Nicely understated, given how ridiculously pimpy it is. A bit too ‘showbike’ for my tastes – I don’t really see the point in a mountainbike that you don’t want to get muddy – but that doesn’t change the fact that it really is stunning.
Looks Ok, erm, yeah looks Ok that, from a distance.. about 10ft away, bet it looks pants up close.. (phah)
Too much gear’idge for my liking but congratulations on choosing some sexy wheels and fitting kit, let us know how they perform once you finally get the thing dirty.
You are aware that bikes do get dirty, you know filthy dirty? Ahh good. I couldn’t build it up then not ride it until it dried up, I’d have to kill it dead now.
Question:
Them there cranks and spider, do they do them in blue (Niner blue)?
No drama folks, it will be ridden. I’m planning to do the nationals and Regionals again next year and plan to use this to do it. However I’m currently racing the winter series at thetford and from below you can see the conditions from last time – and that’s SS!
Pedals are now fitted, a nice set of XTR’s are sat on it. As for ditching the front ring, I did discuss this with Rob, but it means losing the best bit of Di2 – the front mech. It self trims when you’re shifting up and down the block which makes me smile…a lot! Anyway, there’s a few things I’ll probably change on it regarding position and possible once the warranty has run out we’ll drill the frame to run the cables internally. I’m half tempted to see what weight it’ll build up at as a SS but for now, the Ki2 stays…
Them there cranks and spider, do they do them in blue (Niner blue)?
You’d have to have a chat with Rob, but if your pockets are deep enough I’d imagine something can be worked out. I’d be surprised if they don’t though, and the BOR ones are very similar and I’ve seen those in blue. As we were putting the pedals on (I say ‘we’, I mean Matt) he commented that the pedal thread felt like a bearing it was that well machined.
he commented that the pedal thread felt like a bearing it was that well machined.
Tune must have sorted their manufacturing out then, their stuff used to be pretty crap sadly when it came to quality! 5 years ago I wasn’t aware of anyone using anything that hadn’t broken! I know their freehubs still crack, but hopefully the rest is alright!
Very nice, I hope they didn’t leave it on the shop floor for long though, the amount of muppets I see pressing Di2/EPS buttons on stationary bikes in shops makes me cry
Very nice, I hope they didn’t leave it on the shop floor for long though, the amount of muppets I see pressing Di2/EPS buttons on stationary bikes in shops makes me cry
if pressing the buttons is gonna break it then i wouldnt want it…
Tune must have sorted their manufacturing out then, their stuff used to be pretty crap
Now I know we’ve had this discussion before and the only pieces I’ve got other than what’s here are a set of king/kong hubs so I don’t have a wealth of experience. However, the hubs I’ve got have been fine (although they have the ti upgraded freehub because the other one cut up quite a lot apparently). But I’ve also read bad things about QC – time will tell!
It’s an Air9C – when we ordered it they hadn’t released the RDO. Rob has recently done an RDO Jet 9 with full XX. Now THAT was a lovely bike….
That is sweet, i’ve been waiting along time to finally see the finished pictures of that, considering that it weighs about the same as my road bike i think i would have gone for a suspension fork and still had a light bike, but each to their own.
I’ve got a set of SIDS to go on it (well, they’re hung in the shop at the moment)should it require them. But the first races next year are at Sherwood and the regionals are all pretty smooth
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Ha! to be honest, it won’t be used until it dries up a bit – I can’t afford to replace the rear mech when it gets bunged up with mud and torn off!
That’s the point where it stops being a bike and becomes an ornament. I couldn’t be arsed with a bike that I wasn’t going to ride, crash, fall off, and generally mistreat.
Looks nice (and ridiculously expensive but that’s between you and your loan shark) and I’m looking forward to leccy gears for mtbs but being afraid to ride it in the mud kinda sucks.
Could you not SS it for winter? ooh wonder how light it’d be then