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Thomsons Cycles Halloween Howler Cyclocross Race – Gleniffer Braes, Paisley – Sunday 28th October 2012

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Hi everyone,

For anyone who has the urge for a bit of fun racing this Sunday, there is a local cyclocross race happening over at Gleniffer Braes, Paisley. It’s a non-series Scottish Cyclocross race and there is a Halloween theme so it’s aimed at being fun! So why not stick on a scary costume and come and get filthy in Paisley! MTBs welcome as always. Continue reading

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Mugdock Ride – Sat 27th Oct

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A few folks are leaving the usual Stewart Street car park at 10:30am on Saturday (27th Oct), with a cafe stop. Myself & Alison will be out but along a bit later (so don’t wait). We will catch up somewhere, probably at the cafe stop. We are heading out on Saturday as the weather looks much better than Sunday. Hopefully, some folks will be out on Sunday too.

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More Lakes Pics

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Hi,

Here are some more photos from the Lakes weekend. Thanks to Graham for organising it was fun to explore a new area.

Tom

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Keswick / Lakes 2012

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….just a few of the 8.4 billion photos I took over the weekend 🙂

Got to say, the techy boulder fest down the side of Yew Crag above Rosthwaite was the absolute dogs! Thanks to everyone – you all made it a fantastic weekend of riding in great weather and truly stunning surroundings!

 

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Lakes

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Couple of pictures …

thanks all, great trip! and special thanks to Dawn for selling her soul to a devil…weather was fab :-).  The thumb is pretty sore today and thinking back, maybe should not have done rest of the rocky descents as it just made it worse…special thanks for Robin for the painkillers :-).

Paivi ( and Dave)

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Lakes Weekend Away – Chapeau!

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Just a quick thank you to Graham for organising the Lakes Weekend Away. I’m particularly impressed that he was able to book such fine weather to coincide with his 40th!

Looking forward to seeing the pics and reading the ride reports from Walna Scar and the Borrowdale Bash.

Funnily enough, no one seemed keen to join Dene, Shearer, Kev and I on our Ambleside to Keswick mission. It ws a biggish day with some 8 hours of pretty much non stop riding (and carrying!). The descents were super technical and the views stunning. Heck, we even managed to get back in daylight which was a pleasant surprise.

Yesterday was Ullock Pike off Skiddaw and the silly steep descent off Doups. If you like steep, loose and rocky technical descending, you’d struggle to find anything steeper, looser or rockier. At times, it felt more like falling with style than riding as we plummeted down to the valley floor.

Cheers

Sanny

 

 

 

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FS. Rockshox Pike 454 coil fork with 20mm maxle

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Mint condition, although I have had these a while I only ride very occasionally and clean these after every ride so they look almost new, no marks on stantions and very few marks elsewhere. Have been ridden twice since last service by alpine bikes so work perfect and are smooth. These are the top of range coil Pikes, can be adjusted from 95 – 140mm and have lock out / motion control with an alloy steerer too. Being coil sprung they are a little heavier, but also tougher, smoother travel and require less maintenance so I think it’s a no brainer – these are the best Pike forks! Also included are two spacers to convert a hope XC/PRO hub to 20mm (note: these will not fit a QR hub unless it can be converted to 20mm), but the benefits of using a bolt through 20mm axel are amazing, especially on tougher trails. The Maxle works like a normal QR too – so just as easy to take wheel on and off. Fitted with a firm spring (for riders of around 12 stone plus) I am 11 stone and preferred a stiffer fork so uprated the spring, but I also have the stock medium spring I can give away too.

I had a look round what these are going for on the forums – about £180 seems a fair price (my fork was better condition than ones I have seen!) – they cost over £450 new.