Anyway, today I took my new daft project out for its first real ride. Away back at the dawn of this thread somewhere there's a post of me being all excited as I'd just got a new bike, my Carrera Kraken. It got taken apart for parts eventually and since I couldn't sell the frame or cheap drivetrain I slung it up the back of the garage to die.
But then I got some rigid carbon fibre forks to give some variety for my Soul... And then other spares came available, and I got a free set of wheels from a mate as they needed totally rebuilt. So I scraped all the bits together and rebuilt the Kraken into a daft 9-speed single ring rigid XC bike.
And it's RUBBISH! But brilliant! Took it to Glentress today and though it's a bit slower than my other bikes I had such a laugh, and it put a smile on loads of other people's faces too, watching me bounce down the freeride section and then round the red route... It weighs nothing, it makes a total meal of every little root or braking bump, it tried to kill me about 10 times and it runs wide in every corner because the wheels are never on the ground. Basically, fantastic, it's like the bikes I learned on brought up to date.
Everyone should own at least one crap bike
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Originally Posted by pookie
I think its still quite viable for those self employed types. Pretty much down to the company anyway as technically the company doesn't actually have to sell you the bike as its a hire scheme I believe.
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Yup. But it was the daft final valuations that made it such a great deal. Still good for some I'm sure but it used to be pretty ridiculously brilliant. Ah well.