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My favourite guiatr is the Manson explorer with an ebony fboard and through neck. large strings 12's or 13's and a seymour duncan Seth Lover humbucker.....no tone pot, no need.

Haven't tried the Seth Lover, what's it like? I love PRS pickups, they're actually really good, the Dragon II pickup set is perfect, I do have a Dimebucker in my Tremonti though which is just the most metal pickup ever...most metal passive anyway!! Harmonics just appear from nowhere for those Killswitch Engage/Pantera/Zakk Wylde squeals

TBH it's similar to bikes, some people are obsessed with what spooke nipples they use and some people just ride whatever they get their hands on, to each their own but I'm definitely a gearophile

Im trying to get rid of what gear I have.

Fancy gear, and effects & distortion in general is fun to jam with in an expressive yet nieve kinda way.

I find that people who are amazing players and session musicians etc, tend to just have one or two basic reliable guitars.

With skilled varied 'highly musical' playing, you rarely notice characteristics of the gear, just marvel at the music. Which is the way it should be I think.

That's true...although having loads of guitars doesn't make you a bad guitarist...it just doesn't make you a good one either...honestly to most people the majority of my guitars would just all seem the same, four PRS' isn't really variety but it's the way I've got them set up makes the difference and then my Ibanez was only purchased for the Floyd Rose which isn't available on any stock PRS models, then there's acoustics which is a whole different ballgame, they really are all different and no matter how good you are their individual tone will ring out quite strongly in comparison with electrics... then you've got completely different tones from different pickups, different woods, two "identical" guitars from any good manufacturer will sound completely different unless you're Van Halen...he could play a sweeping brush and make it sound like him ;)

Guitars:

There is but one... Gretsch. Nice heavy set of strings and you're flying.

And a very lovely Gretsch it is!! Friend of mine has one and they're great!! What strings are you using?? Flatwounds or roundwounds?? 13s I presume??

wooooo, wish i had 11 guitars to show off!

Sorry....I've sixteen actually....didn't want it to be a show off thread but I love talking about guitars and figured that was a good way to get it started...

The man is a legend, fantastic musician and now a knight in shining armour for Cycling, funny bike he's riding though...

Now now... ;)

It basically is though isn't it...

There are more pressing issues at hand though...like this wheelset from King Kog

Now that is nice!!

I got his watch in the weekend market in Bangkok for 150baht :)

Well...it's not really rhyming slang at all...you said it was...damn you fancy Londoners with your overwhelming ability to manipulate your language at will....;)

What's Johnny Cash rhyming slang for then?
...Just cash...Dublin obviously has different rhyming slang I take it... ;)

theres not alot i wouldnt do for that bike.

I know what you mean man...I'm planning on ordering an Ocean Keirin Sentouki as soon as I get the Johnny Cash together for it...Metallic Silver with Gold Chrome decals...Yeah Baby!!!!

Right, all the guitarists out there, favourite Electric, Acoustic, Bass, Pedal, Amp etc... lets have our gear lists here :)

^^^Sorry it's a shit phone pic from ages ago, not quite my whole collection but a sizeable majority

Electric: PRS Custom 22

^^^Sorry for the piss poor pics, this one's from a show at the Genko Uchida building in Berklee

Acoustic: Collings OM-2H

Bass: My mate Joel's homemade J-Bass

^^^Joel and his lovely homemade bass (The neck is from a vintage bass c. 70's)

Pedal: Dunlop DB-01 Crybaby From Hell, Digitech Whammy or Line6 DL-4 Delay Modeller

Amp: Divided by 13 are the best I've played but I can't afford one yet so it's probably a Marshall DSL-100

Cables: Planet Waves

So what's everyone into gearwise??

Bit of a porn shortage here at the moment it seems so thought we could do with some more detailed shots of a prepost

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Cool, sounds good guys, luckily the guy who's chairman of Irish track cycling commission (or he was) is from my town so I'll have a talk with him and see what he recommends

well it's the end of the season..

I was hoping to maybe get some sort of training recommendations for over the winter, anything that might prove good preperation, I've never been on a track, I live in Dublin, think there only is one on Sundrive road but the way I see it is even if I train for it and don't like it when I try it I'll at least have done some good exercise... I know it sounds naive but I love cycling so I'm prepared to give it a good shot rather than just arriving at a track day and arsing around it would be nice to get some of the hard slog over and done with... I have started riding a lot more though and getting in longish rideds when I can...

Hey, so I've decided that I want to try my hand at track racing but I haven't actually done any competitive sports for years and I'm wondering what would be the best way to get myself into shape for it as I'd like to actually try and train for it before I try my hand.

I wouldn't be in the best shape I've been in but I'm not too bad and I was wondering if anyone could recommend some good training regimes or where I might find one...also I was wondering...and this may be a stupid question but...would it be more worthwhile to focus on fitness or strength, obviously it depends on the kind of races you intend to do but in general which would be a better use of my time as I've not tried it yet so I'm not sure what kind of races I'd like to try...

Sorry if this is a really stupid thred or if it's already been done but I'd really find it very helpful to get some advice from any of the racers on here...

Cheers...

Erik

Nice job Mr.Pack

I am currently bikeless - it's the new fixed. Gonna start the new walkenger trend

Walkenger...FTS, I'm all about the sittenger steeze these days...get with the times man, all the kids are doing it

i still do this and mine aint fell off yet . . .
people keep asking me wtf is that on ur jeans, rape alarm . . .

Great for clubbing though...once the party gets going get them going on intermittent, red and white flashing all over the place, make sure you time them so they're in sequence ;) That's where the party's at

Ah right, fair enough man

The fact I can do a 30 mile route without stopping once is nice though...

That would be lovely right about now!!

u guys buy lights to see whats ahead or to get seen ? ? ?

To get seen, most of the time cycling in any city there will be enough light pollution and street lighting to see where you're at, it's the drivers that don't see so good...

get a http://www.knog.com.au/

+1 they're greeeeaaaaaatt, and cheap which is why I'm off to buy some more after losing mine...word of advice, when you cycle to the pub and then head to a club many drinks later don't put them on your belt for safekeeping as you will invariably lose them during drunken dancing

DW

Don't you mind them, it looks rather lovely (apologies for the condescending tone) ;)

Get some charge bartape, looks almost identical and it's way cheaperer