Have you reported it?

The one and only thing I regret selling is my ck wheelset. They cost what they cost.

Kids are great. I am playing the Yes & No game as I type this and thrashing my five year old! The three month old is about to scream/be sick/wet or sh!t herself, she is still making up her mind. After I have cleaned my car (the first time in 3months) I will be making a rocket, maybe. I am now holding the three month old and typing this at the same time. The point being, be flexible and be prepared and your riding won’t suffer. Enjoy and congrats!!!

Yes, he should.

My M9. It’s fantastic!

If I was to start over again and only have one bike I’d go for a mojo hd or intense carbine. I would like to try a 5 to see what all the fuss is about though…

ah, so you got the EH Wheel that came into stock that I ordered was told verbally by CRC that I had it and then received an email saying bugger off… and breathe.

Nevermind, I guess you ordered way before me. What are they like?

Mine have been a PITA but they are fast and light and the rims are tough. Expect to replace the bearings at least once per year (an easy job as it goes) and make sure you turn the nipples every now and then as the spokes sieze in them making it impossible to true the bloody things. Basically, my experience is that they are NOT fit and forget.

Deemax Ultimates are the same width as SXs FWIW.

Greeble

The stoy was bought for the m9 as it worked so well on my other bikes. If you read what I wrote I’m recommending theat the op take his time and research before outlaying any cash and should at least try the shims in his rp23 first. If he has set the sag correctly then there is little else he can do. Reading through this and other forums you will find other intense owners who have experienced the same thing including me.

Are you a suspension engineer, do you much experience of setting up intenses with various different shocks?

Right now I just think you are an arse with a big bag of chips on your shoulder…

You maybe right in your massive assumption about me but I do own a very, very nice m9 and ss1.

Dan

Be carefull going for the CCDB Air option. Different frames have different rates of progressiveness as do shocks. A missmatch can lead to a horrible feeling bike. Do a lot of research first. I should have done this with my M9 that has a CCDB Coil which is quite a linear shock. This was causing the ride to be quite harsh on the M9 on landings other than a nice transition. Speed humps were best avoided altogether.

So, off I went and bought a Bos Stoy at huge expsense. This solved most of the issues but calming the rebound down enough so that I wasn’t getting thrown forwards on jumps proved to cause other issues.

On the M9 you can actually change the progressive rate of the frame by mounting the front of the shock in a different position. I wish I had tried this first. I re-fitted the CCDB and after plenty of chat with someone who knows more about this stuff than me I made a few adjustments and now I have a shock that works very well with my frame.

The Bos is WAY easier to set up and ultimately the bike felt bloody quick with it on. I may refit it using the same mounting as I am for the CCDB as a comparison. But at the moment it is up for sale.

The point being, not all shocks are equal, they all work differently so take your time! For what it is worth I fitted a Stoy to my Tracer and it was brilliant. It’s now on my Intense SS1 which I don’t think I will ever sell.

Dan

My tracer did the same thing. As they say it is quite common if you are over a certain weight, although I am not sure what that weight is. Either get the shims or get a decent coil shock. I fitted a coil shock, problem solved.

What bigad40 said. It just is. Also we are a nation of maniacs and thrill seekers. Going fast in the daftest and least safe way possible is something we are very good at. And long may it continue.

Ooops, no CCDB air, was looking at the wrong line on the graph.

Ccdb air is designed to ramp up towards the end of the stroke, so may suit your nomad.

For what it is worth the rp23 on my old tracer was pants. If you were of a certain weight it blew through it’s travel at the first sign of a twig in the trail. Also the ccdb on my m9 was horrid until I set the frame up to it’s more progressive setting.

Nothing wrong with the second one. I had already made my mind up not to do it as I was not 100% certain I would land lined up for it. As it turns out I did but had already made the decision.

I use the stem bolts that came with the stem. Those also were not the dirt jumps. I did not record them.

The camera also lies about the size of those jumps. They are quite big.

Some good and funny comments though!

Probably, and do you think I care? Surely you just ride the bike you want to ride and get on with it…?

