Monday 28 May 2012
Sunday 27 May 2012
Jagwire Ripcord Review
Whilst looking for some new sealed cables to weather proof my gear cables
and pimp up my bike a couple of years back I stumbled upon Jagwire. They make a
range of gear housings and cables for road and Mountain bikes, the set here
being for the latter obviously. The Ripcords come with everything you need to
fit a sealed cable kit to your bike keeping the shifting smooth, light and crap
free, the cable ferrels are good quality with the Jagwire logo printed on. I do
find that the ferrels are a little creaky in my frame, but this is resolved
with a small dab of grease when the noise starts. This will probably vary from
frame to frame too. I opted for the blue outer housing, the housing is available
in a multitude of colours to suit any ride, also in the box are 2 rubber cable
covers to slide over the outer housing to help prevent frame rub, these seem to
have done a good job so far and haven't managed to go missing despite my best
efforts. Once the outers are installed it's a case of sliding the black teflon
coated inners through the outers and also through the black sleeving which
slides over the cable ferrel ends between all the areas where exposed cable
would be, therefore weather proofing your ride. The Teflon coated cables do a
fantastic job of keeping the shifting very responsive and light with a noticeable
difference to when I was running standard cables in the system. The whole deal
is finished off with some rather pimpin' gold cable ends which is a nice touch.
All in all then for a very reasonable £18.99 you get yourself a high quality,
weatherproof cable set, which will improve the feel and performance of your
shifting for half the price of the competition.
Win bloomin' Win.
Wednesday 23 May 2012
Monday 21 May 2012
Sunday 20 May 2012
Thursday 17 May 2012
Wednesday 16 May 2012
Great film.
YouTube
Steve Peate has done for mountain biking what osama bin laden has done for terrorism. Brilliant!
Monday 14 May 2012
Sunday 13 May 2012
YES!!
God damn! My trek is back to it's crank spinning, bump eating, shocks not creaking, tree avoiding, lip launching, tabletop clearing, drop off landing, berm destroying, bar twisting, tail whipping, mud sliding, adrenalin pumping best. And I loved every minute of it. I don't want to be off the bike for two weeks solid again.
Saturday 12 May 2012
Thursday 10 May 2012
Trail Check: PBR - Mountain Biking Videos - Vital MTB
God this looks fun! Dry trails!
Trail Check: PBR - Mountain Biking Videos - Vital MTB:
'via Blog this'
Trail Check: PBR - Mountain Biking Videos - Vital MTB:
'via Blog this'
Thursday 3 May 2012
Schwalbe Nobby Nick long term test.
Well It’s been nearly a year since my original review of schwalbe Nobby Nick Triple Evo Compound tyres, in that time they have been
through everything mother nature has had to throw at them and more. Recently they have been riding through the
worst drought for 30 years, yet somehow conditions have been more than a little...... wet, In the wet the tyre has felt really grippy it seems to handle pretty much
like it does in the dry therefore my opinion on how good the tyres are from my
original test haven’t changed.(http://reatinrides.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/schwalbe-nobby-nic-tyre-review.html)
The rubber compound seems resilient enough, showing little wear after plenty of
racing, commuting and general ragging about.
However as good a tyre as this is it does have it’s down
side, in this case it seems to be punctures. These are caused by the tyres thin carcase, if like me you tend to head out into the countryside regularly
this tyre will become a bit of a pain in early spring and autumn, mainly when thorny hedge rows are
being trimmed or shedding their thorns, but if your bike comes out solely for
trips to the trail centres this shouldn't be a problem.
Instead of rating this product with some random scale that
is open to fault finding I’ll simply summarize the most important points in my
humble opinion. Hopefully this will help you make an informed decision if your
thinking of buying this product.
So for my BIG verdict…….
Good weight and wear resistance.
Great all round all condition tyre.
Great control and grip.
Great if you mainly ride trail centres
Seasonally poor if you ride back country.
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