Tomm

Chains do stretch a bit when they're new. Not sure you'd notice it this quickly though, so it's probably the wheel moving in the dropout.

Yeah, I didn't think I'd be anything like 12 stone, because I'm fairly lanky. But I'm tall-ish and yeah, I weigh about 12 st. I'm not arsed, especially as I look just great

I said it, and it was obviously tongue-in-cheek. But Monty have traditionally been much more involved with BIU comps - at one stage the Monty team only rode BIU (I guess that's not the case now?). Their bikes are more geared to the BIU style of riding and the BIU sections - I.e. the bikes are shorter.

I always thought Monty were BIU rules? Anti-UCI ***

Maguras ARE a pain in the arse to set up correctly. Listen to Adam, he knows best. It is a bit of an art, and if you've done it a few times you definitely get the knack for it. I wouldn't really recommend the way TomR said, just because if your pads don't retract normally then you'll have problems with the TPA wound in like he said. If you're really stuck, a very easy way is to take the tyre off and put the wheel back in, that way you can adjust the maguras without the tyre being in the way. Wind the TPA all the way OUT (pads furthest from the rim). Use some 2p coins between the pads and the rim, they're the right sort of thickness. Then adjust it so everything's nice and parallel and do everything up tight. The good news is that once you set them up properly, if you do the bolts up nice and tight, you shouldn't need to touch them ever again. P.S. From what you were saying in the other topic about the back brake being quite spongy - have you got the same pads front and rear?

Hehe, well done

Ouch, how can you be a student without an overdraft? I'm on -£1698 at the moment (not including my load of course)

I guess you could maybe somehow allow NMs to reply to topics in the FS/Wtd forum, and not make topics. But like Tom said, it's the incentive to actually put the effort in, to get validated.

Haha that's ace

Given that I've lived in 3 rented places and never even met a landlord, I think you'd get away with it easily enough.

Miaow guys. Leave it out, save the bullying for the playground. This is a good topic

I think a lot of people get back aches in the first few months of riding - I certainly did. I presume it's just a case using muscles you haven't used before, and you're more likely to strain them - Especially if (as physio said) you are doing quick forceful movements. Unless it's really bad I wouldn't worry, because it's something that most people will get at some point. Obviously if you're worried go and see a doc/physio though. EDIT: I don't think it's down to long bikes really - They weren't even invented when I started riding...

Yeah, well worth the effort involved

Haha, I beat you Phil How bizarre.

Presumably with the bike upside down idea, you have to pedal backwards too?

On the video Ot Pi Dream (This is going back a few years!) the Monty team ride a 7 man (I think) bike off a loading bay

Have you never watched Room 101 on TV then? Room 101 in the book was about your complete worst nightmare, whereas in the program it's taken to mean anything that gets on your tits a bit, when it really shouldn't be a big deal. Like the rats eating Winston's face - it's not exactly a rational worst fear. If anything, Room 101 is an homage to Orwell, not an insult. Anyway, the BMW X5. I just do not see the point in it. Especially for the fags that use it to drive their kid to school. Argh.

So this means that you basically need to buy a front disc? I.e. If you're using an Avid BB5 you'd just buy the front version. But with the Hope you need a left hand lever and a longer hose, but still technically a "front brake"?

Is there even such a thing?

I have seen pictures of this somewhere before.

Are you sure it's not 3x? This might be a stupid question (and a bit patronising!) but the first cross is very near to the hub flange and it's easy to miss. If you put in half the spokes (The trailing spokes) then it's simply a case of putting the leading spokes in over-over-under the ones that are there already. You can't really go wrong? EDIT: That's a rubbish guide, it's not nearly detailed enough. There's a much better one HERE or HERE.

Makes sense, ta

People who look down their noses at you when you say you have sugar in tea. C**ts.

I see what you're saying but from this picture the pads look spot on? How come you got it early? Is it some pre-production model or something?

What's a Batman?