Dammit’s adventures in mountain biking

I had a chat with James of J-Tech suspension yesterday, he's the chap who actually measured the motion ratio of the 295's swingarm through it's travel.

He had two things to say:

1. Swap from the current 550lbs linear spring to the Cane Creek 550 - 670lbs spring
   
2. In his view the DHX shock has almost no low-speed compression, which is why it's sitting a long way into it's travel when pedalling, he advises re-shimming it to dramatically increase the low-speed damping
   
   

I've ordered the 550-670lbs spring and will try that with a lot of low speed dialled in, then make a decision about getting the shock re-shimmed.

In other news, almost two months after ordering them and sending them back I've almost got a refund for my POC dungarees, which I note are now £530 rather than the £450 that there were when I bought them.