Bike Doctor

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

Books :

• Zinn and the Art of MTB Maintenance
  

Bike Fit : articles

• Colorado Cyclist
  
• The Bike Hub
  

Brakes :

• Hope Bleed Kit
  
• Isopropyl Alcohol - disc brake cleaner
  

Pivots :

• Turner Bushes
  
• Turner Horst Link Mod
  

Tools :

• Chain Checker - Park Tool
• Chain Cleaner Gizmo - FinishLine
• Hanger Alignment - Park Tool
  
• Prep Stand - Wrenchforce
  

Here's a few maintenance websites that you may also find useful;

• Bicycle Tech, Archives
• BikeMagic, Know How
• EnduroForkSeals, Fork fettlin pictorial
• Finish Line, cleaning videos
  
• Mountain Bike Rides, Fettling (incl'g Hope XC hubs)
  
• Park Tool Co, Repair Help (comprehensive)
  
• Sheldon Brown
  
• The Biking Hub, Tech Tips (& an excellent Manitou fork guide)
  
• Utah MTBing, Repairs (comprehensive)
  
• Web Mountain Bike, Maintenance

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 ?

• The SPAM Winter Challenge - Jan 8th (30 / 50km, Salisbury Plain)
Builth Wells Big Night Out - April 8th (south Wales)
• Elan Valley Ride Challenge ? - April 25th (40km, mid Wales)
• Trek 6-4-2 Enduro ? - May 7th (6/4/2hrs, Sherwood Pines)
• Dyfi Enduro ? - May 14th (Machynlleth, mid Wales)
• Rhayader Merida 100k ? - May 27th (Rhayader, mid Wales)
• World Cup ? - May 27/28th (Fort William, Scotland)
• Rough Ride ? - June 4th (40 or 77km, East Radnorshire)
• Bike Week / Bike2Work ? - June 17 - 25th (annual 'celebration of cycling')
  
• Mountain Mayhem ? - June 24th (24hr, Eastnor Castle, Herefordshire)
  
• Pennine Bridleway MTB Challenge ? - June 26th (75km)
• Builth Wells Merida 100k ? - July 1st (south Wales)
• 9th World MTB Bog Snorkling Champs ? - July 8th (Llanwrtyd Wells)
  
• Selkirk Merida 100k ? - July 30th (borders)
• Kielder Big Bike Wkend ? - Sept 28th - Oct 1st (north east)
  
• Cheddar Challenge ? - Oct 1st (more cheese Gromit?) cancelled
  
• Ruthin Merida 100k ? - Oct 16th (north Wales)
  
• Dusk Till Dawn ? - Oct 21st/22nd (12hr night ride, Thetford) ThetfordMTBRacing
  
• Real Ale Wobble ? - Nov 12/13th (Llanwrtyd Wells, mid Wales)

To find out more about enduro's, training tips, etc, check out the Marathon Series site.

Event Calendars :

• BikeMagic
• NumbPlumz has a comprehensive listing, split into type i.e. Enduro's, XC races, etc.
  
• Trailblazers; Pete's (Psychlosport) club who ride every Wednesday eve & Sunday + special away rides.
  

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

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 :

• Cannondale Gemini
• Cannondale Jekyll
  
• Canyon Nerve XC 6.0 '07, Nerve XC 3.0 '07
  
• On One Inbred 456 '06
  
• Marin Rock Springs '02
• Merlin Dual - hardtail
• Santa Cruz Chameleon '03
  
• Specialized Enduro Expert '05
• Specialized S-Works FSRxc '02
  
• Specialized M5 S-Works - hardtail
• Titus MotoLite '06
  
• Trek Fuel 80
  
• Trek FuelEX9 WSD '05
  
• Trek Liquid 55 '05
  
• Turner 5Spot '05
  
• Turner Flux '05
  

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 :

• Avid Flak Jackets - sealed
• Dry Cables
• Shimano XT
• Sun Ringle - sealed
  

Cassettes :

