Thanks for all the forumites input that helped me.

here are the final shots
very happy with it, love the colour!
coil front and rear just over 32lbs

Nice bell.

v nice colour, just the job for riding the canals near me

nice fozzy,thats the colour I'd choose also

didn't fancy the tracer in the end then?

i need it to make the walkers move on the canal paths clearly!! 😀

deserter i called extra and they wanted £40 for a demo, i borrowed my brothers nomad and liked it a lot so that £40 went on a Ti coil 😉 hehe

Nice bike! then again you always have nice bikes! the heckler was a great bike! its a bit much for wyre forest and is there enough mud clearance?

Fozz, ive finally updated my hardtail a nice little (ok its bigger than my old bike) Orange P7

can't argue with that,would have peed you off buying a new shock for the tracer anyway

£40 ti coil? from where?

Hi lee, yer sadly pimpiness is my downfall 🙂
it is a bit much for the wyre yes, but we are going for a season to the alps next year so want something to do local rides, trail centres and the alps this fits the bill for me. overkill yes somewhat but it fits my needs for local and Alps.

mud clearance is excellent.

yer kept reading about replacing the shock that put me off somewhere.

Rofl the £40 went towards a Ti spring, it's a RCS Ti coil i got it cheaper off ebay 2nd hand. (£200 new)

the weight is good & i love the colour.green rotors will look very nice.

That's a very handsome bike.

thanks
dunno why those links are dead

Cracking colour – suits it perfectly. I assume you have some suitably mental trails to unleash it on?

I'll never do it justice 🙂
overbiked and underskilled me..

just wnt something i can rag down the alps for 2 months and still ride round here locally and trail centres and round scotland/fort will

I assume you have some suitably mental trails to unleash it on?

At 32lbs it'll probably be more fun to ride than these equivalent weight, gas piped, silly long travel steel hardtails that are in vogue at the moment, regardless of where he chooses to ride it 😈
Nice bike.

Burn the heretic (even though he has a very good point).

nice looking bike that.

i called extra and they wanted £40 for a demo, i borrowed my brothers nomad and liked it a lot so that £40 went on a Ti coil

i hope they read that and it gives 'em a wake-up call. charging for test rides doesn't help anyone, and test rides sell bikes.

Thats a nice bike fozzy, where are you basing yourselfs for two months next year, les arcs?

that is truley beautiful!

We are doing a full season over there, renting a place at 1800. three of us. Can't wait. just quiting my job and going.. **** it.

Nice bike – my '06 Enduro was that colour.

Needs a chunkier stem and o/s bars I reckon though.

Nice build James, almost as nice as my old 5 Spot!

Haha overbiked and underskilled you aint that bad mate. Love the bike the colour choice is ace. Still not as nice as my blood though lol

Nice looking bike. Get up to Eastridge to give it a thrash. There are some nice new trails. I'm enjoying the Van 36's I've fitted to my Heckler.

Nice, i'll be out there for 2 weeks next june hopefully. might see you there.

yer the stem is a hard one, i like my STD clamp bars (i have some wider DH bars for the alps) but i need a 80mm STD clamp..

Cheers Alan. hope your well.. hope to see you next year.

i'm not that bad but i'm not that good too 🙂

Ian the missus is out there too, sure she'll slow down for you 😉

nice one about the alps trip fozzy,good on you,only one go at it and all that 😉

ideal fozzy, best come out at the start of the season so I don't have to slow her down to much

well 2 x 2 week holidays in les arcs and trips to les gets and morzine may as well do it for longer 🙂

Am I the only one to notice the dinky bell on the bars!!!!!!

I don't normally get too excited about yet another pimped up FS…but that nomad is sex on a stick!!! Love the green ano…well done sir!

Having consolidated down to a Ti456, I've been resisting the urge for a Blur LT…but if its available in that color then its possibly only a matter of time…

sangobegger – Member

Am I the only one to notice the dinky bell on the bars!!!!!!

Well, if you'd read the second post…

CaptainFlashheart – Member

Nice bell.

Do keep up! 😀

Bell is for the alps and general rides, we have to road ride a little to get to our local woods so a ding ding is needed sometimes to remind pedestrians that they are not the only users of a road marked "pedestrians and bikes only"!

Personally i really really like my brothers Ti456. pikes and tough build with 9 speed makes it a excellent ripping machine.. would have one as a stable-mate to this any day!!

Great looking bike Fozz. They really are very good at just about everything, totally loving mine.

Glad to see you are still into the bling!

Nice bike, great colour and great build. What are the brakes, and where did you get the colour matching bar end caps? (I am in need for that exact extra pimpness myself)

mingsta, the Blur LT is not available in that colour, but in "Skidmark" (seriously that's what SC call it) – really cool bronzy brown. A mate bought one recently and it's the dogs danglers

that looks really nice.

wish i could get that exact kit on frames that are over a pound lighter and get them down to just over 32lbs.

miracle scales.. where do you get them? ;O)

lovely looking bike though.

Very, very nice. 😀

cheers gordon. 🙂

M4 tech brakes.

bar caps are from balfa (dangerboy edt)

nothing miracle about the scales they are industrial digital CEN tested scales. The forks weighed 200grms more after the coil conversion from 2 step air.

thanks for all the nice comments.

I think the idea of 5-6" hardtails is that theyr supposed to be cheeper, not lighter (and all bikes are fun so its nothing to do with that), so a 28lb hardtail might cost £1400 to build, and be not quite as capable as a £2400 full susser.

It's not stoping me dreaming about my next DIY project though, anyone got an old trailstar front end, a heckler rear end and some brazing gear going spare……..?