Got one of the first years’ batch of silver frames a while back. Loved it to bits, only sold it to buy a Singular Hummingbird, as it had the option to fit gears and so effectively replaced two bikes.

The Io is an awesome frame. Ran it with old 105mm Marzocchis, which was fine. Switched to 100mm Rebas, also fine, and a far shorter fork than the Marzocchis. Upped travel to 115mm, and it was a little waggly on climbs, but descended as well as when it used to have the Marzocchis on it. All in all an excellent frame. You’ll have a ball on it.

What are you usijng them for? are they both Maxle forks?

If it helps, I have a pair of ’11 revs and love them – but I’ve been using Rebas and Revelations for years, so I’m a little biased. 20mm axles make a big difference, by the way.

One I forgot: someone who will remain nameless on the newsdesk of a magazine I worked on years ago put an ad in Exchange and Mart offering a huge number of grot mags and videos free of charge to anyone who could collect. The number given was that of the editor. Cue three weeks’ worth of calls from grubby gentlemen asking about ‘literature’ and ‘videos’ in invisible inverted commas.

A few I’ve seen:

* Change one of the options for the coffee machine to ‘Soylent Green’. Someone inevitably calls the supplier because the machine’s run out of it.

* Take the wheels off a colleague’s office chair and put it up on bricks

* Epoxy a phone’s handset to the cradle

* We have an office fruit basket delivered twice a week. Get one (or more, if you have time) of the bananas and pop a pin into it. Waggle it around to cut the flesh of the banana, then place back in the basket.

* Fill desk drawers with packing peanuts

* Epoxy a pound coin to the floor

Yup, I got a Lumia 800 as a work phone last week – currently I also have a personal phone, too – iPhone 4. Initially, I found battery life terrible – but it’s got better recently, probably because I’m not endlessly mucking around with it. On 7.1 at the moment, by the way.

Apps? Flickr’s good. Weatherbug is also great, but I’ve not been able to tile it yet. Other than that, I’ve been swamped in the run-up to Chrimbo and haven’t had a chance to muck around with apps yet.

Liking the aggregation of content into ‘me’ and ‘contacts’ works well, makes sense to do it like this rather than in separate apps.
Camera’s smashing, generally very responsive interface for the phone. Display is beautiful.

Try the Specialized Body Geometry Orthotics – you don’t necessarily have to go the whole hog and buy the shoes, too. But it’s a good place to start, and their shoes are pretty great.

The diagnosis sounds pretty vague, too. Might not be saddle position – or it might be a bunch of stuff *and* saddle position. Spending on a bike fit is worthwhile, but don’t go spending loads more on other stuff.

Have you popped the eccentric out of the BB shell? MIght be worth checking to see if the surface the bolts tighten down onto is scarred. Also, what do the ends of the tension bolts look like? The ends that go into the shell, mind. Do they have a dimple in them, or are they flat? Dimples help grip the shell nice and tight.

Welcome back. Thank god. Two mudprawns? Blimey.

Understood – that makes a ton of sense. Let me know if you ever want an oompa-loompa’s point of view on test stuff. I’m curious about 650b – it seems to make sense – but the only thing that hold me back are the availability and cost of rims and tyres.

Sam, were you saying there’s be a smaller-than-medium size in the works? Quite important info for those of us below 5’8″ :D

You might be better off getting a brake cable mount that clamps onto the fork – less flutter as well.
Alternatively, try a custom bike builder – Hunter Cycles in the US might be able to help.

Don’t forget the Hummingbird for those of us who are vertically challenged:

Now with slightly less idiotic handlebars – replaced with a much lower rise.

Epicyclo – didn’t realise Phil did one, too!

Phil Wood does a half link EBB – the ti frames Singular makes has them. They’re very nice indeed.
For a conventional BB shell, Clubber’s spot on. ISIS BBs (Certainly the early ones – I gave up on ISIS a long time back) suffered from lack of space – the axle was bigger, and the shell the same size, so the bearings had to fit into a smaller space, and lasted far less time than the old square taper bearings.
You can get an EBB-alike that fits a normal BB – it uses external bearings, so you’ll need to use an external bearing crankset. Trickstuff.de makes them, as does another company whose name I forget.

hopefully that pic is self-explanatory. You can buy them here for 159 Euros.
Frankly, unless you really love the frame in question, it might make more sense to get an ebb bike. I sold a Genesis Io and my beloved DeKerf Generation a year ago and bought a Singular Hummingbird to do both jobs for £430, and love it.