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Thanks to mamadirt, I now want to see other retro DH bikes (following mine being called that!!!), mine:
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call that retro? 😛
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Aye, that's not retro expat, RTS with DX vees, that's good retro skills. Let down by modern tyres mind 😛
I think it was the seat and the Shivers that did it ex-pat 😉 . Looks great anyway 😛
More just old, then retro 😉
Ta, just like me then.
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I still wish I hadn't sold it..... 🙁
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that norcos only what 6/7 years old ? they still use damn near the same design anyway ....
they could never get their headangles right - were all ways he wrong side of sharp ... ridden slacker XC bikes. ...
so nearly bought a lobo in 98 - glad i didnt 😀 3 bolt rockshox cable activated hydraulic disks - it liked to eat rear shocks and trunion chips ... can you tell my mate bought it instead 😀 - would drool over that in the local bike shop back in the day !
Sick Lobo. Mine is borderline retro: this is 2000-2002 but I think the cutoff really has to be 1998. [img]
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hands up who wanted an atx 1 ?
who wanted a sintesi bazooka (mk1)
mk1 super 8 with coke can hole and bullet front end ?
a bullet
best i could do was a b17 ...... but at least it was priced at (extreme) paper round budgets .... no lunches and no spending for 6 months got me that bike !
nope, rode all of those and never wanted any of them.
oh, and Norco's DH bikes look nothing like that anymore and have decent geometry
trail_rat, I wanted all of those bikes, notwithstanding my complete lack of skill or funding.
but still snap happy ....
i believe they actually issued a recall on the 08/09 dh frame ....
a bendy down tube kona stab deelux was another bike i wanted - 2 mates had them - one snaped the chainstay and the others linkage had an annoying tendancy to clatter his seat tube near full travel !
That list completes me.
Shameless plug....
Refurbished and for sale : )
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^^^ Is that Mint Sauce?
i really wanted one of these
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never quite figured out why..
Shame that it's not mine, wish it was, it's stunning
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From: http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?t=90883&highlight=pace
That looks like it would snap XC, with a fatknacker like me on it!
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I still have the frame/shock and a few bits if anyone wants it ?
Thanks all, nice pics.
And @ trail_rat, wasn't me who called it retro - but it is kinda old...
And totally agree that it's much the same as their current design - the '11 team DH is remarkably similar.
Don't have an issue with head angle, but it is steep compared to some stuff out there for sure.
Lucky for me that I'm just not that good... 😉
Desire for a Super 8 isn't diminished, and having tried a bullet, I'd never say no to one of those either.
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My wife's old DH bike, did it up with some modern bits (it had Manitou X verts and Hope C2s on which seized up) needs a chain device but it's up for sale if anyone wants if for £200.
That Pace frame was sat in On Yer Bike on Tooley Street, London Bridge for years before that guy finally rescued it for a project.
The shop were still asking £1200 for it but no idea how much the guy paid in the end. He's done a fab job on it though!
not that retro just a bit old
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Oooh purest orange 😛 . Looks similar to the old Club Roost frames.
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Recently stripped down and making its way to the bike park in the sky!!
RIP bazooka
Its all going spare so if theres anything you want of it give me a shout
Dave Gti is winning IMO, just beats spacehopper's RTS through use of period tyres and mahoosive front ring. Zeds dead's lobo a close third - a plastic one would've won.
aah is that a set of zzyzx forks? whatever happened to them..
sintesi bazooka, i used to love that bike
GT LTS DH About 1996 I think. Sold it now though.
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Isaac - always wanted one of those, you have mail
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ZZYZX forks and possibly an FSA Sidewinder crank? Nice!
my first dh bike (well not exactly it, dont have a pic of it)
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would have it back in a second, awesome little bike
Two I've owned in recent years (Pace - 2006; Sintesi 2005-9)
Pace RC500
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Sintesi Bazooka
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Bonus points for the tioga saddle and that horrifically clashing seatpost.
Still waiting for one of these to appear on ebay in 'small' 😛
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Image blatently nicked from retrobike.co.uk. I'd get in touch and ask the guy if he wanted to sell but he's in Montreal.
GT LTS DH About 1996 I think. Sold it now though.
My brother picked one of those up from Gumtree for 100 quid with knackered bearings, lad wanted 250, brother said 100 quid call me if you don't sell it, two weeks later it was his, 30 quid a set of bearings and locktite, couple of new wheels and he was good to go.
'96 LTS DH didn't have bearings
96 LTS DH didn't have bearings
Maybe newer then.
Same bike as that, I'm sure. Will have to check now. Looks the same, but he doesn't have the rear disc mounts.
It used bushes but a lot of owners upgrade to bearings using the BETD bearing kit which was a great improvement.
Aye but the kit didn't fit the '96 LTS, only '97 onwards.
if you want to know which frame is 96 and which is 97, the 96 had a Titanium linkage, the 97 onwards had an alloy link with crappy plastic insert holding the ropey adjustable trunion mount the shock screwed into (the threads would turn while you rode)
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Aye but the kit didn't fit the '96 LTS, only '97 onwards.
if you want to know which frame is 96 and which is 97, the 96 had a Titanium linkage, the 97 onwards had an alloy link with crappy plastic insert holding the ropey adjustable trunion mount the shock screwed into (the threads would turn while you rode)