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Re: Show us your bike (bicycle)
« Reply #750 on: May 27, 2017, 02:56:02 PM »
Love the 'murdered' look :cup:

What's the seat, it looks different ;D
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Re: Show us your bike (bicycle)
« Reply #751 on: May 27, 2017, 03:45:34 PM »
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Re: Show us your bike (bicycle)
« Reply #752 on: May 27, 2017, 03:47:40 PM »
Love the 'murdered' look :cup:

What's the seat, it looks different ;D

It's an Adamo seat, nothing goes numb with these but do take a little to get used to.  ;)

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Re: Show us your bike (bicycle)
« Reply #753 on: May 27, 2017, 07:35:47 PM »
The bike out with some mates in the background the other week. Hoping to get out early tomorrow morning with my mate

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Re: Show us your bike (bicycle)
« Reply #754 on: May 27, 2017, 10:24:34 PM »
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Re: Show us your bike (bicycle)
« Reply #755 on: May 28, 2017, 06:30:44 AM »
The bike out with some mates in the background the other week. Hoping to get out early tomorrow morning with my mate

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How much travel in those front forks, 200mm?

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Re: Show us your bike (bicycle)
« Reply #756 on: May 28, 2017, 07:11:42 AM »
How much travel in those front forks, 200mm?

Looks like 160mm to me
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Re: Show us your bike (bicycle)
« Reply #757 on: May 28, 2017, 07:26:12 AM »
Couldnt get a lift to last weekends cyclocross race 120km away so rigged up a way to get the bike on the motorbike. .. worked a treat

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Re: Show us your bike (bicycle)
« Reply #758 on: May 28, 2017, 07:52:33 AM »
How much travel in those front forks, 200mm?

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D4D is correct. 160mm, 6 inches on the rear which is adjustable to 4

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Re: Show us your bike (bicycle)
« Reply #759 on: May 28, 2017, 08:01:41 AM »
D4D is correct. 160mm, 6 inches on the rear which is adjustable to 4

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Re: Show us your bike (bicycle)
« Reply #760 on: May 28, 2017, 08:53:41 AM »
Love it, Cancan!  :cup:

That should soak up the lumps pretty well, GG.  8)

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Re: Show us your bike (bicycle)
« Reply #761 on: June 10, 2017, 04:47:21 PM »
I did a bit of online shopping at Chain Reaction today. I bought the missus some thermal 3/4 bib nix that were on special, so she'd stop complaining it was cold when we go riding. I needed to spend an extra $20 to get free shipping. I couldn't find anything else I really needed, so I spent $200 on some RaceFace Next carbon bars :)

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Re: Show us your bike (bicycle)
« Reply #762 on: June 10, 2017, 11:11:39 PM »
I needed to spend an extra $20 to get free shipping. I couldn't find anything else I really needed, so I spent $200 on some RaceFace Next carbon bars
Should have let me know, I need a new bottom bracket! Got a shopping list but at the moment the items are spread over about 4 online stores and so far none qualify for free shipping.

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Re: Show us your bike (bicycle)
« Reply #763 on: June 11, 2017, 09:03:24 AM »
Should have let me know, I need a new bottom bracket! Got a shopping list but at the moment the items are spread over about 4 online stores and so far none qualify for free shipping.

How much is the BB?

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Re: Show us your bike (bicycle)
« Reply #764 on: June 11, 2017, 09:18:08 AM »

I bought one of my grand daughters a new Redline BMX from Chain Reaction two weeks ago , left Belfast UK on Monday morning May 29th arrived in Cairns Friday morning June 2nd delivered to me up in Herberton ( 100km west of Cairns ) monday morning June 5th.

She raced it on Tuesday June 6th only 9 days after buying the bike from them , gotta be happy with that .

I paid $493.99 ( freight free ) for this bike and was Quoted $1060.00 from our local bike shop , but they could not supply until late this year.
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Re: Show us your bike (bicycle)
« Reply #765 on: June 11, 2017, 10:49:05 AM »
The local bike shop sells the old school 80's classics at time to time.

They have a PK Ripper with landing gear forks, skyway tuffs, redline flight cranks and some other cool stuff.

$1200. It's something us older blokes would mount on the wall next to the crappy print the wife got from her last trip to IKEA.

I dreamt of owning one back then.

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Re: Show us your bike (bicycle)
« Reply #766 on: June 11, 2017, 12:11:22 PM »
The local bike shop sells the old school 80's classics at time to time.

They have a PK Ripper with landing gear forks, skyway tuffs, redline flight cranks and some other cool stuff.

$1200. It's something us older blokes would mount on the wall next to the crappy print the wife got from her last trip to IKEA.

I dreamt of owning one back then.


SE have done a good job of releasing retro models for all us old guys. (did you hear that Perry "PK" Kramer is now back working for them as a sales manager (after years at Giant USA)

I keep looking at this with lustful eyes... http://www.sebikes.com/bikes/cat/retro-series/str-29-quadangle

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Re: Show us your bike (bicycle)
« Reply #767 on: June 11, 2017, 02:46:06 PM »
I bought one of my grand daughters a new Redline BMX from Chain Reaction two weeks ago , left Belfast UK on Monday morning May 29th arrived in Cairns Friday morning June 2nd delivered to me up in Herberton ( 100km west of Cairns ) monday morning June 5th.

She raced it on Tuesday June 6th only 9 days after buying the bike from them , gotta be happy with that .

I paid $493.99 ( freight free ) for this bike and was Quoted $1060.00 from our local bike shop , but they could not supply until late this year.

:cup: :cup: :cup:

Quickest delivery I've had from CRC is ordered on Sunday night and on my door step on Friday morning. You have to keep an eye on the stuff you want as they sometimes have really cheap prices. There was a pair of fiveten's the other day for the missus that were $50 off, but by the time I asked her size etc. they were back up at the normal price.
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Re: Show us your bike (bicycle)
« Reply #768 on: June 11, 2017, 05:26:28 PM »
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Re: Show us your bike (bicycle)
« Reply #769 on: June 11, 2017, 06:16:41 PM »
Doesn't get used enough

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Re: Show us your bike (bicycle)
« Reply #770 on: June 13, 2017, 08:50:18 PM »
My 11yo son has started racing his mountain bike this year, pic from Sunday's event at Samford.

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Re: Show us your bike (bicycle)
« Reply #771 on: June 14, 2017, 06:39:37 AM »
My 11yo son has started racing his mountain bike this year, pic from Sunday's event at Samford.

That's fantastic! I don't think I could ride a lefty. I'd keep looking down at the fork thinking half has fallen off :)
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Re: Show us your bike (bicycle)
« Reply #772 on: June 14, 2017, 08:52:02 AM »
That's fantastic! I don't think I could ride a lefty. I'd keep looking down at the fork thinking half has fallen off :)

I had a modified Lefty (custom clamps) on my fatbike a few years back. It definitely took some getting used to. Mentally I mean... You're riding... you look down and you feel an almost automatic reaction to turn a little left.

But you get over it in a ride or two...

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Re: Show us your bike (bicycle)
« Reply #773 on: June 14, 2017, 08:29:56 PM »
I had a modified Lefty (custom clamps) on my fatbike a few years back. It definitely took some getting used to. Mentally I mean... You're riding... you look down and you feel an almost automatic reaction to turn a little left.

But you get over it in a ride or two...
It's amazing how we can adapt to new gear. When I first rode my fixie it was really strange, then hopping back on other bikes was a bit wierd. Now I've ridden it enough that hopping between bikes doesn't take any thought process, it's just normal for each different bike.

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Re: Show us your bike (bicycle)
« Reply #774 on: June 14, 2017, 10:15:15 PM »
That's fantastic! I don't think I could ride a lefty. I'd keep looking down at the fork thinking half has fallen off :)

The Lefty is pretty amazing - I have been riding Cannondale since 2000 so am used to the goodness of the Headshok - no flex and smoooooth as butter. But the Lefty is something else again. It's pretty much perfect as far as the combination of stiffness and travel goes.

The only issue with the Lefty is that it's really hard to ride no-hands (my son finds the same thing). Not that you do that offroad, but when tooling along on hard surfaces sometimes you want a rest, or to just mess around - and while you *can* ride it no-hands it sort of feels like what I imagine riding a unicycle would feel like... or maybe a Harley, you're compensating all the time :)
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