Got 2 oldish Souls, 16 inch version for mrs, 17.5 ” version for me running fox 120mm 70 mm stem up front Stans Crest tubeless 9 speed 2.25 f 2.4 r tyres and still only weighs 23.5 lbs as lightweight single track woods bike.
Puts a smile on anyone’s face that rides it, such a cheeky bike!!

This was a problem with a lot of hubs, hope, chris king ect, even going to a full thickness axle made no difference until the hub carrier was redesigned.
I was using Bergtec/goldtec and as I work only 2 blocks away from Goldtec we redesigned the internal axles under the cassette carrier and I have run the hubs now with a maxle lite axle now for 15 months now (on a 5″ trail/enduro bike), with no problem at all. previously I got through 6 in almost as many weeks!!

Production prive Shan v rare v special.

Compared with a thyroidectomy, which is a piece of piss, a perineal urethrostomy in the cat is technically quite tricky hence the price.
Ring a few other vets up and get a price, meanwhile the cat can be maintained with fluids IV and cystocentesis ie draining the bladder through the skin.

and that’s pretty????
should have gone to specsavers!

K
A scan is better than ECG as it shows the heart as a real time video, the colour effect picks up differential blood flow speeds and therefore the secondary effects
Sadly Dobys carry a poor outlook with DCM, but the dog can be massively improved with multivalent medication
All best

I would use your insurance and get a an RCVs recognised specialist to perform a full colour doppler echo cardio scan of your dogs heart. cost usu £450 to 800 depending where in UK you are,
The reason we ask if an animal is insured is so we can recommend best diagnostic work up and treatment, some may have the spare cash and wish to go for it,insurance just give us VS more flexibility.
Cost of drugs high but you are insured make use of it
breed very important for outlook, some breeds eg Dobermans carry a very poor outlook at point of diagnosis.
Hope that helps

K
what breed, how old?
DCM is the the more serious of the 2 diagnoses, heart scan is the definitive way of complete cardiac diagnosis.
Kidney disease usually diet eg Hills Kd diet and fortefor (which is also a cardiac treatment) that will be used in combination with other drugs for DCM.

Swopped wheels on mine to superlight stan’s crests and trick spokes, running 120 mm front 9 speed , changed the bike’s character completely, incredible difference.
well worth upgrading.
Total bike weight 23.5 lbs with no carbon.

I have a 2.5 130 T5, just be aware that the water pump and the power steering pump are both within the engine (poor design) and if the former fails it can thrash the bearings. Juddering clutches can be a problem as well, so always get the mechanicals done by someone who knows what they are doing.
Other wise brilliant, mine is 05 70k miles and it prob only lost a £1k over 3 years I have owned it.
`Brickyard site is great for advice

Jon
if you look closely at the kyle Vid his front foot has heel drop but not so much the back one, so that is “Normal” even for the best of riders.
other than that would agree re brake levers, and seat drop, not to get the weight back so much as to get weight lower.

Get a copy of Neil McNab’s book go snowboarding to learn basic techniques, and have a look at his Q and A on his web site.
The way he teaches is now the base line for the british snowboard instruction.

5 yo Medium Soul frame 120 mm forks running 9 speed parts bin special no carbon, weight under 24 lbs! Fantastic woods bike.
What more do you want? poss slightly slacker head angle?

I run my Cotic Soul with a Fox 120mm travel and its angles are exactly as the geek scale on the Cotic web site.
If I were to look for a similar bike I would look at a slightly softer head angle and correspondingly slightly steeper seat angle.
Having said that the Soul weighs in at 23.75 lbs with no carbon bits!
Good bike

Simple straight forward, works and great angles.
I have the privilege of working close to BETD GOLDTEC, and spend quite a lot of time there, it is rare it dont see a multipivot bike pulled to pieces due to pathetic bearing/ linkage design, some end up with adapted reamed frames, some need frame replacement.
Worth considering if your are going to keep a frame for longer than a season!!!

Easy
if the frames weigh roughly the same, in one hand hold 2 bearings, in the other the load of bearings from a multipivot bikes, and ask yourself one question, if the frames weigh the same, where has the extra metal been removed from to achieve the same weight !

Yep 29 ers are great but they do not give you that hooligan appeal that a 26 er hardtail or a 140 trail bike IMHO.

