Tweekscycles

Bought an steering damper for a motorbike a few years ago, gave me the wrong fitting kit and the hassle i had trying to replace it- i gave up and didnt fit the steering damper! They are in it for the money and not the passion and 10% off their prices is still more than PBK, shiny etc, sorry about the rant but once bitten twice shy and what goes around....

Is the tweeks group still owned by the Minshaws ? Alan Minshaw started it from a tiny little shop in Tattenhall and i believe John (his son) ran it after the old man retired.
Wouldnt have a clue what their service is like for general sales, but like anything else, if the price is right then we all tend to swallow our pride :) I think my only true exception to this would be Dave Hinde. I think if I was riding through Northwich and got a puncture in my last inner tube outside his shop, I would still walk and push my bike 60 miles home :)

To be honest I didnt even know that DH did much MTB stuff, so its definately not the STW reports that put me off. But there is so much documented in the Road forums and stuff its nuts. The worst of it all is his Ebay shop which used to trade under the name "numberonebikebits" the negative feedback received about stuff not arriving, and people being generally ripped off is staggering. And should you think of complaining then you get basically verbally abused. True to form the last person I know personally who bought some stuff off him, (in this case a pair of handbuilt wheels), found that there was loads of play in the rear hub and no amount of adjusting could rectify it, upon closer inspection it was found that half the bearings were missing ! Apparently, I believe DH claimed no responsibility

If you want a giggle this is a small selection of his neg feedback, some of it is actually quite funny :) His ebay shop has since been closed down

http://www.toolhaus.org/cgi-bin/negs?User=number1bikebits&Dirn=Received%20by

I think you are going need a bigger garage !
But yes, I say go for it :)......Hold on what am I saying....we dont need you going any quicker !!....I'd say a unicycle for you...then we may get just get half a chance of keeping up...or then again maybe not :)

Blimey 5 and a half G's for a plastic bike ! Why not save up and get a proper metal one, surely everyone knows metal is much better than plastic ! Or else they'd make Formula one cars out of it.....Hang on.....they bloody well do !

I shall be expecting you to be snapping at the heels of Nick Craig on the new beastie :) Am thinking about an Anthem x for next years marathon season too. My hardtails great at going up stuff, but going down the technical stuff quickly is a whole different kettle of swimming things ! Or maybe its just because I is a Big gay no skills downhill mincer :) Because those boys at the World cup xc didnt seem to have many problems carrying speed on the technical bits on their hardtails !

Did you watch the Dalby world cup XC, apparently even the worlds top XC men are choosing them. That fella Stander, nearly won the mens event on one. Roll better over chattery stuff apparently, but slower all round steering and you look weird. Alternatively you could go for a combo and have a 29 er big wheel on the back and a regular small one on the front and call it a "chopper" you never know it may catch on :)