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ProFail 08-19-08 08:13 PM

Add semi-slicks, I suppose. You'll be a bit faster on the roads but lose braking and cornering grip on the trails.

Luke52 08-20-08 02:55 AM

HELL YES!

Picked it up before, then rode it home :D

Love it!

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ca7erham 08-20-08 01:45 PM


Originally Posted by ProFail (Post 7305780)
Add semi-slicks, I suppose. You'll be a bit faster on the roads but lose braking and cornering grip on the trails.

I ment more, um how do I say it, All mountainy (?). I have a road bike for road riding. I guess I want to make the C'dale more durable/robust with out to much cost or weight (but seeing as that bike isnt crazy light as is, I dont think that will be to hard)

ProFail 08-20-08 03:42 PM


Originally Posted by ca7erham (Post 7310392)
I ment more, um how do I say it, All mountainy (?). I have a road bike for road riding. I guess I want to make the C'dale more durable/robust with out to much cost or weight (but seeing as that bike isnt crazy light as is, I dont think that will be to hard)

Tires, for one. Run a grippy, tubeless tire. Run low pressure and you'll get great grip and feel like there's extra travel.

Aside from that, new wheels. Not much else you can do before you go to changing forks, which is $$$ and messes up the geometry.

ca7erham 08-20-08 05:35 PM

how do people run really low PSI? I cant figure that out, because when ever I run anything below 35 psi in the rear, I bottom out going over the likes of roots.

ProFail 08-20-08 05:49 PM


Originally Posted by ca7erham (Post 7311776)
how do people run really low PSI? I cant figure that out, because when ever I run anything below 35 psi in the rear, I bottom out going over the likes of roots.

u r laem

mtnbiker66 08-20-08 06:02 PM


Originally Posted by ca7erham (Post 7305459)
I do most of my home work during school. I have loads of time as I am currently doing no out of school activitys other than a German club (looks good on an aplication, but all we do is eat cake).....

Wow. You and Profail go to the same school?

ca7erham 08-20-08 06:07 PM

LOL, god no. I goes to a public school. . . And I am sorry, in my previous posts it sounds like I'm complaining about school, but I cannot complain. I still have loads of time (for now).

ProFail 08-20-08 06:28 PM


Originally Posted by mtnbiker66 (Post 7311910)
Wow. You and Profail go to the same school?

I am failing to see any similarities.

Unless you're saying I'm a cake eater, which is teh truf.

ca7erham 08-20-08 07:03 PM

I prefer brownies. Also, what the heck did you say in you previous post? Made no sense.

ProFail 08-20-08 07:10 PM


Originally Posted by ca7erham (Post 7312271)
I prefer brownies. Also, what the heck did you say in you previous post? Made no sense.

el oh el ur are teh laemest prson i evar met looolol XD

ca7erham 08-20-08 07:23 PM

When haves you met me?

ca7erham 08-20-08 07:24 PM

P.S. Good nite. I be tired. I be going to bed.

ProFail 08-20-08 07:40 PM


Originally Posted by ca7erham (Post 7312399)
P.S. Good nite. I be tired. I be going to bed.

u r a mamas boy lololol o ROFL XD __!E _!_! +@

ca7erham 08-21-08 01:30 PM

How so? I took a shower and went to bed. Explain please :thumb: I was tard.

P.S. Wow, dejavu (sp)

Edit: $5 says P.F. quotes the "I was tard" part

ProFail 08-21-08 05:00 PM


Originally Posted by ca7erham (Post 7317319)
I was tard.

:roflmao2:

ca7erham 08-21-08 06:33 PM


Originally Posted by ca7erham (Post 7317319)
$5 says P.F. quotes the "I was tard" part

Called that one. . .

ed 08-21-08 07:23 PM


Originally Posted by Mr. Smashy (Post 7221492)
Guess who has to build the fisher back up?

All due to some scuzzbag bike thief, stealing the dmr frame, so I am a bit lucky I had taken a good chunk of the parts off the bike in order to do some maintenance to.

Freakin PISSED PISSED, PISSED OFF:mad::mad::mad::mad::mad:

ca7erham 08-21-08 07:33 PM

why are you pissed about that?

xcracer13 08-21-08 10:36 PM

Anyone see the new Mitsubishi Lancers and Nissan Skyline GTR with the paddle shifting on the steering wheel? Kinda cool, like a steering wheel for Xbox games.

xcracer13 08-21-08 10:40 PM


Originally Posted by ProFail (Post 7312316)
el oh el ur are teh laemest prson i evar met looolol XD

Y'all need to quit flirting so much. I call PDA. :50::love:

BFG 08-22-08 03:45 AM

Yeah that kind of shifting as certainly been around a couple of years now xc.

xcracer13 08-22-08 12:04 PM


Originally Posted by BFG (Post 7321225)
Yeah that kind of shifting as certainly been around a couple of years now xc.

oh, I guess I've just never noticed it. :rolleyes:

ca7erham 08-22-08 01:46 PM


Originally Posted by xcracer13 (Post 7320485)
Anyone see the new Mitsubishi Lancers and Nissan Skyline GTR with the paddle shifting on the steering wheel? Kinda cool, like a steering wheel for Xbox games.

I hear that the Germans have the best thing going as far as the so-called "Automated Manuals" go.

xcracer13 08-22-08 07:08 PM


Originally Posted by ca7erham (Post 7324334)
I hear that the Germans have the best thing going as far as the so-called "Automated Manuals" go.

you mean semi-auto?

Dannihilator 08-22-08 07:20 PM

My new ride is going to blow you all away and I'm not telling you until it's done.

santiago 08-22-08 07:29 PM


Originally Posted by Mr. Smashy (Post 7325970)
My new ride is going to blow you all away and I'm not telling you until it's done.

What is it?

Dannihilator 08-22-08 07:30 PM

I'm not telling anyone until it's done.

ca7erham 08-22-08 08:09 PM


Originally Posted by xcracer13 (Post 7325919)
you mean semi-auto?

The way I understand it, both the EVO and the GTR use tranys similar to the DSG found in VW owned companies' cars, which are manuals being shifted by a computer (the way I understand it).

Edit: http://gtrusa.blogspot.com/2007/12/h...ion-works.html

The way some SCCA Rallycross guys explained it to me, was that DSGs are Automated Manuals. Then again, non of them had a car with a DSG in it, so I dont know.

Edit edit: Yay for the Audi Quattro S1, the car that started it all (If you know your rally roots, you should know what I'm getting at).

Edit edit edit: Now I'm getting a bit off topic but: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHH-726_8lA

Edit edit edit edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEK7P...eature=related

TheFlip 08-22-08 08:09 PM


Originally Posted by Mr. Smashy (Post 7326008)
I'm not telling anyone until it's done.

Who is it?


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