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  1. Fly

    ...it's a YouTube extravaganza!

    Yeopp
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    the gearbox thread

    Hey pipe, check your pm's re: magazine stuff.
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    Linkage forks for DH

    A friend has a pair of the original Yuri forks hanging in his garage. Pretty sure he has one of the frames as well, but that's a different story.... Linkage forks are an interesting concept, but the Proflex I rode, and the Yuri felt pretty ****ty. The Yuri's weren't too bad at absorbing...
  4. Fly

    Katipo Collection.

    Ummm...actually, yes it would. You haven't actually been labouring under the pretence that bikes maintain a constant leverage ratio throughout their entire travel, have you? Most bikes have a leverage ratio that transmutes throughout, (e.g. changing from 3:1 at the beginning of the shock's...
  5. Fly

    How To: Convert your Swinger/5th to a shim damper system (#2)

    Avalanche kit looks dope. Congrats on the walk through... basically filled in all the parts I couldn't be a**ed doing. Website is cool also.
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    How to: Convert your lazy SPV 5th into a shimmed damper hottie

    Haha S., no one is trying to get you interested in buying the shock or otherwise! Check out what I said before: I'm not trying to argue that 5th's should replace something that functions as well as a DHX if that's what you already have, but rather offering a few quick and easy solutions to bring...
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    How to: Convert your lazy SPV 5th into a shimmed damper hottie

    Hmm, see this is what I originally thought as well. I thought there was no way SPV could be a good idea. But as the other guys have noted, you really have to try a 5th with at least a new shaft seal (and optimally a new shaft as well) before you can truly judge the merits of the system. You...
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    How to: Convert your lazy SPV 5th into a shimmed damper hottie

    Really? This is definitely something I have to try then. Thanks for the info! I would have to say that like you, after getting to know these shocks a little better, I have a certain bent affection for them. They are very well engineered; its a shame a few simple shortfalls limited the performace...
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    How to: Convert your lazy SPV 5th into a shimmed damper hottie

    Hmm. Did you ever change the main shaft on your damper though? I'm guessing it has roughly the same effect as the o-ring swap out, because even though I messed around with my own shock to use a shim stack, my buddies shock with a chromed shaft was, as you've noted, a very competitive shock with...
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    How to: Convert your lazy SPV 5th into a shimmed damper hottie

    Listen to MttyTee and davep yo! You can get by with ~5 shims, but your suspension will pack down like a mo-fo in repeating stutters. I'm running 10 shims of reducing diameter. Bike feels sweet! Even if people leave the spv in their shocks, at LEAST replace the shaft with a chrome number...
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    How to: Convert your lazy SPV 5th into a shimmed damper hottie

    To the guy with the new X4 - yeah, should accept the mod no problem! To the guy with no rebound - you HAVE to have a couple of compression shims to act as a one way valve, to force oil back through the variable needle rebound valve. If you've got those in, then yeah, 2.5wt is your problem. I...
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    Dented Air Shock

    Yah, as others have said, if its just an aircan, then the shock is definitely fixable for not much $$. Depending on the bike's linkage setup (and your bro's weight since I'm guessing he's pretty small) it may even be worth your while grabbing one of those oversizedAVA airsleeves (do they still...
  13. Fly

    G-BOXX Planetary, first pics

    Haha, ok, point taken. I'm just impatient. "Daddy, I want another pony...now"
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    G-BOXX Planetary, first pics

    How lame. You know, by delaying production/developement constantly, Nicolai will eventually lose the public's interest. Then it will be really hard to get the gearbox revolution rumbling along. It sounds cliche, but with the budget and machine shops those companies have, I think I could have...
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    Prototype chainguide/bashguard in the works...

    Yeah metal could definitely work, but its unnecessary weight. You have to think of it like an I-beam. You really just want to create space between the two loaded sections. Whatever is in the middle doesn't count, because its movement is minimal. Its the two 'outside' members that are...
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    Prototype chainguide/bashguard in the works...

    Looking good dude. But I would suggest that you whack an outboard plate on the top guide and bottom roller like a few other people have suggested, because at the moment the chain still has freedom to jump out to the right. Great evolution of design though; your mark II is a dramatic...
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    My homemade gearbox (pics)

    Thanks for the positive comments. I think I left out the derailling mechanism altogether in my explanation. A chain runs between those two gold plates in the CAD pictures, and then over and under those two jockey wheels that are bolted to a sprung, pivoting sub-plate assembly between that...
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    My homemade gearbox (pics)

    Thanks dude. 5th's going really well! No problems whatsoever, really reliable (touch wood). I almost want to pull it apart, and put some more compression shims in, but I cbf with getting oily, and don't have the time to rebuild it right now. I finally have some new bars coming to replace the...
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    My homemade gearbox (pics)

    You know what I find funny? That you have posted more times than anyone else in this thread, on what is, in your terminology, just a cassette on a stick. Tell me why is that? You puerilely critique my work (which is in its infancy, as even an infant could tell) yet you have nothing to show of...
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    My homemade gearbox (pics)

    As far as I can see, the pictures have been uploaded from my hard drive as 'attatched thumbnails' at the bottom of my post ever since jeenyus pointed it out....is no one else seeing these? PITA? Dude, its a public forum. I've tried to upload the images to ridemonkey's server (I can see them...
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