are short, high, light, weak competition bikes. What kind of riding do you do?

Yep, medium but getting worn, probably about 25% through it's life.

They're restarting now, absolute madness. They can't even see where they're going!

You ride Mod, I never managed to hit my rotor on my mod, just stick with the disc. If you bend it, just bend it back! It won't snap unless you fold it in half. It might crack though.

Heasink yellows in Phat backings. They've got instant bite with loads of noise, but they hold better than anything I've ever tried before! Since I've glue them into the backings they can't peel out, and they hold and don't let go now.

gu - Gee-you (technically it's goo, but that sounds gay if you ask me) czar - Kah-zar echo - Eh-ko koxx - cocks yaabaa - yah-ber (somtimes yar-bar, but i prefer yah-ber) meta - metre ozonys - oh-zoh-knees

I totally agree, everyone I've spoken too has been automatically behind Hamilton. It doesn't matter what really happened or who told him to lie, the fact is he knows that you don't lie in an inquiry and totally deserves the punishment. I reckon they're just trying to limit the damage to his reputation by blaming the press officer, the guy was really old and about to retire anyway, so everyone says, "oh right, he only did it because he was told to". Fact is though the press-officer tells him what to tell the press, not the FIA. He will have been told to lie by someone else, but because the press-officer was about to retire, they turned him into a scapegoat and paid him off. Thats my theory anyway, theres way too much politics and cheating that goes on for my liking.

Nah, they're reforming on the grid again and waiting for the rain to stop. This commentary is hilarious, it would appear they don't kno whats happening! "Oh he's off AGAIN!" "Errm, it's a replay" "Oh yes of course, mwah haha. ha." it started to spit, so they came in and came on full wets, then changed onto intermediates even though it was clearly going to pour it down, so everyone started falling off the track and they red flagged it! It's sheet water on the starting grid from what I can see. Ferrari sent Raikkonen out on full wets when the rain wasn't predicted for 5 minutes or something daft, he was about 30 seconds of the pace. EDIT: The drivers don't want to restart at the moment, it's as bad on the track as it was at that race last year when everyone aquaplaned off on that one corner, can't remember where that was though.

All tyres wave around a bit, as long as it doesn't rub the frame it'll be fine. Even then it'll be fine, my tyre is slowly eating through the frame because when I pedal hard, it flexes the rame over and rubs the tyre.

You can get really coarse files? That would get it deeper and space the grooves further apart. Just get a grinder though, the grind will be sharper, take a fraction of the time and probably be more uniform.

BJH? If I can get there, highly unlikely though during the week.

Nope, I'm from north Derbyshire, about 20 miles south/south-east of Manchester. Trains run from Derby to Matlock, noly takes half an hour and it's just about the best place around here for natural riding IMO, we could arrange something there? The street isn't all that bad in Matlock either.

How do you bleed it with no bleed nipple though?

Havn't watched qualifying and won't be bothering, but thanks for update. (Why can't they just do a 45-60min program on qualifying? I can't be doing with a 2.5 hour qualifying.) I'm well pissed off with McClaren, why on earth would they lie in a inquiry if the radio broadcasts are recorded, surely they knew that. Now he's lost the 4 points he would have had if they'd just told the truth.

Discs don't work at all in the wet? They're effectively a smooth rim! I had DD for nearly 2 years and not once did they work better than a decent maggy in the rain. A maggy with a heavy grind on an Echo rim with Heatsink reds is amazing in the wet, that's what my mate had and it was better in the wet than in the dry!

That's wierd, the ends of the axles are normally like 8-9mm long? So with 3mm taken up by the snail cam you should be able to still have 4-5mm inside the dropout. Is it the white hub or black? I can't remember much about my black one, (the one I used with my adaptor on my 06 lite).

Errm, no? I'm clearly bothered about weight these days, using stainless steel bolts over TI/aluminium ones... My bike weighs over 10kg, I'm not bothered by numbers any more as long as it isn't a tank. The only modification to mine was I drilled the sidewalls because it was too heavy towards the front and I wanted to find out how much I could save. The torx ones would be lighter anyway? I just really hate them, I had so much trouble getting one out for my mate once after he stripped the head. An allen bolt wouldn't have stripped anyway, and if it had they have a square head instead of a dome, so you can easily file a flat on either side and get it off with a pair of mole grips.

I'd go for the Yaabaa if I was buying the full bike. It's £200, more, but has a front disc, better cranks, better stem, better frame. But if I was getting the frame on it's own, I'd get the premier, purely based on price.

Thats your forks Sam, mine was fine on Lite forks with about 0.5mm spacers in. JT, it's the design of the hub, they're designed to have the snail cams outside the dropout, so if you think about it, the dropout is flat and the end of the axle is meant to be flat with that. To use in a normal frame you have to have the snail cam and a 1mm spacer either side. I had to have about 6-7mm of spacers in mine, I ran it like that for a year! Because you have a +40 adapter, I'd recommend binning it and getting some 5-6mm thick aluminium, then making a flat one out of that. This will take up the gap and be stiffer than the +40 with millions of spacers. You could also make it so it's lower down to the frame and neater simply by rotating the caliper foward.

There are more yellow pads than citrus pads you know.... Sorry callum but I hate it.

Tell them it was a singlespeed?

No it voids it, tell them you used it for XC.