• Shimano XT
• SRAM PG-990
• SunRace MZ
  

Cranksets :

• Shimano Hollowtech II '05
  
• EnduroForkSeals Replacement Bearings
  

Derailleurs :

• Shimano XTR (fd)
• SRAM X-Gen (fd)
  
• Shimano XTR (rd)
  
• SRAM X0 (rd)
  
• SRAM X9 (rd)
  
• SRAM x9 Jockey Wheels '05

Forks :

• Fox 32 140RLC Talas '07
  
• Fox 36 '05
  
• Manitou Nixon Super '05
• Marzocchi Z1 Freeride SL RC2 '06
• Pace RC41 '05
• Rockshox Pike '07
  
• Rockshox Reba '05
  
• Rockshox Revelation 426 U-Turn '05
  

Grips :

• Enduro Fork Seals Silicone
  
• Yeti Hardcore
  

Groupsets :

• SRAM vs Shimano

Pedals :

• Crank Bros Candy SL
  
• Shimano DX - flats
  
• Time ATAC Aliums '02
• Time Z '05 - flats
  

Saddles :

• Fizik Gobi '05
  
• Koobi
• Specialized BG2
• Specialized Jett - women's
  
• WTB Shadow
  

Seatclamps :

• Hope
• Salsa
  

Seatposts :

• Thomson Elite '05
  

Shifters :

• Shimano XT
• SRAM x0
• SRAM X9
  

Shoxs :

• 5th Element '05
  
• Fox DHX 5.0 (coil) '06
• Fox DHX-Air
• Fox RP23 '06
  
• Fox RP3 '05, PUSH'd
  
• Fox Float R '02, TFT & PUSH
• Rockshox MC3 '05
  

Skewers :

• Bontrager
• Hope

Stems :

• On-One Inbred '04
  
• Thomson 4x
  
• Thomson Elite '05
  

Tyres :

• Bontrager ACX '05 "Tubeless"
• Hutchinson Bulldog
• Hutchinson Spider UST
  
• Panaracer Cinder
• Panaracer XC Fire
• Schwalbe Nobby Nic's
  
• Schwalbe Racing Ralph '05

Wheelsets :

• Bontrager RaceLite UST
• Chris King & DT XR 4.1d '05
• Industry9 & DT 5.1 '07
  

Accessories :

Armour :

• Thor Quadrant

Helmets :

• Giro Animas
  
• Met 5th Element '05
  

Hydration Packs :

• Deuter Cross Air
  

Jackets :

• Endura eVENT
  

Lights :

• AyUp LED '07
  
• Cateye Stadium - HID
  
• Light & Motion ARC '05 / ARC '06 - HID, Li-Ion
• Light & Motion Solo Cub - Li-Ion '06
  
• Light & Motion Solo Logiv mv '06
  
• Lumicycle
  
• Topeak Whitelight DX '06 - LED

Locks :

• Kryptonite New York Chain '06
  

GPS :

• devices - Garmin Edge 305, eTrex
• software - MemoryMap, Tracklogs v3 '05

Mudguards :

• SKS Shockguard & X-Dry '05
  
• Topeak Defender '05

Pumps :

• Shock Pumps
  
• Topeak JoBlow Sport '02 - trackpump
  

Shoes :

• 5ten Low Impact - platforms
• Cannondale Roam '06 - women's
  
• Shimano W101 '04
• Specialized Sport Mountain '02 vs '07
  

Miscellaneous :

• Aldi Cycling Kit
• Bike Rack - Thule Ride On '05 - tow bar mount
• Books - Master MTB Skills (again), Zinn and the Art of MTB Maintenance
• "Helicopter" Protective Tape
  
• Importing from the USA
  
• Camcorder set-up & early tests
• High5 Protein Recovery drink
• Homemade Super Fruit Bars
  

Review Websites :

• BikeMagic - under the "Gear" tab
  
• Gear Review.com
• MTBR

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...