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1995 Zaskar LE - probabaly about 3rd or 4th incarnation by now and still going super strong.
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1999 Kona Fire Mountain
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Mostly built up from hand-me-down parts from other bikes with a few 2nd hand forum bargains thrown in.
[b][u]retro restoration:[/u][/b]
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[b][u]Favourite custom respray:[/u][/b]
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[b][u]Updated:[/u][b]
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[b][u]THE 1st COTIC STERLING SILVER HEADBADGE (all others are copy of this)[/u][/b]
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[b][u]Matching SS version:[/u][/b]
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[b][u]EXPENSIVE buy that went horribly wrong :(:
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[b]To this:[/b]
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[b][u]Final bike before packing it all in:[/u][/b]
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[b]And now the bike that has given me the passion and enthusiasm to actaully get out and ride again (the only bike I now have, and will need for the long forseeable future):[/b]
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Jim the saint
which NSBikes frame is that in your top pic?
The Stem arrived today so I fitted my new lyrics, yip over biked tastic!!
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Filthy - It's a NSBikes Society frame. It climbs better than an Inbred or a Soul (I think it's due to a stiffer BB area) and descends better than any alu hardtail I've ridden. As you can tell I'm really happy with it.
LardLover - Don't take this the wrong way but if you only own a road bike and don't intend on buying a mtb then why you here?
Mountain biking has been a part of my life for so many years, I've been lurking around this site for most of those years. I know quite a few people on here and find the discussions (for want of a better word) extremely entertaining.
I may return to mountain biking, but not until next year, I promised myself a full year off from RIDING mounatin bikes as I had become sick of it, it didn't hold any interest, it still doesn't, maybe because I'm enjoying my road cycling.
Just because I no longer have ANY interest in mountain biking, doesn't mean I don't want to read What's New etc.
Is that enough of an explanation?
Here's one from a few years ago though, hopefully Mamadirt might appreciate this one... Was a very sweet bike, shame it didn't suit much of my riding at all!
Oooh yes mboy - love it 😀 . Fortunately for me, being short, the Tazer is the perfect do-it-all bike.
LardLover - Crikey you're a complex fella aren't you. I'm sure your last post made perfect sense to you but I still can't work out why you say
I no longer have ANY interest in mountain biking
yet look at mountain bike websites.
Each to their own though.
Perhaps he's a closet mountain biker... you know rides a road bike but secretly has a desire to get back on to the muddy trails.
Are you in denial LardLover ❓ 😆
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this should have been on the i built it with bits from ebay and classifieds thread
£30 ebay trek easton frame, planet x carbon forks, easton drops, xt chainset, wheels?, CX tyres, new bits - frogglegs and STIs - does the business on local big hills and out along the Trans- PennineTrail
Hes just confused let him experiment a little 😆
I've built all my last god knows how many bikes but my current Yeti 575 has a more personal touch in the fact as I built the wheel hubs - as in machined them - cool hey. Even laser etched too
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Yeti 575
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Merlin Oreas
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Intense 5.5 XVP
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Turner 5 Spot
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Yeti ARC
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Santa Cruz Blur
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Pace RC303
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Spesh S Works HT
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There's more lol
Nice little collection Hadge, I particularly like the 5 spot.
Do you still own all those bikes Hadge or is that going back in time of ones you've built? 😯
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Just spent the last two months financing/rebuilding my slack old '88 Cannondale into a commuter/tourer. My father in law organised a pimp spray job with some left over paint he had knocking around his body shop - so now my bike and some scally's Astra are the only vehicles in Swansea with this tri-tone paint job 🙂
More [url= http://www.thecowellfamily.com/hikewales/2009/04/cannondale-reborn.html ]pics/spec here[/url] if you are interested.