hampsteadbandit
London, United Kingdom
Male / 38
Member Since: Jul 21, 2004
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Bike I ride: Specialized Stumpjumper Evo 29'er (mountain bike), Specialized Crosstrail (700c Hybrid bike) Specialized P20 (BMX)
Favorite Trails: all over the Globe! but mainly in London, England, UK...f*ck yeah :)
About Me: having fun on 2 wheels! having fun wherever I go...
Products Recommended: Fox Racing 36 Float RC2 | SRAM X9 Rear Derailleur Medium | SRAM PG-990 (11-34) | Devinci Hectik 3 | Banshee Wildcard | Banshee Rampant | Banshee Amp | Banshee Scirocco | Devinci 2011 Dixon SL | Devinci 2011 Dixon XP
Companies Supported: RockShox | Fox Racing | Avid | Banshee | SRAM | Devinci | Specialized | ODI | DT Swiss | Gamut | Mavic | e13 | Shimano
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hampsteadbandit's Activity
hampsteadbandit commented under mikelevy's blog ( 1 days ago )
quotes I think this is a RAD IDEA!! I am running 1 x 10 with 33T front chainring (with E13 XCX chain device), and 11-36T rear cassette, on my 29er http://ap1.pinkbike.org/p4pb7671928/p4pb7671928.jpg I rarely spin out (only on the road going to the trail head) but there are times, especially when the terrain is wet, where 33T x 36T is simply not low enough to climb very steep, technical terrain that is greasy, and I have to get off and push up the steeps :( in the dry, I can clean the majority of these same climbs, every time I am not a "casual rider" by any means, lots of power on tap and my previous AM bike with 2 x 9 let me up the same climbs every time, even in the wet! I would love to have a drivetrain with a wider range, specifically lower climbing gears as I really don't want to go back to a front derailleur and multiple chainrings ever again...
hampsteadbandit commented under iffoverload's photo ( 1 days ago )
quotes so cute!!

hampsteadbandit commented under RichardCunningham's blog ( 2 days ago )
quotes sorry dude.. ..not a case of not knowing how to use BB tools (have been wrenching since 1991, currently a workshop manager for a shop with multi-£million turnover...) but threaded BB is an old design left over from the days of road cycling have not "destroyed when you hammer it out" because we don't use a hammer to remove BB30 or PF30, we have specific tools for that application, perhaps you need to research that further.... have easily extracted PF30 cups without damage, replaced grauncy bearings and refitted without any damage to the cup or new bearings? did not mention loctite in my posts? why would you loctite PF30 BB?? speak to leading frame designers about the advantages of push-fit, and it might become a little clearer...
hampsteadbandit commented under hampsteadbandit's photo ( May 23, 2012 at 13:14 )
quotes definitely try a 29er, its huge fun and once you get into the bigger wheels it is stupidly quick even riding technical terrain I cannot really see myself going back to 26" (which we have now nick named "Micro Scooters"), unless I wanted a 200mm DH bike?

