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Just finished building my Ti 456 up. Just need to get out on it now!! (1 more week of uni exams then free for the summer!)
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Lets see yours...
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on route to glentress
Most enjoyable bike I've ever owned... the faster it goes, the better it flows 😳
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et voila - it's loving the pyrenees btw :
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How come you're at uni yet can still afford a titanium dream bike?
Not holding it against you, just wondering what I was doing wrong all those years ago when I was a student and couldn't even afford a potato.
Dorset-Knob - combination of finding it 2nd hand, my birthday (last week), somehow getting away with not having to pay any energy bills all year (£400ish saved!!!) and my parents being very nice to me! (students loans also 🙂 )
Heres mine........
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roughly 3 months old and it goes really fast when pointed downhill!!!!!
Enjoy yours.
that first pic, is it just me or does the rear wheel look way out of line with the back?
Looking very sweet! Reminds me of my old one 😉 Have fun with it.
fwiw, no better bike with a good coil fork, 2.35 - 2.4" tyres aroung glentress, ime / imo 🙂
Im heading up to Glentress again at the end of july 🙂
lehct_rocks: what tyres do you run? schawlbe what?
Nob Nic's 2.35 UST or 2.4" or Big Betty 2.4".
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Cracking piece of kit.
aye - a true modern classic
like the pics guitarhero and markenduro first one
Here's mine.
In the Dutch mountains:
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yeah, guitarhero - brill pic .
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No longer owned by me.
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LOL at the fanboys. "ultimate bike at glentress" FFS!
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fairly recent...
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in the snow...
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Kev
RD - yeah looks like a cut 'n' shut to me...
I find these very interesting. Almost everyone is running a longer stem than I'd have expected, and there are a lot of spacers under stems. It's almost as if (whisper it) the frame needs a longer head-tube.
70mm on mine, 16" frame, i'm 5ft 10'.
50mm thomson 0 deg rise on my 18" with 15mm of stack and i'm 6' with long arms and legs.......
50x0 stem here as well, but 30mm of spacers. My biggest worry with a short headtube is that I'll have to cut the steerer too short to make the fork resalable...
vinneyh - similar situation here, but i have 20mm on top too, just to be sure...i keep reducing the lower stack and increasing the upper stack !!!
looks a bit daft however, but works flawlessly 🙂
I'm running a 70mm (0 rise) stem on a 20" at the moment, but the bike is it in its infancy so I imagine it is subject to change.
When it comes to stack height - I was in the same vinnyeh, in that the steerer tube is quite small, and if I cut my steerer to that length its going to make selling them really tough! I am going to make adjustments to the stack height and see what I like!
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Heres mine. 90mm x 10 on a 20" which still feels short enough for me.
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90 or 70mm stem depending on what/where im riding!
hey gamo - same forks as i'm running on mine.
are you running a softer spring than what'd give you 30% sag, if you get my drift ?
70mm race face deus on mine. about an inch of spacers underneath I think. I did have more but dropped it by about 5mm after the second or third ride. 16 in frame btw... short bloke... 5'4"
Kev
Tlr im 14st kitted up and am running the firm spring with no
preload gives me 30% sag, seems spot on!
Anyone running more than a 140mm fork on theirs?
haddock - i experimented with 36's but the front was too wandery and upset the balance of the bike a touch too much.