That 37.5mm stuff I linked to is too small.

You are wrong.

Orange and grey can work together.

Anyone else see the frankly brilliant piece on him on The Last Leg the other day

Make Putin a Gay Icon… genius :lol:

This won’t help the OP other than to put the discomfort in perspective :?

The following is based on experience. It is clearly not suitable for any one allergic to stinging nettles. Arm yourself with a pair of thick gloves. Cut down a good quantity of fresh nettles. The best ones are young with pliable stems. A shopping bag full is about fine. Take a nettle and brush it against the head of your penis. If you haven’t got an erection so far, this should bring one on. It doesn’t hurt much, the sensation is rather good in fact. Brush some more nettles against your penis, the shaft as well. Gradually a rash will appear and little bumps. Keep going. The more you do, the greater the numbing effect so the next bit will be easier. Take a handful of nettles and crush them hard onto your penis. This may hurt, but rub them in well.
You can also take a nettle stalk (which is also covered in stingers) and wrap it around the shaft or behind the head. This is a good way of getting the poison in. Keep going with more nettles. As the poison gets in, the small bumps will join up. This is the desired effect.
As you keep on, the bumps turn into a large all over swelling. The more you do, the greater the swelling until your penis will be stretched real tight, bursting against its skin. I find an increase of about 50% in girth over a normal erection. The sensation is now between pain and pleasure. The nettles hurt, but the penis becomes super sensitive. As you go on the sensitivity will increase. Eventually you will reach the point where the sensitivity takes over from the pain.
Now your penis will start throbbing, but each throb will bring you closer and closer to orgasm. You can try to resist it, but it can be hard because chances are you will come without even touching your penis, the throbbing doing the job for you. The orgasm is intense – as much pain as pleasure. After orgasm you may remain quite erect, and a second spontaneous orgasm is possible within a very short time.
When finally flaccid, the penis will retain its girth but shorten, creating a massive, heavy weight swinging between your legs. The sensation will have gone, leaving your penis very numb to the touch.
A really weird feeling. Gradually – very gradually, the swelling will go down, but a huge lump may hang below the frenum for some time – a day or more. Now the skin has been so stretched it is very sore, and the sensation may make sleep difficult. Over the next few days the skin may start to peel off in a thin layer, leaving a new layer of soft skin underneath. Whether there is any permanent increase in size I couldn’t say, but I guess the effect should be the same as a pump, if from the inside rather than the out.
Rubbing the stinging nettles into the scrotum and the anus can produce a good feel, but there is no swelling in the same way as the penis. You can also try filling your pants with nettles and taking a train ride. To do this, wear two pairs of pants, slip penis and scrotum through the fly of the first, and wrap over them a plastic bag full of nettles tied on loose with a rubber band. Try keeping a straight face as you walk, jog, cycle or ride a bumpy train.

PS – I did not write this 8O

Have you found one of these yet?

Second for Christian.

I’ve been looking at buying a particular 650b frame so I can run it with 26″ wheels to lower the bottom bracket a tad… from the geometry the BB height is the same as the 26″ wheeled frame I have now so it should work great.

Any issues running 26″ wheels on 650b bike ?

Your question is all wrong anyway… Any issues running 26″ wheels on 650b26″ bike (which has been confirmed as able to take 650b wheels) ?

One question though… are the forks your going to run longer than standard 26″ forks? If they are this may effect the geometry far greater than a few mm on both tyres. I.e. I remember seeing somewhere that Fox 34 650b forks are 15mm longer than the 26″ wheeled version… which would make them 5mm longer than a 160mm Fox 36??? This may not be true and again may make almost no difference to the handling of the bike but if your worried about what 5-10mm on the tyres will do to the handling this should give you nightmares :wink: .

Heat-gun like used for stripping paint would be the best bet… not sure if a hairdryer will get hot enough. Oven might do it but possibly overkill.

I loved this with the forks at 160mm

But I was rather more grrrr than it was.

Anyone want any frames tested? :twisted:

I’ve run this with Revelations but its a little more grrrrrr with the 36 Floats (at 130mm).

A little googling I did a few weeks ago about replacing the wrap pointed at this stuff being a good option… Linky

Not sure which size is needed so I’ll have to remove the spring and measure… its on my list of jobs to do at some point.

Looking at it again only the 37.5mm stuff makes any sense sizewise and at £2 I may as well buy one meter rather than 20cm for £1.69.

EDIT – I’ve ordered some.

As above – its nice and easy and they do feel much better for it… especially if the foam o-rings have dried out.

Beware the state of the plastic/heat-shrink-stuff on the spring… even if its damaged do not be tempted to remove it as they make a hell of a racket if you do (from a friend of mine). Can be replaced if need be with battery heat shrink supposedly – I’ll need to do mine soon as it looked a bit tatty when last removed.

