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£10 of Lottery tickets (5) as I'm bored of not being a millionare -- when I'm loaded I can buy bike bits 🤞 Rich.

I thought safety equipment was vat exempt?? I've bought a good few things from europe via ebay & direct, some purchases drop below the tax threshold and some have been missed 😜 ebay sometimes uses their 'global shipping policy' that sorts duties as part of the sale / postage price if the seller...

I use a split / slotted casette tool to loosen the airshaft nut, couldn't get my unmodified casette tool to fit🤷‍♂️ as to full travel, if I remember I've not noticed binding or stiffness with my Mezzer's:unsure: Rich.

https://www.emtbforums.com/threads/trek-rail-upgrades-what-have-you-done.14266/post-529977 I borrowed an Ohlins TX22m coil damper in 230 x 65mm (from my mrs's) and ftted it on my alloy Rail5 - medium frame. used the origonal Trek mount hardware & turned the damper shaft 90* to position the...

Bought a Manitou Mara for mrs.Zeds Orbea Rise, she’s not ridden it this year (since the battery died in December and was slowly replaced through warranty - Orbea being slow not the shop that handled the repair!) and when she did there were complaints about the fox suspension as factory fitted*...

Brill 🤣 🤣 🤣 I refuse to accept how much we've spent in the last ~18 months since diverting down the Emtb path, would buy a new car (but we have a great collection of old junkers like the 1987 mk2 golf tdi & mk1 Mx5's :cool: ) it does involve 2 new eeeeb's each for me & mrs....🤭 Rich.

go on, tell us what:unsure: I thought about Maven's....... Bought Maven's (silver as what shop had in stock & had discount) would buy again:cool: I've happily rode with Sram's code rsc but the Maven is in a different league(y) Rich.

you need to sit on a few sizes. (y) I have a Trek Rail5 in Medium - bought after consulting Trek's sizing charts and as I'm on the border of medium & large erred on the smaller (medium) size.... it always felt cramped, the handlebars seemed too close to my knees and I felt like I was riding...

the basic chassis is identical between Expert & Pro, the only actual differences are for wheelsize (swap lowers to jump from one to other) and I blieve the csu / stantions hold the difference for offset :unsure: as to internals interchangability, the iva & irt are a 'one-out / one-in'...

Theres no kill like OVERKILL😜 Rich.

just recieved a new tyre pump, and as we know seating tubeless tyres is sometimes great fun.... I've bought one of Lezyne's Digital Pressure Over Drive Pumps because I wanted one🤭 https://ride.lezyne.com/products/digital-pressure-overdrive not the cheapest @ £157.50 (ebay) but has a...

^^THIS :cool: Aluminium expands wonderfully when warm, heat will break Locktite.... heat then spray with wd type stuff as it'll soak in the threads - then fit tool and use precussive maintanance (hammer) to shock it loose🤞 Hopefully😜 Rich.

48🤷‍♂️ :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO: Rich. (the right side of 49) .

Tyres? I went from a Rail5 to a Torque:ON, first ride was interesting as the rear grip was dubious....... replaced the Maxis with Conti Kriptotal and all was good (y) ^ NOT shittin on Maxis but where I ride (Bpw mostly) the Conti's really shine:cool: Rich.

Pro Tharsis 9.8 direct mount stem, secondhand on ebay.... was an agreeable price :cool: Rich.

anyone found these in stock (UK) :unsure: Everytime I look theres no availability.... Rich.

have had the update AND then bought an SM-PCE02 interface to read faultcodes / update & play :p Love the EP801 & the 'new' overrun is also good, now waiting for Shimano & Sram to sort their shit so my wireless derailer can have autoshift:unsure: as to Dorado travel, I'll look into it when it...

bought from 'Vectorbike' (germany), paid through pp so hopefully safe 🤞 and yes, the 'Pro' Dorado so cf tubes & shiney crowns:p next is to sort the doifference in wheels as I'm going from 15x110 boost, I've a few 20x100 but need 20x110 so luckily I have a lathe and it's time to make spacers...

As I'm off riding due to injury, I've been sensible and indulged in retail-therapy 🤭 obviously this definately didn't involve overkill so I bought another pair of forks:rolleyes: Manitou's finest Dorado Pro forks to be exact, this is something I've lusted over for a while and possibly a...

are thre details on Rs or Sram's websites? Rich.