TFIF....just.

bails87

yeehaamcgee wrote:

Curious, Bails.
My wolf ridge, which in principle is a very similar suspension setup reacts nice and solidly in the middle ring, but when I'm hammering the granny (oo-er), there is a strange sensation that there is too much anti-squat. It doesn;t manifest itself as kickback, more a kind of strange rocking - and although your rubber band analogy doesn't quite match, I think I know exactly what you're trying to describe.

On mine it only happens in the granny though, and the bike has been optimised around a roughly middl-ish sized ring (the newer hammerschmidt attack trail had the links reworked to optimise for that smaller chainring).
Maybe the action on the 146 has been optimised for a different sized chainring to mine.

Anyway, long term, the granny ring feeling hasn't proven to be a problem at all, and on loose trails it actually feels like the rear wheel is actively burying or planting itself into the ground.

You'd hope the suspension would be optimised for the 34t ring, seeing as that's the only chainring it's got!

Maybe it's just because I'm used to hardtails, but in terms of full sus I've also ridden Lawmans Mojo(briefly), a Zesty and X Control and a Scott Spark and Genius and I'd never really noticed it on any of those. I noticed bob on the Lappierres, and the Genius was just rubbish, it was just this feeling of not bobbing, but power being soaked up by something that was strange.

It could be that on a HT all my effort is going to the back wheel, but the back wheel is bouncing around and losing traction, and wasting 20% of what I put in, whereas with this I'm losing 20% of my effort due to the suspension, but everything that gets to the back wheel goes into moving the bike forwards because it's keeping traction better. You know, just a different feel type of thing rather than being better or worse. It was still a good bike, and I enjoyed it more than all the others I've ridden, apart from maybe the Spark, but that's just because it went like sh1t off a shovel, it's obviously a very different type of bike though.

Anonymous

It could just be a feeling, like you say, or another thought I've just had is that it might just be the feeling of the rear suss tracking the terrain, since it's not overtly noticeable on mine on a smooth surface, curiously enough.

Anwyay, you're still a jammy bugger for having a blast on one!

getonyourbike

bails87 wrote:

It was a very good ride at the Wyre Forest

bails87 wrote:

To be fair, this was a 3 hour ride on some properly technical stuff

There is some pretty damn techy stuff at the Wyre. Some real severe off camber too :shock:

tom_howard

Pretty average day for me TBH, work is fairly quiet, and im looking out at how sunny it is, wondering why im not out riding going to Alton Towers tomorrow though Need to buy some brave pills tonight!

MissBint
Monkfish wrapped in bacons (or parma ham) sat on samphire and crushed new potatos with hollandaise sauce. Followed by aforementioned trifle.

Had that the other night, was all kinds of orsum (would have been better with trifle though)

nc1584

Bored at work looking wistfully out of the window at the sunny day, especially as last nights rain would have settled down the trails nicely today...

Ho hum - Off to the Rugby tomorrow...

spongtastic

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

I'm sure my boss has a pertol powered bike and trailer that isn't a moped, or a motorcycle, or a bike.

VWsurfbum

(for my non facebook stalkers) I just got back from a site visit from one of my customers, the receptionist was (i'm pretty sure) was trying to chat me up, now it may seem far fetched, but i swear its true :shock: Its been a long time and usually only middle aged mums who would do this to me so i was a little out of practice on how to react :?
But I feel good 8)
But alas POIDH so i drempt all this.

Thewaylander

Daydreams and fantasies are only healthy Bumboy, have no fear. What should worry you most is that you were imagining my head on a womans body

crazy88

You cock-fag. I can't believe you let a man try to chat you up and then post it on here.

VWsurfbum

Thewaybender wrote:

Daydreams and fantasies are only healthy Bumboy, have no fear. What should worry you most is that you were imagining my head on a womans body

Actually i did have a dream about a friends wife last night, she was in her wedding dress trying to get me to look throuugh all their photo albums? :?

jay12

i changed the oil in my forks a few days ago. it was all good until my rebound stopped owrking. so i had to take them apart again, today but i can't fix it. worst thing is my forks are in pieces and i want to go riding, even if i put them back together i cba riding with stupidly fast rebound :x

crazy88

VWsurfbum wrote:

Thewaybender wrote:

Daydreams and fantasies are only healthy Bumboy, have no fear. What should worry you most is that you were imagining my head on a womans body

Actually i did have a dream about a friends wife last night, she was in her wedding dress trying to get me to look throuugh all their photo albums? :?

If she's hot that dream could have been so full of win that it's not even true. I had a dream about a friend recently, it was massively inappropriate and I loved it.

