AdamR28

I would try and get some geometry specs of the Neon bars, but they look identical to '07 ZOO bars... easy choice!

Hutchinson Green? I use a front tube (20" front tube in a 19" tyre), haven't flatted in near 2 years. For me, DH tubes are completely overkill, but for street riders who run super low pressures and rim out a lot I guess they can be really useful. Just a shame they make your bike ride like it's in custard

'Officially' I guess the country has converted (it's now illegal to sell potatoes in pounds I believe?)... but everyone still talks in miles, gallons, pounds...

Haha, probably not a lot

Well hark at you I don't know how much throttle I use... not a lot... accelerate slowly, don't tend to go above 2.5k RPM (max torque for my car is at 1.8k).

Engine: Diesel Size: 1.4 Model: Fiesta mk 5 (I think... ) Driving Conditions: Motorway and urban Combined MPG: 62-64 Rated MPG (manufacture) : Up to 74.9 (must be sitting at 56mph on a flat motorway, lol) Comments: No air con or windows open, probably do approx 50% motorway miles. Need to take my tuning box thingy off and it should go up a bit more.

Golf or (very short and not all that interesting) XC ride... undecided as yet and need to finish off at work first...

Very beasty Huge stuff...! Don't put moves in that you didn't make next time though :wink2: hehe

We already have one, it is made of polystyrene though. (Ali is weird.) At least it can't poo on the floor!

I know! Shame about the angle switching when Gilles did that whopper move at 3:57 though Thanks for the link!

And that's why I don't ride the Brits (cos I'd have to 'ride' (fall off a lot in) red!)

Oooohh... The word I set to 'strikethrough' was 'Plaz'. That's where this has come about from! Tim, it could have been any pad manufacturer and I would have done the same... the point was that it's the tar that's making the brake work in the stated situation (not that Plaz are crap... far from it in fact, I would run them myself if discs weren't loads better ). Sorry for the misunderstanding!

Yeah definitely not... I always seem to get pounded by Tim for making posts in pad topics, lol.

Strange, when I used Magura black pads on a smooth rim with tar they were 'good' (locked the wheel effectively in dry and clean conditions), and on a grind they were pretty poor. Since the tar doesn't actually allow the pad to touch the rim, all pads are the same when used with tar surely? (Which is what my post stated)

Works great for Klein... I think that's a bit savage, tends to rip through the alloy too much. I would suggest some oil and fine/medium wire wool

.......... until the tube crushes I was about to suggest the same until I saw a fatal flaw in the plan, lol.

There's not enough meat for that unfortunately. All I can think of is drilling right through the mount and seeing if theres enough left in the bottom to get something to bind into...

Not if you want it back to M5. It will have to go to M6, which will be dodgy as there's not a lot of meat around the hole (which will have to go out to 7mm now).

Still riding and still making awesome videos!

Whopper, still remember that rail ride from the end!

I'm guessing he's just bought some vinyl and done it himself...

But... there's no problem with the cranks, so there will be no 'blame'.

Looks like wood effect vinyl...

Any time it's not pissing with rain (and sometimes when it is)... the weather here doesn't really get hot enough to stop you from riding. Glad you're enjoying the bike

This will probably sound how I don't want it to (bad/harsh etc)... but... if you knew your shit, you wouldn't have made this thread: 1. You've screwed it on all the way now so there's no going back (you should/would have checked the crank thread before doing this if it felt stiff at any point). 2. If it's gone on a few turns by hand there's no way it's cross threaded. Even half a turn cross threaded is impossible by hand. So, since its on the crank now and it went on a few turns by hand at first, it sounds very much like there will be no problem in future as the freewheel has cleaned up the threads sufficiently.