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Just got my new DH Bike :)
Bush Tucker Man:
--- Quote from: "strapping young lad" ---the only probem with DH bikes is that due to the stresses of caning it down tracks they are sturdy but heavy
hope you got strong legs for flat bits as they arent the best for normal cycling
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True, they're always seem so slow & saggy.
Plus; what goes down, must go back up (the hill)
Digressing (as I usually do :wink: )
I was in Evan Cyles at 'Xscape' (Castleford) yesterday & was gazing in amazement (or was it just surprise?) at some of the ludicrous down-hill bikes.
Then after drooling at the carbon-fibre Trek road-bikes, my eyes were caught by this beauty (the only difference was that the one in Evans was silvery-grey)
I could have taken that home with me :(biglove):
Oh & the one I saw didn't have Zipp rims & 'tubs', just normal rims & 'wire-ons'
I quite fancied a couple of the StumpJumpers as well.
Now that's a model name that's lasted years, I remember Ned Overend riding them in the very early 90's
deepender:
My son spent £900 :shock: on a second hand one with carbon frame..............and broke it within 2 weeks. :roll:
Bush Tucker Man:
--- Quote from: "deepender" ---My son spent £900 :shock: on a second hand one with carbon frame..............and broke it within 2 weeks. :roll:
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Admittedly it's light & can be layered to suit stressed areas, but when C/F goes, it goes!
I've still got my (bought new in 1994) Titanium road-bike hanging in the garage.
It's a bonded construction (tubes 'stuck' into the lugs)
The techniques used are allegedly so good that the titanium would shear before the adhesive parted company!!
A friend used to have a Yeti 'FRO' & you always got the feeling that it would survive almost anything, as it seemed so solid.
narked:
--- Quote from: "Bush Tucker Man" ---True, they're always seem so slow & saggy.
Plus; what goes down, must go back up (the hill)
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And that is why the farmers who own the land that the tracks are on make a killing driving their tractors with trailers up and down the hill all day long :P
Though there are actually lunatics out there who pedal these downhill beasts back up the hills. Wouldn't catch me doing that! Having said that I haven't got the bottle to throw myself down those hills at anywhere near the speed those bikes are capable of achieving.
strapping young lad:
there's a brit called Steve Peat who is current world DH champion i believe and if you youtube for him you see why he is that good..
what i prefer watching is them trials guys on mtb bikes, one of the best for this is Ryan Leech (youtube and you'll see why) in one scene he rides down a rail on a railway line, stops, jumps and does a 180 and lands on the other rail and cycles away! :shock:
also a newer sport in prominence is called Slopestyle where you use gravity (ie its all downhill) and you have different jumps and stuff on the way down to show your skill..
personally if i had the money and the lack of guilt on spending i would get this one ;)
http://www.pedalon.co.uk/acatalog/giant_anthem_advanced.html
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