NotSoBigBen

Michelin's didn't do much for Rossi last year but hey you won't be going 300+k's an hour so I'm sure they are OK! You can always go back to the Piranha's when those wear out if you want ................. or before if they that bad!

Very nice bike tri-sickle rider !!!! I'm sure Pantani would have approved of the blue tyres had he been in country

Couldn't try it last night cause I had to fetch LittleBen from the hospital but have fitted it tonight and will try it tomorrow

Hey Gangsta - just go with your heart, Santa Cruz - Santa Rosa what the heck ................. (OK so that was useless )

Just thought that it looked very much like the Oiz FS bike's design.

Just wondering ..........

Looks very Orbea OIz/Cannondale Scalpel like ?

Hey believe it or not he came home today just 26 hours or so after the op! OK so he did have to make a few promises to the surgeon .....

Won't be when you've scraped and scratched the Leaky through the traffic for a few weeks. I still think a 'basher' for training and commuting is a good idea, use it don't use it .............

Thanks JB - I have the option to try the 90mm so will just for fun tonight. Will comment here tomorrow if I actually felt any difference.

Ewep - then stop scrounging round other freds for stuff and buy a front MTB wheel !

Ewep - surely not op daai mooi leaky gaas nie of hoe ?

Ah now we come to the crux (sorry Carel, not sure if you're involved or not ....) of the matter!!

rad006 - nice idea but if you don't like it you can't put the bits back ....... or maybe that Dirt Rider oke who does the welding of wood could help ...... At least with the stem I can try it out first

Very very nice, hope you have many happy miles on it! Ah a white FOX (great fork IMHO) how more pimp can you get ............. goes very nicely with the saddle of course

Hey Parra - when I first started MTb'ig all them years ago it was quite common to see okes with pretty narrow bars. If I recall it was the guys who liked the more technical stuff. You'd see the brake levers nearly at the stem ...... You often see quite the opposite these days with some people running some pretty wide stuff and then with bar ends on nogal ......

I have heard that running a shorter stem would make a bike handle 'better' in tricky stuff (tight single track, rocky downs)....... Assuming the frame size is not the reason you are messing with the stem length and only handling is an issue!!! Now the questions, since stems aren't that cheap, how do you find the right one? I now have a 110mm on my S-works but will try a 90mm (luckily can get one on loan!) tonight. Just wondering does it really make so much difference and is it a case of swings and roundabouts, getting better handling in those conditions and then giving up some stability on the high speed flats? If you raced both XC short track (shorter stem maybe better?) and marathon MTB races (longer perhaps more suited?) should you rather go with the shorter than the longer stem? Anyone actually experimented with stem length?

Hey Parra - what intimate knowledge do you have to be able to make such an observation ..................

BIGben remember - obviously over delivered ...........

A bit of over promise under deliver? Highly irritating, I always tell my guys don't give a definite date unless you can stake you life on it. Extreme but it makes them think twice before comitting to a date ..........

Thanks GO and AmorynS for the good wishes, he had the op this afternoon and this evening he sat with us at the coffee shop in the hospital with all his mates. Now just the recovery etc. Thanks also to Ewep for the call! BTW AmorynS - he says he misses the 'legs' .........

Thanks CP! As I said he's been through it before so knows what lies ahead. Disappointed but that's how it goes.

Yip - had a small motorbike accident this afternoon and broke his other collar bone (broke the left with bad displacement in May 2006). Similar situation again so has been admitted and will have the plate inserted tomorrow morning. Also got a few mean roasties but hey he's in good spirits and just wants to get the op over and done with and start the recovery process. Ai Ai Ai!

Does that help ?