Slab fractures of talus can be catastrophic as difficult to see on xray, and therefore can be missed, ct scan needed often to deliniate the fracture.
Usual history is landing jump to flat on a snowboard, the injury was rare before the advent of boarding.
`i have a talus injury from 20 years ago ( not slab fracture) and albeit I ride a Hardtail for winter night time riding, jumping the bike give the ankle some grief, fortunately not so on a 140 trail full sus bike.
I learnt to snowboard after i damaged the talus and have no problems but not a jump jockey more off piste free ride.

direct travel, or dogtag

Start the other way round and ask how much do you think you will need at retirement, then add up at whatever percentage returns you are likely to make, ie if you want to retire on £21k pa you will need £700,000 saved at 3 percent (at present returns) (this is above all house costs as usually you will need somewhere to live). or enough Buy to lets that will return £1750 per month gross ex all maintenance, mortgage, default payments, poor occupancy ect.
Now most people in the private sector may not be able to achieve this level of saving and therefore pension, yet the public sector expects it to be funded in part by them? Realistic probably not!

Still have one of the first Cotics running with a 120mm fork (max I feel as otherwise seat angle too slack), great bike but not as fast over any form of lumpy trails especially when pedaling, as my short travel (85mm) FS (same forks similar angles)

I run a 34/22 on my 2010 five, with a 34/11 on back. No problem.

one in Alps snapped chainstay! but ridden very hard and sent big!

Have a look at Neil Mcnab’s book Snowboarding and its accompanying DVD. I Learnt to board in 2 hours at the snowdome at the age of 40, still ripping up powder now 16 years later!

Five with a fox 36 probably has a 66 head angle (with 140mm is 67) and prob drops seat angle to 72ish, pretty slack for ostensibly a 5 inch trail bike!
The hydraulic attachment under seat has been an achilles heel to the reverb sadly.

Why should he be disappointed, he was beaten only by dedicated superenduro racers and two in form World cup downhillers!
Orange 5 frameset with Fox 36s is what Rowan Sorrell mailed to me when I asked what bike he used.

Built and raced them! fantastic with a Fireblade installed sounded like an F1 car at 11500 rpm!

Turner 5 spot total shite

how much?

kingdom bikes

And a 17 ” with same geometry and TT length as 18″ basically to help dropper seatpost fitting

have a look at http://www.amdro he does a kit you can put in yourself.
I have a T5 130 05 plate 6 speed returns 35 mpg, could find one of these for between £5.5- 9k depending on mileage and condition. best look for a privately owned one as better looked after.

Just learn to ride it as well as the lad I had the privelidge (sp) to ride with in Molini Italy, who on a bog standard Five out rode pretty much everyone there!

Issa
Looking at seat post layback and length, front end spaces, length of stem and rise, i would suggest frame is too small. Dave Turner would suggest next size up and shorter stem if you email him.

Taking a Five and a Five Spot to Molini di Triora for five days, so will settle the dispute between, SP and multi pivot!
Albeit in my view SP with good shock eg ccdb or if want a multi pivot a DW link (physics seems to add up) are the only real choices.
Geometry BB height and wheelbase are probably way more important.

Backhander
I would try a DW Spot, the 2011 version has the same HA, same seat angle and toptube (that is large Spot and 18″ Five) so you can really make a direct comparison of the suspension systems, not the geometry.
If you want then to go carbon super light the ibis SLR or if you want even more adjustability the Ibis HD 160/140. my LBS has just sold 5 of the latter totally blinged up at around 5k, look amazing. very tempted by the SLR

backander
I borrowed a CCDB off Orange, tuned it to what i felt was correct with a little help from Steve Jones at Dirt mag, and it was staggering compared with the RP23. adds some weight, but with a titanium spring would be tolerable. Without the help I suspect it would have taken me ages to set it up correctly.
My feelings are there are 2 basic alternatives to rear suspension, the olds’ cool SP with a good shock versus a DW link suspension (IMHO the best). Majority of the others are actuated SPs or DW/Vpp lookalikes, so if multilink is your bag then go for the best ie DW, if not a basic solid SP with a good shock.
dont expect that helps too much!

If the discussion is about suspension design, then the single pivot has the advantages discussed, and also the downsides. An amazing mind blowing improvement can be made by using cane creek DB, at which point it will match the best (certainly if the physics add up as it seems to) suspension system currently available the DW link.
I have a dw Turner Five spot and a Five, and only when the Spot went to the 2011 angles could it match the Five despite its wonderous suspension.

55yo ride 3 x week keep up with most bar super fit fast whippets! Cotic 9 speed winter, Tricked up Orange 5 for rest of entertainment.
Followed a DHer into some biggish jumps last week, with his speed into the jumps made it so easy, prob not done it by myself!
Going to Rivierabikes in Italy in May, prob feel even older after that!!

yep strange how the speeds are resticted yet a range rover of similar weight is not. But they are careful not to contest some speed limitrs as would alter the whole show for the big 4x4s
T5 130 T 28 6 speed is amazing, great toy truck, mine is 05 plate for sale at present if interested.
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