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Amazing how much of this is personal preference. I had a Shimano E8000, and loved how natural it felt despite only having 70 Nm. Honestly, I expected a big difference going to a Bosch Gen4, but it wasn’t that noticeable, and in fact it was much easier to sit against the limiter on the Shimano...

I'm another Exposure rider, MaXX-D on the bars and Zenith on the helmet. Pretty much our whole group use them, the reliability and good performance endure after the extreme pain of the price fades. Mine is the Mk13 and I've found the reflex mode to be faultless, but others in my group have...

I just had a Rail+ 8 as a loaner for a week while my own 2021 Rail 9.8 was being repaired, so got to do about 75 km on it. I was really impressed. It's lost none of the stability and speed of the full 29er, but feels more agile and playful. My Merida e160 was a mullet but was terrible on really...

An 11 kg difference when the rider is likely 85 kg + with kit is not much of a difference overall. Total braked weight might go from 100 kg to 111 kg. Certainly not enough to explain increased brake wear over all. I think the OP is right, much more likely to be an increased in carried speed...

Why do you think that is? Are you just running faster? An e-bike all up is only going to be 8-10% heavier than a regular Enduro, so it's not the weight.

I dropped about 10 kg of Sold Secure Chain and padlocks off at the pub last night. Hopefully will be a bit harder for someone to cut and run this evening. Wish us luck! :)

As a group we've found the expensive SRAM chains last long enough to make themselves worth it.

A friend just got 49% off a Trek 9.8 exe and 0% finance. That said, his demo bike was one of the bikes stolen last night and recovered today (finalising size), so he nearly had an incredible deal on a bike he only rode once!

Well that was an exciting but weird evening. 3 of our bikes got stolen from outside the pub tonight. Two guys cut the locks and threw them in a van, got disturbed so didn’t get the rest. Bystander got a description of the van and a partial plate. Already tipped the police off it was a Bristol...

I had some 7IDP Enduro pads which were good, but I have really skinny legs and had to pull the lower band up over my calf muscle for them to sit right,. As long as I did that they were very comfortable and had excellent protection. Sadly I appear to be allergic to something in their...

No issues, but you need to turn the chip on again if you've removed the Kiox.

Pedalcover.co.uk were excellent about clarifying the exact spec of the bikes I had stolen, and offered me a very, very fair settlement. Can't imagine that anyone would include a derestriction chip in cover tho, given their use in the UK isn't legal. You'd almost certainly have to swallow that...

£5 a year membership renders this a non-problem

Where is Gary. Not seen him in a long time. Luckily, nobody has ever described me as a Riding Guru!

Strong? Light? Cheap? Choose 2. Motorbikes don't have to be (as) light, and that makes a massive, massive difference to costs. Everything on a good mountain bike is at or past spec in terms of weight / strength. You can buy a full suspension bike from Halfords for peanuts but it'll be horrible...

I'm not sure I see e-bikes as a market where gouging is or even can be a thing? It's a bit like saying Bentley are gouging as a "similar" Skoda SUV costs less. There are plenty of cheap e-bikes suitable for getting from A to B. Some of us do this e-bike lark for fun and have the budget to...

No it wasn't CRC. It went to arbitration and the outcome is under NDA.

I had a similar issue and was similarly fobbed off. I eventually went to small claims court. I’m not allowed to discuss the outcome, but I was happy.

Two things have alleviated my pins and needles in hands. I moved my brakes further down so that my wrists were not as cocked back when on the brakes. I then fitted the ridiculously expensive Revs grips. The combination of the two, the latter on day three of an Alps trip, have massively reduced...

That's just what I was thinking. My stays are similarly wounded.