spooky wood is great bit of trail which is why its ridden so much, now if your not enjoying it your either going too slow, or if its beneath you and not extreme enough then go find something gnarlier. There’s always the option to ride somewhere else. As for the new bit well I haven’t ridden it so can’t comment on that.

i see this going the way of friskys thread.

frisky, did he give you the refund or did paypal? still sounds sketchy to me.

firestarter maybe you can ask some inquisitive questions to help the guy out.

have you tried googling him, might come up with something, the witch hunt begins :evil:

DaveDeDave doesn’t seem too on the ball if he can’t find his emails, hopefully he gets back to you soon.

seems like a good thread to post this link[/url] which i found recently, very handy for expanding my mtb movie playlist on the ipod.

Yes, I’m sure, now I may be your average trail centre mincer and a few runs down glentress isn’t going to push them that hard, but i know plenty of people who do push them harder than I do and are more than satisfied. Not saying the push won’t make them better but they’re pretty bloody good out the box. If your friend that melted them was pushing them so hard maybe something like a lyrik or boxxer is more the fork for them.

If you hadn’t wrote MUST in capaitals in your original post it probably wouldn’t have led to the next ten posts.

??? exactly, i don’t know anyone with pushed pikes and everybody I know with them still loves them.

Because they’re awesome forks that don’t require looking after, haven’t you been listening? :roll:

My coil pike 426’s have been running super smooth for nearly 3 years now, never serviced them once, quick hose down and thats it. I should really have a look at them shouldn’t I.

Goes off to find service manual.

Have to say i’d be pretty pissed off too if I was in the car, if i’m holding some one up its just courtesy to let them past be it a car, or a faster rider come up behind me, not really fussed what mode of transport they’re on. And if I’m the one on the bike, personally i don’t want some pain in the ass driver sitting an inch from my ass while i’m trying to enjoy my bike ride.

Well rode my Alpine for the first time today, very impressed with it. Definitely need a chain guide with the single front ring setup as the chain kept dropping of at the slightest hint of a drop.

Was out early myself with the trails to myself so decided to try some videoing with my little digicam, looks reasonable if a little lame in places, first time on the bike in a few months though and first time back on a hardtail so looking forward to pushing the alpine each time i get out. Surprising how tiring it is walkign back and forward to get the camera and trying to get the bike up to speed without having to go too far back.

at the end of the trails, still looks remarkably clean, I was filthy.

Video here. once it is processed.

Have to say the comments about a PA or whatever being too much bike is such a lot of pish, granted maybe you don’t need the extra strength but that’s like saying we don’t all need our six inch full sussers, in most cases we don’t but they’re bloody good fun.

Any of the current steel hardtails are going to be pretty good and everybody seems to love the one they’ve got, I took my alpine out for its maiden ride today and it was **** awesome. Get whatever one you like the look off, your unlikely to be disappointed.

Yeah, for sure get a whole new bike if you find something you like and swap the good bits like hope/xtr onto your bike, then put the new bits onto the old bike and sell it whole or just sell the parts, done that a few times.

If you just want to change a few bits, a better fork would probably make quite a difference, haven’t ridden the dart but i think its pretty basic.

Am i the only one thinking ton had started eating just vegetarian chinese dishes?

made you look :P

how long have those cornflakes been lying there? should have hidden the p0rn first too.

sounds like more of a piston issue, i’ve never had a problem lining up post mounts and far prefer it to the faff that IS mounts were.

break it! :lol:

A bit more than 2″
Sure it’s a different feel – it’s just that what you’re feeling is lateral flex, not vertical.

Fair enough if you hit something like a kerb square on you might get that much travel out of your tire, not generally riding, your rims would be constantly fecked. You seem convinced your right, have you ridden lots of different frames?

Open flickr account, free one will do, upload pics to there, right click on picture on flick and copy picture URL, post here and hit the IMG button then past the copied image URL.

jump up and down on the bars and trying and break it that way!

congratulations your the first person to post ‘i’ve pimped my ride’ but failed to provide pics, lets see it!

So how is that going to make a noticeable difference given a bump of several cm in height and 50mm of tyre flex?

50mm of tire flex, how big are your tyres?

I never mentioned that it would make any difference over any particular size of bump, its a different feel which is difficult to quantify but its there.

Interesting thread, just caught up with it all, i’m of the opinion that you can feel a difference, it might be fractions of a millimetre in actual flex, but there is definitely a different feel. I’m surprised there’s not more people with this view giving all the inbred/cotic/dialled lovers on here that go on about their steel hardtails.

in fact I bet the chat forum has double the posts of the bike forum?

Take a look at the top of the forum summary page, more bike threads than chat :lol: go find some p0rn sites.

coffeeking, why don’t you park in the car park

none of those cars on either side of the drawing are near 45 degrees, go back and do it again with a scale ruler and protractor!

It does look good doesn’t it, I can’t wait to get out on it at the weekend even if it will be in the snow.

If you’d like to ship it to canada with a case of beer i’ll build it up for you :lol:

Cost, Well most stuff came off my Enduro, frame was won off ebay (new from their US distributor) for $280, shipping to BC, Canada unfortunately came in at $100 and then UPS raped me at my front door and demanded another $70, but all in when you work it out, I think I paid about 300 pounds. Only other parts were a new headset $70, Chromag Post ($80) and Chromag collar $45

think you did too, here’s the pic to save folk clicking the link.

oh! and needs a chainstay guard of some sort, don’t want to get that nice paint all oily 8O

Just picked up my seatpost and collar yesterday, only issue is that the bolt in the quick release collar is too long when you have it done up tight enough, going to have to get the hacksaw out to that.

ackie, I’m 5’10” and from my little ride around the car park last night it felt pretty good, I’m glad i got it over the 15.5 and i feel the 21 would def be too short, I may still opt for a slightly longer stem than the current 50mm. Will get it out at the weekend first though to see how it feels on the trail, **** snowed last night too, good few inches, so going to be a fun ride.

Anyway here’s pics of the complete bike apart from maybe a chainguide. I’ll see how much of an issue it is first without it.

but seriously, sounds like you like it so go for it.

It’s pish don’t buy it!

thanks stumpy mate.. the 09 fsr xc pro is very nice mate… sat on one yesterday in lbs and the guy said it may be too light/weak for me and was trying to persuade me to buy a stumpjumper.. the fsr did feel very light, but im sure im not going to snap one doing red routes etc am i?

North, I would go to a different bike shop if they’re telling you that. Sounds like just trying to sell the more expensive bike to me.

good try dipstick!

I’m not a huge fan of kona but i really like this.

you’ve got a good career as a comedian ahead of you :lol:

can you learn to spell ‘anyone’ before you do anything else, please!