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Headshot Added a reply to What Venue Would You Pick for the World Cup to Either Return to or Host?
3/7/2016 1:14am Stellenbosch, Cape Town, South Africa. Beautiful scenery, gourmet food, wine lands, beaches and with some work, killer trails too.
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Headshot Added a comment about press release Urge Announces That Their Endur-O-Matic 2 is Now Available
3/4/2016 2:29am
Gimme one now!
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Headshot Added a comment about video The Audi Commercial with Gwin
3/2/2016 3:34am
Meh!
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The Jamis is not a Horst link design. Its a linkage driven mono pivot. Look at where the rear most pivot is. On the seat stay, not the chain stay. Specialized and Transition, among others make the Horst Link work very well for them.
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Ouch, that's a bit of a fail Jamis. That other site also found the back end too flexy for words. Seems unbelievable in this day and age that they'd get it so wrong. A bridge on the chainstays is probably all it would have taken. My Enduro has one and it does limit tyre clearance but thats a small price in my opinion.
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Headshot Added a reply to Localism, Legitimacy or Both?
2/22/2016 2:00am We have the same issues here in South Africa. Our primo riding area in the Cape Peninsula was proclaimed a national park a few years ago. It got burned out in a bush fire a year ago and is still closed. Other trails that I have ridden for over 20 years on city land have now been legalized to help...
Great bike but I have queries similar to those below regarding the TT and reach. The XL has longer reach than my XL Enduro so its not a shhort bike methinks. I also wonder how the bike scored so highly with an under performing shock. Even though the price is good, surely you should not have to buy a RS or Fox to make it work properly (or be reliable)?
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7/30/2015 1:44pm
That clarifies it a bit. the problem is the review read a bit like my Giant Reign experience. Lots of shock tweaking ie vlume reducer experiments leading to a bomb proof 150mm rear end let down a bit by a flexy fork. My Reign in 26" did duty as a road bike this weekend and outgunned plenty of people (noobs no doubt) on road bikes. It has also been used on multiday mtb rides. So, a versatile bike is nothing new. The difference is mine can still bomb a dh line and will be even more capable once i fit...
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This review felt a bit alien on vital. A 120mm "trail bike" being ridden on dh like lines and requiring a lot of tuning to get it right. Thats a lot of tweaking on a $9k bike. The review doesnt read like the bike deserves 4 stars and frankly the reactive damper sounds more like a marketing ploy than anything ground breaking. Acronyms sell bikes seems to be Treks motto...
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Headshot Added a reply to Middle of the road, All around tubeless rim?
11/27/2014 10:20am Id go with the Stans. They are probably the easiest rims to inflate any tyre on that I have ever used - bar actual UST rims. For Texas, the Arch's will be just fine...
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2/13/2014 10:55pm
Felt like I was there, wishing I really was - amazing coverage, well done.
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Frankenberg Liked a comment about News Story Brendan Fairclough to Race Scott Genius LT at World Cup #1?
2/13/2014 2:41am
If it's not a downhill track then why did a downhill rider on a downhill bike beat an enduro rider on an enduro bike?? Maybe go check the track out before judging the course based on a few bad GoPro edits.. Its insanely fast with massive jumps; but also a fair amount of tech.
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singletrackslayer Liked a comment about Feature Good Riddance, Pinch Flats! Introducing Dual Chamber Tire System from Schwalbe
2/10/2014 4:36am
Sorry but Maxxis tires rule, If Schwalbe made a durable tire, than they would be on to something
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Nice review. I have exactly the same problem with my Reign 1 size L dropper post. I have to run it quite high in the seat tube and the 100mm drop is not quite enough at times. With a 50mm stem and more weight over the back, my bike has no rear braking issues.
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12/24/2013 2:00pm
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12/3/2013 7:44am
Go Cotic, go!
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11/15/2013 4:23am
Have to say i would not have been as nice - well done on keeping your cool. A buddy once stopped dead in front of me for no reason. I braked but my knuckles hit the back of his saddle took weeks to heal. How long agao was this - those riders looked like teenage mutant ninja turtles.
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