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So then these wonderful bargain Pitch Pros are not such a bargain as the forks are shite and need to be swapped out?
goes all misty eyed
I remember going to a VW meet. There were loads of nice modified cars around, as usual, and in comes this rather standard looking dark green Beetle. Everyone ignored it. I spotted the bloke had his engine cover open so went over for a chat, because it's spotted it wasn't quite what it seemed. It was fairly tidy, a 'daily driver' so to speak. poking out from the back were 2 standard looking exhaust pipes, the wheels looked like standard steel ones (But wider). It rode a bit lower, like a lot of Beetles.
After a brief chat with the owner I learned the engine was virtually a top-spec race engine, 200+ bhp, titanium con rods, custom machined parts, the lot. It had a five speed close ratio box, fully adjustable suspension, again, virtual race spec, all custom made. It sounded fairly quiet, just very bassy and tight for an air-blower and it revved more like a motorbike engine.
The owner loved it. It was silly fast and had the potential to show up a lot of so called 'peformance' cars.
That was a real sleeper.
We are accustomed to making mods more to show off than anything else, most people don't understand why you'd want to keep them under wraps.
It's a style I love.
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compare a pair of "Pitch Pikes" with some aftermarket pikes, and they are rather different forks
Go on then, elaborate...
No adjustable floodgate, different steerer (nothing that makes much difference), anything else?
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We are accustomed to making mods more to show off than anything else, most people don't understand why you'd want to keep them under wraps.
It's a style I love.
But it's a frikkin mountainbike designed to be used in mud and ridden on rocks, not something to preen and show boat with.
The 'Hybrid' Pikes on the Pitch Pro are arguably better than the 409 Retail ones. They have the same damper assembly but without the floodgate. The good thing is they have an aluminium steerer. I think Specialized did an awesome job on the bike and it's not like they hid the fact they are different, they have a 361 sticker on the brace.
But it's a frikkin mountainbike designed to be used in mud and ridden on rocks, not something to preen and show boat with.
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But it's a frikkin mountainbike designed to be used in mud and ridden on rocks, not something to preen and show boat with.
Egggg-zakky!
Yet we've all done just that.... This is the opposite: Modified & improved, yet looking standard.
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I had a Grifter that was sprayed yellow, and had Bultaco stickers on it, when I was a kid.
That out-modded those silly forks, by a very, very long way.
My Road bike has Max Power stickers on it, which also out-mods those forks.
Still don't get it, must a philistine I suppose? Is it just so YOU know that you've bought a cheapish bike but spent more money doing it up, without broadcasting the fact?
Then posting pics on here asking people to guess what the sublty-hidden modification might be? At the same time giving pointers to narrow the area of said modification down a bit? Thereby, making a no-so-subtle statement about the modification?
I can understand trying to do a subtle, yet performance-enhancing modification. I can also undrstand folks who want to advertise their big budget modifications/upgrades.
I CANNOT understand someone wanting to spend money on something, trying to disguise it as the original part THEN feel the need to draw folks' attention to it, so everyone knows what the subtle modification was?
Each to their own, but I think pointless, vainglorious waste of time/money/effort/paint/stickers.
its quite simple, he's gone to the effort of making his bike look understated and subtle, the fox graphics suck but are better forks...
good man. bit of fun too, who doesn't love fiddling with their bikes!?
RudeBoy, watch the Rad Meter. You always want it 100.99% over extreme or else it'll blow.
Flamejob - if you'd mentioned the Rad Meter at the start I'd probably have been more into it! If all this was to make your "rig" Sick to the power of rad then all is forgiven...dude.
Flamejob just found two litres of Rad in his wardrobe. He plans on having it all today.
later Flamejob challenged himself to an endo-off and won in straight sets.
^^ After a stewards enquiry it was found that he'd been taking the banned substance "Rad-plus" and he's now been relegated to second.
is it too early to suggest that flamejobs bike could cure aids?
Can't believe you did such a pointless thing but kept the horrible saddle!
It's certainly an ammusing thing to do, I kinda like the idea.
In some respects it was very much like the last non comapny car I owned, very subtle black all over, with carbon bits and then slightly bonkers underneath which you'd only notice if you looked properly.
When/if I fit the 36 Van's to mine I am considering spraying them Ice white and putting newer stickers on them (is it easy to do?)
I'm not aiming for Rad to the power of Sik, but just minor radness 😆 And I like white forks.
So that fairly new bike is on it's 3rd set of forks?
Flamejob just found two litres of Rad in his wardrobe. He plans on having it all today.
Yeah? But I just drank a gallon of sick.....!! Raaagh!
....Oh.... Err, that doesn't sound so good really, does it?
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Have you invalidated any warranty by doing that?
Oh they are fox's, they dont come with a warranty do they 😉
Why would I want a warranty? I never ride the thing. I just paint it and stick stickers on it then leave it in my bedroom. Geeesh.
I'm doing my nails as we speak.
