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  • New Soul,old soul
  • bigrich
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    look what came in the post! quite a few changes from the old version.

    bigrich
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    bigrich
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    Fresh Goods Friday 696: The Middling Edition

    Fresh Goods Friday 696: The Middlin...
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    bigrich
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    increasingly bike shaped

    bol
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    Very nice. Looks like you got your money’s worth out of the old one.

    bigrich
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    getting on for 9 years old I think!

    anyway (sort of ) finished!

    would anyone like to guess how hard it is to get a 180mm adaptor in Melbourne on a Thursday afternoon?

    jambalaya
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    Nice bike, strong endorsement to buy same frame again. Good to see Melbourne is getting the same sunny weather as we are in the UK right now 😯

    King-ocelot
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    Gorgeous looking bike. I’m a bit jealous of the sun!

    cynic-al
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    What was wrong with the old one?

    titusrider
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    heya nice bike, i really should gt my simple running again.

    on a more pesimistic note dont expect that mech to last long 🙂

    had two of them and both snapped at least one of the carbon plates and ive gone back to xt

    jruk
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    Would that be a self fitted headset I spy?

    bigrich
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    Would that be a self fitted headset I spy?

    the required tools were wood, beer and hammers.

    on a more pesimistic note dont expect that mech to last long

    it’s on there for an xc race, then its back to saint!

    bigrich
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    the downtube snapped. ptchang!

    but it’s taken one hell of a pasting

    bol
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    That should buff out alright.

    angryratio
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    Ah you got the same headset press as me.
    Chances are the trees were close relatives.

    Conespanner
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    That’s one of the originals waht number is it? I have frame number six still going strong, but I shall be looking fatique after seeing that down tube! 😐

    crispedwheel
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    Argos will do a new downtube for £100. Bit of a trek from Melbourne though.

    bigrich
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    Its getting welded up so it can be put out to pasture as a town bike; dunno the frame number, but it is one of the first ones with the chainstay gussets.

    You’ll know when it starts to go, as it makes a go awful creaking noise. I stopped, couldn’t see anything as the crack as it was under the sticker, but then I launched into a rock garden and it went.

    rode home spoinging about with just the top tube.

    andyl
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    Souls just look so right. Really wish I had bought one now 🙁

    brooess
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    I had a 2006 one which got replaced with a 2010 one. It’s got additional awesome in the tubes 🙂

    o96192083
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    bike building with beer and sun in australia… looks lush

    bigrich
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    just smashed out 2 hours round the local singletrack* – awesome, feels like the old one, but the front is way more direct. I need to reduce the forks down for the xc season here, but with the travel as it is, you weight up the front it goes through the rocks like anything.

    (*dry, dusty, sun dappled, loads of butterflies and 30C)

    bigrich
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    one last gratuitous pic.

    King-ocelot
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    (*dry, dusty, sun dappled, loads of butterflies and 30C)

    Very jealous!

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