Deadliest & Crappest MTB yoke of 2009

[Fergal]

OK folks - voting time!
Here are my contenders:

Deadliest MTB yoke of 2009:


Dirtworker
Google Earth
Mattock


Crappest MTB yoke of 2009

RaceFace seatpost


Let me know yours and we'll have a vote and maybe there'll be a prize at the club champs...

[Scrivo]

Deadliest:
Yokes
OC Tuning
Troy Lee Gloves
White Grips
Romper

Crappest:
Mud
Scratched frames
Raceface everything

[Fergal]

yes, yes - good suggestions indeed - ok the rest of ye - get yer gripes and greats in!

[Phil]

Deadly:

Septembers dusty dry trails,
Dirtworker,
the new lines on Romper,
The return of the club champ
...yes it was a long time ago but Spain..not a yoke I grant you.
troy lee gloves (official club gloves at this stage?),
I dont own them but...ay ups
Bike work stand,
The Kilruddery kcap
Cotic Soul

Crapfest:
Lousy michelen tubeless tyres with walls made of tracing paper
The club champs enforced absence
The rain that has just arrived to destroy the dusty dry trails
White grips

[Oisin]

Deadliest:
Cotic
Troy Lee gloves
Spain
Calvin Klein cycling socks from TK Max

Crappest:
The weather
Coillte chopping down forests
Snapping your chain in a race

[TomH]

Deadliest:
Whistler
Cotic Bfe
Days in Bree
Giant Glory 2010
Romper
The Greatest Descent in Djouce
Oisin complimenting me after our run down the B'shaker

Crappest:
Can't think of any.

[Nick]

Deadliest:
MAD XC
Kilruddery Kcap
Fully working bike
Garmin

Crappest:
Having to keep on fixing wheels
Damaged frame
Bent brake lever
All the rain

[Cormac]

Deadliest
Garmin Edge
MAD Gillet
Yeti Grips
Specialized cycling shoe
Road Bikes

Crappest
Schalbwe Racing Ralph Tubless tyres

[paddyobrien]

Deadliest

MAD
Lots of new trails
First proper night spin of the season

Crappiest

Too much work, not enough biking
Missing the blast

[ryan]

Deadliest MTB yoke of 2009:

Garmin Edge 705 + Bike Route Toaster
2.1 Rocket Ron on the front, 2.1 Racing Ralph on the rear, tubed tires made tubeless - used every race this year
Specialized Shoes + Helmets
Assos InterActive baselayer

Crappest MTB yoke of 2009:

Irish 'summer'
Avid Juicy 5 brakes
SRAM X-7 shifters (x-9/x-0 is amazing)

[Martin]

Deadliest
New daughter.
MAD XC.
Garmin yoke.
Tubeless tires.
Ibis Mojo.


Crappiest
Irish Summer
CRC aftersales.
Work
McCarthy Report
Lsibon

[DaveS]

Deadliest
New daughter...
Awwwww! that so sweet :)

[diamondG]

deadliest

Spain's never ending climbs. the sun, the delirium
Spain's never ending descents (on an 80mil hardtail :D
Spain's races back to the house
Spain's off camber jax
Spain's shot size
Troy Lee gloves
MAD.. THE club
Don's posts
dry trails
torq pineapple and ginger (I no longer have to cook)
thompson seatposts
yeti grips
tubeless bulldogs/toros
descending on a reignx



crappest

race face seatpost
climbing on a reignx
having lots of bikes, there always something wrong with one of them

[Liam]

Deadliest:

- Carrick Trails
- Going to NZ and getting away from NAMA, recession and Fianna Faill
- Getting lots of trails without having dab any more and finding my mojo again
- SPAIN!

Worst:
- Recession and less work
- Not getting around to buying a hardtail
- Having to work on the day of the blast

[ollietrex]

Deadliest

Trans Wales
Single Speeding Mountain Marathon
New 29er
Running a marathon

Worst

Cycling into a tree and being off the bike for 6 months
Race Face

[Phil]

This thread is making my paranoid over my raceface seat post, bars and stem!

[Scrivo]

All Raceface is brutal I find. Especially their cranksets. I just get angry looking at the one I have on the Reign. Don't get me started on my cracked carbon seat post and trying to change the angle of the saddle.......