I like it, but as for being a "sleeper" that would only work if they were done as Judys or something similar. Pikes are great forks anyway.
Made me laugh, this thread.
Wish I still had my [s]Grifter[/s] Bultaco.... 🙁
fairplay, and i dont understand the naysayers.
I dared to sticker up a mint airborne ht with van nic decals (same frame and company as used to be Airborne, they even still up hold the airborne warranty), oh the vitriol! Its a fake, etc etc
I did like druids custom decals too
I'd be tempted to get rid of the Specialized stickers too and put "Orange" on it. Just for fun, like.
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I just think there's something nice abut keeping the provenance of stuff and not hiding it, but I like stuff to be "original" generally.
I think there is fun to be had here....(with graphics n logos n stuff)
I did like druids custom decals too
What, the ones that say 'onion'?
I've got a new shiny pound coin here, would any one like it to buy themselves a new life?
aphex_2k - Member
I'd be tempted to get rid of the Specialized stickers too and put "Orange" on it. Just for fun, like.
Nah, I'd definatley put Apollo Stickers on it 😆
Harking back to the car thing again, I remember a EG shaped Civic Hatch from the states that ran on Steel Wheels, boggo bottom of teh range bumpers etc and would rock a high 12 second 1/4 mile, now thats a sleeper
🙂 amused.
worth doing just to wind up the usual people on here,who have bitten as always, even if it is a bit easy nowadays
*thinking of putting the reflectors back on and entering a DH race
*thinking of putting the reflectors back on and entering a DH race
Like the idea...
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I'm already planning the ultimate.
Develop & sell a complete 5/6" travel bike for less than the majority of 5/6" travel smaller brand American/Canadian/British/Andoran Frames cost, spend a few quid on it and unleash it on the world and cause utter up-roar when it's rated as ome of the best bikes out there. Mwhahahahahahaha 😈
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There's a forum-load of people in the US and Canada who drive crappy mid 80s diesel VW Rabbits that have been modded to give 230bhp+ and 0-60 times of around six seconds. Then they drive around the streets looking for boy racers in Civics and the like that they can leave for dead.
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Now removing stickers and decals I can understand, I frikken hate the way everything comes with HUGE nasty logos smothered all over it. But this is plainly just stupidity. 'Sleeper' my ass. 'Devalued' and 'pointless' yes.
anotherdeadhero - MemberNow removing stickers and decals I can understand, I frikken hate the way everything comes with HUGE nasty logos smothered all over it. But this is plainly just stupidity. 'Sleeper' my ass. 'Devalued' and 'pointless' yes.
You go girl.
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anotherdeadhero - Member
Now removing stickers and decals I can understand, I frikken hate the way everything comes with HUGE nasty logos smothered all over it. But this is plainly just stupidity. 'Sleeper' my ass. 'Devalued' and 'pointless' yes.
Knickers Twist, nah, never, 'onest Guv' 😆
well I love it, and thats all that matters 🙂
I've got some switchback stickers, but a bit reluctant to fit them as i used to have a trailstar in the same colour, so tempted to get trailstar stickers and just add the Reynolds520 sticker, see who notices. Even de-stickered, with a deliberately distrressed powdercoat, then stickered up with random magazine stickers, a few people have spotted what it is.
Absolutely brilliant. I will be doing a similar thing if I ever upgrade my forks, if the cost is do-able.
The reason for the sleeper style is that no one understands it. Normally people want to show off how much money they've spent, I prefer to let the riding do the talking.
I tend to de-sticker a lot of my bikes and bits...
last weekend, me and riding buddy pulled up to the tea van and there were three kids in the Queue, over-heard one of them say 'look, that guys got the same forks as me, cool!' (which made me immediately vow to remove the stickers) and his mate said 'what bike is it?' and the only thing he could come up with was 'the bright orange one'
I like the fact that every little 14year old MBUK grommet in the woods looks at my bike and can't tell what it is, kinda re-inforces the point that it shouldn't matter if im on an '09 super-pro-team-sl-uber-bouncer or a 'huh?'
removes a lot of the gear snobbery when the gear isn't easily identifiable...
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'Sleeper' my ass. 'Devalued' and 'pointless' yes.
Knickers Twist, nah, never, 'onest Guv'
My bikes do illicit a kinda Marmite response, I'm rarely called stupid though. 😥 😥
I'd call it a sleeper if you hadn't put some decals back on again ...
Surely it depends on the fitness/skill of the rider that decides wether its a sleeper, after all thats the power plant. If i saw some fat bastard that looked tottaly unfit but he ripped it up on the downs and ups that would be a sleeper.
All you have done is put different stickers on, im sure a better rider than yourself could beat you down a hill with pikes on. He would then laugh his head off at your "sleeper" bike.
I totally understand it with cars but what you have done is just pointless.
If i saw some fat bastard that looked tottaly unfit but he ripped it up on the downs and ups that would be a sleeper.
That's me, that is.
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