hampsteadbandit commented under RichardCunningham's blog ( May 23, 2012 at 13:12 )
quotes @WAKIdesigns and @valtra you both raise good points about the environmental issues what would be REALLY interesting would be a factory tour of the typical Asian bicycle plant, their manufacturing footprint / environmental waste and the conditions their workforce are employed under perhaps not the highest end manufacturers in Taiwan but an average plant in China, Vietnam, Cambodia turning up cheap bicycles I am not ignorant to pretend these are slaves working in tin sheds off a paddy field, but some honesty from the bike industry which manufacturers the bulk of its production off-shore in Asia, would be interesting.... Its something that has been raised with large corporations, supermarkets, clothes retailers and even Apple computers!
hampsteadbandit commented under RichardCunningham's blog ( May 22, 2012 at 12:57 )
quotes @ Protour agree with your comments, neither was a permanent solution, we ran Sachs New Success and Quartz rear mechs (our DH factory team was sponsored by Sachs) and we found that friends using the Bullet Bros with Shimano mechs, had a lot more problems than we did with our Sachs mechs we moved onto taking massive chainrings and grinding all the teeth off using an angle grinder to create 2 "sandwich" plates which would be bolted either side of the front single chain ring, to create a crude chain bash guard / chain keeper all kinds of experiments were going on back then!
hampsteadbandit commented under RichardCunningham's blog ( May 22, 2012 at 12:47 )
quotes @Protour PF30 has proven to work very well the increase in "stiffness" (resistance to flexure) that is talked about is a combination of the 30mm through axle on the crankset and more importantly the substantially larger diameter BB shell which allows the company to use larger diameter, thinner tubing in the bottom end of the frame (for lighter weight) whilst increasing frame stiffness in the bottom end As tube diameter increases, stiffness dramatically increases, the engineering rule of the thumb is "doubling a tube's diameter will increase the tube stiffness 16X", obviously moving to larger diameter tubing has its compromises with wall thicknesses vs. weight so you don't get buckling ("beer canning") tube failures in impacts Threaded bottom brackets have caused nothing but trouble since day one and are a left over from the old days of road cycling, you would not believe the bikes we get through our workshop with threaded BB's, seized threaded BB's, etc. BMX certainly has improved since moving to push-fit "Spanish" and "Mid-Size" bearing systems for the BB design, whereas the short-lived flirtation with the threaded euro shell was a disaster both in terms of bearing durability and frame damage Push fit tolerances do actually need to be good, otherwise problems result, especially for BB30 where the BB shell has a machined seat for the bearing, and even for PF30 where the delrin cups are isolating the bearings from the frame's BB shell, rather than taking up vague tolerances. The older, threaded BB systems do not allow the bearings to sit completely parallel, if you study the design, as the threads are angled which places unequal loads on the bearing system With push fit systems you can have parallel bearing alignment and easily adjustable preload, its a very very easy system to work on compared to traditional threaded BB shell with BB thread cutting and facing tools.
hampsteadbandit commented under RichardCunningham's blog ( May 21, 2012 at 11:14 )
quotes @Nobble this is good information I have seen this with Hope Pro II hubs, where the front and rear in "blue" are not a matched shade, because as you said, anodising is not exact unless the components are anodised in the same batch there is nothing worse than custom building a "colour co-ordinated" bike with anodised parts, and then realised they are all "slightly" different shades of the same colour (i.e. red, blue or gold) because the human eye is very sensitive to subtle changes in colour shade
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iffoverload wrote
Mar 31, 2012 at 11:13
Thanks for the heads up on that one:-)

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kinetic-uk wrote
Mar 13, 2012 at 13:44
No worries mate. I'm on a budget and these are rebranded to Forte as my friend from the U.S is getting them @ 60% discount (works at performance bike) so if they did break it's not a big deal.

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kinetic-uk wrote
Mar 13, 2012 at 13:39
Hi Rob what do you think to Microshift Arsis shifters for road bikes?

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kinetic-uk wrote
Mar 8, 2012 at 7:43
Okay thanks again mate. I just don't want to spend £200 (what I was quoted) on a Giant carbon fork!

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kinetic-uk wrote
Mar 8, 2012 at 7:01
http://wheelsmfg.com/headtube-reducer.html - someone pointed me to that, guessing it will help me fit a normal 1/18th fork to the Giant?

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adrenalinaddict wrote
Mar 7, 2012 at 9:24
Hi Rob, you seem to be the man in the know, so a quick question for you. Is a Hope P2 Evo rear 142mm just a 135mm hub with adapters. Found a wheelset for a remedy, but my bike has a 135 rear end. Thanks in advance mate Smile

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kinetic-uk wrote
Mar 6, 2012 at 13:06
Ok, thanks man.

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kinetic-uk wrote
Mar 5, 2012 at 16:52
Rob - do you know if a fork with Steerer: up:1-1/8", down:1-1/2" will fit a 1 ¼-inch bottom/1 1⁄8-inch top tapered steerer-tube also known as Giant Overdrive (not Overdrive 2)

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