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just need to ride the damn thing next year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Great thread and some great bikes
Admittedly needs some bigger (longer, though not wider than these cartoon scaffold poles currently on it) to be proper LT, but does do the gnarrr bit pretty well.
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slainte 😀 rob
My Evil Sovereign
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Another BFe
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Looks to be a tiny frame - what is it?
It's a 14" Kona Five-O - designed around 140mm forks (complete bike comes with Marz 55s) but rides great with the Lyriks up front (130mm for most stuff and wound out to 140-50 for d/h 😛 ). Rear end is pretty long making it super-stable on the downs.
Hmm those sovereigns look good.
Re Pink Wheeles earlier:
"Oooooh Hello - My Name's Julian and this is my friend Sandy" 😉
Would somebody mind helping me download pic? Didn't find the instructions on forum rules to clear. Thanks ❓
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Best post one of my own too.
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craigxxl is leading by a country mile.
the nicest hardtail i think i have ever seen........ 8)
Thanks Singlespeedstu
even with a mudguard
Heres mine
Posted this pic before but haven't got round to uploading any new ones yet
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I like that 🙂 What is it?
Here is my newly built LT HT
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Another Mmmbop - more trail than gnnnnaarrr...
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@ _tom_
it started out as a gary fisher mullet frame i bought off the classifieds.
Dont want to take this off topic so here is a linky for you
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/nearly-finished-my-new-bike-build-pics
Hunterst, that Mullet scrubed up nicely. How much did they charge you for the powder coat?
That mullet is my fav bike of the thread so far. Really nice job you have done there.
I haven't posted my Kona as although it is steel, has a slack head angle and 180 rotors I am guessing the mere 120mm up front would rule it out! 😥
@ craigxxl - i think it was £60 all in
@ normal man - thanks very much 🙂 - there are some great bikes on here, so that is high praise indeed.
Another mmmbop here great bike but hardly been used hence its now for sale!
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MKI 15.5" Alpine.
wooop-wooo!
Alpin - The purple and gold looks really cool.
Northcountryboy - Wow, a nice-looking Ragley!
I've said it before and I'll say it again.....
Alpin's bike looks ace!!!
Just got a bfe but am now considering a Sov they look great!
Why not consider an Alpine? they "look" similar 🙄
GW you are clearly blind The evil looks much better! Ha ha!
Tell me why do you have such an issue with people liking the aesthetic of a product? Bet you've boffed some right pigs "she has a lovely personality" 😉
This thread (and every other LT hardtail thread) pretty conclusively proves not one LT hardtail has good aesthetics so no issue there ;).
no issue with idiots who buy bikes purely on current fashion, they're generally harmless simpletons.
and to answer your personal attack. Yes, out of the many hundreds, a very small percentage (maybe 2%) were less than stunning! I have no idea about their personalities other than "easy" going 😉
GW +1
Come come GW that was merely a little leg pull not an attack! Tell me sir what bike do YOU ride?
Which one?
haven't got it yet, but i'll hopefully be getting a Brodie Ti HoleShot in the spring. That is a pretty thing.
the black raggers at the top looks great 🙂
All of course....
**** that!
SHW why don't you post a pic of one of your magical bikes. Oh yes, that is right, you don't because people would rip the piss out of them.
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My Santa Cruz Chameleon - a bit of a Trigger's broom...
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Here is some older grrrr - before the forks failed and the frame cracked 😯
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Photo taken in winch up mode obviously...
Er?
Cove Stiffee.
I have a lot of love for this bike.
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One of the lads i ride with used to have that dmr.. was lush.. silly big 66's on front..
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And my bro's NS that gets used for everything from bootie calls to riding to the pub.
D'oh
This is my hard-core rad wagon. The big front tyre is more than adequate for anything in the UK and is way more capable than my AM full susser. I've still yet to push its limits in anger, but so far it's just confirmed that no-one needs front suspension on UK trails and certainly no more than 80mm when it is fitted. I don't really see the point of all these over-forked mince-core steeds etc.
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Nice [s]troll[/s] bike.
Freshly powdercoated Blue Pig Mk1 
Built yesterday. To be tested tomorrow on the Chase.
Could it be end of days for the Spicy??
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Bernaard
The powder coat loks just like the "Skwoosh" colour, problems with the original paint.
lets eee some shots in its home environment, on the hills!!
BadlyWiredDog....why dont you enter the 661 Gravity Enduro races next year and put your theory to the test?
Cotic are one of the sponsors and offering prizes for the highest placed HT....the races are at known trail centres so your rigid HT that 'is more than adequate for anything in the UK' should cope admirably.
I prefer a HT too but i'm not daft enough to think i will cover ground faster on my HT than i will on my FS....riding the HT is about line choice and finesse....riding the FS is about ploughing through whatever is in the way....the FS is much faster on anything other than climbs....theres a good reason why there were only a handful of us on HTs at the Gravity Enduros last year.
@deviant - I think you'll find he's pulling your leg, being ironic or, some might say, trolling 😉
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Now split and sold, but a hoot to ride (except for those rubbish Wotans, which made even Maverick forks seem progressive).
BadlyWiredDog....why dont you enter the 661 Gravity Enduro races next year and put your theory to the test?
Cotic are one of the sponsors and offering prizes for the highest placed HT....the races are at known trail centres so your rigid HT that 'is more than adequate for anything in the UK' should cope admirably.I prefer a HT too but i'm not daft enough to think i will cover ground faster on my HT than i will on my FS....riding the HT is about line choice and finesse....riding the FS is about ploughing through whatever is in the way....the FS is much faster on anything other than climbs....theres a good reason why there were only a handful of us on HTs at the Gravity Enduros last year.
I'm sure it would be fine despite your evident doubts. I come at things from a slightly different angle than you. What matter is not outright speed per se, but the feeling of speed and on that basis, I suspect my bike would be significantly faster than many full sussers. I'm not saying it would win, I'm not that naive, but perceptively I think it would be right up there. You could always borrow it if you feel under-biked?
@Smartay when I got the used frame it was black and the paint needed some tlc to say the least
Hence the powder coat in signal orange or 2009 in powder coat terms
Happy as I wanted the orange colour originally
BadlyWiredDog - MemberI'm sure it would be fine despite your evident doubts. I come at things from a slightly different angle than you. What matter is not outright speed per se, but the feeling of speed and on that basis, I suspect my bike would be significantly faster than many full sussers. I'm not saying it would win, I'm not that naive, but perceptively I think it would be right up there. You could always borrow it if you feel under-biked?
So it wouldn't [i]actually[/i] be faster, but would [i]feel[/i] faster?
Is there a separate podium for that?
So it wouldn't actually be faster, but would feel faster?Is there a separate podium for that?
There should be. I think I meant 'perceptually' btw. Or something like that. My point is that people on full sussers might think they were faster than me on my rigid, but in my reality, not.
I've never heard someone get so confused about the difference between perception and reality - in future I shall MTB down the motorway to visit friends and relatives because it feels a lot faster along singletrack than my car does on a country road...
I don't know why I bother.
some lovely looking bikes, some horrors too.
main thing that jumps out at me is oversized headtubes making skinny stanch'd forks look weird.
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el_diablo is that your house?
Very grand 🙂
eyerideit,
don't be daft, that's just my garden shed!