you can get offset bushing for any FS bike, it’s whether there space around the shock mount, to allow them to fit (move the shock closer to the frame) is the question

tyre clearance at full compression is another

Nice bike! not sure about the puma though!

Fantastic little car and more importantly the engine. No need to drop a gear on the motorway whilst in 5th- it just feels alot deeper/bigger-engined than it actually is.

looks good outside the hairdressers as well, bonus 😉

Try running about 2 or 3mm more (at the shock obviously) sag on the rear than the instuctions suggest and make sure your forks are either damped to stay up in their travel, or set with a little less sag than usual. Also bear in mind that it’ll take a good half dozen rides to bed in the bushings and get it feeling really nice on small stuff.

5Spots seem to have quite a fine line set-up wise between feeling a little to much like you weight is on the bars and feeling nice and agile but it can be done, don’t worry.

Here’s mine (same colour):

Pumas are ace. Turners are ace. It’s all good.

robinlaidlaw I bow down to your photography skills however your gardening skills are on a par with mine 😉

Yeah, turns out I don’t really like gardening very much 🙂

look alright hora. shouldve got a tracer instead though.

those ardents are ok as a rear tyre, they let go too easy when banked over for a front imo.

just wondering, if you are thinking of slackening it further then why bother reducing fork travel? just lose 10mm of spacers under the stem to achieve the same bar height.

EDIT: and what Chris said, its a bike you tool.

catching you ‘riding dirty’ wouldnt be a challenge would it? crapping in the bushes indeed…

No spacers under the headset- unless I use a lower-depth stem than the Thomson.

Could you run flatter bars?

dont start him on lower bars, apparently because riser bars felt good 15 years ago you cant look at alternatives

Turners do have long headtubes, you might need flat bars or a negative rise stem to get your bars where you are used to on the larger sizes.

Looking at stems now- cant find any threads etc on google relating to a stem depth. The only ones available seem to be paedo/bmx ones.

edit http://forums.mtbr.com/downhill-freeride/super-low-stack-height-stem-recommendation-363049.html

One with a small rise, about 6 deg or so, run upside down?

Too many gears.

Gorgeous.

Very Nice, just put mine together too, need to see how it rides

Nice ride.

Hora, what did you have before?

A Blur4x with a 1-inch shorter top tube.

Mine arrived last week – bargaintastic from Merlin but they sold out fast!

Awaits comments about the antique phone & state of my spare room 🙄

Hora – which front mech did you use?

Top swing mech. Remember to cut off the excess swing arm though. In a rush I forgot and test rode it down the road ‘clonking’

Giro haven’t used those boxes for a while now snaps. Does it say Gila on the front? Are you keeping it for Antiques Roadshow?

No its a NOS switchblade I got on Ebay last year for a tenner – I wanted it to mount my homemade LEDs on the chin section fixings.

Nice. Looks like you might suffer heel rub like me. I have old tubes wrapped around the lower of the seatstays to cure this on the Spicy
Who cares if it looks gash. It not a fashion show

Exactly I look like a right herbert on the bike anyway so sod bike fashion. Infact I think I’m more bike stylish than stopa’ who looks like a Glaswegan lager lout on a bike 🙂

Offset bushings ordered.

Wow, the lettering on the frame is made from soft cheese isn’t it? I’m about to lose one letter of the Turner name. After only a few weeks?!!

stop trying to garner more interest in your latest toy. you have had lots of ‘ooh thats nice’, now grow up, move on, keep it to yourself. or write a blog about it.

oh, stick the letter back on with electrical tape. or sell it.

Pity ‘Turner’ can’t be turned into a rude-word.

like it 😀

it is a rude word now you ride one. bike companies must wail in dispair when you buy one of their frames. ruins the good reputation and image they have worked hard to earn.