Ben Lisle

@oztrazine @UKMTB_Chat pretty sure Haibike make some good e hardtails, usually bosch equipped too which means reliability and easy availability of spares.

@UKMTB_Chat Talking of e-bikes. Who's making a good e hardtail these days?

Hope you’ve all had a great day, good luck to those doing events this weekend too. I managed a short ride this morning before heading to the in-laws. Awesome weather, back to BPW tomorrow on the ebike.

@adameaa24 @Absolutemtb1 @UKMTB_Chat 😂

@Fellwanderer82 replacing the headset on a normal bike like my trek for example, £45 all in...!

@Fellwanderer82 headset replacement on this: bar tape off, disconnect di2 cables and brake hoses, bars off and stem off to get said hoses out of bars, finally the forks out, replace £60 bearings, reconnect di2, replace now too short hoses, refit stem/bars, rebleed brakes...£270 job..!

I love bikes sometimes, just had to change the outter cable and its internally routed. Wheel off Cranks off Bottom bracket off. (To give it a good fingering into place😆)

afternoon of coffee, cake, bike riding and garage tidying

wider 32mm tyres, NOS dura ace cranks and my trusty ti axle phil wood bottom bracket fitted.!

just in case anyone is bored, have some NOS dura ace to look at.

@jollyboya @Hotwheels_mtb @UKMTB_Chat @Absolutemtb1 the gravel bike trend going to 50 and 55mm tyres does mean i've got some lovely, light supple casing tyres for my jones. being an early frameset tyre clearance is limited especially with mudguards!

@Hotwheels_mtb @UKMTB_Chat @Absolutemtb1 Early mountain bikes (ATBs) were just road bikes with flat bars & slightly wider tyres. My 1st one, Saracen Tuff Trax, had ‘massive’ 1.5” (~38mm) tyres. They were tan wall as well. Black wall tyres were a crazy new innovation in the late 80’s. Gravel bikes just close the circle.

Back when I had a flat bar gravel bikes sorry mean non suspension mtb 😂 @UKMTB_Chat @Absolutemtb1

@Hotwheels_mtb @UKMTB_Chat @Absolutemtb1 seems we've been ahead of the trend for years mate..!😂 the soma and the green jones i don't own anymore but still have the trek and my current jones. the soma i owned for 8 years then sold once i got the jones bug.!

@Absolutemtb1 @WillPoole wine, pussy, friend

@WillPoole Wine, cap, butt 🤷🏻‍♂️😂

Travel. Pizza. Grind.

@adameaa24 @Priceyt nahh..!😂

@adameaa24 @Priceyt not tried a pair of frozen tunnocks..

@Phil02721356 39/17

@retrobiker1 That is nice. What ratio are you running

this amazing bike did 80 miles today, the bike i originally built a winter hack to get me to the train station if needed has rapidly become one of my favourite bikes. the frameset is nearing 90 years old!

the abandoned house as we were approaching lewknor had a eerie aura to it.!

2/2

exploring routes along the ridgeway today, weather was amazing and the views were equally stunning 1/2

@DNNY_DWNHLL thank you, always liked owning bikes that make people look twice and if it's the thing that gets them into a different discipline of cycling or gets them into cycling full stop then i'm happy.

@retrobiker1 You've 100% won the award for person on my feed with the most unique bike collection

@adameaa24 this is why i don't film myself riding, i know i'll just sound like a chain smoker running a marathon😂

@Matapang696990 paragon cycles, small british frame builder who built frames between the late 1930s to late 1950s, mine's mid 1940s from the little info i can gather.

@retrobiker1 What frame manufacture is it