BBN, that's good advice and chimes with my own view. Thank you.

I have some Fox 80RLTs. Have been sitting on a shelf as I think they ran out of fluids and stopped working exactly as they should. Were excellent forks tho. Whereabouts are you?

I am slowly answering my own question and becoming (maybe) an expert on down filled jackets. And can see how my original post was utter rubbish when quoting weights! My 'how warm will it be' question is now posed between two Rab options - the Electron and the Valiance . Both use 90/10 RDS hydrophobi...

Hi, hoping someone can give me a simple answer to this question please. Assuming that the down is the same in each jacket, will a jacket that has 650g of down with a fill power of 800 be as warm as a jacket with 800g of 650 fill power down? I understand that the fill power will have a relevance to s...

As a newbie, what are the benefits of the loop bars compared to a standard wide sweep 'single' bar? Is it felt to offer more hand positions or is the upside relating to luggage and mounting of lights etc?