Right brant just confirmed for me, that the new MK6 zebdis shall be in 4 weeks time. No geometry changes and I asked him if anything else was being changed and there was nothing mentioned.
Heres a few pics of my bike in sunny old wales, ermmmmm.
The redness.
My bike, perfect, I looooove it.
Bliss, with the trials garden in view, gap wall to wall, up the slates, on the wall and drop off.
I've used a wire brush fitting on an angle grinder, just take the disk off and put the wire brush on, really light compared to a proper grind but gives u an advantage if you don't want to slaughter your rims to much.
I reckon the best rim for the rear for street is the Mavic D521, it takes loadsa abuse and has never failed me for the 1 and a hlaf years I've had it, still perfectly true, and the spokes are all nice and tight. For natural though wider rims would be better for more grip and stability.
I reckon the best rear brake set up you can have is plaz pads, with ones side of the rim lightly ground and the other with a little bit of tar on it, my mate runs it like this and it is perfect, it's soooooo grippy.
I think the best combo is an El Gato on the rear, and a hot s up front, el gato is fine if you use a nice downhill tube, havn't had any pinch flats in ages, really grippy too.