Cheers, just left to shorten the front hose and bleed the brakes – but after 8 hours in the garage all saturday, I was cold and had enough!!
The forks are Reba SL 2009 – looked at the team and race models but after a long chat with the guys at Merlin, they advised me on the SL – said the Team was obv good with the blackbox damping but so is standard motion control (which I agree as my old Pikes worked really well) and in reality I probably would notice much difference for the extra £100. Plus the Race models advantage over the SL is that the floodgate is external – again once set I cant see I’d ever want to adjust it anyway.
The frame itself is gorgeous in the flesh – really well put together and fits me so well – just got to sort out those brakes so I can go for a proper ride.