[Closed] Colour. Lairy or safe?

Neither mate. The gearbox versions are approx 3k!!!! Rest assured, I won't be getting one although they do appeal.
The standard geo looks great for a man of my (fairly average) proportions. Custom, I imagine is a fortune.
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I think you've made an excellent choice - lovely bike. Burly but not too heavy, well made with a slack geo ... & 650b.

I looked at Nicolai Argon's and Curtis AM7's before deciding on the Switchback.

Looks pretty downhill friendly!

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I think you've made an excellent choice

Looks pretty downhill friendly

Nicolai bikes are works of art to me. I've always wanted one and it would have to be in raw to show off all the weld and machining detail for me to look at. In my mind form should echo function and a raw Nicolai epitomises that for mountain bikes in my book. Mountain bikes should look like machines not like dainty painted road bikes.

I may have had too much gin.

My current bike is painted after 15 years of raw or silver anodized frames. It is a wonderful bike but I can't help thinking it would look better naked.......

Yeh, it looks sick. Steel bikes with long travel forks and sky high BBs have been done to death. This is gonna be something else. If you're getting the lairy colour, then it needs some of them purple marzocchi 55's they used to do.

I may have had too much gin.

then it needs some of them purple marzocchi 55's they used to do.

Strangely enough we've got a bike for sale at the moment....

Helius AM, medium, Orange ano, white shock linkages and bearing covers......... purple Marzocchi 55's.......

1 1/8th headtube with the matching fork. It's had some use but in very good condition - reasonable offers considered.

The geo is almost identical to my NP Scout. 5mm more reach on the large Scout and a shorter seat tube - the Argon has a lower BB by a few mm.... that's it - it seems.

The wheel base on the Argon is longer though?

I went raw. Have never regretted it, although I would like a lairy Ion 20 to complement it.

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