I wouldn’t like to race some of the trails blind

I didn’t sign up for that!

:wink:

It might be worth giving Steve Deas at I-Cycles[/url] a call as we were talking about taking a van until I had to change plans.

PS – I’d be on the Mega… but since nobody has ridden this race before and I’m guessing/hoping the route will be gnarly enough to justify such a bike… but this could well be the wrong choice.

I can’t help with transport as I’m flying from Edinburgh.

Good luck and I hope to see you there.

I tore one of the sleeves of this top on a tree branch years ago and rather than repair it I tore the other sleeve off.

I call it the wifebeater and it comes out to play when the weather is good enough… or it gets used as a vest hidden under other clothes.

Not had any problems with fraying and that was after tearing the sleeves off rather than cutting delicately :twisted:

Raceface 30t thick-thin for 9/10/11 speed.

Linky

SKA Brewing Modus Hoperandi IPA is in my Growler for the weekend 8)

Yes I did. I had a CCDBcoil and a Push Tuned Float R. I prefered the grip and doonhall of the CCDB but climbing was better with the Float as it didn’t tend to make you feel like you were going to fall of the back on steep techy climbs (where the CCDB runs deep in its travel… and is slow to return).

The CCDB was better for grip but I could never get rid of that falling off the back feeling… but I learned a lot from running the CCDB and it was the one I tended to leave on the bike all the time as it did the all important doonhalls better than the Float.

I still have the Float as a spare but my Avy tuned DHX Air feels better than the CCDB did so I sold it.

Sounds about right Onzadog. It did work out a little more than I thought it would because of the import duty thing.

Bagstard – You’ve got to really want it to spend that much on it. For me it was either try this or buy new forks… and hope the new forks were better than the old forks which I didn’t think they would be. It was also an itch I wanted to scratch after speaking to the guys in Phoenix.

$427 + $51 postage = $478. Which converts to £316. Assuming the import duty was 20% thats £63 so a total of £379 or thereabouts – I think the import duty is a little above 20% as someone else takes a slice too.

Which is actually more than I paid for either of the forks in first place 8O (Both my forks have the much unloved 1.5″ steerer… ).

I found this in the fridge and celebrated in style 8)

*Long winded geeky response alert*

I bought mine direct from Avy in the states.
Linky to old thread

Speaking to Craig about what you want is part of the process as they really are custom tuned. There is also a wait involved as some of the kits get built in batches so you might have to wait a few weeks; and the same again for postage. Avy will not mark down the cost for customs purposes as Craig doesn’t fancy jail time; so expect to pay import duty (as I did on both of mine). Your spending a lot of money on what might now be quite an old fork… more on that later.

The big question I guess is are they worth it? It’s a lot of money to spend on something the results of which will be unclear until you do it… and it’s all conjecture and personal preference anyway. As I said on the other thread it’s really about geekyness and getting the feeling you want, or getting rid of a feeling you don’t rather than any performance gain.

Of the stuff I’ve bought from Avy the DHX Air rear shock is absolutely bonkers amazing. It is better than the CCDBcoil it replaced. There is a livelyness to the Avy that was missing from the CCDB and there is none of the wallow which I didn’t like; yet at speed it performs similarly with amazing levels of control. I did try a few setting changes but once the shock bedded in I’ve taken it back to how Craig set it up and it’s better. I see CCDB are now doing a “Climb-Switch” … but my Avy doesn’t need one as when climbing it tends to only use part of the stroke, the rest of the stroke only gets used when I need it on the doonhalls. How the shock performs in this way is amazing , the Avalanche Speed-Sensitive-damping (SSD) does what it says, the only other shock I’ve felt do similar is a Bos VIPr. But the Avy feels much better at speed than the rather firm feeling Bos did.

The Avy kit in my Marz 55 RC3 Ti is similarly amazing. Again the wallow and brake dive I disliked are controlled by the SSD and the bike handles the low speed techy stuff really well without blowing through the travel (this is what I really disliked the Marz for), and at speed the Marz plushness is still there using all the travel and the fork feels brilliant which matches the back end.

The Fox 36 Float fork has been a bit of a disappointment… I never found the love for them at 160mm travel on my big bike as they never felt especially smooth. It was still better with the Avy kit than with the RC2 kit it replaced and I was able to get closer to my ideal sag settings without the fork getting all wallowy. With the Marz now on the big bike the 36’s have been reduced to 130mm (which they were at before) and are now on my hardtail where they work really well… they feel like a different fork but I can’t help feeling they are a little wasted at 130mm; although I can run them a little softer than I did before without wallow which feels great. Not sure if my reason for not loving these is because is a problem with the Fox’s at 160mm (because they have been run at 130mm for a while) or if I just prefer the feeling of the coil 55’s? Either way they are quite an old fork that has had a hammering from me and could do with new stansions at some point so maybe that will fix them? So beware spending this on an old fork which may have other issues! Hindsight – I should have bought the 55 kit first but I fancied the 250g weight saving of the Float fork; unfortunatley going from RC2 to Avy the fork gained nearly 200g so no saving.

