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Whe-Hey, no mention of my RM Slayer 🙄
I'll translate that to mean ...'it's awesome' 😆
Oh definitely the Orange 5*
* Of course what I mean is that I wish I had bought / could afford one but I didn't / can't, so I'll vent my impotent rage here on a web forum instead. I also hate BMW / Audi for the same reason (look there's nothing wrong with a Passat ok? ), yeah I'm pretty bitter about how my life turned out so I'll pretend that one of the best bikes ever made is shit and all you need is a steel hardtail made by some bloke with a beard in a shed (but actually Taiwan) because I mean jesus I'm nearly 40 my wife hates me my kids don't want to know me my bastard mortgage is huge what the **** am I doing oh to hell with you all aaaaagh
[url= http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280569758244&ssPageName=ADME:B:EF:GB:1123#ht_10381wt_1137 ]THIS ONE[/url] 😛
Funny, I start reading this with a view to expressing my opinions on RM, and no-one else does until this point.
I had an ETSX-70. It was badly designed, badly finished and rode like a shopping trolley despite all my attempts to sort it out. I've looked at other RMs. The finish has always been poor and the designs a bit lacking. When I compare them to my Yeti there is simply no comparison. I now ride a Sanderson Life and it's a lovely bike.
Spesh FSR120 was a good bike, but nothing special.
I do get annoyed with the hype machine. Five years ago it was if you couldn't dare venture offroad unless you had a six inch 35lb All Mountain bike a la Giant Reign or Spesh Enduro. Both bikes were brilliant, but no so much if you lived in Essex.
Four years ago, you absolutely had to have a Commencal. Two years after that you couldn't look at a Commencal without risking it breaking.
Marin went through a phase of being cool that didn't last long and now we have Lapierre who seemingly have the answer to every rider's numptyism.
I apologise to owners of all these bikes (I own two that I've mentioned), I have no doubt that some bikes are game changers but allowances need to be made for common or garden numptyism that no bike will ever compensate for.
That's sort of why I went for a Sanderson. It's just a nice bike. Rides properly. Goes up and down hills. Not too heavy. Not going to break. Nice colour. Doesn't need tuning up after every ride. Not too flashy. Good fun.
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Lapierre
Commencal
Hey TrailerTrash,
Was the etx made from Easton, or their own (shite IMO) tubing? I did look at the etx but thought the rear-sus linkage looked potentially weak??
The finish on mine is (well, was) very good and it's standing up to my hammering it very well, the rather standard looking stays are a simple ergo stronger set-up to the etx...well I thought so.
I have no idea what bike I'd buy next, MTB design, geekism and price have launched into hyper space! Yet, I find it aint the bike slowing most folk down...up or down...hey...yes...your'll thinking it 😉
Night all, 
Love Tubs - yes it was easton. The linkage is strong enough but its a shite bike
Single-speeds .... just an excuse for slow riders ... to ride slow.
Single-speeds .... just an excuse for slow riders ... to ride slow.
damn it, that's where I've been wrong all this time! I must remember to be slower than gearies* otherwise I'm not a proper single speed rider. I do have a beard though so hopefully that counts for something 😉
*unless it's all a conspiracy and all the geared boys I pass on climbs are deliberately going slow to make me not fit in to a stereotype and hence cause me a mild emotional discomfort and sense of dislocation within the cycling community.
CURSE YOU GEARED BIKEY BOYS!
cannondale lefty's
...mopes off all deflated, dragging feet.....