always had great service from them!

so what did they do?

[/quote]If you need 160mm you would be better off with an Alpine.

I have a Butcher already, just wanted to see if the 5 will offer me anything different

I have a SC Butcher at the minute which I love, but have the chance of a cheap 2011 5 frame, just wanted to try one one out (and see what all the hype is about) with the Fork off my Butcher! If the 5 suits my rid in better (Peaks etc) then sell the Butcher.

Have you considered a Nomad? Any way great Fork choice!

This will be interesting then?!

15 stone here, and my Flows get used in the peaks every week, still going strong and easy to set up tubeless!!

Be interesting to see what they come up with, I presume your within the 2 yr warranty?

Im in a new build 2 bed semi, live on my own, except when my daughter is here at weekends. £58 per month DD for both both with Scottish Power, but I do expect it to go up after the winter. The last week I have had to turn my heating off as its very mild at the moment!

Nearly went for a an Alpine 160 but couldn’t stretch that far and if I could I would of got a Nomad!

It’s the Lime Green one on the first page of this topic, custom built by moi!!!!!

SC Butcher with 2012 Van 36 RC2 Kashimas 160mm

Flow is Kashimas’d up, must say the Kashima RP23 adaptive logic look the nuts

Jesus its Kashimas Wars

Never mind the poor economic climate – this is Stanchion Envy!!!

<all in jest>

Poverty must be a difficult thing. Please excuse my plush, slippery, gold stanchions, I didn’t mean for them to offend you.

love it!

Flow – Enjoy your Kashimas, I fooking love mine, they feel amazing and look the nuts!

Does the spicy have have a linkage to manipulate the spring rate in the same way as SC APP bikes?’ I have a Butcher spoke to Simon at Loco about the problem of reaching full travel as my Float ramps up at the end, which it is supposed to do, however I would like t have a bit more travel out of it, Simon suggested some Shims in the Shim stack….. May try that first or would I get a better result going to a coil like a Van R tuned for me and my bike?

Talas….. More seals to

The molecular makeup of Kashima give its very slippery properties….apparently

Here we go….. Fox vs RS, I have always had RS forks and they have been brilliant, friends use fox forks and no complaints. However I treated my self to some Fox Van 36 RC2 Kashimas, and they feel great, but so did my Lyriks but the fox look sick!

Keep your Pitches, they are great bikes! Had the first one in the bronze, a PRO I loved it!

Steveo!!!!!

Stif are doing Pro2 Evos on Flow Rims for £160.95 & £91.80 respectively for F & R, bloody bargain, i to an email today for the offer!!!

CCDB would go lovely on a Spicy, 5, Heckler etc etc brilliant rear shock

No doubt someone will be along in a min to warn us of severe stanchion wear on Fox forks – Yes they will wear if don’t service the seals regular… It is such an inexpensive, quick job to carry out even if it is every 30 hrs on the Van 36’s.

I got custom tune at same time and the skf seals will probably make a big difference. Would have liked the choice really as the logo’s on top of stantion are important for braging!

I believe that Fox now spec all 2012 Forks with the improved SKF seals, Simon form LOCO will probably confirm this!

The coating colour will vary slightly from batch to batch of the stantions (and other coated units)due to the amount of dye used in each ‘run’ and a few other variables, or so I was told

Separate production runs will end with a slightly different shade, Fox say this is normal and is a result of the process!

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My 2012 Van 36 RC2, i know they are 2012 as it says on the label on the box, as you can see the kashima coat isn’t that dark!

my 2012 Fox Van 36 RC2s do have the Logo on at the top!

I read somewhere that pre 2012 Kashimas don’t

NB the shade of gold on the Kashimas does differ due to manufacturing processes

It’s just soo commercial now

A bit off topic, but got mine from leisure lakes, notts for £264.99 early this year – superb wheel set and lighter than 819s

Sbrock thanks for that – couldn’t find that deal but just got a 160gb model for £158 via Quidco too so some cash back to come on top of that

I think it was only Instore and may of ended today

its called a deed of trust

Sorry to hear that, where was the bike stolen from?

I have been storing my SC Butcher (£3500 custom build with Van 36 Kashimas) in my garden shed as have had no other option, but now it stays inside the house now so fingers crossed. Some people just don’t have the option of storing bikes securely inside, however I can sleep a bit easily now.

It’s a sorry state of affairs people stealing your bikes. Scum

my mate has no problems with online gaming with ps3

I picked up one today ps3 with battlefield 3 and FIFA 12 for £199 from sainsbury….bargain

no problem here on my ipad2 with ios5

And don’t trust letting agency’s, scum of the earth

letting agent told me that as they had signed a 6 month contract we can issue them a s21 in the fourth month so they have to move out at the end of their 6 month period??

is this correct?

Yes but make sure you give it the day before the anniversary date, ie if they signed on 28th of the month then give it on the 27th

Had both, and do the type of riding you describe, and it would be the Five all the way.

Thats why the OP needs to try both as both have totally different suspension platforms so will ride with different character.

try them both out fella!

Jungle (UK Santa Cruz importer) should send there demo Blur to your LBS if they are any sort of decent bike shop, thats what they did for me when I took a demo on a Butcher, they charged me £50 but this came off the price of the frame when I ordered it.