Serious question this. And as a game its as random as a roulette wheel. You could actually apply some logic to a roulette wheel in comparison
So here's what we'll do. To go for the next bike would be obvious as we know already where he's pointing. So heres a suggestion. I'm going to pick a date over the next six months at random. Just like Hora seems to pick his bikes. I'll hand that date to someone independent
The aim is then for us all to hazard a guess as to what bike Hora is going to own on that random date. Which part of the full-suss/steel/hardtail/carbon/singlespeed/6 inch/singlespeed/Santa Cruz/Turner/On-one/1x10/fully rigid cycle he'll be at. It could quite literally be anything!!!! Anything at all. Like I said: there is absolutely no logic!!!
Only one entry per forum member. Closing date will tomorrow at this time. We'll revive the thread on the random date to see who's won.
As I'm picking the random date, I'll abstain
Off you go folks.........
I personally think it's best we don't draw attention to Hora's issues.
How specific do we need to be?
What's he had so far?
I reckon a Lapierre, no an Intense, no no no a Nicolai. Or maybe a nevermind.
Seriously, he'll not like the Intense 5.5 especially if he buys a medium.
What's the prize?
He thinks the Turner's head angle is too steep, so he'll hate the Intense. However, this alone will not stop him buying one. The fact that I've got one will though. It'd be endorsing my choice of bike and is therefore out of the question
Woppit - easier to ask what he's NOT had before. Again: just because he's already owned one, two even, this will not stop him buying one anyway
Like I said: there is no logic at work here
[i]What's he had so far? [/i]
All of them.
He;s started going back through the list now.
I think the prize should be the chance to slap monkey boy accross thee face with a wet fish, and confiscate whatever bike he's riding on the random date. 😀
Mondraker, probably a Foxy
Whatever he gets, it needs to be able to run on Maccy D's. 😀
I'll say - Nukeproof Mega
This one 😉
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Nicolai (bought cheap, mind.)
I think he may get a 29er so he's got a whole new range of forks to make warranty claims on.
So a Scott 29er.
Stumpjumper EVO - November 12th 2011.
Have I done that right?
New shape Spec Enduro 😀
EDIT - He has already tried the old shape but that won't stop him!
I think he'll go racing snake next, a Scott Scale maybe?
I'm going another Blur 4X.
Transition Covert
I'll guess at a 456 Summer Season, and if I win, it's yours Binners cos it'll be too big for me 😛
Ragley full suss
Zesty or froggy! Chrimbo time
Carbon fibre 5.
Unicycle, February 29th, 2012; or something with aided hill climb assistance (batteries)
steel4real off this very forum said to me on Saturday, "Hora didn't recognise me and I bought a bike off him", to which I suppressed a laugh and calmly said he sells bikes every 9 months, so you're not the first.
I'll go for a 'Giant Glory' purchased on January 29th, 2012 at 12 noon.
One of these ? plenty of room for takeaway incase of carb/sugar dropoff
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Yamaha 4-stroke enduro?
WR250f
I'm going for the other t'Hora staple - a chameleon.
My nose started to drip blood as soon as I started to think about it.
Carbon 456
Orange 5 he will buy the wrong size and sell it after changing the forks to help him climb
that on-one 29er carbon with the swapouts (you know, the one that doesn't exist)
SC Blur TRC. End of.
Raleigh grifter and a big mac
transition bandit two9..
How about a Nicolai Helius, custom built with geometry that has been agonised and debated for months?
Nedraper and ourkidsam are pretty much spot on. I'd have a stumpy evo frame tomorrow but **** all chance of finding a frame used.
On Rivi today I actually thought the Turner makes a lot of sense. A couple more tweaks and its spot on.
Binners - get a 2ndhand c456. That's my next purchase as a 'light bike' 🙂
[i]A couple more tweaks and its spot on.[/i]
FS: one lightly used Turner...
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Electric unicycle, job doneUnicycle, February 29th, 2012; or something with aided hill climb assistance (batteries)
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Stumpy evo with fox36's - mental
Mark.. took me 3 months to click with my Turner... Love it now. utterly brilliant bike. Stick with it.
Nuts, the 4X is taken, I'm not playing...
Goes off to think of a neiche bike that will likely be available cheap in about 6 months...
I know, an Alfine fat bike in steel 😉
Gonna go for a specialized 29er
Done the Blur4x now. Same as the Cham before it. I'm not niche, only boutique or mildly-quirky so no 29'er or Alfine.
If I could afford:
Blur Trc
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It's going to be an.......wait for it.........ORANGE 5 !
