From a design point of view, a full suss is so easy to get very wrong. Probably a lot more R&D time…

I think they're shipping with 70mm since about '08

See also Nevegals on On One…

Not very radcore me…

Trying not so successfully to kick the back end out 🙄

An earlier attempt that didn't go so well (bad technique, SPD disengagement joy!)

Much happier with wheels on the ground

456 frame and a load of second hand parts. Thats what I did and I still have quite a good bike and my budget was a lot lower than yours.

+1

Did the itunes hack and bought the HD version – technically brilliant and a visual masterpiece. But with no really story to it, it's just slow-mo money shot after slow-money shot and it's gets tiring to watch after 15 mins IMO.

Hmmm, I do, wish I'd rented it rather than bought it tbh.

An old Alfa Spider or original Fiat 500.

I was running 40mm at first but I like to climb too 🙂

Meh, I'm 5'8" and ride an 18" – I do ride with a 60mm stem and inline post though but I prefer the length to be in the top tube… Standover is really good on the Five, would be worth trying an 18" to be sure.

Well done to the Photo-It guy for giving a good explanation and not biting 🙂

Don't go anywhere near Fasthosts – if they're even still going.

They are and still causing web professionals everywhere misery…

"I've got a domain already – yeah, registered with fasthosts…"

*facepalm*

Bradford to Devizes gets narrow in places but not 'fall in narrow', just stop to let another rider past narrow.

Bath to Devizes is all Canal yeah.

I thought that was pretty naff actually 🙁

£30 a year isn't expensive.

I pay £15 a month for Media Temple Gridserver but I'm running a lot of sites off of that and it's a lot of sophisticated than your normal individual hosting account.

I had the same thing when I got my '08 Five.

You'll stay happy with it but you will start lusting after niche bikes to complement it so it doesn't last for ever.

Seriously don't worry.

Go and do a full uplift day and you'll come away with a different mindset.

I went, my first run sounded pretty much like what you describe. I was doing nearly 6 mins at the start of the day, by the end I was chasing sub four mins and having a whale of a time, my best was 4:10 just after lunch time (on a trail bike like yours mind).

Bristol, Bath, Bradford on Avon, Devizes out and back.

soma_rich: that was actually from '09 BikeFest but thanks! 😀

I was out shooting for Team Syncros friday nght and bagged a couple from the race on Sat but I can't share those as they're potentially being used commercially…

Oh the other issue to consider is cataloguing the photos. You can probably see the number plate in less than half of my more creative efforts…

Cheers for the mention ADH – the image in question:

I think it's technically quite a weak shot – I've only got a 450D, a 10-22mm and a mid-level flash gun + diffuser. I think the flash is a bit 'hot', it's a bit contrasty and I always get the forward motion blur despite using second curtain flash syncing. But at the same time, like what PP is saying, it does a much better job of capturing the moment.

However, clearly the guy in question is coming at this from a purely commercial aspect. He's obviously worked out he needs to get every rider, and at least 4 photos of each, he'll know from experience how many photos will sell and it's probably a nice little winner for him.

I on the other hand while happy to lay down in the bushes, an inch from your wheel, wielding a 10mm lens, and generally risking a dam good clattering from the next rider who crashes, will probably only hang around for a couple of hours, only capture a fraction of the riders, shoot in fewer locations and probably throw away more than half the shots I take.

So I think it's unfair to batter the guys who do this…

Tweetie is good for the iphone.

On your computer, Twhirl is ugly as sin but more usable than Tweetdeck once you've got it up and running. I always found Tweetdeck pretty but not very usable.

Gracia actually said it's because of burping off the rim from hardcore cornering forces so what Hoh Nob said +1…

He said they have to over inflate the tyres so the pressures aren't too low later in the course.

Gutted for Cathro, looked like he was killing it until the bike died on him!

I asked for the Cow skin one and the sent me the Leopard one instead

Yeah, right… come on you can be honest in this company! 😛

Where are you buying them from?

Probably, where I'm uncertain though is whether the F-Series can travel adjust and if they can, I'm think you can only travel adjust down. So I think an F-120 can be dropped to 100, but an F100 cannot be upped to 120…

Float and F-Series are subtly different and if it's an F-Series it won't go to 140mm, only the Floats do.

The Floats can be adjusted with spacers to 100mm, 120mm and 140mm

I believe the F-Series are only 100mm and 120mm, I've got 140mm floats so I don't know about the F-Series for sure.

TALAS = travel adjust.
R = Rebound
RL = Rebound and Lockout
RLC = Rebound, Lockout and Compression Damping adjust

Float = air
Vanilla/Van = Coil

Clearly there are some slack angles about in 4X – I thought 69 on 100mm was about the norm though?

I'm a bit confused about this short travel full suss with slack geo and built super tough = 4X?

4x bikes are usually 100mm HT, not particularly slack actually and build pretty light and nimble. Duncan Ferris, a local elite guy here runs Fox F100s and Conti Race Kings on his DMR.

Meta 5s and Trances aren't even a little bit 4x IMO…

Hmmm, got 3 years to grind the wife down for an Enigma Custom Ti frame for my 30th.

Marmite.

My first is due in October… god I'm going to be the male MTB equivalent of a pushy "soccer mum", I can tell.

You want to get a nice graceful sine wave motion going on, like this bloke.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpWATMtTPkk

Jason Bradbury is a tw*t but that was brilliant!

Sorry to hear mate, same thing happened to us recently, managed to move to the flat next door and found out that ours isn't selling and will go back on the letting market afterall! :'(

Cool, cheers Matt, quite close to twentyfour12, any later options to add that?

I take mine down Cwmcarn DH on 32 Vanillas so yeah, should be alright.