…That I don’t need a jump bike at all, I won’t use one because a) I can’t jump and b) there are no jumps near me yet I’m still having to fight the temptation to buy a Charge Iron from Evans?
I still can’t help being tempted… Would be looking at a similar build to that but probably with two brakes to make it more fun on singletrack and such as well as arsing about on the street and pump tracks
I do have another Holeshot frame I need to sell. Light blue, size short and with standard vertical dropouts. I have modified the above bike slightly. Its now got lighter wheels and forks bringing the weight down to 20.8 lbs!
Behave 😉 I don’t have any actual money to spend on a frame sadly, just a £100 Evans voucher burning a hole in my pocket and a bargain Charge Iron frame on there. I could really do with a tent or a nice down jacket though, and I’ve no idea if the Iron is actually any good!
I can’t remember but isn’t the Iron 24″ specific? Its a pure dirt jump frame from what I remember, short, heavy and twitchy. The Dialled Holeshot is more of a 4x frame so its a bit slacker, longer, lighter and designed with 1×9 speed in mind.
I’d use the £100 to buy something bling from Evans and search down the back of the sofas for £100 to buy my Holeshot 😉
I think it is aye, I don’t think it’d be much use for me to be honest! I am half tempted to sell my hardtail (Mmbop) and buy something more 4X-y, the Ragley is pretty similar to my Hemlock and hasn’t even being built up for about a year!
I do also have this I need to sell (not mine, built it for a mate but we have now built him a 4x hardtail) but I its more of a ‘cool kids down the skatepark’ kinda bike. £220 but the forks are utterly fubared.
26″ wheeled 4x hardtails with a few gears are defiantly the way forward if your not pulling superman-backflip-tailwhips all the time.
As Luke said.
Built a Trailstar up once as I had the bits in the shed and the frame was cheap.
It went to the pub and back twice before it was sold.
That was in 12 months of owning it :O(
Looks like a nice 4X frame would suit me better then as a bit of an all rounder.
Realistically, what I really want is a play bike – I’m being made redundant / going self employed in a few months, so something I can piss about on out the door (in the middle of the flattest city in the world) is what I really want.
I had a BMX once, never rode it, and I have a road bike but I don’t really like riding on the road.
Heres my sidekick I started building up last week with spares laying around in the house (hence the miss matched wheels) just about finished.
Will it get used? Who knows, might make it to the jumps at sherwood pines at some point, but it’ll be fun riding to the pub and to lectures on it!
Yep I’m not really into that sort of riding any more anyway, mtb is for fun and road is for getting the miles in! With a long post it’s not really bad though, I’ve had no problems getting round cannock on it and that’s about the extent of my “xc” riding really!
Dartmoor make some stunning bikes. Especially their dj bikes. I’m just building up a shine which is dj / fr / mini dh sort of full sus..100 rear shock and will take up to 140 front.