Did the allude to it needing to ‘bed in’ at all?

I reckon this is a case of ‘trust the experts’ and maybe you need to just get used to it’s new feel.

I am a stout 29 fan, but I simply couldn’t choose a Ripley over this. It’s beautiful.

Purely for asthetical reasons I would remove the green decals on the wheels, but we are taking tiny little personal changes. The black one is also lovely.

Anne-Caroline had a lovely green one with BOS forks and yellow mavic wheels at the Rotorua EWS.

It’s a much nicer looking bike than the old Mojo HD/SL

Squealer. That is perfect! Salute that.

I put family/friends/experiences way before stuff of course.

But I have always been smart with my money, I live within my means. So rather than waste it on tat and junk, I save it up and buy nice stuff. Compared to many on here my bike isn’t in anyway special. But it’s my pride and joy, exactly how I want to it to be.

For me the ownership and the tinkering and the swapping is part of the experience of cycling. New shiny stuff fascinates me, any advances in tech are a good thing for the industry.

No, that makes you a winner.

I love seeing people not only spend a chunk of cash on something but actually use it. Play with it. take it a part.

Life is too short to keep anything for best.

7hz nailed it.

It’s ok to have nice stuff. And to aspire to nice stuff and appriciate it.

This place seems to want to belittle people who don’t bodge stuff and buy the cheapest possible solution.

Whats wrong with the Rapha guys?

Is not for me, but they are actually spending money and supporting the industry.

its seems like if you are not riding a battered old One One in Aldi clothes you are not welcome here.

Exactly the kind of attitude you would assume from the carbon road bike riding Rapha guys.

I grew up in a house where there was so much stigma about being proud of having naff all. Poor and proud. ‘Stop being so flash with your bloody mobile phone’

It’s easier to hold others back than aspire to greater things yourself.

Look at what £1500 gets you these days. A huge amount of bike. Stuff is expensive these days.

My first MTB was a 94 Kona Hahana that was £425 quid.

There is a real undertone of inverse snobbery here. Like you have to be some rich golf playing dentist to buy this stuff.

‘We don’t want people with money liking our sport, it’s for poor folk’

With people spending money comes innovation and trickle down tech. Had no one have bought XX1 then this product wouldn’t have existed at all. Now someone with (slightly) less money can enjoy it.

Cloudnine, how long was your holiday?

It’s had new forks
78 spacers to make the bars the right height
Been for sale/swap on PB but not here
Is now perfect and no longer for sale but still recieving offers for swaps.

Last years surely?

No one is stalking or teasing.

Surely friendly digs and ribbing about set up and kit is the staple of mates and cycling.

Don’t look for stuff that’s not there.

As if Hora can try and clown someone over being indecisive.

Stand down Hora, you’re worse than Renton.

Why do you assume I am disappointed.

I have done it myself with various stuff. It’s shit, but a hard learning experience.

Life is too short to put up with something that’s not working for you. I got the size of my Camber right but it’s taken a few quid and a lot of time to get if perfect. I certainly didn’t love it from minute 1.

Glad you and the bike have bonded over the last week. No one likes expensive mistakes.

Gonna miss the threads though, they were golden.

May I dare ask why a bike you are completely happy with and are fitting a dropper post to is up for sale on PB.

Or will you call me names again.

I am thinking about doing it solo. Lived in Cambridge my whole life. Fancy a crack at a century having previously done 81. Lost a couple of stone since then.

Absolutely. If you are hitting the Alps/Whislter/BC or and big mountain stuff a Nomad is probably the right bike.

The Heckler is a classic UK bike.

I loved the original Tonka yellow TBLTC too.

Maybe I am being a bit naive / underestimating people’s radness. But for UK riding (including peaks/lakes/Wales) 150mm seems like the perfect useable amount.

Wouldn’t most people be faster on a Bronson than a Nomad?

My perfect SC would be a Brolo ( Solo with a 140mm fork)

Her one from the EWS was green with yellow mavic wheels and BOS forks. It looked like a John Deere tractor. It was bad ass.

