Always thought discs were way too thin to be "straightened"?
Any warping of a disc will keep pushing your pads apart so your initial grab at the lever would feel unresponsive.
Other than that it can take a few goes at bleeding before getting them sharp.

• Initially; I had the standard brake hoses, and the brakes were OK-ish.
• Then i got the hoses upgraded to braided and the brakes were crap.
• Investigation found the warped rotors, which were then fixed and the brakes were much better.
• Then i had a line leak on the left side so had to have the banjo replaced
• Now my brakes feel soft.

I made this for it. But the missus was snoozing on the lounge and probably wouldn't have liked being rocked by bike noise downstairs so I didn't actually use it yet

If you do change fork oil, go for 15w instead of standard 10w oil, you will notice a big improvement.

• Rear pre-load is set at standard (though it could probably do with adjusting because i'm a tubby bastard at 16.5st)
• Rear pressure wasn't low at last check and i still had the problem, but i will check it again, as i do have a very slow 5psi/week puncture/leak. Probably needs putting back on properly.
• Fork oil? I'll certainly bring that up tomorrow.

Recieved my lush R6 shock upgrade from kebab19, well packaged and bang on time, cheers mate 

Stared at it through a rain soaked window.

You can easily fit an external mic to the SJ4000 as well, looks like a bargain....might even get one for my 20 miles a day commute.


http://www.instructables.com/id/SJ4000-External-Microphone-HACK/step10/null/

Not all 'class 10's' are the same
Just don't get one off ebay as it's more than likely a fake with no where near the advertised capacity or write speed

I have a Drift HD, which is just out of the budget, BUT i picked up two refurb Drift HD170 Stealth cameras from Actioncameras.co.uk. They were £50 each and when one of them packed up, they quickly sent a replacement.


It has: 1080p at 120 degree field of view (30fps)
            720p at 170 degree FOV (30fps)
and       720p    --   "  --            (60 fps)


The lens is rotatable, the batteries and mounts are interchangeable with my Drift HD (Which gives you a viable upgrade path without buying all new accessories). You can get a Mic adapter from ebay for about a fiver that will allow you to connect any 3.5mm jacked Microphone.


Also the extended life batteries are easy to come by and cheap (£15) because Drift use rebranded Fuji batteries so every man and his dog makes a copy.


I used the Stealths on my latest trip to Europe. ALL of the rear views and supplementary views are the Stealth cameras.


http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQyyGnBe8Lfc7ETWETUhfa-zWIRbzWM54


They have better colour saturation than the first camera I got which was basically a Polaroid XS100 in a different coloured shirt! Here's a video with that one:





As a starter though, it's not bad. But I really wanted the ability to have an external mic to capture my inane wafflings.

You're not after a gopro but the new budget model is £99,  comparing that price to the likes of the Chinese ones or action cams from the likes of aldi, for a bit more money you are getting a guaranteed quality product that has a proven track record.
It's a no brainer, they have been very clever with their pricing structure, and let's face it- the video quality it produces is better than their cameras that were £300 3 years ago, but that's advances in technology for you!