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" I love how during the day you can read the road ahead and often see what bends are coming up or get clues as to their sharpness from hedges etc. " There are often some visual clues that can help in bend assessment, and for sure hedges, tree lines, telegraph poles are amongst them, but if...

I returned from collecting the bike at 22:00hrs, that was an interesting experience that I would rather have done during daylight hours, and not in the bloody freezing cold! Never mind, we're back now, and soon the work can commence. I have pretty much decided that raising the bars and lowering the ...

Hi, and congrats on choosing a vtr. I collected mine yesterday, and the ride back was interesting to say the least! Sounds like she's ticking over, but a glance at the clocks says differently, beware of that one!

Ps. The front brake should never be snatched, but always progressively applied. Trail braking doesn't change that!

Thanks Hawk. I like it when a concept is backed up by hard empirical data! Is it worth me adding that this is where the trail braking term comes from, oops, I just have! As the front brake is applied and the forks compress, so the rake and trail angles increase. The advantages of this may not be rea...

I have read many of these posts about braking, imho, some are spot on, others maybe less so. Can I refer you to an excellent video by an outfit called 'Canyon chasers' on YouTube. There are a few, but the one I particularly like is about "Trail braking". I won't go into it myself here, I c...

Thanks for your comments fellas. Chris, ref the studs and nuts, what size are those nuts? (12 at a guess ) I'll take a socket along and see if they can be cracked off and re tightened, gingerly tho, I'll not want to shear anything. If they're all seized up, there won't be much else that I can do unt...

Hi everyone. Today is Friday, evening at mo, and on Monday I am trading in my Transalp for a Firestorm! It's all arranged, I've just got to ride a 700 mile round trip. I nearly went for a very well spec'd teal vtr, but in the event I chose a blue one, single owner, 18k from 99. Can hardly wait, I'm ...