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[Squalo]

Chit, that's a wild looking bike, Squalo! 

Foo

It was pretty radical in its day Foo - first appeared in 1996. Nowadays the Cannondale Super V is a bit of a curio, and single-pivot rear suspension is something of a compromise - but the mods I've made maximise the good points of single pivot, and minimise the bad points. It's called a "Uver V" by the Super V afficionados, where you take an old cross country bike and turn it into an all-mountain bike, which climbs like a mountain goat and has the suspension travel to take big hits and jumps when descending... and weighs 12kg.

Note the changed rear swingarm, that's the key - a lighter stronger arm than the original, which looks awesome, but breaks. And you take some meat off the frame-mount for the shock, and re-drill the mounting hole, so you now can fit a 7.5" shock to get the additional vertical travel at the rear - from 3" to 6".

Then you ditch the 'Headshok' (which is a great design, but limited travel) and fit headset converters to run a modern long-travel front fork system - mine uses 1-1/8" upper bearing and 1.5" lower bearing, and I've gone from 3.5" travel to 5" travel.

Then you get disc-specific wheels (Crank Bros 'Cobalt' on mine), and all the other bits... then you go completely overboard, and spend 40 hours hand-polishing the frame and smoothing all the welds, and get custom decals made up, and really go to town on red anodised bits

It's grandpa's axe - seriously, only the main frame remains from the yellow bike.

My son's Cannondale was equally radical for its day. Rear suspension has carbon fibre chainstays, no pivot - the carbon fibre has a skinny point that actually flexes to act as the pivot. The seat stays are moulded plastic, they just transfer the suspension movement to the shock. And then there's the front suspension (have a good look at the pic!). That bike was $8.5k when new in 2005, it's the 'Team' edition Scalpel that won the world MTB cross country championship that year. Weight is 11kg with pedals, which is why I bought it for him - he only weighs 35kg! (he's 9)

[Footy Shorts Shane]

Peregrine? Similar to a Skyway Tuff but the spokes are offset from the centre of the hub. OGK made a similar one.
Maybe ACS Z-rim, plastic rim with steel spokes?

That's them. 

Page 6 on this catalogue. http://www.ajkbikes.com/downloads/catalogs/1986%20Haro%20Catalog.pdf

[Snapman007]

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[scblack]

Hey guys check out this site - old BMX magazines scanned in. I used to live to receive BMX Action magazine.


http://oldschoolmags.com/bmx_action.html

[Foo]

I used to sell Cobra and Mongoose BMX way back in the day. (1978/79) They were about $125-$175 from memory. 

Foo

[Snapman007]

Lol. A second hand in good Nic gold stem(early eighties) is currently around $300, a mongoose stamped seat clamp or stamped bottom bracket nut or stamped head set nut about $70 each and original pad set would prolly go for $300.
I paid $80 for a stamped mongoose rear reflector a couple years back.🙄

Foo, if you have boxes full of nos old school stuff disregard the above and send me a pm.😁

[Foo]

Nah mate, outta luck there. 

Foo

[raider]

Hey guys check out this site - old BMX magazines scanned in. I used to live to receive BMX Action magazine.


http://oldschoolmags.com/bmx_action.html

Just spent the last two hours going through some of these. Brings back some memories especially Jamie Hale winning everything Victorian. I nearly beat him once but typically I went for the big cross up off a jump and he scooted past. i never took it seriously enough and the folks never had the coin to take me to Lalor from Knox too often. Such a simple time back then , me and the neighbour would spend hours taking it in turns to do endo's against the gutter seeing who could do the most radical move 

[Foo]

This young bloke has to many choices. 

http://www.iamspecialized.com/news/jared-graves-in-toowoomba---day-1/

Foo

[D4D]

Something interesting to do if you're local to Cairns...
http://www.mtba.asn.au/mtbworldscairns/
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Mv8NJY_3iT29FlLc-nveMv02MIJXINeDmswZESMDTmg/viewform?c=0&w=1

[scblack]

This young bloke has to many choices. 

http://www.iamspecialized.com/news/jared-graves-in-toowoomba---day-1/

Foo

It is easy to argue he is possibly the worlds best bike rider. Or at least most versatile at a professional level.

He has done the following (plus other stuff):
- Won 4X World Championship a number of times.
- Won Gravity Enduro World Championship 2014.
- Placed on the podium at Downhill MTB World Championships - 3rd best placing.
- Made the Olympic BMX final in Beijing 2008.
- Won Australian XC Championships.
- Won Australian Downhill Championships.

An amazing rider who is very meticulous in his training and preparation. Inspirational.

[Foo]

That he is, Scblack.

Foo

[prodigyrf]

What they didn't advertise about the missus' e-bike was how the motorised rear wheel will regularly break spokes after a while-
https://www.google.com.au/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=problem%20electric%20bike%20spokes%20breaking
so after replacing a number of them over the last few months and realizing it was a dog chasing its tail I decided to replace the Chinese ones with decent US branded ones and guess who's got a Parktool TM1 spoke tension tool now and is reliving his mobike days, or more's the point studying to be a Tour Down Under bike mechanic most likely-
http://www.parktool.com/blog/repair-help/wheel-tension-balance-app-instructions

Why wasn't I effing told about ALL the joys of e-bikes?  I'm supposed to be bloody retired

[NewieCamper]

It is easy to argue he is possibly the worlds best bike rider. Or at least most versatile at a professional level.

