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vortex racing, what is that? It's proper gurt lush..
Spin - Member
Why not finish the job and make it a fixie with just a front brake?
Ahem....
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Simon - super cool to bring a ss to places like that, must be really hard..
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Both get ridden up/down/along back-country greenlanes in South Devon, in the woods, over bits of Southern Dartmoor ...
(Any odd looking wheel size / asymmetry [per-bike] is purely down to my camera being perceptively-challenged).
After years of gears and suspension the lack of faffing is lovely..
Used for local 15-25 mile 50/50 on/off road rides 2/4 times a week.
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My SS has 85mm forks on it?
Can I hang at the back of you lot being tolerated rather than accepted?
OCB - that wasn't your Gryphon at Haldon yesterday was it?
My SS has 85mm forks on it?Can I hang at the back of you lot being tolerated rather than accepted?
Time for the old classic...
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mission successful - haven't cranked out the sadlle that hard for years 😯
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I put in 33 miles on my rigid SS today, first time I've done any natural stuff without suspension since the late nineties.
Wasn't as bad as I thought to be honest.
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anywhere, everywhere............
I was wondering if I could fit a fat tyre in my carbon on one fork.......?
Clink - MemberOCB - that wasn't your Gryphon at Haldon yesterday was it?
No, not mine Clink ... tho' Haldon is only a little up the road from me.
They'll be about I guess, but I've not heard of any others locally (but then I am a surly curmudgeon, with a tramps beard and a tendency for slightly unusual bicycles, and share the road amongst a herd of anonymous, anodyne carbon road bikes, so few enough cycling people speak to me anyway).
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Flashes' Sunn Bmix.. love it. Always wanted one of those.
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It doesn't often go out like this, but comes home the next day in a mess when it does.
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I was wondering if I could fit a fat tyre in my carbon on one fork.......?[/i][/b]
Tried it - doesn't fit, even with a narrow rim.
Don't know about the newer fancy shape forks though.
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It's a [url= http://www.kinesisbikes.co.uk/products/maxlight/ff29 ]Kinesis[/url] FF29 with their IX forks.
Fast as a very fast thing on speed.
vortex racing, what is that? It's proper gurt lush..
it's a 16" 2007 Kona Unit with Salsa Cromoto Forks.
I had it resprayed a couple of weeks ago
here is the original thread
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This is my do it all bike mtb.....or that should be only bike mtb. Chain tensioner has now gone as I've changed the drop outs. Love it.
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Captain & jezandu..... Bikes look sweeeeet... Id love a ss....maybe try to cobble one together for next winter. 🙂
Jameso.
Please contact me, my mate now has the bike but will be selling most of it soon...........
will do..
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^^ Wheres the swift gone??
Stripped to build that, in the shed at the mo, want it?
& I have a Dialled Love/Hate that needs a good home some time. Medium I think it is, leastways I am and it fit me! http://www.dialledbikes.com/products/mtb/love-hate.php
Medium too small for me fella, cheers anyway...Still a bit "swift" curious tho 😕
The L/H would be too then.
Nowt wrong with the Swift but the Selma came up and it was too good to let go. Light as a very light thing, fast enough that I come from a ride in bits.
Keywords for the Swift btw are "value" and "versatile".
I believe the guy who won the Brass Monkeys (winter Gorrick) series did it on an SS rigid Swift. But if I wanted a bike to trek through South America, it could do that too.
Very true Matt, but then again my 'bred ticks all of those boxes too...hmmm dilemmas 😕
26"
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Botyh custom, both fantastic, both silly light for steel
@fenred For sure, a riding buddy has a new 29er Inbred, the geometry is near identical to the Swift (& he put a Swift fork on it).
swift is far nice than an inbread though..on-ones have that gopping rear end that looks like a kid in leg callipers has been pushed down the stairs.
Matt/tazz - aesthetics aside can you quantify/describe ride 'feel' between swift/inbred? *i know, difficult to articulate*
having ridden both the swift just feels more....well...."lively" for want of a better word. I liked my on-ones but they were all a bit flat. Interesting as the old niner SIR 9 had a very similar geo but was an awesomely better ride than both. about 400 quid better, probably not but definitely better
That 29er Curtis is proper class )
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I'd concur with taz but I only rode my friend's Inbred around a car park, and the fit was wrong for me anyway.
So that's useless really!
The Inbred felt more, errr, 'solid', and it just looks that way too. It's also significantly cheaper.
Another mate who rides a 9r MCR 9 felt the Swift was in the same ballpark. I demo'd an MCR9 months ago and recall it being a little bit lighter and snappier than the Swift. But it also had gears and bounce, and was my first worthwhile ride on a 29er. I ran the Swift SS rigid.
** for the sake of transparency, both the above riders kick my *** on any bike, but talent and fitness are a big factor!
Rode my rigid SS carbon Whippet 40km round Brechfa trails today at warp speed.
It's a weird combination of lo-tech and hi-tech but I love it.
I only miss suspension on rough descents where you need to cover/use the brakes, then the rigid's like a road drill. Which is why I put suspension forks on for the Dyfi winter enduro recently.
It really doesn't like braking bumps either, but then who does?
Appreciate the input chaps, cheers! Then there's the skookum, then there's the jones....the quest continues and so it goes...
I use this everywhere.
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Having a few weeks off the MTB and on the BMX had got me seriously thinking about the joys of singlespeed and rigid, plus some big wheels and tyres to cope with the rough stuff - particularly liking the look of the Fortitude. Thankfully I just watched Genesis's video of it and that front end jitter reminded me why I love suspensions forks! Saying that, come next winter it might be time to justify a more child friendly utility on and offroad bike...
Wow, I feel like I've done a couple of rounds with Tyson this morning... SS Rigid is a true all over body workout !
Wow, I feel like I've done a couple of rounds with Tyson this morning... SS Rigid is a true all over body workout !
You know you've been riding, eh?
mattjd, indeed - i'm probably too old for it at 43...... thought my knees were gonna pop yesterday 🙂