Have you got a big enough mantlepiece to put that on GEETEE???
Thats a lovely example, just wait untill you pile off it on a rock garden, crash smash crunch dint scratch grounch 😆

Yeh you are right there, im waiting for my lovely new troof frame to turn up, mid Jan then Back end Feb then Back end of March!!! according to Hotlines they still arnt on the water! thought they were on the water for around 6 weeks? then customs then delivered to Hotlines then shipped out to shops, then dispatched to customers!! could be sometime in the summer.

Not as flexi as other Ti frames thats onloy because its a hardcore hardtail.
Quit stiff but when you hit things hard and drop hard you get that lovely squigy feel, its not like an alloy frame or even steel frame its still better than them but like RagTi says its direct and doesnt twist and bend and flex under pedeling.
Basically if you aint a ballsy rider dont buy one, you do have to be rough and tough with it to get the very best out of it.

Trully brill forks, i would never ever go back to Fox forks, all my bikes have RS revelation dual air, with or with out U turn.
Once they are set up they are far superior to Fox, alot smoother and just in general the best forks you can buy in my opinion

Ragley all the way for me, you have choice of steel alloy or Ti or 29er
Tyey are the do it all weapons of choice, or maybe look at the Cotics they have diffrent frames for diffrent fork lengths

Everything that says Shimano on it has gone up around 20% in the psat year, unfortuanatly.

The Ti is a hardcore slack headtubed frame, but you can use it for anything, but you do need a long travel fork on it, it doesnt ride like a trail / xc bike you know you are on something a little special lol.
You must also use a short stem, it doesnt work with anything longer than a 65mm.
Just waiting for my Ragley Troof frame to arrive in around 3 weeks time 😆 😆

totally useless unless you are troddling around and not doing anything steep.
Go for the formula brakes if i was you, they win everything when in test in MBUK and MBR, and i am talking from experience too mate 😆

Im not getting into a massive discusion about what i had and what i have done with it ect ect ect, all im doing is giving you my opinion and i have had bad experiences with carbon so no i would not buy a carbon frame, let alone an old carbon frame

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believe me i know!!

Really? How do you know? Have you personally had failed carbon bikes?

I had a 6 year old carbon DH bike, had plenty knocks and crashes. Eventually killed it in a big crash – carbon was fine, an aluminium part cracked.

I have seen carbon bars fail catastrophically though (some easton monkeylite DHs). But that doesn’t stop me riding some easton carbon bars on my XC bike…

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I have had a carbon frame yes and admittingly i did do silly things on it and it snapped at the BB and eneded up in 2 complete seperate halves
Also i spent £150 on some carbon bars and after 4 months snapped them in half doing a not so big 4ft drop off, so my experience of carbon is not good

P.S how do you quote someone on here?

IMHO i would never buy a carbon frame for mountain biking unless i was an XC racer.
Carbonfibre is ok if you never fall off or drop it or bang it, as carbonfibre will weaken if it gets dropped unknown to you untill it fails big style, believe me i know!!
Thats also why you should never tighten the brakes or shifters up on carbon bars because it will seriously weaken them, again i Know.
Stick to good old alloy thats my opinion.
Id love an Ibis Mojo SL but its carbon, and Ibis says if you smash or crack the frame they will sell you another frame for half price, thats just the nature of Carbon frames.

I dont do road bike riding / racing but i know a few people that do, admittingly they are middle aged so have been around a while on the bike scene, but there true ridding bike is steel, they all say it is the best most comfortable ride they have, some have carbon frames too, but all prefer the steel frames did you know them road bike frames are 0.2mm thick, one of my mates showed me that you can push the frame in with your finger!!
Chris Marshall also rides a stainless steel framed bike!

Just eating hot parkin with tinned birds eye custard ahhhh

2 words…………… YUM YUM 😆

You could possibly build a Ragley Bluepig up for around a grand by buying from CRC, thats a hard hitting hardtail which is capable of doing anything on it climbs fine it flys downhill and will go over and down anything, you may end up looking at around 32Lb for a cheap build though as the frame alone is 5.6LB
Or if you just looking for a general XC cross country 120mm bike have a look at the Piglet.

The best saddle bag is no saddle bag, get it in your camelback.
All they do is make your bike look silly, and if you get 1 of the tiny not too bad looking ones they are too small to put anything in.

Never in a million years would i pay for a Ti frame after comparing my Ragley Bluepig against my Brothers Ti version, very slight diffrence when doing big drop offs thats about it, as you say doctor its fashion and look at me bling, im more intrested in riding than people looking at my bike. also if i was to leave my bike next to our Kevs outside the pub i know for a fact mine would never get nicked!! the Ti would definatly go 1st.

Slightley off topic but responding to a comment higher up the page, Just waiting for my new Reagley Troof ( alloy ) frame to arrive, i know alloy has zero give and flex but im hoping with the 160mm air fork and tubless tyres and high volume 2.4 Maxxis Ardent tyres i will be ok to run 15psi and the ride should be alot more forgiving than running a super lightweight 100mm travel 40 – 50 psi 1.9 tyres
Always had steel frames before on my HTs

The advantage is if you have 3K to spend on a bike you could possibly make a steel one as light as a Ti one, as you would have 2.6K to spend on superlight componants were with the Ti frame you would have around 1.4K to spend on cheap compoinants and oif you damage the Ti frame oouch, if you damage a steel frame nice and cheap to replace

No point what so ever IMHO, its just expensive steel, yes certainatly lighter but id rather drag and extra 2LB up the hill than pay the extra grand for the frame, at the end of the day who smiles going uphills and coming down hills a little weight is better