[Fergal]

hang on a second
some of you lads aren't getting the point
the recession is not MTB related, nor is running a marathon, nor is moving out of the country, or babies, or theMcCarthy Report or "Lsibon"

[diamondG]

http://www.kotaku.com/assets/resources/2006/12/vicky-pollard-l-poster.jpg


:D:D:D:D

[djcromie]

Best Bits
Fox Vans 36s, especially on my SX
On that note, SX Trail
Cotic BFe, even though mine hasn't even turned a pedal
Thule bike rack, no more mucky boot
Pimpin X0 rear mechs
The joy of downhillin
Jumps and drops

Worst Bits
Those straps for the Thule bike rack, I keep losing them somehow
Fallin on the first practise run at the nationals, knocked the confidence
Not gettin out on the bike enough due to hangovers

[paddyobrien]

or "Lsibon"

well if he can't even spell Lisbon then he's unlikely to be able to understand the question, or the treaty for that matter!

[Phil]

well if he can't even spell Lisbon then he's unlikely to be able to understand the question, or the treaty for that matter!
I don't think such piddling matters as facts or correct spelling are the concern of the no camp ;)

[diamondG]

surely that's not to suggest that either side are actually telling us what its about

ok, enough.. FJ's right, its nothing to do with mtb'n
who brought up lipbalm anyway?

[Martin]

well if he can't even spell Lisbon then he's unlikely to be able to understand the question, or the treaty for that matter!
I don't think such piddling matters as facts or correct spelling are the concern of the no camp ;)

;-)

its all about jobs Diamond............

[TomH]

;-)

its all about jobs Diamond............

Ah here keep it to MTB will ya, if you want to debate the merits of Lisbon take it elsewhere....

Another Deadliest:
Maxxis Minion 2.5 F&R...beautiful tyre in the dry

[ciaranc]

Deadliest MTB yoke of 2009:
Muck-off spray cleaner.
Getting the Meteor Sponsorship thing.


Crappest MTB yoke of 2009
missing mountainbiking a lot due to leaving cert in 7 months

[Scrivo]

Jayz crackers.... What happened to about mtb?

[ciaranc]

Whooops , got carried away again in my thoughts....

[Conor]

Deadliest:

Sleepless, who'd have thought 2 smokers would do so well???
Downhill racing, especially Rostrevor (Sorry Graham),
MAX-XC, and getting 3Rock as a venue,
Racing so many races, XC and DH,
Maxxis Ignitors,
Dakine gloves,
OC's James...a saviour, and a cool dude too,
My mattock!

Worsest:

Missing Cooley thriller cos of a cold,
Bleeding brakes,
DT Swiss tubeless kits....a pure SOD to fit!

[AussieSteve]

Deadliest
Being a part of the Sleepless team
Making a start at racing - despite having more room for improvement than most!
Buying my first new bike in 17 years!
Feeling the flow
Getting dragged, encouraged and allowed to tag along with some of the savages

Crappiest
Mud and more mud
Making a start at racing - at Kilruddery!!
Pinch flats - tubeless here I come!
Close to six months off the bike

[feed]

Crappiest
> Being told by surgeon that I couldn't mountain bike for 9 months after knee ACL operation
> Stans tubeless kits, when they don't work they really don't work
> Gore gear cable kit, expensive and sh*te

Deadliest
> Going back mountain biking 2 months after knee ACL operation
> Brilliant condition of trails at the moment
> Tubeless wheels
> RM Slayer

[Fergal]

Jayz crackers.... What happened to about mtb?

crackers! :)
killer name...

[MarkG]

Deadliest-
Spain!
xc racing
new trails
MAD max xc
the Blast
powerbar jellies
winning first race
world masters champs

Crappest-
dodgy weather
missing MADnps
mechanicals in races:mad:
crashing too much!
not too much its all good!

[AussieSteve]

I felt the need to update this...

Deadliest
Tubeless - fitted a ghetto kit on Friday night and gave it a run today at the K-Cap - awesome!

Crappiest
Feedback Sports work stand - poor balance of the thing when you clamp the bike by the seatpost means that you can't take the back wheel out first.
But I forgot this when I fitted the tubeless kit on Friday night. I did the work in the sunroom (can only get away with this when my wife's not home), took the back wheel out, turned around to put the wheel down and the bike and stand toppled over - into the TV!
I thought I'd been lucky not to break it - there wasn't a mark on it, but found out I'd fecked the thing when it was switched on on Saturday morning.