He witnessed how it could easily out climb the Turner piloted by a man barely recovered from reconstructive ankle surgery. No fandangle angle adjusting headets, no need for forks of FR/DH proportions, just simple point and go sweetness !
In fact so tempted will he be by the fact that he knows I'll be selling 'my' frame over the next 6 months the irony of buying back the very same frame he sold me a couple of years ago will pale compared to the joy of being reunited with the most popular of trail munching machhines. So happy in fact I plan to make him pay more than I did. He was already inspecting it for dents on the recent Peaks Pootle !!
Of course this puts me at an unfair advantage in the sweepstake as the date will be the day I put the add in the classifieds and the bike is already determined.
Actually - he'll probably get a Cannondale Prophet. Don't know when.
he will get a prophet cos ive got one and he wants to be able to crash as spectacularly as me!!
are you sure you didnt stage that crash harry? every time ive seen you crash for real you have gone all pale, cried a bit and wanted somebody to go fetch the car.
thats why me and owen refer to having a crash that proper rattles you as 'doing a harry'!
Haven't you heard ? bikes are old school, Hora's next mount is.....
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I'd agree with Lowey about the Turner. It took me a couple of months to gel with mine. Now I love it.
I thought Lowey had dispatched his Turner to the great bike graveyard in the sky. God rest its soul
So whats going on with yours binners?
It was indeed a real crash, however, I (the only lady in the 35 strong group), was a witness and I don't think Harry wanted to wail like a 6month baby, to appear manly 🙂are you sure you didnt stage that crash harry? every time ive seen you crash for real you have gone all pale, cried a bit and wanted somebody to go fetch the car.
I'm going for one of these
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That really is lovely, isn't it?
I might be taking it too seriously but I don't think this is a very nice thread. It feels a bit bullying to me.
I might be taking it too seriously but I don't think this is a very nice thread. It feels a bit bullying to me.
I thought that too actually, until he joined in a bit.
It isn't bullying. Hora craves attention like a Big Brother contestant. The Oscar Wilde quote
"The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about"
was written specifically with Hora in mind. We are merely stroking his ego. Other parts of him get stroked by strange men he meets in the bushes at night.
Anyway... if you think this is bullying, you should hear the grief he gets when he walk into the pub
RealMan - Member
I might be taking it too seriously but I don't think this is a very nice thread. It feels a bit bullying to me.
I thought that too actually, until he joined in a bit.
I didn't think that, I thought they probably 'know' each other, but not necessarily in the biblical sense, not like civil partners or anything, just joshing with each other, and or suckering us into a fixed sweepstake with the intention of financing Horas Transition Covert.. 🙂
In the interest of fairness as the convert had already been picked i'll go for this instead
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Trek Remedy
Hora has tried to buy my 2011 Enduro frame, so I'm going with this.
I suspect thats about right bunnyhop!
[url= http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/is-hora-bashing-exceptable ]See here for how the man can 'take it' ;)[/url]
As the Blur 4x is taken can I just say something with a Horst link or is that to vague?
Air 9 Carbon, single speed and fully rigid!!
A 2011 Turner 5-spot - they have slacker head angles now...
Insider tip - it's going to be a 456 with orange Z1's in a few weeks
A 2011 Turner 5-spot - they have slacker head angles now...
i think you win the prize, judging by the mtbr turner forum.......
But that was by default as a warranty replacement, so does that count? He's now got the bike he thought he was buying in the first place though, so maybe this one's a 'keeper'.
Ha!
Reckon it doesn't count. If someone had guessed "warranty replacement for one he's broken" it would have been deemed inadmissable.
I reckon.
Who's in charge here?
Insider tip - it's going to be a 456 with [i]broken[/i] orange Z1's in a few weeks
fixed that for ya 🙂
Haha, possibly, I'm (if he wants them) selling him the forks so can gaurentee they are Spoon proof, and I can usualy break most things!
Reckon it doesn't count. If someone had guessed "warranty replacement for one he's broken" it would have been deemed inadmissable.
I plead ignorance of the warranty replacement issue 😐
I don't get it anyway - if people tackle steep slopes on an mtb for an adrenaline rush then by having a steeper head angle the rider would get that adrenaline rush a lot more easily or for a larger portion of the ride.
A Chameleon
Again..........
How did Hora manage to break his 5spot and get a warranty replacement? He only had it for about a minute!
Paint was flaking and he was jammy enough to get a new frame rather than just a repaint.
EDIT - Oh no! I sound like a Hora Stalker!
On One fat bike