well ladies and gentleman, its here I now have my 130 Works and its blinding, not had a go in anger yet though that's for tomorrow, early thoughts are that its great, the gear changes are silky smooth the steering is sweet and the shocks are wicked all in all I am a happy happy bunney, just wish I knew how to put a picture up lol
pretty pleased with the hope hoops too
@hammer.. This thread has Playboy channel levels of excitement. I am beside myself here.
..almost torture. Come on upload a pix.. On second thoughts- NO DON'T. I will pass out.
Just a small report will do you jammy sod.
@whytenite, I have looked for how to get a picky up but I have to go to some photo sharing website, sounds little bit too involved for me but suffice to say its the nuts, looking forward to getting out and dirty tomorrow
the 1X11 gears are fantastic, thought I'd be losing speed hand over fist but they are pretty powerful
Guys,
I'm a long time mechanical engineer and a recent mountain biker. The X1 chainset
has quality written all over it (check out the SRAM website).
The Quality components fitted to this bike means that for the £3k price tag, I think this
represents VALUE.. Big time.
How it rides.. For now..I can only dream...
Amatuers. 😉
I'll post the pic if you email it.
Been following this thread.
Not because I want the bike, just want to see what the bloomin things look like after all this buikd up.
🙂
@hammer no hope hoops were delayed picking it up on Tues.
Email me the pics lwilks @ mac.com and I'll post them up
@lefty I have emailed ya one of it at the shop, at my work and outside my house, please post for me
Cheers fella
@hammer here they are:
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ahhhhhh there she is lol, going over Epping forest after work today, its not much over there but it'll give me the idea I am looking for CANNOT WAIT!!!
[*]thanks for posting my pics Lefty, the 1st one was taken in the bike shop when I picked it up, the middle one is at my work in the showroom as I popped out from work to pick it up and the last one was outside my house just after I had a little go round the block
Is that the stem it came with???? My t130s came with a much shorter stem and wouldnt want to go any longer..bloody love my 130, your gonna have so much fun on that.
Blinding..
well done Lefty... Nice one Hammer
other than the Hope hoops its standard, feels so solid
I had a look at the new colours in the shop yesterday. I never liked the grey and was happy to see they had orange and green in the ranges this year, but up close I'm not so sure. Although they are nice bright colours, the finish is matt and with all the stickers I thought they looked a bit cheap and plasticky. Might have just been under shop lights though. Maybe they look better on the trail.
Anyway, colours aside I look forward to hearing how they ride.
in honesty I really didn't like the colour of my T-130 works and preferred the colour of the 129 but in the flesh it looks pretty nice, although I am thinking of having it sprayed a different colour but only thinking about it, if it wasn't for the spec I wouldn't have gone for it
other than the Hope hoops its standard, feels so solid
That stem looks quite long compared to the one on my medium T130S - is that a large you've got?
@hammer
When you're tearing though those trails this winter .. And you step off the bike to behold a frame looking like
Neils out of the "young ones" bath tub .. Who cares!?
Beside, with the amount of nite riding going on for me the next six months!!
With this bike.. For me the beauty is on the inside-
@prince, yes it's a large
So an 8 n half mile trip round Epping forest later and I'm a happy bunny, the bike is awesome (unfortunately Me not so much) when they say built with UK trails in mind it sure does show, the great clearance had me through some pretty deep pretty boggy stuff today, couple of minor spills but my fault and in no way the bike lol, shocks worked a treat and I don't think I have anything major to moan at
As a bit of a treat guys; check out my friend's foray into filmmaking;
filmed a couple of years ago on my favourite local trail in Mirfield, West Yorkshire...i'll say no more:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9J_sxYYN6Ns
Lefty yeah they are the hope rims, I'm told they are on par with the Roam 40s,I've offered him £200 to keep these as a spare set when the Roams come in to which he agreed so that's good a nice set of hopes for £200
Looks nice! Wish they did the Works in the orange.
Any comments on how the Pike feels? 35mm stantions at 130mm must feel very solid.
Hope hoops for £200 is a bargain! If you fancy selling them I'll take them. Share the love 😉
Sorry.. Is it just the rims?
I think that it's the pair of wheels which will be S/H once the Roams are available so that's why they will be 'worth' £200 does that make sense?
Bit confused about whats bought, hired or loaned?
Just tring to follow the logic of grabing extra wheels!
ie- the cost of total real outlay over and above the £3000 for the new bike.
And what you get to keep for the money in the end?
-just curious.
@whytenite my LBS are loaning me some Hope wheels at no cost so when the Roam 40s arrive they'll swap them over (including swapping tyre/cassette ect), again at no cost. I'm upgrading/changing my brakes so the price I'm paying takes that into account.
Basically I negotiated a good deal, added some different brakes, kept my good deal and now I'm getting the loan wheels as well.
So my real cost is lower than the list price and I'm getting the bike now rather than in November so overall I'm a very happy bunny!
The hopes were put on the bike as in loaned to me until the roams are ready BUT I decided to buy the hopes off him as spares as complete wheels for £200 for the pair
Well from my LBS I got my T-130, a woman's classic bike for her indoors, a helmet, some pedals and a gopro hero 3 black edition for £3300
Oh by the way lefty, when you pick your 130 up apparently there is meant to be play in the seat something to do with the dropper post, I popped in the shop as it was bugging me
Play in the saddle
Ok fellas,
Basically i have been scrolling and number crunching through the list price of
various related components for the T130 and deducting those from the list price of the bike.
A simple calc tells me that parts must be heavily discounted to manufacturer to allow room for margin on frame manufacture; the discount of which, some of that must find its way to retail buyer.
Suppose what i'm asking is... From your experience.. Is the list price for everything, even on a new out bike
Negotiable?
Not on the 2015 range BUT if ya go to a decent shop ya can get em to throw things in
So lefty I reckon you've payed an extra £100 for the Hope brakes and about £400 for the wheels...
Fair enough!
@whytenite Not sure how you worked those figures out? I've got upgraded brakes and the wheels are on loan so will be going back, the deal I've worked out with my LBS means I'm not paying extra to have the brakes or for the workshop time to swap brakes & wheels and I negotiated a good deal in the first place before changing stuff. Don't want to say what I'm paying overall but it's an amount I'm happy with and I don't like to pay RRP for anything 🙂
Usually on new model year stuff you pay full RRP and the LBS throws some stuff in but as I have all the stuff I want I tend to try and get a bit off RRP. My LBS will match or very nearly Wiggle etc (for most stuff) for regular customers so they are happy that I'm buying from them rather than online and therefore are flexible on other stuff.
Did ya pick it up today lefty?
leftyboy - Member
I think that it's the pair of wheels which will be S/H once the Roams are available so that's why they will be 'worth' £200 does that make sense?
Good deal, and for the LBS they have only taken a small hit on the hopes as they would only be paying slightly more than 200 trade anyway. So they probably used a bit of their margin on the bike to cover the hopes and keep you a happy customer and improve their cashflow.....thats what I would have done in their shoes, so well done them 🙂
@hammer no sadly not I had to stay at work and run a crisis meeting! LBS rang to say the Hope Wheels had the wrong freehub body so couldn't have picked it up anyway! Hopefully will be picking it up on Saturday as I'm not able to get to the LBS until then.
Oh thats a shame, hope ya get it soon
