Obligatory garden shot (with hedge in need of cutting etc).
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New frame with parts swapped over from Cove Stiffee. New drivechain: changed from 2x9 to 1x10. Nice and light and impressions good from first couple of rides.
Nice.
Nice advert for bikes thieves on the door too 😮
Please can I do the 'frames too small joke' can I, can I 😉
Looks ace btw 🙂
What advert for bike thieves?
The door to your garage.
I still like these but it's more of a "semi" than a full "woody" now 😳
Edit... it's a fork thing... I couldn't get on with how flexy a 32mm stantioned fork is compared to a 35/36.
Wheels are 3" too small but that aside...lovely, really lovely.
I bet it rides well.
@ chainslapp: eh?
good grief...
chunky and chainslap are trying to say your garage door is an advert to thieves, as it is covered in stickers hinting at its contents.
I think that is the inside of the door?
Ah! It's a shed not a garage and the stickers are on the [b]inside[/b] of the door. Any scum would be well into the rob by the time they saw them!
Shocked at poor tyre label/ valve alignment.
Oh and is the frame too small?
Are those little wheels?
Looks good though!
lovely looking frame, not many of them about either
Forgot to mention label/valve alignment is deliberate. Wouldn't want to deprive you...
Frame is a large and is very similar in geometry to the 19.5 Stiffee it replaced (which I wanted it to be) except for seat tube length which is shorter. I think it's the top tube slope/ standover which makes it look too small in picture?
I am shocked, saddened and appalled that the chain ring bolts are not red. Disgusting and shocking.
Ps, That is a seriously nice frame. If I could afford one I bet I'd have one!
Nice bike. It's a bit like mine 😉
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Which I'm putting up for sale next week if anyone is interested 🙂
Which I'm putting up for sale next week if anyone is interested
Could you offer Freemans catalogue monthly payment options? 8)
😀 Unfortunately not, but it's always worth asking.
Do you have any free stickers mister? 😆
No because I'm saving them to put on my garage door 🙂
Got to agree with everyone else, that's very nice indeed!
Every time I see one of these Holeshot Ti's it saddens me that I can't afford one. My own, rather lovely Genesis Altitude Ti is a great bike, but it doesn't stop me lusting after one of these enormously. They are without doubt, the nicest HT frame around at the moment IMO. And I think part of the key is versatility, being that they can take from a 120-160mm fork, and a setup from XC race light to freeride tough.
What on earth is going on with the cranks though? They look like M800 Saints that you've covered in a load of red stickers.
Mine, before they nicked it.
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What they left me with.
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What they left me with.
I don't get it - what *is* that?!
It's the section of downtube sawn out of the frame so they could nick the bike (for parts presumably, unless they know a particularly good welder...)
Ouch that's adding insult to injury 😯 gorgeous frames, make my dialled alpine look ghetto.
Why did they call it "holeshot" tho?
What on earth is going on with the cranks though? They look like M800 Saints that you've covered in a load of red stickers.
They are indeed that. M800 with crankskins on. I always rub my cranks and find crankskins work great. The donor bike was red so a quite a few red bits knocking about I'm not prepared to spend money on just for minor colour co-ordination reasons.
boxfish 😥
looks great, I am still hanging on for the Ti Alpine, but am very very tempted to get a Brodie instead.
IS that a Large? if so how tall are you?
Mine is a large richc 😉 and is for sale at a reasonable price if you are interested?
going to hang on a little longer for the Alpine, but if I crack I will email you
Mine is a large richc and is for sale at a reasonable price if you are interested?
define reasonable?
£750...for the frame
Too rich for me chef.