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  • 5 months of waiting is over here too (more new bike content)
  • IanMmmm
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    Collected my new Nicolai AFR today. In traditional style, here are a few pics for your enjoyment – or not if you’re a hater of the industrial style of these machines…

    More at this link: http://goo.gl/klk0

    I will try to get some more when it’s light tomorrow. Probably riding this tomorrow, so absence of photos will probably mean I’m in hospital.. 😀

    Edit: I did mention this in my post in the ‘Nicolai bikes are ugly’ thread, but I should say that I got the frame and most of the parts from Moonglu in Ripon and they did they the build for me, and they were super – really helpful and very competitive too! Thanks guys.

    Posted 13 years ago
    stumpy01
    Full Member

    Man, that is gorgeous!!

    Was confused by the teeny chainring, but I take it that’s Hammerschmidt?

    Posted 13 years ago
    Shorty121
    Free Member

    lovely bike bit more travel than I would need but it’s a good looking bike

    Posted 13 years ago
    IanMmmm
    Free Member

    Indeed it is. Obviously it’s the solution to a problem that doesn’t exist though, so it’s probably useless.

    I think the extra ground clearance and it’s seemingly indestructible build quality will be pretty useful for the stye of riding I’m going to be using this for.

    Posted 13 years ago
    Nicknoxx
    Free Member

    Very nice.

    Posted 13 years ago
    tomhughes46
    Full Member

    That looks stunning, but two questions:

    It’s clearly a no expense spared build. Why those forks?

    How tall are you? It looks huge!

    Posted 13 years ago
    Kato
    Full Member

    hubba hubba!

    Proper nice that fella

    Posted 13 years ago
    lister
    Full Member

    now THAT’S a mountain bike!

    Posted 13 years ago
    IanMmmm
    Free Member

    I’m 6 ft 1 and the stand over is fine. It’s a large. I did try a medium for stand over but it was too cramped with a short stem.

    The forks are the Ti sprung RC3 so they aren’t exactly cheap. I’ve heard great things about them so I thought I would give them a shot. Possibly will get some Fox 40s or 36 Van 180s if they don’t work out. Much better warranty provision on the Bombers though.

    Posted 13 years ago
    messiah
    Free Member

    That is lush… enjoy.

    Posted 13 years ago
    Wookster
    Full Member

    Just went ooohh out loud mate very very nice!!!

    Posted 13 years ago
    chunkymonkey
    Free Member

    WOW – totally out of curiosity, how much to build it up in that spec?

    Posted 13 years ago
    IanMmmm
    Free Member

    Should have been nearly £6.5k if everything was at list price – I paid quite a lot less than that, but still a lot.

    Posted 13 years ago
    roper
    Free Member

    What a well put together bike. I can’t imagine there is anything you would not try on that. I hope you don’t have many others, I doubt they will get much use.

    Posted 13 years ago
    tomhughes46
    Full Member

    The forks are the Ti sprung RC3 so they aren’t exactly cheap.

    Yes, sorry, wasn’t meaning they were cheap, just wondering why not Floats or even BOS. Would like some Ti 55s, but despite the warranty have seen too many failures to trust ‘zocchi!

    Posted 13 years ago
    IanMmmm
    Free Member

    Well, I really wanted coil rather than air sprung – as weight isn’t really a key factor and I much prefer way a coil feels over big terrain. The other option that I seriously considered was the new 180mm Fox 36 Van, but you can’t get these in a 1.5″ steerer and I’d already ordered the frame when the final specs were announced and this became clear, so I decided to stick with the Marz as originally planned.

    Posted 13 years ago
    DrRSwank
    Free Member

    It does look well mean.

    Posted 13 years ago
    kimbers
    Full Member

    that is lush,

    and id have specced the same forks if i was spending the cash!

    Posted 13 years ago
    skidsareforkids
    Free Member

    The brakes look ace in black too!
    Factory 😉

    Posted 13 years ago
    nickc
    Full Member

    Really nice looking bike. Skinny tubes? or just the pictures?

    Posted 13 years ago
    the_lecht_rocks
    Full Member

    here’s dippers AFR…i don’t get them………………?

    waY TOO much bike for the UK however…..

    http://www.gravity-sports.co.uk/demo-bikes/17-nicolai-helius-afr.html

    Posted 13 years ago
    IanMmmm
    Free Member

    @ skidsareforkids – good spot on the custom brakes. Nice aren’t they?

    Posted 13 years ago
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