The telly is well and truly fecked, but jeez I'm stoked with the tubeless!!

[MarkG]

jeez Steve! least the tubeless rocks:)

[paddyobrien]

quality steve .. what excuse did you use? Playing tennis on the Wii?

[ryan]

I spend about 400 hours racing and riding off-road each year and get around 2-3 punctures* per year. Those are mostly horribly sliced sideways. Amazing... (I also use very light tires, so if I use the normal heavy UST ones, I would probably cut the 2-3 down even more...)

* I may get more, but I never know about them :)

[TomH]

Almost forgot...
Deadliest:
Freecaster

[Fergal]

new one:
Deadliest:
New MAD custom water bottles - look great, work great - very nice, great work Oisin and Morgan-thanks!

[Oisin]

We'll be distributing them very shortly. Also we have loads extra so if you didn't pre-order any don't worry you can still get some.

[Conor]

Just thought I'd add to this....

Crappiest Product: Fibrax brake pads. Brutal, fiddly, crappy life span, are they made of cheese or something???? The only good thing is the come with a disc cleaning wipe. My advice, buy genuine!!!

[Scrivo]

Except the Superstar ones- they're deadly and gold!

[Nick]

I have fibrax pads and still have loads of life left. I put them in the day of the race in Kerry.

[DaveS]

Seeing as you resurrected this post, in no particular order

Deadliest

The bone-dry trails we had there for about 3 weeks
Ay-Ups
Camalbaks
Disk Brakes
Getting out regularly
New Club Shorts

Crappiest

Cleaning and drying Camalbaks
CamalBak copies because everything tastes like rubber
Any type of rim brakes on an off-road bike
Getting caught up with work that you don't get paid for and missing out on biking as a result :mad:

[diamondG]

Camalbaks, that the lidl imitation model :D

As much as I dislike them, the reign has no bottle holders so I use one then..

when it comes to cleaning and drying, here's two options

for drying, get a wire coat hanger, bend it in a shape that fits in the bag and keeps it open to dry it, and then hang it up

Or, instead of cleaning everytime, assuming you just use water in it, after use, empty it and put it in the freezer, nothing will grow on it then..

[bazz]

Thats very clever about the freezer option! Never thought of that.

I use the coat hangar and let it dry out naturally, but I'll try the freezer option after the next spin.

[diamondG]

let us know how you get on
never actually tried it myself :)

[bazz]

Thanks for clarifying that :) So, i'll be the guinea pig....

[diamondG]

actually, maybe its not a good idea
I see now they warn against it

Can I put my CamelBak® reservoir in the freezer?
No. The freezing process makes the plastic brittle. Also, when water freezes it expands leading to the possibility of rupturing the reservoir
http://www.pixelectomy.com/Camelbak/faq2.html

I had heard of people doin it, but I guess they all have brittle camelbaks now..
the new plan is, find someone that does it, and lets see if and a pat on the back during a spin will see 2L of water running down their gear
worth a shot

[bazz]

Give me a loan of your camelback and I'll try it out for you....

[TomH]

Once every few months fire shot of milton baby juice into it and you'll be grand...

[DaveS]

I was originally talking about cleaning the real CamalBaks. But now that you've but it in my head I'll have to do back and edit the Crappiest to add in rip-off bladders (I think it was originally a Platypus bladder I had and the taste of any drink was like rubber).

Tried the 1/3rd filling and freezing think and doesn't work too well because its impossible to keep it away from the screw-off top and at the tube end at the same time (this is done because a giant ice-cube will melt slower that loads of small ones, for long rides n stuff)...

I've also did it a few times with the bladder nearly dry but at that stage you've done most of the work anyhoo. Either way I've had no leaks or anything.

Finally it's not just water I have in it.

[AussieSteve]

When my Camelbak bladder isn't in use or soaking/drying, it's permanently in the freezer (empty). It's a genuine one, and no joke, it would have to be ten year's old!

As Tom suggests, it gets a Milton bath every few months. I've never had any mould or any strange tastes. And it's definately not gone brittle.

IMO sometimes there is a reason why the known brands cost more!

[Sean]

Bottles lads, bottles....