A few asked for a build pic – initial 30 min ride = great – so planted on a local fast fairly gnarlyish descent although forks & cockpit not quite setup perfectly and tyres too hard for the terrain but wow 🙂 Me likey 🙂 it did get covered in cow poo down that descent which was blocked with cows on the way up so officially dirty now 😉 got a 4 hr local ride planned to give it a good testing in between road training 🙂

Custom Fork decals to follow 😉

Bit quiet on here of late then 😉

nice looking bike

Cheers Luke – not willy waving – rode to work this morning – need to drop the bars and move saddle back and put another 20psi in the shock and then I think were sorted 🙂

nice that foxy – it looks fast (and says it is too!)….real nice build, nice light racey machine capable of much more im sure, definitely up there with the nicest looking short travel frames! get some more pics up!

picture needs more garden in it.

Looks lovely 🙂

is there heli-tape on headtube – I’d be worried about cable rub.

Cheers guys – yes I think she will do more than I could ever do 😉

WW – yes got some heli patches where the cables cross over – I purposely keep my cables a bit longer to stop rub so they go out the frame rather than along it if you see what I mean. I do need to get some frame protector rubber covers and will prob see where there are any other light rubs and put patches on them 🙂

This is a longtermer build for our online bike mag Cyclist No.1 (not an advert sorry) so more pics when I write up my first thoughts article in a few weeks 🙂

What tyres are they? Be interested to hear how you find them around the Cleave

I am reviewing them – they are vredestein black panther xtremes – XC tyre but with a bit more knobbles for more technical terrain so I believe 🙂

Oh and I hear that there are 29er versions of the Black Panther Xtremes about to hit the market 🙂