Are you a MTB'er?

[lloydy]

Back in xc days, before I was sponsored I raced on a Roberts frame, custom built with some nice bits and bobs.

After sponsorship I started with an S-Works steel with RC-30s, full XTR, Ti flight saddle etc. Then moved up to an S-Works M4, specialized FSR forks (built by rock shox) full XTR, custom wheel set built by me, and the only ever set of turquoise middleburn cranks ever made (at that time anyway).

Used to do r&d riding for new middleburn products too, got some funny stories about the ""cock"" ups involved in forgetting to change tooth profiles between chainring sizes....that wasted a fair bit of aluminium i can tell ye!

Did you ever come across someone called Matthew Starey?

[v-lux]

Matthew Starey

Not that i remember, but it was a long time ago now.....

[lloydy]

He was with specialized as well, but I've just realised he's a couple years older than me. So different era's most likely,

[HarryMann]

Tell me, has this middelburn any connection the Middlemarch?

Oh, and if Paddy brings his Yamaha, can I bring my Puch


Well, it's blue not yellow and not quit so concours as that one... but a PUCH 50 all the same.

[silverbullet]

http://www.middleburn.co.uk/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; I've got RS7's on the Whyte iirc

Not the stiffest cranks in the world (allegedly) but strong enough and very light, if I don't get too porky as the years creep up on me

Any more pedal-power fans out there?

[HarryMann]

Doubt it Ian, sounds like far too much blah billet this and blah billet that for most of them thar T25'ers

In my day everything was tough as old boots ...... .............. ............. .............. 'n made properly, laaark ya know son, forged 'n all that, proper like

[silverbullet]

"The RS7 and RS8 crank sets have been tried and tested by thousands of riders since 1998....
The cranks are HOT-FORGED from high quality 7075 T6 aluminium.
The cranks then go through a CNC machining process that finely sculptures each crank arm into the unmistakable Middleburn shape"

"The RS7 has a LIFETIME warranty against defects in materials or workmanship*, covers competitive DH, trials and jumping!"

Superb quality and British made!

Even though my Whyte frame was pressed and welded in Taiwan, the design is all British* and I sought to have as near to an all-British (or certainly European) set of components i.e. no Japanese Shimano (brilliant though it may be) I nearly achieved it too!

*Designed by Jon Whyte, ex-Williams F1 senior suspension designer and keen MTB rider

[xriss]

is yor whyte the JW-4 model?, cant recall you did post up a pic a while back quite a funky looking set of wheels

[silverbullet]

It's the PRST-4, Chris. The JW had the same 4-link back end and main triangle but with less expensive steel tubular front forks instead of the hydroformed "plus fours" iirc?

[Holydiver]

I'd be up for some single track riding, I ride a stump jumper so I'm up for this but depends on where.
There's been a couple of rides organised over on the BY in the past.

Use to ride with a bunch of local lads and had weekends away in Wales, it was a good laugh until they started to bring the other half bang went the lads weekend away, so now I ride alone, as billy no mates

[silverbullet]

I think I was pitching for a "one and all, bring the kids and other halves" but hey, let's just get people together and riding, wherever they are in the country!

Doesn't have to be just the one event, it's the idea that's important

[jes*b]

middle-aged, armed & mildly dangerous.

[syncroy]

Afternoon, I fancy hooking up for a bike ride. North Wales is good or if someone knows where to camp in the Dark Peaks around Edale, Hope, Hayfield etc I'll sort out the route with pleasure!

Roy

[silverbullet]

middle-aged, armed & mildly dangerous.

Check out those beartraps! Where's your 535 spd's Jes? Proper old-school chainset though

[silverbullet]

A blast from the past (aka the bottom of the kit drawer) from when The Team was Missy Giove and Tinker Juarez and Hans Rey was still gettting up the bottle to jump off his mum's shed roof for the first time: