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[Closed] Show me your Long Travel Hard Tail Builds please... It's friday after all

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[url= http://www.pinkbike.com/video/120849/ ]mini dh[/url]

mark_b I take it you didn't do the mini dh event? average time down was about 1.18 and bar about 10 hardtails the other 250 were 'proper' DH bikes. I admit there was only very small rocky sections but they was some decent speed, watch one of the video's


 
Posted : 09/02/2010 1:22 pm
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Although i was only posting to get a rise out of the OP 🙂 I think you are missing my point - i'm saying that a hardtail is probably the best bike for a mini-Dh event and certainly one in the Forest of Dean. watching that video hasn't done anything to change that view - although the chap at 1:00minute in is letting the side down a little 😀


 
Posted : 09/02/2010 1:36 pm
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Cobblers - re-read where it was raced DH - in the Forest of Dean - so i assume on the mini-DH event ? Hardly going to get a 'proper' DH bike up to speed over a 30 second course are you ? 5 minutes in and it'd be a different story. Horses for courses and all that

I guess Mark the problem is they have not invented a HT to take your godly [s]skills and mass, [/s] ego.

Like I said in my previous post in the right hands a HT is very fast DH, its lighter, more manoverable etc but ofc it needs to be in the hands of a very good rider.... the rest of us mortals need a a FS to compensate!

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5 minutes in and it'd be a different story.

Please explain why it takes 5 mins for a FS to pawn a HT? most UK courses are only sub 5 min anyway... so basically what your saying is any 5 min decent and a HT will win? a FS should only be 10 seconds at most slower to get up speed... fail


 
Posted : 09/02/2010 2:29 pm
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Although i was only posting to get a rise out of the OP

See, it worked 😉


 
Posted : 09/02/2010 2:50 pm
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See, it worked

Congrats, your mum must be very proud of you

Anymore BFE's around, mate has just ordered one so interested to see them built up!


 
Posted : 09/02/2010 2:58 pm
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Personal insults i can take - sarcasm about mothers (especially as you know her) is sinking to a new low for you.


 
Posted : 09/02/2010 3:12 pm
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Posted : 09/02/2010 3:17 pm
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CrAsH_TeSt_RiDeR.... Attracting stalkers since 1974

Simple as this Mark, if you insist on posting every time I do on here or Bike Radar to try and get a reaction from me.... guess what, you will get one! but don't then moan about what you get back, you cannot be sarcastic in every post directed at me but then whinge when you get it back! funny to see you always start without provocation. If you throw stones in glass houses things will break! now please tootle off and stalk someone else


 
Posted : 09/02/2010 3:43 pm
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lyons its a 16 mate


 
Posted : 09/02/2010 3:55 pm
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mark_b, I think he was taking the piss out of you, not being sarcastic towards your mother 😆


 
Posted : 09/02/2010 4:33 pm
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mark_b, I think he was taking the piss out of you, not being sarcastic towards your mother

He’s a hormonal stalker


 
Posted : 09/02/2010 4:36 pm
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It looks good in that size... How tall are you? I'm 5'10 and debating if its a touch too small. I want it to be easy to pedal, AND chuckable...`


 
Posted : 09/02/2010 4:48 pm
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its spot on i wouldnt want it any bigger and im 5 10 i had a 70mm post on it but swapped it for a 50mm and its much better. i thought it was gonna be too short and nearly went for an 18 but im so glad i didnt. i found a new place to play (practice) today near my house 😉
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Posted : 09/02/2010 5:00 pm
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Any bike with EX1750 wheels gets my vote 🙂

looks a good play spot, where is it?


 
Posted : 09/02/2010 5:03 pm
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cool, thats what i want to hear... Just out of interest, which model are your foxes? And the travel?


 
Posted : 09/02/2010 5:09 pm
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thats right in the middle ctr so its a fair bit bigger than it looks 😉 its in leeds and thats all im saying (ive cycled past it hundreds of times as its on my local loop and never spotted it lol

lyons the forks are 32 talas 140mm but i never touch the travel adjust so im thinking of sticking the talas on the full sus and putting the floats on this as they feel smoother . but im gonna give a few more weeks before i decide


 
Posted : 09/02/2010 5:20 pm
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@ Scienceofficer - That Genesis Altitude frame was the RRP - £400.00.


 
Posted : 09/02/2010 9:17 pm
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c'mon mi©k, whereabouts in leeds? it looks good


 
Posted : 10/02/2010 12:10 am
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Posted : 10/02/2010 10:20 am
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here you go rafe8t7

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Posted : 10/02/2010 10:28 am
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Got some pics with the white bars. Looks are rides loads better now.

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White balance is a bit out I think my ISO was too high.


 
Posted : 15/02/2010 8:16 am
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c'mon mi©k, whereabouts in leeds? it looks good

Looks Meanwood-ish to me.


 
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