For what I’ve paid I could have bought new forks and shocks. But I didn’t want Fox’s latest CTD bollox or the other companies one-size-fits-all-ki t (although I liked the Bos stuff I’ve used my habit of requiring warranty stuff really put me off with the current support situation… and the Deville was not as stiff as the 36/55). I also rode with some guys in the USA a while back who were using Avy stuff and what they said about its performance and reliability had me very interested. I knew how I wanted my kit to feel and after a few emails and phone calls with Craig at Avalanche I was sure he would be able to make my kit perform how I wanted. What I also like is that in theory it’s all user serviceable and even tuneable if you want to get really geeky. Being open bath it’s a little heavier but changing the oil and a few seals is easy and much preferable to sending it all away (I know the DHX will still have to go away). The instructions on the Avy site are very clear as to how to install the fork cartridges and it’s a fun little workshop job.

I’m very happy with the performance of my shock and fork kits and would buy them again (over new kit).

The new Pike with the Avalanche SSD like Mid-valve technology is tempting… but I could probably buy a Fox 34 and get an Avy kit for it… if I thought I could be happy with a 34mm fork; but I’m going to stick with the Avy 55’s as I love how they ride.

Cause for a celebration :mrgreen:

Would Sir perfer a

[/quote]By “Eat Beautiful”, does it mean “Eat ScrawnyLady-bits”?

FYP

I had one in 2010. I liked it at the start once the stupid BB30 bottom bracket issue was fixed. Then I rode something else and realised how stupidly high the bottom bracket was (with stock 120mm Reba fork). Then it cracked at the rear dropout and while waiting for the warranty I bought something else so when the new frame arrived I sold it.

IMHO there are better bikes available.

Handy wipe clean packaging.

I have the same set up but different issues. The wifi on the HH3 keeps losing devices and the only way to get them back is to reset them all. Its happening daily and its really peeing me off. I’ve been through the HH3 and tried the wifi on quiet channels but it makes little difference. The HH2 I had before was more stable but it won’t run with the Infinity box. Most of my devices are hardwired in and they work fine its just the wifi which is poor. Looking through the BT forums shows I’m not alone and no other fixes seem to be available other than changing the wifi router.

Speaking to a geeky friend of mine about it he suggested the Dark Knight

Much greater functionality than I require at the moment but he is very impressed with his and has set up his kids on a different wifi network with restricted access etc etc. I’ll probably do the same as my kids are starting to look at the internet and what they look at is only going to get more worrying as they get older.

Edit. Not the cheapest solution but the additional functionality might prove worth while.

I saw these great bags in Barcelona last month. Recycled from banners used to advertise events so each is unique.

Linky

Cracking pic.

We’ve still got sunrise at 5am and sunset at 9.30 up here… Not long until I’ll be needing my lights to start my commute and finish my evening rides though :cry:

Great info Phil, thanks for sharing 8)

An amazing life well lived.

I wouldn’t get a full face lid unless you really want to stand out from the crowd… or are planning Hoffman Condor moves.

Shin pads are a good idea unless your a flat pedal expert. Knee and elbow are good but the more padding you wear the hotter you are going to get… and if your planning to roll around and practice pumping and little things is the padding really required? I tend to pad up if I’m planning to do something new or higher risk than just faffing about, but for rolling and faffing around I find the pads uncomfy and hot.

Best advice I can give is to take it easy and have fun. Don’t try and run before you can walk type of thing… its rather too easy to think that some things look easy to do but reality is they are not. Just rolling and pumping around the park getting a feel for things like rolling up and down the ramps is good fun…

for kids of all ages :lol:

I’m 43 next month and go here at lunchtimes sometimes… when its quiet so not during the school holidays :lol:

It was my 40th birthday present to self 8)

I’m going to put some pegs on it soon… after the Trans Savoie as I don’t want to pick up an injury before then :evil:

That’s not so good :? I hope the finger will be healed enough to not cause problems for you.

My mostly road commute training has been working well; I’m feeling better on the bike than I have done for years which is brilliant.

Mountain wise I’ve ticked off a few of my favourite big hills with the focus on riding the descents fast and smooth without stops… feel the burn.

The summer weather has helped greatly with this :D

I find the that the want for a new bike is inversely proportional to the amount of riding I do, week to week.

e.g. Slack week = me looking at new bikes constantly

This… my wife should let me out to ride more :mrgreen:

My XX1 has been fine on a Hope BB that had a years use before. I needed to grease the bearings as they were dry but so far so good for 2 months.

That is not considered a full custom… IIRC it might have a cost but its certainly not the full £650.