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Just built me up a SC Superlight for riding my local trails. 🙂 Well chuffed with it so far, and looking forward to putting some miles on it.
I had a rigid Surly karate monkey previously, and although I loved it for slow technical stuff and cruising along fire paths, it was shaking my wrists to bits on our local faster, rocky trails. (and a "slight" nose dive of a jump slammed the front down so hard I lost grip on the bars and had a nasty off!)
Thinking of 1x10 + hope t-rex for the next upgrade, depending on how I get on with 1x9 on our local hilly trails. (I'm running an 11-34 XT cassette and a 30t chainring, which works well with the 29er wheels).
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Could do with a wider bar and shorter stem for downhill fun, but I like to have the best mix of distance comfort, climbing and decending, and the current set up works ok for me. 🙂
Saddle looks like an odd angle but like that allot. Is that a NW 30t chain ring?
Welcome aboard!
What shock are you running and what fork travel?
Ps your mystery creak will be your pivot needing tightening.
It's a Hope ring, a narrow-wide jobbie. Works really well.
Yea, I put the post in backwards 😳 and that's as low as the nose would go.... I was all ready to slate the crappy Crankbros post until I realised it was backwards and felt rather stupid! 😳 😳 Sorted now though.
Better Photo (although the saddle is still at a silly angle) -
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Welcome aboard!
What shock are you running and what fork travel?
Ps your mystery creak will be your pivot needing tightening.
Thanks.
It's the standard float CTD shock, the forks are REBA soloair, 120mm.
The front is a tad higher than on the Surly, and feels a bit skittish. Going to drop the stem to the bottom and see if it's any better. otherwise, I think it's just a case of getting use to a bike with suspension again....