Strange how it happens eh? I didn’t even know I wanted one then a few days later this happened…
It's weird, I rode one belonging to a friend, and all of a sudden...
@Blazin-saddles that double AXS setup is very nice indeed, shows off that blingy Hope cockpit nicely. I see your rear brake annoyingly (for me anyway) goes in the 'wrong' side too, did you ever investigating rerouting in the other side with no dropper or gear cable to go that way? Also, what the tube (?) on the seatpost for? Keeping the dropper shaft clean I presume? Any good and why not a closed tube to protect/cover the whole way around?
Any good and why not a closed tube to protect/cover the whole way around?
Yeah I use one from The Shimano Pro range. It really doesn't need to go all the way around, just stop the tyre flinging dirt straight at it. Really cuts down the service intervals.
What's it like? Not that I'm thinking of getting one, just for reference.
@Blazin-saddles that double AXS setup is very nice indeed, shows off that blingy Hope cockpit nicely. I see your rear brake annoyingly (for me anyway) goes in the ‘wrong’ side too, did you ever investigating rerouting in the other side with no dropper or gear cable to go that way? Also, what the tube (?) on the seatpost for? Keeping the dropper shaft clean I presume? Any good and why not a closed tube to protect/cover the whole way around?
yeah, I love AXS have the gears and droppers on both bikes.
The internal routing on RHS of headtube exits somewhere weird from memory, the ARC has internal cable guides through the whole frame so you can’t just poke it out any hole once it reaches the headtube. I’m sure there’s a route to be had somewhere but I couldn’t be arsed to sort it at the time.
The cut off inner tube was just a temporary measure on one day to keep the crap off the back of the dropper when I went to somewhere really gritty and wet, as I didn’t fancy my new £600 seatpost getting wrecked.
Done, Nice to build. shakedown ride later
This place is going to the dogs.
Patio needs weedkiller and the shed wants painting.
Nice looking bike btw 😉
Looks great. How was the first ride Nick?
Patio needs weedkiller and the shed wants painting
mleh, I couldn't care less about gardening
How was the first ride Nick?
it's very smooth, front is buttercups I think, they work surprisingly well, rear is just reaaly nice, even over chnky stuff it just glides. Couple of snags, the crankset's pretty stiff, I'm going to see if I've missed something there, and rear brake rubs a bit. Incomparable to the Scandal its replaced
Sounds good. I upgraded my Zebs to buttercups... I like it think it was worth it 😉
I'm not sure I could go back to an alu hardtail tho. That Scout I had was a lot of fun but it beat me up in a way the BFE doesn't...
I've seen a discounted ARC frame in turquoise and now am struggling to not think about getting one. I hardly ride my Scalpel SE so could swap everything over.
Never owned a Yeti but have always fancied one.
I see no flaw in your plan, go for it 😀
Love mine still, it's great.
I’ve seen a discounted ARC frame in turquoise and now am struggling to not think about getting one.
it’s how it happened for me. Took me about 3hrs trying to talk myself out of it.
I rode a friends and realised that I missed riding a really sorted trail hardtail. Got a the 9point8 angle adjuster to make it a bit slacker and ruin the warranty on it, and I think it'll be just about perfect
I was thinking about that for mine, I'm currently running it with stock geo but a 140mm Fox 34 and was thinking at some point of going shorter travel but slacker head angle. It's entirely unnecessary I expect, but then so was the whole bike purchase really 😀
