Thursday, February 10, 2005

Bike Doctor

Here's a central store of any spannerin' tips posted within our Blogs and handy links to external sites.

Books :
Bike Fit : articles Brakes :
Pivots :
Tools :
Here's a few maintenance websites that you may also find useful;

Saturday, February 05, 2005

Ride Calendar

Folks, I thought it'd be a good idea to create this list so that we can keep tab's on all those Blogs that follow the theme "lets go somewhere & ride 'em like rented step kids" rides.

2006 - Posse rides : (refresh your browser, F5 key)
  • Coed-y-Brenin - March 17/18/19th (wkend in mid Wales), prep
  • Cannock - April 8th (Staffs) prep
  • Family Cycling wkend - April 29/30th (Colebrookdale/ Ironbridge, see Rob for details)
  • Dozer's Ridge Ride - May 7th (Westoning, Beds) prep
  • Mortimer Forest - May 14th (Ludlow, Shropshire) prep
  • Jacobs Ladder - May 28th (Derbyshire) prep
  • Pennines - May/June (see Rob for details) cancelled
  • BHF London to Brighton - June 18th (Fathers day, see Rob for details), sponsorship; Dozer, Rob
  • LesGets'06 - June 25th (wk riding downhill...) cancelled
  • Woburn - July 16th (Beds) prep
  • Jacobs Ladder DH - August 20th (Derbyshire) prep
  • Forest of Dean Enduro - Sept 10th (s.Welsh/English border) prep
  • Afan - Sept 22/23 am, pm/24 am, pm/25th (long wkend in s.Wales) prep, prep2
  • Ride the Roman Challenge - Oct 8th (Northants) prep
  • Peaks - Oct 15th prep
  • Sherwood Pines, BHF charity ride - Nov 5th (Notts) prep
  • MBR Killer Loop - Nov 12th (Chilterns) prep
Proposed Posse rides :
  • 7 Stanes (borders)
  • Betws-y-Coed (n.Wales)
  • Thetford (East Anglia, well known for it's mountains !)
"Mostly" Enduro's : Does anyone also fancy giving one of these a try ?
To find out more about enduro's, training tips, etc, check out the Marathon Series site.

Event Calendars :(I'll endeavour to keep these lists as up to date as possible)

Tuesday, February 01, 2005

Reviews2

Unfortunately our initial "Reviews" post has now over grown Bloggers post size limit and cannot be updated anymore :(

However the clever peeps at Bloggerville have allowed us to categorise our posts so to look for old entries, expand the "Categories" option in the *sidebar ->

Alternatively expand the "Archive" option in the *sidebar -> and browse away ;-)

Linky to the original Reviews post.

* to the right

Reviews

As many a Blog has been created that review all thangs MTB, I thought it'd be handy to have a central area where they can all be found, incl'g a handy link on the sidebar. So Blog away Posse and review kit to your hearts content...

Bikes :
Components :

Bars :
  • FSA XC190 - riser, alloy
  • Maxm MX-1 - flat, carbon
  • Maxm MX-5 - riser, carbon
Brakes :
  • Formula Oro
  • Hope C2 - 2 pot, closed
  • Hope Mini
  • Hope Mono M4 - 4 pot, open
  • Magura Louise BAT's, VentiRotors '07
  • Shimano Dual Control '05
  • Shimano Saint
Cables :
Cassettes :
  • Shimano XT
  • SRAM PG-990
  • SunRace MZ
Cranksets :
Derailleurs :
  • Shimano XTR (fd)
  • SRAM X-Gen (fd)
  • Shimano XTR (rd)
  • SRAM X0 (rd)
  • SRAM X9 (rd)
  • SRAM x9 Jockey Wheels '05
Forks :
Grips :
  • Enduro Fork Seals Silicone
  • Yeti Hardcore
Groupsets :
Pedals : Saddles :
  • Fizik Gobi '05
  • Koobi
  • Specialized BG2
  • Specialized Jett - women's
  • WTB Shadow
Seatclamps :
  • Hope
  • Salsa
Seatposts :
Shifters :
  • Shimano XT
  • SRAM x0
  • SRAM X9
Shoxs :
Skewers :
  • Bontrager
  • Hope
Stems :
Tyres :
  • Bontrager ACX '05 "Tubeless"
  • Hutchinson Bulldog
  • Hutchinson Spider UST
  • Panaracer Cinder
  • Panaracer XC Fire
  • Schwalbe Nobby Nic's
  • Schwalbe Racing Ralph '05
Wheelsets : Accessories :

Armour :
Helmets :
Hydration Packs :
Jackets :
Lights : Locks :
GPS :
Mudguards :
Pumps :
Shoes :
Miscellaneous : Review Websites :
I find that the Blogger Archive drop-down is useless unless you know "when" stuff was Blog'd. So with a little help, I'm sure that the links to any new reviews will mysteriously find there way into this handy reference blog. Eventually...