[Closed] Pimping my Solaris.........How pimp is yours?

Nice bike, do you hang your washing off of your cables?

So it's not stock then? 😆

Nice bike in the background!

Dropper post, rigid fork. Eh?

Rigid fork for the Boundary Trail - nice 😯

It's in prep for a set of Revelations, also why the hoses are left long I beleive!

LOL - Stock bikes r yuck! Surely nobody runs stock with all the fancy bits nowadays........

As j40aja says, waiting til I get my forks b4 having everything trimmed! 😉

In the mean time, might just try hanging my washing off them, Cheers 🙂

b r - feeling it in the wrists and hands today 🙁 But good fun all the same.

Were there still fallen trees on the Boundary Trail?

Yes - very dangerous! 🙁

Would've thought someone would've been up on a quad with a chainsaw.......

Hmmm..

Turns out you can polish a turd... You bring the turn boggles and the bike being the polish!

Looking good tho, the forks will really make it ur perfect bike. It will be a real flying machine. Steel is real baby, been telling you that for ages. You have spent long enough eating my dust, glad you have stepped up and bought a real bike. None of this poncy full bouncers for us. Nice to see you ditching some of the gubbins you carry aswell. Less is more.

Not long until Soul mk3 is finished then you can get back to eating my dust.

Seriously tho, bike looks totes amazeballs.com

[i]Would've thought someone would've been up on a quad with a chainsaw.......

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They've been there over a week... Rather slack/dangerous 🙄

I don't like the red bits, but that's just cosmetic.

What I really don't like the look of is a Small Block tyre on the FRONT.

Brilliant day's biking yesterday, bit cold (-1 C) to start with until the fog lifted but epic once up the trail a bit.

The 1st tree down on the boundary trail is particularily dangerous, right at head height and just once you're starting to pick up a bit of speed in the shade of the trees.

Think I might give the FC a call today before someone gets really badly hurt by not spotting it!

I'd too would bin the red bits, the tyres, the flat pedals and the charge saddle! and get some nicer stuff!

 [i]I don't like the red bits, but that's just cosmetic[/i]

When I win the Lotto I'm paying Hope to re-anodize all the red bits Purple! 🙂

I'd too would bin the red bits, the tyres, the flat pedals and the charge saddle! and get some nicer stuff!

Going to hard to cycle with no tyres, pedals or saddle though 😆

When you see the actual bike the red bits look good against the green, but who would have a green bike in the 1st place?

Small Blocks r ace! - Just not in the mud.

Green bikes rule! 🙂 and rigid ones just as quick as a fully suspended Canyons........

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I've also got a rigid green bike (sir 9) but no red bits.... red bits BAD very BAD 😯

Mine is this pimp alan:

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Not very pimp really. Just the usual type of build.

Fox F29 100 RLC FIT QR15 TS
Hope Pro II - Stans Arch EX
Shimano XT Drivetrain
Shimano SLX brakes
Maxxis Ardent 2.25 LUSTs

The build was finished last Tuesday and rode it for the first time around a very sloppy and wet 20 mile local loop Wednesday.

First impressions. Rolls well, grips well, feels light and flickable. Looking forward to some more saddle time this week.

Have to agree, green bikes look great.

KingofBiscuits - Member

Maxxis Ardent 2.25 LUSTs

The build was finished last Tuesday and rode it for the first time around a very sloppy and wet 20 mile local loop Wednesday.

I have very similar spec to you with Arch EX rims but using Conti X King tyres, how were the Ardents in the sloppy stuff??

Ok, any excuse to show off some photo's of my pimped up Solaris 😀

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The Solaris is running Hope Hoops with Flow rims, full XT 2x10, Hope X2 Tech Evo special edition brakes with floating rotors, RS Reba RL's and a Reverb.
Awesome bike.
The only reason I went for the blue Solaris is that it was my first choice for the BFe but they'd ran out of them so it's a green BFe and blue Solaris 🙂

Really interested in the Solaris.

What size are the bikes above? Any of these a 'medium'?

Anyone 5'9" running one?

Thanks

@frankers - the Ardents were quite good overall but I remember they slipped trying to get drive and grip on a climb (cheeky path that runs at the side of a farmers field) and a little slide front and rear through some undulating wooded slop terrain (if that makes sense).

Granted, the treads at this point were full of sticky, clay like mud and had not cleared so this was expected to a certain degree.

From my perspective it's too early to tell how well they'll cope as I'm only one ride in.

Not very pimp either:

Medium/XT/cheap Reba's/Hope h'set, brakes 'n' wheels/sunline stem 'n' bars/cheapo cotic saddle... 🙂

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(Edit: that's better, you can see it now...)

Really interested in the Solaris.

What size are the bikes above? Any of these a 'medium'?

Anyone 5'9" running one?

Thanks

Mine's a [s]large[/s] medium and I'm 6'. Seems to fit perfectly.

But then I'm a medium in Cotic's...

I like the smaller bike and I'm pretty much at the top end of a medium as a result. Wisepranker would appear to be the opposite but if he's happy no reason you shouldn't be either?

Without looking up the parts list for the stock bike theres nothing about any of those bikes that looks particularly pimped. They all just look like quite nice ordinary bikes.

gee - Member

Dropper post, rigid fork. Eh?

Works really well tbh.

Without looking up the parts list for the stock bike theres nothing about any of those bikes that looks particularly pimped

The question was how pimped... we replied... not very...

They all just look like quite nice ordinary bikes.

Can't disagree with you there though...

muppetWrangler - Member
Without looking up the parts list for the stock bike theres nothing about any of those bikes that looks particularly pimped. They all just look like quite nice ordinary bikes.

What classes as "Pimp"

What classes as "Pimp"

Obviously not Hope/XT...

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Chris King but also XT so mines a fail too

What classes as "Pimp"

For me it would have to be way out of the ordinary whether that be the availability of the parts (i.e not available from wiggle) or the cost makes the parts ridiculously exclusive or maybe a diamond encrusted paint job. 'Course properly pimping your ride will almost always make it less useable and a bit crap.

[edit] If someone had hacked a Di2 drivetrain to work on a mountain bike that would almost break all the rules by being simultaneously expensive, customised, exclusive and probably an improvement on standard function

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