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Hans Dampf, the tyre we have always wanted, does everything well and can be run at 19 psi tubeless 😉
Candodavid: One of a kind, Curtis XC9
Beautiful.
Not a great pic.
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2 and a half
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Crikey, is that the brand new Orange?
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@bonesetter: it's a Gyro Pro in neon green custom colour.
Fenred
Thanks for the offer of a test ride. I've got a 19.5" Inbred in the garage waiting to be built and was a bit worried it would look like a gate, from your picture, thankfully not
No more clown bike barbs, these are some nice looking bikes.
No more clown bike barbs, these are some nice looking bikes.
26ers looks silly to me nowadays and I've not even got my first 29er on the dirt yet.
It's all in the head.
Big wheelers are the new "right"
Candodavid - That is one stunning looking bike.
Got to agree about 29ers looking "right" Here's mine:
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Will - 3 bikes the same? 😯
Low, tres slack, 150mm travel, my geo. v. fast..when I'm not riding it anyway 😉
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That thing looks like it's built for the job.
Very nice. 😀
> 100 posts on this thread, the competing "show me your 26ers" is still in the twenties.
That party's over.
Seems a few haterz have turned into luverz. 😉
Sell them 26s now as the price on second hand is only going one way. (For hardtails anyway, I dno about boingers having not ridden a boingy 29).
(Anyone want a small Soul, a medium Blur Classic or a Love/Hate?)
These 29ers are well ugly bikes they just look odd!
You're just sore because you put the name of an obsolete bike in your username.
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Nice quiver there tazzy - which are yours, and what are they?
2nd & last pic I'm interested in. Is the 2nd a JJ Diamond with truss?
My Scandal.
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/73773087@N07/8033734813/ ]WP_001790[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/73773087@N07/ ]h4muf[/url], on Flickr
Bonesetter, 2nd and last pic are the same frame, was the on-one scandal prototype that Brant designed to be raced as a fixie so had a tweaked geometry. Worked brilliantly with some jones ti truss forks and was also really rather good with 120mm boingy frontage as well. Shame that the normal scnandal was just not quite as mental. (had 1 of those as well)
the big black jones space frame is also mine as was the trek 69er.
Now down to 1 jones, 1 superlight salsa selma one loony chumba and looking to get something uber niche to fulfil my urges for now.....
also had this one until recently
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Tazzymtb - how do you find the (mk2 presumeably) Chumba?
really enjoying it so far, want to get some 140mm forks and a dropper post to really get mental, but it's a great agile little bike. stiff as stiff thing though so a big 2.4 at low pressure on the back helps
Thanks. Very nice, some good niche action you're getting there (thought it was just singlesppedstu who was getting all that)
*Slight Hi-jack*
Some splendid looking bikes, there, folks. I've decided (independently from this thread) that I'm going to sell my 26ers (Spark 40 and Pipedream Scion - if anyone's interested 😉 ) and purchase a 29er H/T. Looking for a lightish, all dayer - as opposed to a racer - which of the beauties, here within, should I be blagging a test ride on?
Matt - 2 Photos of the xtc, and 1 of my brothers anthem.
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Finally got my green Solaris built up (and ridden).
Very nice (even if I say so myself).
And definitely faster than in orange 
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[url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/77564901@N06/8035013934/ ]Solaris[/url] by [url= http://www.flickr.com/people/77564901@N06/ ]Metalheart-UK[/url], on Flickr
ETA: Oh Chainline, that Nic is looking pretty mental and slaaaaack. I like...
Stop this please gents I have no need for one of these at all....but Man flu has struck and if you can't ride you look at shiny stuff!!!
@metalheart isn't your the black Soul pic that crops up a lot? How's the Solaris in comparison? I have a Soul, which I'm perfectly content with, and am looking at 29s, but wondered if it would come out a bit same-but-bigger... (eggs and eggs).
(yeah it's you, that's the same garage door with a Rocket in front of it on Flickr!)
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> 100 posts on this thread, the competing "show me your 26ers" is still in the twenties.That party's over.
you're all late to the party though
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/show-your-29ers
Pegasus
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i did have these
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Fell out of love with MTB's for 6 months and then got this...
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and fell back in love with biking again (but only on softer less techy routes 😆 )
On one ti-29er
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@mattjg: guilty as charged I'm afraid...
How do they compare? Well, at 6' a medium Soul is pretty much at it's extremes for me so the slightly longer Solaris is actually a better fit (pretty much perfect infact).
I did a 5 hour ride with a mate of roughly the same size so we swapped between the Soda and Solaris and all I can say is that he went away with the (orange) Solaris and I subsequently sold the Soda (for the Rocket) and I now have a green one... and I don't have any regrets (so far at any rate).
The Solaris is more stable on the descents, climbs that bit better (I think that's at least partly because of the wheel base and me not being so far over the back wheel) and doesn't lose too much of the flickability of the Soul. And its green...
And I've just added some more (build) pictures to flickr...
ETA: yeah, it rides like you'd expect a Cotic to ride. But still different to the Soul. Just not wildly so...
How do they compare? Well, at 6' a medium Soul is pretty much at it's extremes for me so the slightly longer Solaris is actually a better fit (pretty much perfect infact).
Your Solaris is a medium? (ie current smallest available).
My Soul is a small but I'm exactly one size down from you I think, ie bang on the cusp between s & m. The Soul is very chuckable but having put 50 miles into a medium MCR9, perfectly happily, I think I have concluded the chuckability is a false friend. The story continues ... (there's just a couple of mm ETT difference between the MCR9 and the Solaris).
Yeah Matt, its a medium. They are all mediums... 😉
Chuckability is not a false friend, its just that sometimes you sacrifice other aspects for it, i.e. I suffer front wheel wander on the Soul when climbing as I'm sat over the back wheel. The Solaris is much more planted climbing, in fact it's bang on for me. Thats with a 65mm stem and 762 bars.
ETA: just seen your post on the 26er. You want to keep your Soul, it's great to have a small chuckable bike for those 1-2 hour rides down the woods... 😛
i'd like to see some budget-built 29ers.
anyone built theirs up from 2nd stuff off here?
Hmuch?
@Singlespeedstu - That's made my day that comment, praise indeed from a 29ermeister.