Show us your bike (bicycle)

[Shaun99]

Looks like a fair bit of junk. How deep do you need to dig to find the needle in that haystack?

$20,000 or you could drive around your town during the next hard rubbish collection and pick a similar lot up for free!

[D4D]

Good to see some people still have vision and can adapt and thrive, I can't wait to get down there one day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66i8-A67lLo

[landbarge]

Good to see some people still have vision and can adapt and thrive, I can't wait to get down there one day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66i8-A67lLo

What a great thing to do. I want to have a go.

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[landbarge]

https://youtu.be/WPVRU7jSYkQ

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[landbarge]

https://youtu.be/TEhySzO14ik

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[D4D]

https://youtu.be/WPVRU7jSYkQ

An oldy but a goody, given I just decked my son out in Fox shorts and top, I can relate

[landbarge]

I showed your bike 4 sale to a mate. I used it as a guide to show what is available for around a grand. This turned out to be a catalyst for him to sell his bike to me . I will soon be the owner of a 2014 Giant Anthem2. Thanks for that...😆

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[Bird]

This is awesome

Abandoned Mine is Now World's Largest Indoor BMX Bike Park
http://www.louisvillemegacavern.com/attractions/6/underground-bike-park


Boasting 5 miles of trails, ramps and obstacles, this cavernous subterranean space sits 100 feet underground and totals 320,000 square feet. The wide-open footprint and copious mounds of dirt, able to be endlessly reformed into new types of terrain, lend themselves to this particularly fitting form of adaptive reuse.

Located in Louisville, Kentucky, and open as of yesterday, the Mega Underground Bike Park gains a number of advantages from being far below the surface, including a relatively consistent temperature and protection from wind, rain and other weather (without the typical costs of constructing a building to house these activities).

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Currently the space offers 45 trails with differing degrees of of difficulty as well as clever additions like cargo containers turned into ramps and overpasses. Most of the materials needed, though, were already in place – it was mainly a matter of lighting, accessing and shaping the space.


http://weburbanist.com/2015/02/10/abandoned-mine-is-now-worlds-largest-indoor-bmx-bike-park/

https://youtu.be/bywQ7lwdD04

[landbarge]

Incredible.

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[cancan]

With no Camper trailer or 4wd I am now down to camping on the bike.... this was a weekend from Auckland, around Coromandel and back.... putting CX wheels on next weeked and riding gravel roads and single tracks aroud Rotorua


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[D4D]

That looks like fun, but hard work.

[D4D]

Important read
http://www.theage.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/should-there-be-a-safe-life-for-bicycle-parts-20161117-gss41s.html

[GBC]

Important read
http://www.theage.com.au/business/consumer-affairs/should-there-be-a-safe-life-for-bicycle-parts-20161117-gss41s.html

An inclusion flaw by definition, cannot be linked to usage hours/styles/rider weight/roads or countless other things which will damage a bike, nor could anybody possibly guess when it might fail.

Had it been x-rayed (per aviation parts) it would never have made it into a bike. Safe lifespan? wank imho.

[cancan]

That could be said for any key part on any type of vehicle.


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[D4D]

Had it been x-rayed (per aviation parts) it would never have made it into a bike. Safe lifespan? wank imho.

Canyon bikes X-ray every frame/fork prior to assembly. I wonder if other manufacturers will start doing this.

[cancan]

I had a light crash on a timber boardwalk..... bike had been repaired... had major service at another shop and a 3rd shop just noticed the frame was cracked  .. this is after 4 months of racing and a few down hill runs with speeds in the 90km/hr mark.... scary when you think that frame could have failed at any moment

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[scblack]

I had a light crash on a timber boardwalk..... bike had been repaired... had major service at another shop and a 3rd shop just noticed the frame was cracked  .. this is after 4 months of racing and a few down hill runs with speeds in the 90km/hr mark.... scary when you think that frame could have failed at any moment

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Sheesh, sounds scary. Buy a lottery ticket!

[Foo]

I had a light crash on a timber boardwalk..... bike had been repaired... had major service at another shop and a 3rd shop just noticed the frame was cracked  .. this is after 4 months of racing and a few down hill runs with speeds in the 90km/hr mark.... scary when you think that frame could have failed at any moment

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Yeah that's pliss poor form on the repair, also! 

Do you race Track also or are you to scared?

Foo

[cancan]

Yes not impressed with the workshop. ... would love to try track... i think i would be suited to it as well.... will give it a go when we go back to Brisbane...

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[Foo]

The new board Track is pure magic to ride on. 

Foo

[cancan]

I just checked out the avantidome in cambridge... i will be down that way sometime over chrissie and will give it a go. ..

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[D4D]

Awesome day for a ride, love it when my bike is perfectly dialled in.

[GGV8Cruza]

Good work D4D. Might get out tomorrow sometime

GG

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[scblack]

Awesome day for a ride, love it when my bike is perfectly dialled in.

That looks great, what a lovely spot for a ride.

[D4D]

That looks great, what a lovely spot for a ride.

Yes it is http://www.trailforks.com/trails/jess-s-track/