@fecalmaster: they are ok with you only if you fix the DS setup then do the revesre jod while they are drinking some beers watching you lost your time i guess
@migkab: Down voted your comment, because carbon frames are toxic and will kill, so if you ever burn your carbon frame do NOT on any surcumstances spread it around it will kill!
@rezrov: orange welds look very good on their normal tubed frames,it’s frames like the alpine,five etc that look a bit agricultural but then its way harder to weld thin sheeted aluminium folded to make their box section stuff. I own a five and the welds are fine but you can’t get the lovely stacked type weld on that kind of frame.
@mikelee: Yeah I'm talking mostly about their FS bikes, rather than the hardtail. The Crush just reminded me of their FS bikes.
@fatduke: The Crush is the only alloy bike that has that extra chunk welded between the headtube and downtube. That's typically only seen on steel bikes, and doesn't look very elegant on an alloy bike, imo.
@mikelee: Yes dude, that's the magic of steel. You're british, at least you are sensitive to that. I own a Stanton Switchback, such a great machine, and when I look at Starling, BTR, Kingdom Bike and so on, I can confess that I am a big fan of british bikes. God save steel bikes!!!!
@SeanC1: if you set them up right you can shift with your heel you can mount one too a bottle cage hole if you cut off the bar band on an old shifter it fits perfect I made one in 09 for bars spins and tailwhips
@nfontanella: The more airtime you're getting, the more important it is to stay hydrated during those longer flights.
I recall a cool picture of Sam Hill taking a tear-off from his goggles mid flight. Now that bottle cages have become all the rage, I want to see pictures of people taking sips whilst airborne.
I'm a big fan of art nouveau, this bike unfortunately doesn't look anything like that. Looks are subjective but to me it just looks like a confused mess. Like someone's first go at making a frame, then bumping into the limiting design parameters of manufacturing and trying to figure out how to make it work, completely ignoring form in the process. Sorry.
Beautiful organic lines= Ibis Mojo. Still not art nouveau though.
Anybody know what front hub is on the airborn? What about the stem that Josh is running? If you run a rear brake with enough slack for 1 spin, do you need to run a down tube shifter? Couldn’t you set up the derailleur cable with a single loop and have it shift fine?
Oh, and that Orange is magnificent, but blacked out labels on the Hope rims would send it over the top to perfection.
Which Josh? Ratboys stem looks like a brown Burgtech Mk2 to match the bars (www.pinkbike.com/photo/15680275) and Loosedogs looks like a truvativ descendant.
Aagro: as per the single loop you can but it makes the shift pull much harder on your thumb and if the spin goes a little too much it try's pulling the cable housing which shifts the chain onto the next easiest gear mid air I got it too work on some old large freeride bikes but every once in a while this happend so I chopped it back down to normal.
@miketizzle: I stand corrected then,it's just I was considering one,then I read a back to back comparison review with the bird Aeris,and it said the airdrop frames was just out of a generic Taiwanese factory frame design.Then the frames on the webpage were actually different ftom the ones being sold.(Cable Routing)So I just thought something isn't quite right.I saw Ed and the boys at Lady Canning once,but the cables under the BB,zipped tied to the ISCG mount,looked awful,put me off,Sure there great bikes,and the I know the Lads have a good customer rep.I opted for the Aeris in the end,which is a shame,cos I would have preferred to support the local guys.Ill try and find the article and post it up.
It’s a pretty informal race, I doubt anybody is bringing a specific bike or making many changes they’re just using their everyday mess around bike - hence Josh Lewis having a downtube mounted shifter.
They are stock Metrics with black stanchions. Not sure they ever made production. Richard is our Marketing guy and he got these from the X Fusion USA office a year or so back before it closed.
"I AM f*ckING SERIOUS. THOSE WELDED BIKES ARE TITS..
...AND STOP CALLING ME SURLY".
@fatduke: The Crush is the only alloy bike that has that extra chunk welded between the headtube and downtube. That's typically only seen on steel bikes, and doesn't look very elegant on an alloy bike, imo.
I recall a cool picture of Sam Hill taking a tear-off from his goggles mid flight. Now that bottle cages have become all the rage, I want to see pictures of people taking sips whilst airborne.
www.anothermag.com/design-living/9953/glorious-photographs-of-art-nouveau-architecture
10 points to Gryffindor
Beautiful organic lines= Ibis Mojo. Still not art nouveau though.
"Beautiful organic lines= Ibis Mojo" - I know, right!
www.pinkbike.com/photo/15643269
Anybody know what front hub is on the airborn? What about the stem that Josh is running? If you run a rear brake with enough slack for 1 spin, do you need to run a down tube shifter? Couldn’t you set up the derailleur cable with a single loop and have it shift fine?
Oh, and that Orange is magnificent, but blacked out labels on the Hope rims would send it over the top to perfection.
The one off Ti 4X bike they made a few years back? That was stunning
But if anyone would know it'd be Josh, certified rock slammer.