Recent content by Cloverleaf

Fox can't even support their own shit for more than five minutes. Six and half a dozen I'd say. Unless you know the restorers work I'd be inclined to go non-restored. That way anything you have to spend money on is new and done properly rather than using someone's dubious word they've done it...

To be fair the £40 an end ones are usually pretty ruined. Not all, but most. Corroded pistons, baggy levers, scratched and gouged adjusters etc. If you want a good set there aren't many out there as most were well used.

Circlips are the same as the contemporary ones so that's at least slightly easier to deal with!

As you say, a shame there weren't more trees but also it's nice to see the enthusiasm. Hopefully this enthusiasm carries on elsewhere. The thing I don't like around a lot of these figures is that they bandy about numbers based on their own agenda; farmers underplay their impact and vegans...

Doing the Collie stare to try and mesmerise the ball into jumping into her mouth itself:

Definitely. For a start there aren't enough native nurseries to support the number of trees that would be required to reforest huge swathes of land, but heather uplands are also species diverse when not artificially managed to maximise grouse numbers (alongside predator persecution). I love...

My experiences with the Lazer ones and their like have by and large been positive, particularly in soft bolts. Where a normal Allen key will be trying to cam out of the bolt these dig in further, particularly if there's any good hex left at the very bottom. They also require no drilling and...

Aluminium bolts are a pig. Mondraker should be quite helpful, or at least in my experience they are. As to getting them out, either use one of these, or these. Both are effective although if they're not completely destroyed then I'd try the latter first. Once out you can measure the thread...

Anything top swing (i.e low clamp), bottom pull, 9spd, and 34.9mm clamp should work. This'll do you: XT Mech link

I like the idea of some of these things. I sometimes have concern that what once worked in the bigger picture of a wider ecosystem now won't, but we won't find out unless we try. I'd rather see this trial and assessment than Arla's Bovaer one which has made buying dairy products recently...

Not sure what happened to the tractor pic @bikeworkshop but very nice! I'm sure some politician somewhere would think you need to get rid of it for a brand new one, probably with a hybrid engine or some such nonsense, for the few times a year you use it. Because of course you have to consume...

I had a bunch of articles saved as they greatly annoyed me, I'll did the links out. I get that in some cases they can overwhelm woods but these same people will put more effort into removing beech from their woods while doing nothing to criticise the complete lack of life that exists in any...

I stand corrected, I didn't realise you'd sorted out the older forks too. Nice one. It's mental how much modern stuff is already obsolete as far as Fox and SRAM are concerned. You can't get bladders for charger dampers separate despite them not lasting much longer than the service interval, and...

Ash dieback is heartbreaking to see, they're one of my favourite trees, especially mature examples. Not many large trees can give such a vibrant glow in summer. I admire anyone who is supporting developing woodland, it's a lot of effort. I've helped friends out in the past who help rewinding...

Our landowner here is London based and does nothing to cull the deer locally. Going back the last hundred years there's not been a significant red deer population on our headland at all, just Roe deer which do much less damage, but in the last ten years they've exploded. Luckily enough locals...