Prob First jones I’ve seen with suspension forks

This Is going well…

Great news!

So Biff says there are ti diamond on the way but has anyone (Tazzy?) had a steel diamond with ti truss forks? Thoughts?

Really? I might hold off for that then. I;m also getting a jones shaped itch…

Yeah shand are pricy, did contact him for a quote and tbh for that money I’d rather save up for a speedvagen or firefly. I’d forgotten about burls though.

I ran 42:16 when wasn’t racing but changed last year to 39:18 which seems better for races and not terrible for hacking in the woods.

ctznsmith, Damn!

Is there not a ti diamond option now? How come?

Could people please stop talking about Jones now? I really want a play on one. Actually I don’t, I might end up selling a kidney to buy one

Cheers Clink had a look on there already

Enigma is a good shout, Master Burt’s sscx is lovely looking.

Geekhouse is a good shout, I know there are a couple ss ones people race, hmmmm

bump, nobody?

I don’t mind the look *too* much but my experience of tensioners is that they get tired and floppy then the chain starts bouncing about

I remember now why I got a cross check!

very true, hmmm just need to save the cash for a swiss cross now

Hmmm think 39×18 be ok on a cx then?

Yeah I posted a while back about those but the responses were equivocal, have you used/know someone who uses one?

Might try magic gear but i’d forgotten about the eccentric hub!

aa, someone has posted pics on other forums and flickr, felt sure it was a stwer but I guess not.

As said above, jonba comments echo my own sentiments. I might have to whittle down to one bike and at the moment the cx is just so versatile it’s hard to see beyond it. Makes dull trails exciting and riding to the woods less of a hamster wheel slog. As for racing, well give it a shot and just expect to suffer 😉

Anyone? The more I look at them the more I like them! Just need to find a reliable way to run it single speed…

gf works from home so I am pushing it already…

15 miles out of London that has riding as good as you’ll find anywhere in England right?

Um thanks, so the decision is more difficult now 🙁

I’d love to bring 2 bikes but just not going to happen sadly

I think cx prob makes most sense but the prospect of heading out for a long road ride after a shitty week is quite appealing too.

SS MTB and a road bike would be my choice.

I’ll be taking the mick by having one bike never mind a couple!

If go through flickr and his blog you’ll see he started with mud guards and has come through a lot. Seems a nice bloke.

Ah, yeah that;s more up my street

Love my Crown Jewel it’s great

I’m jealous

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Why thank you sir! Biggest decision would be whether to have an ebb on the cx bike or semi horizontal dropouts to run it geared and singlespeed

EDIT: Not into retro so don’t fancy waterford. Kirklee looks nice, argonaut worth a look if that floats your boat

I thought speedvagen had stopped taking orders until the waiting list came down a little.

I’m not actually buying one, just fantasising 😉

Why would it ever be your “last road bike”?

For arguments sake, financial if nothing else. If money were no object then I’d prob have firefly road bike, speedvagen cx and vertigo mtb

I’m not a fan of silver bikes nor campag but I thought this was lovely

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EDIT: nobeer, this is pretty much what you asked for up there^

Very jealous, 3 more weeks until finish exams :'(

yup, it’s telling that the rapha sale is looking better the worse the crc ‘sales’ get

2.2kg for frame according to surly, the fork was a kilo on its own!

Cheers Mrmo, yeah but i thought they were talking about it replacing ti as the ‘lifetime’ material at one stage?

They’re releasing a standard sizing option to reduce price, they don’t detail what columbus tubing they use but similarly I figured it would be a chunk lighter than the cross check. It just got me thinking. I also started to wonder why 953 hasn’t been more widely used as initially builders seemed to be singing it’s praises?

I guess what I’m really asking is if it would be an appreciable weight difference. the real problem is that you could in theory use the same tubing eg 4130 and build 2 bikes that weigh the same but ride very differently depending on how you build it – not only geometry but the tubing diameters etc

Eh? ! It’s possible to give a very accurate answer, pity the question’s worded so badly

56cm cross frame in 4130 weight versus weight of a columbus tubed one

Use tiagra and deore currently, they don’t last long in crappy weather

Friend has a king bb and loves it, never serviced it so could poss split costs with him. Economics will prob force a tiagra as a stopgap unless find something second hand but will invest for next winter.

Don’t think XTR performs any better than XT, personally (ie, adequately but not amazingly)

Yeah that’s my experience too, after a road bb initially btw

I saw this thread but not much feedback about king longevity. Also be good to know if getting from US works out ok with taxes etc.

Also looks like tiagra are £12 from crc which seems much better than planet x and wiggle at £22+ for 105

^I’d say that was pretty accurate, love my oakley clear-black photochromics but dark to some degree whenever you step outside. Not found it a problem but sometimes if I stop and take my sunnies off it seems dark when put them back on.

Carbon ss cross bike with discs