He has done the following (plus other stuff):
- Won 4X World Championship a number of times.
- Won Gravity Enduro World Championship 2014.
- Placed on the podium at Downhill MTB World Championships - 3rd best placing.
- Made the Olympic BMX final in Beijing 2008.
- Won Australian XC Championships.
- Won Australian Downhill Championships.

An amazing rider who is very meticulous in his training and preparation. Inspirational.

A few years ago I bought an unused frame off him when he was with Yeti after my other bike cracked. He signed it for me too

[scblack]

A few years ago I bought an unused frame off him when he was with Yeti after my other bike cracked. He signed it for me too

How cool! I'm jealous.

[NewieCamper]

Picked up another n+1 yesterday. A mammoth:



It's cheap so it is heavy and slow, but so far is fun. Apparently it is "not for off road use" but I think it will end up getting a run on sand before we part ways. Needs some servicing and to go on a diet too.

[GQMacca]

Nice, keen to see the resto job once complete? I had a 1995 GT Timberline (my first of many GT's) with a pair of Rockshox Judy's

Rebuild completed.  The only non-original bits are the forks (has period correct RS Judy's on it now - it came with GT Chromo rigid forks), and there's no finding an original GT handlebar setup now (after I snapped the original bar in a massive A over T), so it's got a period correct carbon fibre all in one bar.

[Foo]

How do you go riding that in the scrub with those bars, Macca? 

Foo

[GQMacca]

Dunno - haven't tried with those bars yet.  The original bars were straight with Velocity Long bar ends on them.  I think I might refrain from getting close to trees for a while..

[Rogerthatv2]

Rebuild completed.  The only non-original bits are the forks (has period correct RS Judy's on it now - it came with GT Chromo rigid forks), and there's no finding an original GT handlebar setup now (after I snapped the original bar in a massive A over T), so it's got a period correct carbon fibre all in one bar.

That looks great, well done.

Did you find the Judy's or already have them? About to order some RS's for mine tonight, not sure which one to go for but. The stock Suntours are not that flash.


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[Paddler Ed]

It was pretty radical in its day Foo - first appeared in 1996. Nowadays the Cannondale Super V is a bit of a curio, and single-pivot rear suspension is something of a compromise - but the mods I've made maximise the good points of single pivot, and minimise the bad points. It's called a "Uver V" by the Super V afficionados, where you take an old cross country bike and turn it into an all-mountain bike, which climbs like a mountain goat and has the suspension travel to take big hits and jumps when descending... and weighs 12kg.

Note the changed rear swingarm, that's the key - a lighter stronger arm than the original, which looks awesome, but breaks. And you take some meat off the frame-mount for the shock, and re-drill the mounting hole, so you now can fit a 7.5" shock to get the additional vertical travel. Then you ditch the 'Headshok' (which is a great design, but limited travel) and fit headset converters to run a modern long-travel front fork system - mine uses 1-1/8" upper bearing and 1.5" lower bearing. Then you get disc-specific wheels (Crank Bros 'Cobalt' on mine), and all the other bits... then you go completely overboard, and spend 40 hours hand-polishing the frame and smoothing all the welds, and get custom decals made up, and really go to town on red anodised bits

It's grandpa's axe - seriously, only the main frame remains from the yellow bike.

My son's Cannondale was equally radical for its day. Rear suspension has carbon fibre chainstays, no pivot - the carbon fibre has a skinny point that actually flexes to act as the pivot. The seat stays are moulded plastic, they just transfer the suspension movement to the shock. And then there's the front suspension (have a good look at the pic!). That bike was $8.5k when new in 2005, it's the 'Team' edition Scalpel that won the world MTB cross country championship that year. Weight is 11kg with pedals, which is why I bought it for him - he only weighs 35kg! (he's 9)

I'm sort of kicking my self... I had the choice of an F700SL or a SV500... I decided to go with the F700SL (pictured a couple of pages ago I think) that is still in use fairly often, and had the mantle of daily rider for a while. It's worth peanuts really... on the other hand the Super V would be $$'s...

[GQMacca]

Did you find the Judy's or already have them?

A mate of a mate had them hidden away in the back of his shed.

About to order some RS's for mine tonight, not sure which one to go for but. The stock Suntours are not that flash.

I'm running Tora's on the new bike, but I'm not that impressed with them.  They seem to blow through their travel way too easily, even with the preload wound all the way up.  Having said that, until I can find some time to get a decent amount of bike time in, they can stay that way.

[cancan]

Having bull horn bars cant be much different to having bar ends and at least you can get aero.

I went gravel grinding the other day out from Helidon... heaps of fun although hit some corrugation a bit hard and heard a massive crack and left brifter dropped. I thought I broke the carbon handlebars so rode the remaining 50 odd km without putting presure on the bars or brifter. A bit scary doing 65km down a dirt road without wanting to use the back brake... in the end handlebars ok just needed to reposition the brifters and tighten them up properly.



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[GU Rich]

Had more great times out on my Giant Reign today!

[FUS30N]

This was my 2011 specialised demo8. I sold it  on Tuesday (sad day)


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