The HD3 Mojo that Anne-Caroline was riding this weekend at the Rotarua EWS was gorgeous.

Tom raises a good question. Is it the best Enduro race bike out there?

Looking at race wins, I would suggest the newest iteration of the Specialized Enduro has a fairly strong pedigee. As does the Cannondale Jekyll. Canyon Strive an Trek Remedy also seem popular.

Personally for Nomad money I would have an Sworks Enduro 29r but I would suggest you won’t gondar wrong with a Nomad, it’s an amazing bike.

So after I apologise for the way I was you still call me a knob?

Charming

If you were not worried about how it looks or what others thought of it, you wouldn’t keep looking for validation and positive reinforcement from strangers from the Internet.

Hob Nob

What bike did you change the E29 for?

I have been thinking about an E29 for a while now. Why the change?

Maybe I was the voice of all the head in hands pictured posted when you posted every time you about loving/hating the Turner

Or every time you asked someone else if YOUR bike was right for YOU

Or the short lived Codine thread

I should have let the face palms do the talking.

I’m not entirely sure you will ever be happy and just ride it, maybe that’s just you.

I’m very sorry if you felt like you had been ripped in to.

I ride with flats so I have my seat a touch lower than when I ran SPDs.

It’s a 3 position dropper, down is all the way down, trail is like 2 inches below max and max is, well right up for road/fire road stuff.

So long as the rider is happy, that’s all that matters.

My camber has 29″ wheels so they have slightly smaller wheels.

I hardly ‘ripped into you’ , let’s not exaggerate now.

I have leant a lot from this. The frames on both those Giants look tiny.

I do have short ish legs for my height. My seat is higher than the bars a bit, not by loads like you guys.

Front end set up on my camber is

50mm stem
740mm bars
20mm rise
6 degree stem

The front end on the silver giant looks more like my Camber, I only run 5mm spacer under my stem.

I still think the silver and the blue Giant look too small for the riders (all thigh I appreciate the riders disagree and know more than me)

It just looks like even with the dropper dropped the seat would still be in the way.

I have a 125mm dropper on mine and when the seat it dropped its right down, but fully up its at the right height to pedal XC.

It seems like in both cases the frame is too small.

Why not (again, in an ideal world) go for the next size frame. Short stem and wide bars.

What downside am I missing.

It’s a huge seat to bar drop.

You guys have crazy long legs.

Serious question, why not (if possible) go up a size in the bike.
I can’t post pics of my Camber. It’s a size large and I am 6ft with a 31 leg.

I have nowhere like that post showing.

So long as your set up works for you, do you.

renton – Member
So jmatlock … my bike is the same size as that and has the same travel forks.

The only difference I can see is that I’ve left my steerer a bit longer to play with stem height.

I’m the same size as sirHC as well.

Yet you still come on here slagging me off trying to make me look a dick.

What a nice chap you really are.

You are such a little whiner.

His looks spot on, I didnt realise his dropper post was down and not up, that would change it.

The stance of his looks right, exactly how I would set mine up.

Stop getting all jealous of him.

Sir HC – Your bike looks perfect, proportions wise.

Will this bike that’s smaller than my current bike be a better fit for me than my already too small bike?

Please can you change the topic title?

I can’t fathom why you need so much advice in your life.

You ask others to make your decisions for you, then disagree when they give you decent solid advice.

How do you manage in day to day life?

Do it, the thread will be gold.

Guys, does this one fit me better guys?

The 18ft of seat post / 6ft of steerer tube.

The constant ‘oooh, validate me, please guys, it’s ok guys, guys, it fits guys, I love my tiny new bike’

Would I need to be guru to have bought a bike in the right size?

It’s it a mystical power ?

Someone will get a bargain when he ultimately sells it for a bike that fits. That’s a pigs ear of a fit.

It looks like you are forcing a bike to fit you.

Why didn’t you go for a size bigger.