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  • First post, my new bike!
  • olderigetfasteriwas
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    Hello!
    Been lurking around here for a while, just signed up though so be gentle!
    Just finished building my new bike after a year of collecting parts while on offer and searching for bargains.
    Had its first outing at Swinley yesterday, blue and red, and I love it! I still need want new bars, stem, seatpost, pedals and brakes, currently this kit is from my old bike, but will have to wait for a bit.

    Spec.

    Frame: Genesis Latitude 853 17.5″
    Forks: Rockshox Reba RL 120mm
    Wheels: Hope Hoops Pro2 evo/stans crest
    Tyres: Specialized Purgatory control 2.3 front
    Captain control 2.2 rear, both tubeless with stans.
    Brakes: Shimano M445 with SLX rotors
    Drivetrain: Deore chainset 2×9, Deore front and rear mechs, SLX cassette and chain.
    Shifters: Shimano Deore.
    Bars: Crank Bros iodine 700mm
    Grips: Renthal
    Stem: On one 60mm
    Saddle: Charge spoon

    Comments welcome 🙂
    (Pulls on flameproof suit)

    Markie
    Free Member

    Liking the tropicalesque garden!

    Bike looks good too… 😉

    Oh, and welcome, btw!

    CaptainFlashheart
    Free Member

    TRIFFIDS!

    headpotdog
    Free Member

    headpotdog
    Free Member

    Grass could do with a trim, but I guess it grows quickly in the rainforest of Borneo 😉

    Nice bike though. I’ve got the older Altitude version & love mine. Looks old school but can take on bigger full suss bikes if the mood takes you on the down hills. Excellent choice Sir !

    esselgruntfuttock
    Free Member

    Wheels are the wrong size.
    Dunno what size they are but they’ll be wrong.

    Cheezpleez
    Full Member

    Nice bike! Good effort sir

    olderigetfasteriwas
    Free Member

    Grass was cut last Wednesday 😀
    Maybe I should have taken the pics with a different backdrop 😀
    Garden is my other hobby BTW.

    olderigetfasteriwas
    Free Member

    Yep, wheels are the wrong size, 26″, but I bought the frame last year so am I excused?

    slackalice
    Free Member

    Very nice! To both bike and garden :-). The latter of which looks very similar to my biking buddy’s garden…. well, big plants, ferns and stuff 😀

    Welcome.

    Thrustyjust
    Free Member

    Wheels are the right size, not a fashion fad diameter 😉

    nwgiles
    Full Member

    Red is always faster

    cruzcampo
    Free Member

    nice Ensete Maurelli, Ricinus, chammy and aroids LOL! 😆

    richpips
    Free Member

    More pictures of the garden.

    olderigetfasteriwas
    Free Member

    Oh no, my first topic is turning the forum into “tropicalgardeningtrackworld”
    Thanks for the comments though, on the bike and garden!
    Bike is orange BTW, but they always look red in pictures!

    nwgiles
    Full Member

    Orange you say….

    My comment still stands, red is always faster

    Sorry, looks good though

    takisawa2
    Full Member

    It’s an 853 hatdtail.
    Top marks from me.

    Biggest Dock Leaves I’ve ever seen.
    Must have some enormous nettles.

    benji
    Free Member

    Go on give us a clue, where is the tree frog hiding.

    Nice bike, 853 is always a nice ride.

    06awjudd
    Free Member

    Steel hardtail….. reasonably unoffensive, kind of indie………bound to get thumbs up from STW.

    I get the feeling if you’d have posted a FS a different reaction would have been recieved.

    Nice bike by the way! 😛

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