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trickydisco · 2011-11-07T11:35:42Z

[imgI got hold of the new stanton slackline bike at cwm carn on saturday. This was running 140mm floats up front, 1x9, 45mm stem and nice sunline 711 bars. The bike I test rode was 16.5" and it felt perfect for me (5'9 32" leg). All i can say is I love this bike and I really, really want one! It climbs really well although what I did find is due to all the singlespeeding this year I always got out of the saddle and attacked climbs rather than spin. Normally I take the swoopy section at the top of cwm carn but this time I decided to take the bermy/jumpy section (which has been redesigned a bit since i was there last). This bike cornered like it was on rails. IT gave me so much confidence in berms. I don't often get that much 'air' as i panic a bit on table tops but this felt so comfortable. I had a massive grin at the bottom of that section so I decided go up and to ride it 3 times. The bike seem to have a really short chain stays/short wheel base so it felt much more manoeuvrable. In comparison my enduro is super stable at speed but doesn't feel as flickable. It certainly felt faster over the terrain at cwm carn. it was a nice change to ride in flat pedals as well. So all in all. I'm selling my enduro frame and getting one of these built up. Also the guys at stanton are in Bristol so local to me. (Sorry this isn't up to scratch with other peoples review of bikes on here but I tried

GW

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I agree

Posted : 25/11/2011 7:17 pm

mrblobby

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Brilliant video, thanks for that.

Posted : 25/11/2011 7:36 pm

iDave

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I rode that race GW, minus my contact lenses, think I was twenty nineteenth or something...

Posted : 25/11/2011 8:22 pm

Northwind

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Thats BS, there are loads of them still about

Well in that case, this will be easily settled. You go and buy one, I'll lend you my Lyriks and give you a lift up to Glencoe and see how it gets on.

Posted : 26/11/2011 2:14 am

buzz-lightyear

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Love the old video. Amazing how things have changed in dh

Posted : 26/11/2011 9:31 am

jameso

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Good clip! You can tell those guys have skills, if you saw someone riding a narrow-bar XC bike like that now you'd be impressed.
Makes me wonder why it took so long for things like wider bars and shorter stems to appear - they're all riding with the saddles up too(pedally course tho). I guess there's always reasons why what we have now is good and fashion / majority opinion is persuasive. Same thing for 150mm hardtails maybe - will we look back and wonder why?

Posted : 26/11/2011 9:52 am

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Well in that case, this will be easily settled. You go and buy one, I'll lend you my Lyriks and give you a lift up to Glencoe and see how it gets on.

I'm calling "shotgun" now!! 8)

Posted : 26/11/2011 11:40 am

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[url= http://www.jejamescycles.co.uk/kona-explosif-frame-id60581.html ]http://www.jejamescycles.co.uk/kona-explosif-frame-id60581.html[/url]

RRP £550, ouch!!

Posted : 26/11/2011 6:27 pm

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