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There's a road through your garden and the path patching is poor.
Someone has covered that bike in mud, has it been RIDDEN? We don't want your sort round here. 😉
lol, cracking Peak blast this morning, knocked 18 seconds off my Beast DH time!!
No bar plugs
Untrimmed cable tie
If your going to use white hoses/outers at least change the reverb hose.
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Somebodys nicked the bike in the bottom pic.
No flaming required, that looks purposeful and very nice. The purple bars are your only concession to 'bling' and I quite like them.
Having read some of your posts in the past, though, you do sound like a serial bike buyer(?)
Still, you've got a good'un there by the looks of it.
Only a mother...
Enjoy it nonetheless.
the hoses are temporary as i get new brakes next week, i PROMISE i will change teh rear mech outre just for you 🙂 Bar end plugs are somewhere!!
Wall pointing 🙄
I like it Rob.
Only points for me are the white grips/purple bars, no likey - and the front end looks far too low for me.
Otherwise, very nice
Your woodpile is a little lacking.
Your own house and garden must be in a terrible state for you to feel the need to take the bike out to the street to photograph it.
Or did your wife find out how much it cost and throw you out?
I'll give it 'til March 24th
as a fellow el guapo owner i of course approve, but did i see you refer to it as the 'el crappo' not that long ago... i could be mistaken, it wouldn't be the first time tbf...
There's a puddle of wee underneath.
Liking the purple bits.
Actually I rather like that. Ugly as sin but in a function over form sort of way.
Anyone with black stanchions care to state if long term use the black stays black or does it wear?
Stu - 2 woodpiles round the back 🙂
keep the stick coming - its a bit shit today!
Looks like it'd be fun but I'd prefer it if they didn't pre-bend the top and down tubes 😛
I think it looks great!
What are your first thoughts about how it rides?
sprightly and fast as ****
It's a YES from me!
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So what's your fastest time from the back door to the bar at the club?
Silver stem and Black seatpost -1point
White Grips and Black saddle -1point
Tyre and Rim logos lining up: Front-PASS, Rear-FAIL -1/2point
Purple bars & matching Lockons +1point
Overall good effort but could be better, sort some of the above out and needs more Purple, what about some purple Pedals 😛
Hope you didn't trim the bars with the wood saw!
And another - 1 point for the moss in the patio.
Looks nice though!
Anything in a raw finish looks good to me.
Not sure hard to tell but looks like you need some bar plugs.... 😉
WTF is going on with the extra nearly rear facing saddle and seatpost on the tiny balance bike in the last photo? 😯
Its the trailgator on the other bike not in shot
What's if like weight wise rob
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Anyone with black stanchions care to state if long term use the black stays black or does it wear?
I've got some circa 2006 manitou Nixon's with black stanchions, still black.
30ish lb
Wrong wheel size for a start............ :-/
Looks like a fun bike and I'm digging the purple bars. It would probably look better with a white saddle though.
Looks like you only need about 70mm travel on your forks though.....
Nice bike, but is the front tyre on backwards? Tread pattern looks like it would be better other way round?
Ok - trailgator; I wondered!
I like the raw aluminum finish. 🙂
But the purple bar is hideous! 😡 I think that I have the same bar on my full suspension bike (RF Atlas) but in [s]boring[/s] beautiful black! 😉
Glad to see the bike got dirty!
Saddle needs to be flatter - that must be throwing all your weight onto the bars!
probably right about the saddle not fiddled with it since it came off the Pitch
Chapeau !!!! Not enough purple bars on bikes these days 🙂
Personally would fit a mud hugger to save your reverb if your out in filth all the time, great bit of kit no noise, stays put, saves your ass.
Liking the purple reminds me of back in the day 🙂
Mudhugger?
That's got a lot of nooks and crannies ( as ny mum would say) must make cleaning at this time of year s mare!
Strap a kite on it and get out there today - you'll be flying!!!!
Update two rides in.
Climbs very well in position 2 on the pikes and monarch. Both rt3 so evenly matched.
Descending is a whole new ball game, the suspension both ends tracks so well that you go faster and faster, no rattling around, far less arm fatigue, more relaxed as a result.
Both rides have been in shit conditions where issues would be easily noticeable but none have yet been apparent.
Early reports suggest its a good un
18 seconds off your time down 'the beast'?! What were you riding previously; a unicycle?!
Nice new bike, btw!
Nice bike.
What size are the pikes, 160mm? I've been toying with the idea of either one of these in raw with CCDB or a Cotic Rocket.
Edit; I've got the exact same purple bars too, ace aren't they!?
Yup 160mm. Bars are ace
Is it wrong that the first thing that came to mind is that I recognise the lamp post in the first picture?
Rob what tyres are they ? I had the 2 fat alberts of you and put them on my 456 and love them !
Hello mark how's you . Will we see you on next Tuesday ride ???
Chunky monkeys from onone
Beast is DH? I rode that with no dabs/no helmet on a hardtail earlier this year 😆
hora shut up