2011 custom zesty 714
Intense ss1
Intense m9
Trek session 9.9. Well, why not…

Yes, loads. Email me at dan.enticknapREMOVEME@REMOVEtiscali.co.uk

I’ll reply later on tonight.

Cheers,

Dan

I thought so. Really, I did!

Yeah, really.

Whatever.

You speak the truth.

I guess, thinking about it…

Utter fools. I’ve been had off big time by some well placed logs in the trail and have nearly been taken out by barbed wire stretched across the trail (at chest/neck height) more than once.

Fortunately my local DH trails are quite short so I always walk them first.

I hope they find who did it.

The bearings in my SS seem fine. I replace the lowers once a year which doesn’t seem excessive to me for something that it well used. Trick is to use decent bearings, SKF not Enduro!

Agree re extra UK, very helpful!

Good for me when I ordered.

Were the special brake-pads that only work when there is a full moon? What a load of bolloxs they spout

Possibly don’t expect all day epics but there are plenty of goood places to ride but you do need to know your way around.

Geo differences on 2012 models are down to shock/shuttle lengths and the axle to crown of the forks.

VPP bikes climb very well and you don’t need pro-pedal. The RP23 on my Tracer was rubbish. It would blow through the mid travel at the slightest sign of a twig on the trail. I changed it for a Bos Stoy, problem solved. After talking to other Tracer owners that had the issue I discovered that we all had something in common… we weighed quite allot. Get the RP23 tuned to bike/weight/riding style and you should be sorted i.e. speak to TF Tuned. Or buy a different shock.

He used a different shock shuttle as on the CF versions it’s bolted on. This allowed the use of a longer stroke shock to get the 160mm of travel I think he also used offset bushings.

I have a stoy on my ss1 and a ccdb on my M9. I’ve just bought a stoy for the M9. They have 1 of 5 tunes to fit your linkage style/ratio etc. What this means is that your starting point for fine tuning is much, much better. The fox dhx5 my ss1 came with I actually liked but I already had the stoy. The RP23 on my tracer was utter crap.

Stoy all the way for me. It might not be a ‘custom’ tune specifically to you but it’s better than having none and they work brilliantly!

The ‘shoddy’ workmanship is true in some cases as it is for all manufacturers to a degree. My first tracer was on the piss but this was resolved quickly by the UK importers who were great. Both my SS1 and M9 are spot on. If you do buy, get it checked out by the store before you pick it up. They should do this anyway.

Put it like this, there are far more happy Intense owners than there are unhappy. For me, nothing else comes close (although those carbon fibre zestys do look nice). The geo, ride and look are all spot on.

Made it to the top of Keilder running 1*9 32-2-32. It’s fine. Coed -y – brenin was also fine. Twice. 1*10 will be plenty, I reckon.

SS1s can take front mech.

Not the same but I’ve an Intense SS1 that I use for the trails (it was my do it all bike but I bought a bigger one for the silly stuff) and it’s brilliant. Not the best climber but good enough if that’s your thing and really shines in the downs. The VPP suspension is very good indeed and the bike pedals well. It be nice if it were a bit lighter especially when it’s cold, wet, dark, raining horizontal and you and it are covered in mud but come the summer I will have forgiven it.

SS2 should pedal better. Mine is 33lb built up with a coil at both ends a reverb and maxis 2.5 minion DHF exo 3cs.

Any excuse, but here without the reverb fitted:

Permission has been granted for this evenings ride. So I shall ride!

Good messages folks.

PS. Mumsnet, balanced…! Not two words often commonly associated with each other. That place and all the others are a seething hornets nest of hormones. The Wife read one piece of advice given to a Mum to be as revenge for something her bloke had done which was to superglue the end of his willy up while he was asleep. That’s not nice!

Cheers folks!

You mean none of this then…

I’m never more than 30mins from home when riding. Oh well, maybe it will have all calmed down tomorrow.

Thankyou. It’s no. 2 BTW and showing no signs of arriving any time soon.

You are all largely saying what I did. Maybe it’s how I said it…