Off topic - MTBs

Veeeeerrrry nice, touring!

Was looking @ a Rocky Mountain Slayer over in Boston last month. $2,700. You could nearly replace the $ with stg�.... Some good trails over there, and my wifes cousins husband (phew) does alot of the Norba stuff, so I might take a few days over on the trails, buy something tasty, and then bring it back.

But 1st, I best get back on my 'Dale!

Aye, DX, the GT was full DX - till I upgraded it a bit at a time to XT before it got nicked .
Anyone read all the little bits between the Mint pics? (just been taking a trip down memory lane reading them.)

Cool, Mint Sauce clips.. I still have my stickers.

I remember my Karakorum Elite, t'was a lovely blue colour, full XT inc. thumbies (hated grip shift and rapid fire jobbies). My Pro-Flex has full XT, got rid of gripshift when I bought it second hand - replaced with XT thumbies straight away. Had a flex stem (bright green, same as swingarm) got rid of that for a Ritchey Alu stem and put Trek DS-2 air/oil shocks on. uprated the elastomer form a naff rock hard thing to a newer yellow jobie - made a big difference. Worse thing was the craze for polished aluminium frames.. Out came the Nitromors!! stripped the frame to the bear metal, found flipping filler round where the frame is squashed to allow for the swingarm.. was done at the factory as well!! That did it for me.. Got XT clipless pedals (spuds lol) with origional Shimano bowling shoes.

Have thought about getting a hardtail frame and swopping all the bits over. Kleins were the stuff you drooled over, Kona's were common as er.. Kona's. Cannondales looked nice with their quirky front sussies. Always fancied a Pace RC200 with the sqaure tubes. Lad from the local bike shop had a Slingshot - wierd or what - where do you put the crudcatcher?

by, this brings back memories

yeah me too, big narly platforms...

wow this is a great thread, sorru I brought such a morbid twist to it. Mcroy was my hero he thought me loads, the nicest guy ever

Football ruined my knees, I sound like a grandad I'm only 30 so cycling is done at a very slow pace these days

I still have my Karakorum, which was updated with loads of stuff, just like my car now huh

 

Mint Sauce ruled....

http://homepage.mac.com/pfellows1/thisiswhy/strips.html

 

How many times did you spec up a bike from scratch from one of the uk builders??

 

 

 

 

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We should have a Mountain Biking revival weekend sometime - we could cycle for five minutes, get totally out of breath, retire to the pub and complain about being saddle sore over a few pints for the rest of the weekend!!! 

Needless to say - the fit people will have to pretend that they are totally knackered after five minutes in the saddle.


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How times have changed! Seems to be alot cheaper to buy something highly specced nowadays..have been looking at buying a Specialized FSR XC or a Trek Fuel, want something with full suspension I think, s'posed to be more fun. Used to love reading the newest issue of MBUK back in the day...recently just disposed of about 50 old issues!

For one weekend I'd the 3" of Frankenstem and a set of early air/oil Marzochhis (before the drilled/machined legs) and 2 canti braces I'd had made up cos the things flexed so much. That was scary travel - bars going one way, wheel going the other.. I dunno how I rode the thing. The front end weighed a ton too. Some crack up at the local motocross track tho.

My names TJ Hunter, and I'm from Cork.

Back in the day, we'd a club called the MBCC (Mountain Bike Club of Cork - creative, wa?). If you didn't remember the name, you'd remember the bike.

It was a Daytona Violet() Allsop softride - the one with the tiny fame and the carbon beam sprouting from the head/top tube and going back & up. It was a fantastic climbing & XC bike. I had the pround distinction of being the only person in Europe beside Thomas Frisniecht (forgot how to spell it but he was XC world champ around then) to break a Ritchey Frankenstem @ the time. They gave me a reinforced one back ala tomas, and as Allsop had a mnfring plant in Waterford for their cleaning products, I built up a small relationship with them. I got 3 free beams, and assorted parts. I actually bought an entire new boxed Deore DX gruopset from them around 99-00 to restore the Allsop to its former glory. Alas the frame is now starting to crack around the beam area. I'd love to get a Dave Yates Ritchey tubed frameset made for it, but it's hard to justify the money why I'm riding so little these days...

I'm developing a middle age spread @ this stage, so need to get back on them!!

 

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funny - cars huh ?

TJ whats your name / where u from - bet i know and raced against you