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give madison a phone, they're the importer for shimano and mavic and dt swiss, so they're bound to have something, although they are a trade supplier

the evo 2 refers to the extra booster bit that mounts on to the bosses first, kinda works like an extra booster(very thin though) but makes the brake a bit easier to set up so in answer to your question. get the hs33 and you'll get the evo2 for free

aztec make a really cool wavey rotor which actually works very well too few of my friends use them with saint brakes on their DH bikes and the bite is real good with them

at the moment shift down into 3rd gear, look at the bike from behind and you should have a straight line with the chain, if not, then measure how far over to the right the chainring needs to go to make it straight. that measurement should help you figure out how much longer your bb needs to be. probably either 122.5 or 128. the bb you have at the moment will either be 113 or 118 as you don't get 115

some pretty awesome riding there, cool vid

middleburn make xtr compatible chainrings for the new hollowtech 2 xtr chainsets although they are 4 arm. pretty sure if you check with your local bikeshop that they might make one for the older xtr like yours, failing that shimano are obviously going to make chainrings to fit their own cranks. . . .

won't be the shifter, i run a modified 8 speed cassette with only 6 cogs and i use an 8 speed xt shifter and it works fine. hows to chain line on the bike? your bb length could be too short and the chain line could be a bit off? the only other thing i can think of that it could be man!

awesome video ben, great riding, but those gaps at the end pretty damn huge! wish i could get away from the snow and ride too. . . .

as said above, look at all the basics. mech hanger straight? mech have excessive play? cassette worn? chain worn? jocky wheels worn? chain clean/lubed and not twisted/free of stiff links? cassette clean? no kinks in inner cable? no worn/damaged sections of outer cable? shifter not broken? and finally are the gears set up properly? have you re-adjusted the limit screws for the smaller range of gears and have the gears been tuned properly with proper cable tension etc. i run an 8 speed cassette with two cogs removed and three spacers in the back to space it out on a king rear hub and i have no probs whatsoever, i usually find that poor shifting is down to dirt in the cables, best thing to do is to flush out all outer cables with gt-85 and fit a new inner cable, makes loads of difference

truvativ gigapipe dh 128mm axle gets round the crappy life of isis bearings by using 2 on each side to spread the load so bearings do last a little longer than some, nice and strong axle too!

as said above^^^^^ truvativ gigapipe dh's are the shizz in isis bb, mines lasting me well at the moment, still suprisingly smooth actually but yeah if it is a square taper then go for un53, they've done me well in the past, although if it is square taper than you should see this as an oportunity and upgrade to isis, i changed to isis a while ago and cranks feel soo much stiffer and you feel like you can get alot more power through than square taper, also bigger axle so less chance of future snappage

a nice harsh grind is far better, i still have a can of the spray stuff as i didn't use it too much, works alright in the dry but real bad in the wet. also causes your brake to make the worst noises ever

that plymoth vid is very good, love the music and the ridings real good aswell sucks watching all these vids, makes me want to ride soo badly but not with a foot of snow outside

you'll have to unscrew the three little screws/file off the three little pins on the back of your cassette which will allow you to take it into pieces. choose which 4 gears out of that 6 you want to keep, slot the cogs on with one of the spacers in between each and finish off with the two loose cogs that were there before, tighten up the lockring good and tight and you're done!

shimano used to make them, but they're useless. thats why they used to make them and they don't still make them, save up and get something decent like a pro 2 trials or a king

wo, thats alot of snow out in stoney! got alot in aberdeen too, about a foot on the roof of my car and above the sills all the way round, can't wait till the weather clears though as these vids of bens make me want to ride still can't believe you guys were out on your bikes in that last night

you dirty dawg ben, i've been trying that gap from the wall to the smaller bit near the pond at the police station for adges! can almost make it too. . . . anyway, another great video, improving soo much all the time. top stuff

some real nice golfs you've had esire68

ha, i've nearly got a bike built out of spares, not bad spec too: giant martin hawyes replica (original yellow one) hope suspension on mavic xb17cd front hope ti-glide on mavic d521 cd rear raceface turbine lp cranks xtr short cage rear mech fsa xl2 headset answer pro taper bars irc kujo rear and el gato front few other random bits too. . . . not a bad bike for just being my spares

getting them removed and the holes left smoothed over. going to move the washer jets to the scuttle pannel so they'll be hidden under the bonnet. so they'll still be there to use. but the bonnet will be all smooth to look at

i choped a heap off with the stanly knife and then gripped the sides of the barbed connector with the hose on it and pulled at it and it came off. when i hammered the barbed connector onto the new bit of hosing it was a very tight fit, gave the bike a bit of a test today and it's all good the new tubing will turn round a little bit on the barbed connector, quite stiffly though. . . .prob need a couple of new barbed connectors if the hose is spinning very freely

toxsin one all the way, they're awesome they fell soo nice to ride, any type of ridin really, natural or street, they're great! oh and i'm actually pretty sure i read that the two is lighter than the one only by about 50g though

soon to have the wing mirrors replaced with some standard electric mirrors and loose the washer jets from the bonnet, and also lower the front a bit more too

toxsin one frames are awesome! they are soo nice to ride and i love mine got it from adam as he is the uk importer for them

i got a split in my rear crossover and just replaced it last night, best thing to do is to clamp the barb connector in a vice and chop at it with a stanly knife and then use some cable cutters and prise it off, do the same with the other connector, with two little plastic hose holders hold the new piece of hose in the vice and hammer the barb connector in not very hard to do at all