kerradoh

Agreed, rubbish! although i have fox suspension, it must work - Ive never had issues with this over the past 3+ years

Hey Man, my 2 cents seem to be mirrored by the fine people above: I was in a similar situation to you a few years back, and the advice I was given, and took, was just ride the bad boy you have until it cant anymore, then cross that bridge when you get there. The risk you run in selling now and getting something a bit beefier is that you just may find that that beefier is not beefy enough, next you'll want a fox 36 or a Pike and 150mm at the back, and carbon wheels and at least gx spec and a full face lid ect because that marketing machine really is a fine piece of work, you justify it because you hitting all the A lines and you've run out of bike to comfortably go faaaaast on. Or you decide, after hitting that A line a bit too fast for your skills and nursing some broken bits and bobs, that actually this isnt for me and a nice meander on the jeep track with some flowy single tracks is actually all you want in life.. Or you start to shave your legs, invest heavily in bum cream and knock out 600km a week and decide to ride a epic..You just dont know until you know, and ideally all these options require a different setup of "beefiness". If i was you, i'd ride what you have now, (fit a dropper post though), fix what needs to be fixed when it breaks (i'll bet on that nx derailiur going first) and once you know where you want to progress too then consider your options. That scott 970 is very capable as it is in its current form and you shouldn't be too worried about stantion size (thats what my wife says anyway :) is my opinion. Unless of course the trust fund just kicked in, then completely ignore my 2 cents, pull into your local bike shop, and let the marketing machine work its magic. good luck

Hey man, nice work on getting a bike and getting out there. Ive just been down the new grips road, and as with everything bike related, so much comes down to personal preference. Do you like a thicker feel or a smaller feel, do you want lock ons, do you want some more surface are for your palm like the Ergons, ect ect. I persoanlly never got on very well with the ESI's, i like them and all but because i like to crash a lot, they never lasted long. Tried a pair of the "DMR death grips" and really liked them, lasted me a year and a half. Now trying the spank spoon rubber grips, which i like. Seems like pricing on everything is crazy, including grips. My advice - pick something you think you will like and ride them till its time for a new pair, that day will come, sometimes sooner, sometimes later. Good Luck

But have you tried with TT bars yet that'll really piss em off.

From my understanding you then have to then start and stop your ride from the strava app, not from a third party app linked to strava, but i could be wrong?

Hii guys - 29 days for me today, no ciggs! Im a junkie and an addict for ciggs, started young, around 15, and tried to quit a few times over the years, which turned to decades. Turned 40 last year, and vowed to myslef i was done, I tried everything over the last 2 years, allan carr (book and seminaar) champix, hypnosis, cold turkey, but every time i went longer than a day or so my mind would completely freak out, couldn't concentrate, couldn't think, couldn't work.. it was bad. In Jan this year gave one of those twisp e ciggs a try - so far so good, started with a high nicotine content, weened down to a middle content, and now onto a low dosage, the plan is to ween the amount of nicotine out completely, then just leave the e-cigg alone entirley. Its working for me so far, im not convinced that im a non smoker, but at least im not smoking ciggs, dont smell like a asstray and ive broken some of the crucial habits/routines that needed breaking, like the first one in the am. To all the others out there, well done and keep it up.