New bike day, the Purple Peril….. GT Fury Expert.

So come on @weeksy … just been on Classifieds and seen the blue Fury is sold. What’s the story?

just been on Classifieds and seen the blue Fury is sold. What’s the story?

Well there’s a few things in that… But at the time i thought a mate of the boy was potentially having the blue one, but i don’t think that’s going to work out, so it’s back on here and PB as ‘for sale’ again.
A large part of me is honestly thinking “why sell it, just keep it and use yourself”, i can get it sprung to me for £70-80 all in both ends, which would then mean i can use it myself… but do i really have a use/justification for a DH bike… That’s a question. But the flip-side is, it’s only £1700 back in, is it really worth selling it for £1700 back in… Meh… Dunno.

Ive lost track a bit. The purple was going to be the spare but he prefers it so its now his race bike?

And youve decided a spare isnt necessary?

The purple was going to be the spare but he prefers it so its now his race bike?

And youve decided a spare isnt necessary?

Sort of….

🙂 My son is 8. he has been doing go ride sessions and wants to do his first race. It will be a mini CX style race.

His Christmas list currently is a drop bar cx bike, a mountain bike and a bike shed to put all his bikes in. He thinks if Daddy has 3 bikes then so should he!

His Christmas list currently is a drop bar cx bike, a mountain bike and a bike she to put all his bikes in. He thinks if Daddy has 3 bikes then so should he!

HAhahaha nice… i guess we reap what we sow in the world mate and if we’re a bit crazy, we just end up making small crazies ourselves.

Why don’t you keep the Fury for yourself. You were going to buy a 180mm Whyte at the beginning of the week so you obviously like the idea of a big bike for big things. And then keep the Trek for smaller stuff (maybe with a Slack-R headset in it if they fit) best of both worlds.

Like you said, is it worth selling for £1700 when you could just ride it yourself.

It’s still in my head, but I’m 6’0 and even though I like bikes a little small, it’s a medium. Sizing says up to 177cm, 5’9″. The purple one is bigger and if the bikes were reversed I’d have less doubt.
If it doesn’t sell in a week or two I may change that idea and keep it.

Sizing says up to 177cm, 5’9″

It’s a DH bike, if you like the way it rides it fits. Why not have a full uplift day somewhere on it then decide?

Why not have a full uplift day somewhere on it then decide?

I’ll need to respring it before that which is a bit of an outlay as I don’t have either end springs for my weight.
But all in all it’s not a terrible idea, especially as it has the Pro 4s which are nice

Nice garage.

Nice garage.

I wish. Lol. Not mine matey

Go somewhere gnarly if you aim to ride it, dh bikes get pretty old pretty quickly at trail centre uplifts you’ve ridden on a trail bike. Even BPW doesn’t need one. Try Rev’s or Dyfi for a weekend and you’ll bloody love it, there’s no feeling like smashing over roots and rocks on a DH bike.

It’s a fair point and we’ve got a few free weekends coming up so i do need to get my act together and get some different places booked and sorted.

It’s not impossible that it’s debut ride will be at this race.
https://www.britishcycling.org.uk/events/details/256017/MIJ-Worcester-Lodge-2022-Round-5

It’s next weekend, but i’ve got a spring on it’s way from Ebay in 500×3.0 and i can get a front spring for £55 from TFT on next day delivery, which would give me time to get it installed and ready for the weekend race… Bit daft i know, but hey, i like a bit of daftness 😀
Whilst in some of your worlds, you’d think “Oh really, SkiRun v2, that’s not hard enough for a DH bike”…. maybe in your worlds, lol… in mine it’s pleny hard enough.

But i’ll decide over the next few days depending on whether i get any interest…

Anyway…. the Purple bike is bike with the full X-Fusion setup installed and we’re off to Rogate in a minute for the day. 🙂

I’ll need to respring it before that which is a bit of an outlay as I don’t have either end springs for my weight

Might help the resale if it’s sprung for a well built adult anyway.

It’s a very good point, but currently we’ve no one interested so I’m not worried too much about it either way.

You were going to buy a 180mm Whyte at the beginning of the week

Keep up man…. We’re 5 days in now… @weeksy and his lad have probably given up riding by now and taken up bobsled or something…. 😉

DrP

With the new Chainring installed and setup on the chain-guide, we had no issues yesterday at all… No dropped chains, no missed gears… Just all good.

Massive thanks guys…. still can’t believe i didn’t notice it wasn’t a N/W chainring.