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deaky... one gear, big wheels, rigid forks and whacky bars... you're just not right 😉
you out tomorrow? 🙂
Latest arrival - very impressed so far. Apologies for poor quality pic.
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I will be out Stu but not in the morning. Just about to go to a BBQ and I don't think I'll be in a fit state for the morning ride 😛
my scandal
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Im late in on this one, but just built this 🙂
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Thanks to STW users for the Frame and Wheels (and other odd bits over the years)
YEs I know that tensioner looks like a deore mech...! I am thinking that if 36:20 works for me, I can get the perfect tension with a 1/2 link and a [i]tiny[/i] bit of dropout filing....
mmm some nice bikes on here.
My Swift (medium) just to push the numbers up again, now running ss and back on the stock forks after running a set of Exotic carbons for a while.
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which Brooks saddle is that?
mboy what colour frame is your on one please?
rOcKeTdOg
which Brooks saddle is that?
Its a Swift ti, quite fancy a Swallow though but may have to sell one of the kids to fund it.
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another one from Taz's fugly bike collection
tazzymtb - Memberanother one from Taz's fugly bike collection
Taz hows the Scandal working out? Looks good 🙂
goes like a ****er thanks Ferrit, although I'm going to get a sticker with
"can I have some bike with my seatpost please?" made up
ha brilliant, but you could alway have a couple of inches trimmed from your lower legs. Glad you happy with it, it was crying out to be built up and ridden.
put some blocks under the wheels to raise the top tube a bit, then you can drop the saddle
that's so cunning I could put a tail on it and call it a fox!
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at last, i can add to rOcKeTdOgs show your 29er thread. built it last night, haven't ridden it yet, still got to set the gears up and shorten the rear brake hose then i'm off up the woods 🙂
and move the brake levers away from the "jedi" position
how's it ride?
oh and...
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Deaky is that the 2011 Unit frame?
rOcKeTdOg - and move the brake levers away from the "jedi" positionhow's it ride?
oh and...
the "jedi" position helps me stay my side of the bars... not always mind. rides good, tyres were a bit shite for wetter conditions and i was nervous at first as i thought the rigid forks would have me going off at tangents on wet rootes but it was all good, still seemed to have plenty of energy left after 3+ hours... maybe i just ate less pies! 🙂
what's with the misfit, can't be yours, it's only got one gear 😉
With newly added pimp
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Here's mine. It's one of those cheap far eastern TI jobbies.
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Currently set up as singlespeed with deraileur to keep chain tensioned.
doesn't the chain bounce of the rear cog or have you some ingenious device back there?
No magic device back there. I've only ridden it for about an hour but no problems yet.
Very nice Gary! You got rid of the Swift then?
Not mine, but soon to be!
Canfield Yelli Screamy
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Still tempted si
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Another Diamondback Mojito. Best value bike I've ever bought 😉
Very nice Gary! You got rid of the Swift then?
don't be daft!
big bloke, big bike, after 300 miles of scottish offroad (big ben over my left shoulder, and i am stood in a ditch, so the bike isn't too big for me). 8)
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getting on for 5 years old now, and currently sporting a set of Manitou Minutes
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and do 69ers count ?
that IF is very nice..........wanna sell it steve??
No thanks Tony, I do know a man who can sell you one just like it though, Sideways Tim 🙂
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Another Diamondback Mojito here. £200, even came with the logos and valves lined up.
Gary....looks good even from a querky angle..
more quirky, but outside (with night ride clutter and scotland trip spec)
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Another Swift. When it had some wild brake hose thing going on.
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rD you've taken something beautiful and made it real ugly....... I'm weeping
it's not ugly, it's useable, showroom bikes are for people who just like to look at them, get them out of the garage, polish them and put them back, i like to ride my bikes, a strange concept for many on ST i know 😉
first ride:
it's new, i built it, it feels weird at first, then i ride it a bit more, i drop the height of the bars, i raise the height of the saddle, it feels better but not quite there, i move the shifter inboard, feels even better, ride a bit more, back feels squirmy funnily enough just after some joker on a narrowboat shouts that there's something wrong with the rear tyre, so i put some more air in, feels even better, i mess about, practice stoppies, wowza, the brakes work!, that's a novelty, try some hills, riser bars are an experience i've not had for a while, different but not bad, raise the saddle a bit more, that's it, i'm home, on the comfy sofa with the remote at hand...but it's a saddle and a handlebar.
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😕 of course the bike is to be used. it just ain't easy on the eye?? from your other pics you seem like a man of reasonable taste so maybe sort the bike out!?? 🙂 the first pic you posted of the swift is much nicer
Love the new bike!
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fenboy - [to rd] you seem like a man of reasonable taste
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Anyone have any experience of the Turner Sultan? Looking maybe at the older TNT bike.The Anthem would be nice,but probably something a bit more niche,xc orientated and 100mm travel?
Thanx Max