WooHoo! Blindsided (in a good way)!
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WooHoo! Blindsided (in a good way)!
I just got the e-mail before lunchtime today and it is official: I got accepted for sponsorship with Transition for the coming season (!) I am sooooo stoked! Looks like, if all goes well, I will be rockin' a Blindside this year.
Now I have to move a used-one-season Gran Mal, size long, either as a whole bike or a frame/fork +odds-n-ends combo [/shameless spam plug].
Woohoo!
Now I have to move a used-one-season Gran Mal, size long, either as a whole bike or a frame/fork +odds-n-ends combo [/shameless spam plug].
Woohoo!
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01-30-08, 03:50 PM
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I just got the e-mail before lunchtime today and it is official: I got accepted for sponsorship with Transition for the coming season (!) I am sooooo stoked! Looks like, if all goes well, I will be rockin' a Blindside this year.
Now I have to move a used-one-season Gran Mal, size long, either as a whole bike or a frame/fork +odds-n-ends combo [/shameless spam plug].
Woohoo!
Now I have to move a used-one-season Gran Mal, size long, either as a whole bike or a frame/fork +odds-n-ends combo [/shameless spam plug].
Woohoo!
Just out of curiosity. When you get "sponsored", does that mean that you get stuff from them for free? or just discounted?
01-30-08, 03:55 PM
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Sponsorship levels are variable and the terms are eyes only top secret.
Congrats dminor, it seems your hard work has paid off once again.
01-30-08, 04:23 PM
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I just got the e-mail before lunchtime today and it is official: I got accepted for sponsorship with Transition for the coming season (!) I am sooooo stoked! Looks like, if all goes well, I will be rockin' a Blindside this year.
Now I have to move a used-one-season Gran Mal, size long, either as a whole bike or a frame/fork +odds-n-ends combo [/shameless spam plug].
Woohoo!
Now I have to move a used-one-season Gran Mal, size long, either as a whole bike or a frame/fork +odds-n-ends combo [/shameless spam plug].
Woohoo!
I couldn't help myself, sorry.
Congrats Doug!
01-30-08, 05:42 PM
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That's awesome...can't wait to see the build on it. If you do sell the Gran Mal as a complete you got any ideas on what the build is gonna be?
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SickLines just did a Blindside build that got it to 37.5 and they said they could go farther down.
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01-30-08, 06:23 PM
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Congrats.
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Congrats, dminor.
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That looks like it would have a very XC-ish positioning, though
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Congrats, Doug. Well deserved.
I will abstain from calling you a sponsor wh0re this time.
I will abstain from calling you a sponsor wh0re this time.
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Thank you all. Yes, it will have a new RST R1. It will be bristling with Syncros stuff and I'm going to try the Maxxis Ardent tires in the 3C compound (with a set of High Rollers as fast-rolling backup, of course).
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01-31-08, 01:40 AM
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Haha! If you look close you will see that it is a quick-'n-dirty Photoshop job with some real cafe clip-ons. It spawned an ultimate 'joke gone wackadoodle' incident. Ahhh, but I'd be the Kenny Roberts of the DH course
Thank you all. Yes, it will have a new RST R1. It will be bristling with Syncros stuff and I'm going to try the Maxxis Ardent tires in the 3C compound (with a set of High Rollers as fast-rolling backup, of course).
Thank you all. Yes, it will have a new RST R1. It will be bristling with Syncros stuff and I'm going to try the Maxxis Ardent tires in the 3C compound (with a set of High Rollers as fast-rolling backup, of course).
01-31-08, 08:32 AM
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Very cool! Congrats. It'll be interesting to see your build.
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Awesome!!! Very cool!! Come to Colorado and do some riding with me! 
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You da man D.Let's just forget that incident the pic spawned.........
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OK - - as promised, here is a preliminary peek at how I'm (so far) planning to build this up. I feel like a roadie geek with all of these gram figures and stuff - - sheesh. I used to just put things together and ride them. [Blame it on LowCel 
] And I used a very rounded .454 conversion of the kg to lbs and a lot of claimed weights:
] And I used a very rounded .454 conversion of the kg to lbs and a lot of claimed weights:
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