[David S]

Hi you lot
I'm doing a piss take review of toothbrushes for bouldering for one of the rags, you know the sort of thing - durabilty, cost, firmness, features (bendy neck) etc so I'm after a bit of feedback.
Dou you have any favourites or suggestions?

Cheers in advance

David  :wink:

[dave]

The best one i ever had was an old Colgate one, with cutdown bristles for extra brushing power. Its lasted ages but i lost it. More recent ones don't seem to last as well, but the one on my brush stick is a Safeway's own (Oracle?) which seems quite good.

I recon its also worth spending extra to get the ones with the blue bristles that tell you when its getting worn out.

As for flexible necks, it rather go with no flex, but a brush made all out of a slighly flexible matierial for a bit of give. I don't like the ones made of that crystal plastic, they're a bit brittle and unforgiving.

Is that tongue-in-cheek enough?

[Bubba]

You've got to include an electric one I reckon

For the "well heeled boulderer"  :D

[Johnny Brown]

Get yerself to williamson's hardware in broomhill and buy a 'vegetable brush'. Wooden bristles - perfect. Not so good on crimps in cracks but then good problems don't have them.

[dobbin]

Johnny Brown you tip theiving get! I was about to advise the use of vegetable brushes.

Mine however did not come from some gypsy hardware store, mine came from Ikea - a root vegetable brush shaped like a spunk. It boasts super stiff bristles and an attractive shaped head (!).

[dave]

Cofe has got one of them jism brushes - its proper bo when gaffer-taped to an extendable pole.

[David S]

Johnny Brown you tip theiving get! I was about to advise the use of vegetable brushes.

Mine however did not come from some gypsy hardware store, mine came from Ikea - a root vegetable brush shaped like a spunk. It boasts super stiff bristles and an attractive shaped head (!).

I can't picture that any chance of a pic? so I know what to look for when I nip up to Ikea at the weekend (the things you do for research!!)

[David S]

You've got to include an electric one I reckon

For the "well heeled boulderer"  :D

Hey good idea - Jesus H Christ it was only meant to be a small review but I predict that this thing will grow and grow.

[dobbin]

And probably get edited back down to size! no harm in submitting an overly large article! I will link a piccie when I get home...

[cofe]

as dave rightly points out my brush setup is THE SHIT.

An extending pole with a blue and green ikea sperm design scrubbing brush gaffer taped to the end.  it's also had several toothbrushes taped to the other side and sticking out at an angle but i always snap em off.  

On my chalk windsock bag i carry a standard issue Franklin climbing toothbrush which is also the dogs - except theres no bristles left on it so i just leave red stripes on the rock - i'd replace it but we've come so far together....

P.S. my extender is called Britney and she's filthy.

find out more in;    'Cofe:My Interesting life' (Harpercollins paperback).

[dobbin]

I forgot to photograph the spunk brush. Rest assured I shall do it tonight.

[David S]

Oy Dobbin where's my pic?
 :wink:

[dobbin]

ah yes. I wondered when that would come back to haunt me, I have lost the brush fella!

Cofe may be the next best bet....

[David S]

So a trip to Ikea then. What a nightmare :shock:
Where'd you lose it?

[dobbin]

thats just it  - I don't know! it was there one minute and then not the next. I have an idea where it might be - I'll have a check, failing that I'll pick one up next week as I will be passing it then sometime..

[dave]

Maybe its time to spread your wings and move on. No use crying over split milk, just pick yourself up - theres pleantly more fish in the sea. Your old brush would want it this way. You don't want to find yourself on your deathbed years from now thinking "if only I'd have tried different brushes".

[Bubba]

failing that I'll pick one up next week as I will be passing it then sometime..

It's impossible to have a passing visit to Ikea - you are destined to be trapped in the miles of corridors, and to fill your basket with night-lights, candles, rugs you'll never ever use, and other nice but superflous junk.

[Bubba]

. You don't want to find yourself on your deathbed years from now thinking "if only I'd have tried different brushes".

Dave's right on this score - Carpe Diem man, come on!  you might find there's a whole new side to brushing you never knew about.

[David S]

it's impossible to have a passing visit to Ikea - you are destined to be trapped in the miles of corridors, and to fill your basket with night-lights, candles, rugs you'll never ever use, and other nice but superflous junk.

Yeh - what makes you do that?

[Bubba]

Errr...I dunno really - it always seems like a good idea at the time....

[dobbin]

Maybe its time to spread your wings and move on. No use crying over split milk, just pick yourself up - theres pleantly more fish in the sea. Your old brush would want it this way. You don't want to find yourself on your deathbed years from now thinking "if only I'd have tried different brushes".

But we were so good together, so good and so close. It was a relationship forged in the Peak district over many damp bouldering mats, we helped each other reach new heights (and depths). I don't know if I can go on - perhaps its time to move to 'caving', I know this is a deviant pasttime and running away, but the holds will never be so clean again - will they? :cry:

[Bubba]

perhaps its time to move to 'caving', I know this is a deviant pasttime and running away

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[dave]

Caving is plain wrong.

If it came down to a choice between an evening caving or an evening swabbing my eyes with mace, you can pass me the cotton buds.

[Bubba]

I usually think that before going, but then I get talked into it and end up getting back at 1am, wired, completely trashed but strangely satisfied.

Go on, you never know, you might love it. Think of all that unpolished limestone there is underground...

[dobbin]

but its all damp. Nope, caving is definatly for freaks. Plus the little toads steal the Bolt hangers off the tor (or have done in previous years).