Post Your Ride
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Re: Post Your Ride
Postby Juppy » Sat Mar 03, 2012 7:40 pm
People like crazy. Everybody began to assemble 29ers.
But I think that for races with my height the 29er is not very suitable.
So I will assemble a 26er hardtail.
By the way, congratulations with new bike!
PS
Background buildings is the Zhukovskiy City.
http://maps.google.ru/maps/ms?msa=0&msi ... 13e63f9a9a
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Re: Post Your Ride
Postby trailgumby » Sat Mar 03, 2012 10:58 pm
It is wonderful to see that you have such a thriving mountain bike scene around Moscow. Do you continue to ride and race in the winter, or are the conditions too difficult?
By the way, I have the same model Cannondale, in Silver. I have changed the wheels to Crossmax SLR, and replaced the SRAM/Avid gear with Shimano XT dual-control brakes and drivetrain. I have a son similar age to yours. I am having some challenges getting him to train for the 24hr teams race we are doing in 3 weeks ... girlfriends
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Re: Post Your Ride
Postby Juppy » Sat Mar 03, 2012 11:43 pm
About winter:trailgumby wrote:I have a Russian friend who is a keen mountain biker.
It is wonderful to see that you have such a thriving mountain bike scene around Moscow. Do you continue to ride and race in the winter, or are the conditions too difficult?
By the way, I have the same model Cannondale, in Silver. I have changed the wheels to Crossmax SLR, and replaced the SRAM/Avid gear with Shimano XT dual-control brakes and drivetrain. I have a son similar age to yours. I am having some challenges getting him to train for the 24hr teams race we are doing in 3 weeks ... girlfriends
Of course, in winter, conditions for the bike some more difficult. Even at prepared track speeds is slower and you have to steer more precise, because of snow.
But it is all the same interesting.
I also changed some of the components on my Rize:
Brakes and triggers
front derailleur (old Shimano XT)
And rotors
With age, the son, too, tries to wriggle out of sports.
It appears other interests too - girls
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Re: Post Your Ride
Postby Mugglechops » Mon Mar 05, 2012 7:27 pm
That bike would look good with my seatBentnose wrote:I posted this a while ago when I first built it up but I've upgraded anumber of parts since and now consider it to be finished, well maybe until I save up for those new suspension forks
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Re: Post Your Ride
Postby Bentnose » Tue Mar 06, 2012 8:35 pm
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Postby trailgumby » Tue Mar 06, 2012 9:45 pm
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Re: Post Your Ride
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Re: Post Your Ride
Postby Mugglechops » Wed Mar 07, 2012 8:00 am
Picked up my 29er today. Bloody rain so no ride yet. Should be dirty by tomorrow as I am riding it to work.
I changed the brakes to XT icetechs and put some new XT trail pedals on it.
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Re: Post Your Ride
Postby ZepinAtor » Thu Mar 08, 2012 3:01 am
I put this up in the bike gallery. It must of freaked them out seeing dirt on a bike not sitting in front of a cream garage door, not on the big ring.
If it's any consolation it is slammed down without any spacers under the stem.
My Tallboy got a free mud pack facial in Sundays 4 hour at Murennbong.
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Re: Post Your Ride
Postby trailgumby » Fri Mar 09, 2012 9:09 pm
Put the Crossmax wheels back on after fitting some new rubber for the Mont. Took it for a spin - man the bike feels good, accelerates so fast And looks a lot more weapon-like
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Re: Post Your Ride
Postby Juppy » Fri Mar 09, 2012 9:20 pm
otherwise you can damage the frame by the fork's leg.
The rubber bumper have to touch the down tube when front wheel fully turned to the left.
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Re: Post Your Ride
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Re: Post Your Ride
Postby limetang » Sat Mar 10, 2012 5:50 pm
Helped me a lot with my next purchase..... pics to be uploaded Wednesday!
Recon Gold RL forks, Deore M596 Brakeset, Ergon GA1 grips are the latest additions and theyre all great! The brakes especially compared to Shimano M445's
Weighs in at 12.3kgs including pedals, cage & Garmin sensor, which is not too bad with this frame i reckon!
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Re: Post Your Ride
Postby drubie » Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:16 pm
but really, that's rubbish. We get none of it because the choices are illusory.
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Re: Post Your Ride
Postby trailgumby » Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:44 pm
Funny story: After my first race back in 2008 I made the mistake of leaving my number plate on the handlebars when I took the ferry to work. Parked it in the rack, chose a seat and enjoyed the pretty harbour coastline sliding by.
Came back to my bike just as we were passing Taronga Zoo to find about six people drooling all over my kermit green bike checking out all the finer details, and the thing they were most taken with, it seems, was ... <drum roll> ... the inner-tube chainstay chainslap protector! Go figure.
It's starting to look a bit tired up near the cranks, might be time to dig another one out of the retired parts bin.
Occasionally I see discards by the side of the road and pick them up 'cos I don't actually use tubes in any of my mtbs and haven't for 3-4 years. I think that one was a BMX tube that some kid just chucked on the footpath because they couldn't be bothered sticking it in their pocket for a kilometre down the hill to the Allambie Heights shops. So I re-cycled it (boom-tish!)
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Re: Post Your Ride
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Re: Post Your Ride
Postby drubie » Tue Mar 13, 2012 11:29 pm
but really, that's rubbish. We get none of it because the choices are illusory.
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Re: Post Your Ride
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Postby Kenzo » Wed Mar 14, 2012 6:57 am
that's how I've wrapped my stay protectors. The tube I used also has a thin blue line and has created a nice pattern along the wrap. Have the old-tube style protectors on all but the singlespeed (which doesn't have any chain slap issues).trailgumby wrote:Inner tube slit down one side and overlapped 50% each wrap.
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Re: Post Your Ride
Postby Bentnose » Thu Mar 15, 2012 8:38 pm
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Re: Post Your Ride
Postby limetang » Sat Mar 17, 2012 1:48 pm
Size is XL, fits me very comfortably and is set up similar to my hardtail.
Im doing the 12hr event at the Kona Dirty Weekend in Adelaide here in May, cant wait to see how she goes.
Just waiting on a chainstay protector + bottle cage! ( oh yeh and wheel decals and dork disc..... gotta go!!)
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Re: Post Your Ride
Postby trailgumby » Sat Mar 17, 2012 6:02 pm
You could consider moving your controls further inboard so you can get the one-finger braking thing happening. I reckon you have enough room before the centre taper to move them in a good 50mm or more if you so choose.
That means you still get plenty of braking power, but less arm pump on the rough stuff because you've got 3 fingers and thumb around the grip instead of only 2.
For some reason they always seem to come with the controls spaced out much too wide ex-factory.
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Re: Post Your Ride
Postby Mulger bill » Sat Mar 17, 2012 9:32 pm
Gumby is right about the controls, tho' if you have short little thumbs like me, you'll have to run the levers inboard of the pods and that means jettisoning the indicators. Not a big job.
Dunno about your sizing, but slamming the stem on my size (M) Trance did wonders for the handling, front end feels much more planted.
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