1 Baby Blue Intense VPX BUILT

[motionboy]

Going to pop her cherry at DV tommorrow.

[dfinn]

That is sick. That's definitely the color I would pick.

[slippy]

DUDE YUA RE GOING TO KILL IT ON THAT FUCKING RAD BOY NOW TIME TO STEP UP YOU KNOW YOU WANT 2 RADDD!!!!!!!!!WAY TO SACK UP BRO LETS GO SESH QUARRY TRAIL 2NIGHT!~+!!!!!!!!!!!



burp.

[motionboy]

Quarry trail... boooo. I don't do that.

[Particle]

SICKO!

I too am a big fan of the baby blue...

[Tyrone Shoelaces]

that is SICK.

My fav color for sure on definitely one of my fav bikes. have fun on that thing



EDIT: jesus...even the zip ties are baby blue..ha

[slippy]

Quarry trail... boooo. I don't do that.

too bad, because I was completely serious.

[motionboy]

Yeah Home Depot had a sweet deal on zip ties for like $5 for 500 in all diff colors. There were pink and green etc but not neon just flat plastic colors... pretty rad. Slip you are uninvited to DV... ass.

[Rontele]

you are going to love that bike. rode mine for the first time on friday and the bike just rails... enjoy!

[Vicious]

yes yes yes

[marshalolson]

NICE! now go get it dirty

[soul_skier]

sweet, i'll see you tomorrow (working at DV for the summer)

[frorider]

sweet ride. this place is getting thick with uzzi's. not that there's anything wrong with that.

have you seen kidwoo's thread on mtbr about the modified droputs (12 X 135 axle) he's arranged to have made? i've signed up for a pair. will drop the BB to a more DH oriented height.

my only complaint about my uzzi is that to get the bottom bracket low enough for railing turns, i have to run hella sag front and rear. intense quotes 14.1 bb height, but most uzzi buyers this year have been running a 1.5 inch ST totem (outstanding fork. really digging mine.) and this gets the static BB too high.

[JeffreyJim]

Damn. One day...

[TuaDog]

Nice. My black one looks lame in comparison.

It's probobly best not to ghost ride this bike off a kicker at Wolf Mountain.

[jibco]

That bicycle looks seriously sucky.

[motionboy]

Your allowed to ghost ride it if... and only if... it lands wheels first and rides away

[frorider]

is that a cane creek 1.5 headset on there? Intense has been telling shops and customers this year that the cane creek 1.5 headsets can be a little too big and in some cases (rare, i think) can lead to headtube cracks. has to do with cane creek's weird interpretation of the 1.5 tolerance specification.

[marshalolson]

really? it is a cane creek HS.

motionboy, let me know if you need something different or whatever.

[frorider]

This from Intense's website:

Some observations on the One Point Five interface standard:
1. The One Point Five standard defines the diameter and tolerance for the bore in the head tube – the standard specifically does not cover the diameter of the headset cups – to quote from the standard drawing, ”HS CUP OD NOT SPECIFIED”. The diameter specified for the head tube is 1.9516” – 1.9532” (49.57mm – 49.61mm).
2. As manufacturers are free to define their own requirements for the cup OD, both the requirements and the actual parts tend to vary. Cane Creek specifies an OD of 1.9567” – 1.9579” (49.70mm – 49.73mm). We have had experience with two Cane Creek Double Xc Flush headsets causing the head tube to crack on the 6.6. These cups measured 1.9579” to 1.9585” (up to .0006” over Cane Creek’s high limit tolerance). It should also be noted that the Cane Creek is a “deep” headset (20mm vs. 10mm insertion depth).
3. Here at Intense, we tend to use the FSA Orbit Z 1.5R in this application. Although the FSA drawing allows the OD of the cups to be 1.9547” to 1.9587” (49.65mm – 49.75mm), the units we have measured run 1.9545” – 1.9565”. The insertion depth of these cups is 10mm. We have had no problems in using this head set.
4. Standard engineering practice for a locational press fit for this diameter part is to have .0004” to .0020” interference. While the actual size of the FSA sets as compared to the 1.5 Standard head tube diameter yields an interference of .0013” - .0049”, the larger Cane Creek sets come in at .0047” - .0069”. We are very concerned that the additional interference is causing undue stress in the head tube material.
5. Due to the above concerns, Intense Cycles strongly recommends against using any headset with an OD above 1.9565”. This specifically refers to the Cane Creek Double X series, as well as any other head set creating an interference of .0050 or larger.

Phil Stromg
Intense Engineer

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FWIW, one of the most experienced bike mechanics i know who also happens to ride harder than most mortals has had bearing longevity issues with 2 cane creek 1.5 headsets, and swears by the FSA orbit extreme pro. this spring i noticed that the 1.5 orbit extreme pro was starting to get more difficult to buy on-line....high demand was depleting supply...but i don't know about current availability. to complicate matters further, i believe that cane creek was siccing their lawyers on FSA for headset design intellectual property infringement.

[frorider]

to further muddy the waters, i recall seeing on the mtbr intense forum a 6.6 owner with a cracked headtube (photos posted) who had specifically installed an FSA headset (a reducer HS, not the standard 1.5). might have been a defective headset.

i'm always taken these kinds of things with a grain of salt. i.e. YMMV. personally, if i already had a cane creek installed in my intense frame and had ridden it a while, i would keep it in and inspect the head tube regularly...which is a good thing to do anyway.

[marshalolson]

that is interesting.

of course, intense could never say that the 6.6 HT was made incorrectly. i'd be interested hearing what the wall thicknessess are in the cracked ones vs. spec.

[backcountry1pr]

This is interesting stuff