It’s great for backing out of the driveway.
It’s great for backing out of the driveway.
or to charge the battery for the hidden motor in the hub, right?
I pedal backwards to take the miles off the odometer and keep my bike looking new.
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Bike of the Day December 4, 2019!
bellissima!
11 spd with an 11-50 cassette... a freeride bike to hit jump lines not to climb lame xc hills. Get some legs guys! The entire bike was put together from pinkbike's buy/sell ads minus the wheelset & frame. Braaaap
That drivetrain was under $150... and the bike is 6 yrs old so why put expensive brand new parts on to send it... so cool story bro!
Good to know. And how about the approximate sag... upper 20s?
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Wide variety of trails over the last couple months at this point and I haven't had any issues with coil. In the few times I have bottomed it out, it wasn't harsh at all.
The standard SLS spring works for the type of riding I do most: loamy singletrack and technical european hikingtrails. I do have a MRP Progressive spring for the very few times I ride bikepark and flowtrails tho. Just to make it a bit more poppy.
How does she do with the coil? Don’t you need something like an MRP progressive coil to help with bottom out resistance?
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Clean and sexy and priced very well! That $3800 29er model looks great with full carbon frame and full SLX (incl. 4 pots), not to mention piggyback rear shock and 36 fork. Will definitely consider for my next bike and would drop a 150 air shaft from the get go. STA could be steeper (76-77 is my personal preference) but it's not horribly slack.
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Looks solid and prices look really good too.
Just a thought Jeff. At the $5k pricepoint, which is alot of money but also a build that I think will be very popular, the full carbon frame + general spec is on par with other bikes like the carbon Sentinel & Ripmo (gx builds) with the exception of the suspension which is bump up in performance vs it's peers. Nice to see the X2 & Grip 2 on this bike.
I haven't ridden this vs the Capra 29 but this platform looks waaaaay better in terms of do-it-all-ability vs the YT. Though a forked up / long-shocked Jeffsy29 (150r/150 or 160f) might be a better comparison. Anyway a shootout vs the Ripmo seems in order and also a $3k of the ones you mentioned. Finally, the alu Sentinel is a bit of a porker on the climbs (and at about 34.5 lbs size large GX build on the shop floor, so even heavier in NX trim) so I wonder what the Giant in alu weighs in at.
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Easily one of the most over-the-top ridiculous bikes I've seen. I love it!
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Well now, I'll take 2 sets then!
Joke... but my rear hub is a Project321 w/ silent pawls so another option for the list plus anodized options like Onyx.
My carbon wheelset (china-direct $200 rims) w/ P321(r) and Hope(f) hubs has been uber reliable for over a year and a half now. Not 'cheap' by any means as the wheelset was still over $1100 to build up (nice rear hubs don't come cheap!) but you can build so much for so much less than this.
I like Enves rim strip solution though and respect their recent warranty improvements. I hope others copy their rim strip!
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right you are for the X2. For anyone who doesn't already have an awesome shock on their smug you can get a 210 x 52.5 DPX-2 (for Fuel EX) from a couple online retailers but they're pricey, over $500. Or the Topaz comes in 52.5 too. From other threads it sounds like seatstay bridge / seat tube clearance at full compression is already tight with the stock 50mm shock so even the minimal increase to 52.5 could be a no go. I'd like to hear if anyone's made it work.
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What are you using to wrap your cables?
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WHY ARE YOU PEDALING BACKWARDS?