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Got the same this morning. It’s all very well putting up with SPAM posted on the forums but to get SPAM’d to your personal Inbox and Email is not on. Enough of that crap gets through from other sources as it is.

It’s a shame that they’ve gone to all that trouble to smooth it out when all it will take is a few months of heavy downpours to erode it to the way it was.

Motor oil is too viscous and it’ll leave you with a very dirty, gritty drivechain.

Fantastic bit of spamming. Bravo.

Been away since the weekend, but that was a great event. Probably the hardest 100km I’ve done. There were some cracking descents thrown in on top of the descents form the Wall and Skyline. Nice to link up so much good riding. Hats off to all those involved with the organising and I really hope [...]

Hats off to the organisers of the Dusky12 for making it a great event in my opinion. The course was great. A nice gradient fast climb to start which got pretty steep and technical towards the end and a great mix of natural and man-made descents and singletrack to make it all worth while. The [...]

Black dashed lines like that are just designated as “paths”. Not necessarily a right of way.

The Montane jackets are pretty good, a bit sweaty at times for me though. Depending on your budget, the dhb eVent jacket is excellent.

Ok for the money but I’ve heard very mixed reports. Some seem to be ok, some others not so good. Quality control seems to be a bit iffy. You may be lucky, but don’t be surprised if you buy cheap buy twice. I’ve not got any, but from seeing them in action, the light spread [...]

shimano rear shifters won’t work with a SRAM X* rear mech. The pull ratios are different. You can use a SRAM front shifter to work with a shimano front mech. So basically to run a SRAM X0 rear mech, you’ll need new shifters as well. Expect to pay around £240ish for the lot if you [...]

You’ll notice a big difference between SLX and X0 shifters, possibly some improvement between XT and X0 mech too. XT is far better than they used to be IMO and are on a par with SRAM stuff now. I preferred SRAM X9 and X0 to shimano a few years ago, but now I’m not so [...]

Works fine with me, simple enough to do. If you go to the list of routes and click on the one you’re interested in you get to the route description page. At the bottom of each of these you get 3 links of the route in different formats: KMZ, PLT and GPX. You’ll need to [...]

What’s the website? Someone may be able to help you out then.

Great event. First 24-hour Solo for me and I came 4th with 23 laps. It was tough going when the rain started and continued in the night but somehow managed to block it out of my mind and keep going. The course was pretty quiet in the night Got a write up on our [...]

I run a double fine and most of my road riding is done in the Rhondda, including the Aberdare – Maerdy road. I think mine’s a 50/34.

24hr solo for me too

I don’t know why we can’t just have a very simple forum structure. One board for on-topic, MTB/cycling related stuff, one for off-topic banter, and a classifieds board. Seems to have worked for other forums for years. Avoids confusion over where certain threads should go – the number of threads started in the wrong “groups” [...]

Porridge doesn’t work for me. Within half hour to an hour of eating it, I’m hungry.