VWsurfbum

crazy88 wrote:

VWsurfbum wrote:

Thewaybender wrote:

Daydreams and fantasies are only healthy Bumboy, have no fear. What should worry you most is that you were imagining my head on a womans body

Actually i did have a dream about a friends wife last night, she was in her wedding dress trying to get me to look throuugh all their photo albums? :?

If she's hot that dream could have been so full of win that it's not even true. I had a dream about a friend recently, it was massively inappropriate and I loved it.

doesnt matter if she was hot or not, she was making me look at photo albums not Obviousing her Nessesary :roll:

crazy88

That's why I said COULD have been awesome. It had so much of the right ingredients to be a great sex dream. The photo albums just spoilt it all. I don't even care to look through my own wedding photos, never mind someone elses.

VWsurfbum

crazy88 wrote:

That's why I said COULD have been awesome. It had so much of the right ingredients to be a great sex dream. The photo albums just spoilt it all. I don't even care to look through my own wedding photos, never mind someone elses.

LOL true, but here you go again with you imaginary wedding [/gazlar]

crazy88

Damn you all. I have a plucking wife! She's just obese and smells like waffles. Leave us alone.

VWsurfbum

I didnt know waffles had a smell

bails87

crazy88 wrote:

Damn you all. I have a plucking wife! She's just obese and smells like blue waffles. Leave us alone.

Blergh!

crazy88

VWsurfbum wrote:

I didnt know waffles had a smell

They do...it's almost tuna like.

Gazlar

bails87 wrote:

crazy88 wrote:

Damn you all. I have a plucking wife! She's just obese and smells like blue waffles. Leave us alone.

Blergh!

non, c'est bleu, n'est pas blergh!

Arrived in Rotterdam and it's a charming place. Hostel is good and situated a 3 minute stroll from prostitutes and marijuana and a supermarkt (Dutch for supermarket)

crazy88 wrote:

! She's just obese and smells like waffles.

I'd very much like a go on that!

bwfc4eva868

Forgot to post this morning. But good evening. Have just consumed Bacon butties, as I'm in work tonight but on the plus side after tonight I'm off for 12 days.
So my plan is to give up smoking for good, and get out on the mountain bike to wherever it takes me.

welshkev

Gazlar wrote:

bails87 wrote:

crazy88 wrote:

Damn you all. I have a plucking wife! She's just obese and smells like blue waffles. Leave us alone.

Blergh!

non, c'est bleu, n'est pas blergh!

Arrived in Rotterdam and it's a charming place. Hostel is good and situated a 3 minute stroll from prostitutes and marijuana and a supermarkt (Dutch for supermarket)

crazy88 wrote:

! She's just obese and smells like waffles.

I'd very much like a go on that!

i've been to rotterdam - i thought that all hotels had hookers and drugs there

Fully-sprung

jay12 wrote:

i changed the oil in my forks a few days ago. it was all good until my rebound stopped owrking. so i had to take them apart again, today but i can't fix it. worst thing is my forks are in pieces and i want to go riding, even if i put them back together i cba riding with stupidly fast rebound :x

Sounds like you need a spare set of forks, one for riding and one for spare. Or another bike.

getonyourbike

Very productive day for me today. The bike is running perfectly as everything has been serviced and I've even learnt how to true wheels I used magic; buckle be gone!

supersonic

Today I have been mostly wondering who are most sensitive, Orange or Hope owners.

angry_bird

supersonic wrote:

Today I have been mostly wondering who are most sensitive, Orange or Hope owners.

Probably orange owners seeing as most of them have some sort of hope components on their bikes

supersonic

Hehe

jay12

Fully-sprung wrote:

jay12 wrote:

i changed the oil in my forks a few days ago. it was all good until my rebound stopped owrking. so i had to take them apart again, today but i can't fix it. worst thing is my forks are in pieces and i want to go riding, even if i put them back together i cba riding with stupidly fast rebound :x

Sounds like you need a spare set of forks, one for riding and one for spare. Or another bike.

or not because i fixed it now :P

Kaise

been out riding at FOD this afternoon and all of a sudden my gear were creaking and not changing, i look down and two of the chainring bolts have fallen out :shock:

anyway i headed home, stopped by evans as they were still open and they gave me a set of 4 bolts for fee, gratis!

now thats a result

Out for and early morning blast i think!

ddraver

Gazlar wrote:

arrived in Rotterdam and it's a charming place. Hostel is good and situated a 3 minute stroll from prostitutes and marijuana and a supermarkt (Dutch for supermarket)

Huh, I should pop down and say hello....

Boring day at work today, jus chilling now with a fat spag bol, beer and some Ben & Jerries...

Busy morning tomorrow before our hot (female!) receptionist takes me to....ahem...the amsterdam gay pride parade....should be...erm...yeah....