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Anyone watching the DS in CBS?

Bah, I'm going to go riding at Lysterfield tomorrow.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3179/...32558d6e_b.jpg

Nice. Interbike must be a ton of fun.

It's pretty much everyones chance to show what can be done with a blank cheque, not muich else IMO.

I might be headed to Kingdom Trails on October 12th.

Digging the whitewalls!

Alot of you guys might think Im dumb for asking this, but whats with the spoke pattern on the wheels?

I'm not sure of the tech behind it, but they're Crankbrothers' wheels.

http://www.crankbrothers.com/wheel_cobalt.php

OO YEAH!

I remember that thread about it here. NVM. Thanks though :)

lololololol

I stacked my bike before :P

Pics coming.

Alright, so I came through this section, and took the jump.

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I jumped weirdly, and landed weirdly, as you can kind of see from this pic..

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Over corrected, and went off the track into a few trees..

Right handlebar clipped the small tree on the right, sending the bike sideways, and throwing me sideways into that larger tree where the bike is...

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...e/IMG_5891.jpg

http://i172.photobucket.com/albums/w...e/IMG_5892.jpg

I think I'm lucky I was able to control the bike to an extent and slow it down....otherwise I would have broken some ribs from hitting the tree :lol:

Gotta love self-timers on cameras too :P

Figured this should go in here too.

My friend has made a great rack for the back of his ute (or "pickup truck" if you're that way located) for our bikes. It fits 5 bikes and we can still stow all out junk in the tray, and we're able to drop the tailgate to access it all! We thought 5 was enough, because you can only fit 5 in the ute. It's really effective, and we put a heavy duty occy strap around the wheel on the back end to keep it steady and it holds for a 4 hour road trip, as we found this weekend. It's easy to get bikes on and off for shuttling as well, the occy strap just wraps around. There are some mods to come, and this is the second prototype. Will keep you posted.

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The custom SWD 6-gun squishy frame will happen, after all.
http://www.swdracing.com/6gun.html
Most excellent! SWD and I had things all set to do up a custom frame, then the builder sort of...died. Figured I'd not ever see a frame or the 50% down I'd given. In light of him passing, no big deal since the money wasn't huge, and it stayed with his wife.

A couple of Steve's buddies got together to work on/fill his backlog of orders after his untimely death. To me, that speaks pretty highly to the kind of guy he was if his buddies are willing and able to do that. Spoke with them a couple days ago - obviously things are moving slowly, because this isn't their full time gig or anything. Frame should be a month or two only, hopefully. A few tweaks from their stock sizing and geometry to get what I want, and have it beefed up how I'd like, and to be able to use my current rear shocks. Nice, since it'll also lower the leverage ratio on the shock over the stock size.

6" travel burly steel frame squishy bike. Slack angles, fatty clearance, short stays and wheelbase. Stiff simple single pivot love. The parts off the Iron Horse Bullit clone will get swapped onto this frame, then the IH frame will be sold. After I get a few rides in on the new toy to make sure all is in order. Only new parts needed are a post shim, seatclamp, and headset. We spoke about the possibility of doing a 1.5 headtube so I could keep my 1.5-->1.125 King reducer set, but 1.5 is/wold be pretty hard for them to do for a steel frame. A nice SARS sealed unit is on the way to me, in gold of course. And a new Hope seatclamp. Gold as well. :thumb: Paint will be basic black.

Nice.

Yep. They initially offered me a stock frame, which I siad, uh no wouldn't work for me, no offense. They'd have no trouble selling a basic stocker, either. Regardless of Steve's death, I was wanting a custom frame. Told them I didn't care about the deposit money coming back, but that if they could do up the custom job, I'd be more than happy to pony up the rest for the job. I wanted to use my current parts, and not need a new shock/thruaxle rear wheel. They said they could make it happen, so the deal is back on!

At this point, it'll basically be a near carbon copy of the IH frame in terms of size and geometry. Figure to give it a few rides to compare and keep whichever frame I like the feel of more. Even in steel, it may come in a touch lighter, be just as tough, and still be nice and stiff. The IH is overbuilt for my needs, to say the least.

I don't miss my full suspension bike at all. Though trek/fisher is offering crash replacement for it, don't know which frame it will be though. If it winds up being something like a remedy frame, I may take it if not, I'll just use the money and order a DMR Exalt frame. Heck, I even found a set of 26x2.2 tires that I like.

If I could only have one bike, it for sure would be a burly hardtail/fork combo, and a couple different sets of tires. Maybe a different entire fork/front brake setup with a crown race to make for easy swapping for bigger days.

It's tempting to stay full hardtail. Throw the 180mm Domain and the DH meats on the steel hardtail, and I'd have about the same angles as the squishy, and still weigh a couple pounds less. Then still have the other hardtail for "light flow" days. Setup that way, there isn't much from the squishy that I couldn't hit on that.

That said, there are some trails around here, and places out west where I'd really, really miss the squishy. Plus as I'm getting older, it's nice to have that forgiveness somedays, especially when riding multiple days back to back. Such as the upcoming seven days of riding in Moab. :thumb: Figure since I have it, not much resale value, so may as well keep it, right?

Exactly.

They built a new "skinny" stucture at the skills park at Dupont.......I bent my RD on it.....thats all I have to say about that.....

RD, or hanger? Either way that sucks, maybe trying single speed in the future?

I don't really know, I'm new at this.Is SS hard to ride? Would it work well on trails?

:roflmao2:

Too tired for a real ride today from cyclocross last night. Played Ultimate Frisbee on bikes instead.

We played bike rugby.

We're all weenies though so no one was tackled.

"Act your age, not your shoe size."

Derailleur pulleys: Removed, cleaned, replaced.

Detailed my bike today after a long ride. Busted out the detail brushes and everything, cleaned it all up. It deserved it. She was good to me today.

I love to go a-wandering
Along the mountain path
And as I go I laugh and sing
My knapsack on my back!

N2bikeN is coming down from Iowa witha couple of buds on Oct 23 - 25. This is not an official TGMBG ride so if anyone want to drop in for some good riding holla at ya boy.

I'm jealous, If there is a mountain biking god, please let me get to pisgah some day.