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Old 11-01-10, 10:34 PM   #551
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Whooo Hoooooo

Picked up the new bike yesterday.
She's a Special Edition of the Pro No 452. X9 / X0 group with carbon disks.
I work on Boardman bikes a lot due to being a spanner monkey for Halfords, these Ltd Edition ones are absolutely gorgeous, the LTD Carbon Road bike is so nice I would swap my Granny for one. The MTB Pro is designed to be a cross country racer, please don't bodge it up with long travel forks and funny wheels. It is a thoroughbred race bike, although my Team Edition XTC is still better, even after ten years!

I have been told that the Full suspension, full Carbon Carrera mountain bike is available soon too, can't wait to get my grasping little paws on that so I can slag it off to anyone who buys it, while secretly wishing I could afford one!

Took my bike for a spin in the snow the other day, just so I could remember what she is like to ride. I miss my mountain bike so much and have decided that poor health or not, I am damn well going riding this year.

I now have to make up for close to three and half years of bad health and broken bits, but do not believe that I will ever be as fit as I was in 2006, the last time I rode her for real.
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Old 11-01-10, 10:54 PM   #552
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I work on Boardman bikes a lot due to being a spanner monkey for Halfords, these Ltd Edition ones are absolutely gorgeous, the LTD Carbon Road bike is so nice I would swap my Granny for one. The MTB Pro is designed to be a cross country racer, please don't bodge it up with long travel forks and funny wheels. It is a thoroughbred race bike,
I wouldn't dream of putting long forks on. As you can see from the old Diamonbacks SID XC forks, short travel air sprung is my thing with ace X717 rims in retro silver. I'm going to refurbish the Zetec for one of the 'rug rats'. It's had a recent chainset, cassette and front mech and I've got a new LX Deore rear mech in the garage for her.

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Old 12-01-10, 12:57 AM   #553
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Speaking of cross country racers and missing things, this is my old Orange P7 which I sold ages ago and wish I hadn't.



I had a Marin Indian Fire Trail years ago, about early nineties, and that was my favorite so far.
OK, so I had it sprayed pink, well it was fashionable in the early nineties.



Decided to go for a little bimble today on my current steed, Scott Scale 60.




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Old 12-01-10, 09:04 PM   #554
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Carbon discs eh? Very snazzy! My discs were making a right old racket in the snow, anyone have any tips on how to stop them squealing?
I buckled mine, stopped it squealing but made it stick enough to keep locking on the ice. FAIL.

Can these be straightened or do I need to buy a new disc?
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Old 12-01-10, 09:49 PM   #555
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If it's got an actual bend in it, it's knackered but if it's just out of true you can straighten it usually. The ideal tool weirdly enough is one of those really terrible adjustable spanners you get in cheap toolkits. Or Park Tools will sell you a "proper" tool for about £40. It's not hard but it's a pain in the bum.

If you've got an IS brake with adaptors, there's a trick you can do... Remove the caliper and one of the mounting bolts, then swing the adapter out and thread the bolt back through it, so that when you tighten it, it touches the face of the disc. Back it off so that it doesn't, then spin the wheel and carefully tighten it til it comes in contact- you now have a free, highly accurate runout detector. then, just tweak the disc until it's straight.
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Old 12-01-10, 10:08 PM   #556
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Speaking of cross country racers and missing things, this is my old Orange P7 which I sold ages ago and wish I hadn't.
Funny, I had an Orange Clockwork, circa 1993 with full brand new Shimano LX groupset on it. I found it lovely and reliable at first, but after a year or so, I found it dull when compared to the Konas that I worked on, so I sold it and bought a steel framed Kona. I still miss that bike, and if I had my time again I would never sell it. I loved that Kona. Sadly, I had to sell it to fund my last year of Uni.
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Old 13-01-10, 02:34 AM   #557
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thinking of selling mine not sure yet but i dont use it enough :/ maybe 3 times a year lol if that

what do you lot think price wise

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.azonic Evo ii 18 inch DJ/FR/DH frame all wellds are good
.fsa pig head set (DH)
.shimano saint crank and external BB with 32tooth sprocket (inc original shimano bash ring and iner sprocket)
.Black spire NS-X full chain guide with bash guard
.shimano XT shadow rear mech,deor 9 spd caset
.deor sifter pod
.24seven lock on grips
.gusset bear cage pedals
.fireeye talon stem
.titec hell bent DH bars
.HOPE Mono M4 calipers and leavers 4 pot solid caliper design new sinterd pads 203mm brake mount plates front and rear
.HOPE 2x203mm black floating rotor's front and back (inc 1 front non floating 203mm rotor and 1 180mm rear non floating with 1 180mm rear brake bracket (for smaller rotor)
.Hope bar ends
.Hope seat coller
.24seven FR seat
.cheep seat post
.HALO SAS rear wheel special 48 spoke with halo hub and 28 tooth spline 26inch
.Magura Phaon forks 125mm -90mm adjustable travel, adjustable preload,dampning and rebound
.quick relese squwers all round
.Mavic EX721 front rim with shimano deor hub with new spindle 26 spoke
26inch
.Mavic EX721 rear rim with broken rear simano deor hub (spline shreaded) 32spoke not quite true (need rebuild) (NOT FITTED replaced with mentiond HALO rim above)
.MAXXIS high roller DH tires wire bed 2.1 wide (could be 2.2) no punctures very heavy duty (will include 3 tioga DH tires 1 folding front 2.1 and 1 wire bed HD pro front and one wire bed HD pro rear 2.1, may not have the rear all part used)
.Shram chain with gold quick link not a lot of miles done in it

some damage EG chips and scraped pedals,brake leavers(cylinder cap),bar ends and slight abrasion to seat(not riped)

i have a fair few other spares for it that can go with it as well IF i decide i want to get rid of it

so how much do you think i should be getting ? for it £500-700 maybe (wont go lower than £500 as brakes and wheels/hubs are worth that alone)






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Old 13-01-10, 08:55 AM   #558
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looks like it could do with some 130mm maybe 150mm forks on it

well thats what i would do any way

or drop a 24inch wheel on the back, that would also make it take off faster and easier to wheely
Please tell me you are kidding?

I cant wait for people to get bored of "freeriding" and get back to serious riding again.
Dont get me wrong, Its each to their own (I used to race XC, DH and Slalom back in the day as well as Tri and TT as well) but 24 inch wheels and long travel forks to build a "jump bike" I used to do pretty well BITD with the old RS1 and then mag21 (a whopping 40mm) and 26 inch wheels.

Before that "jump bikes" were BMX


Time to start campaining to bring back more XC racing
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Old 13-01-10, 11:27 PM   #559
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nope i hate twitchy bikes lol if i had it i would have 140mm marzocchi 55R's on it lol but thats just me as i dont like seat up spandex riding

im a DH/FR/Street type of rider
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Dont get me wrong, Its each to their own (I used to race XC, DH and Slalom back in the day as well as Tri and TT as well) but 24 inch wheels and long travel forks to build a "jump bike" I used to do pretty well BITD with the old RS1 and then mag21 (a whopping 40mm) and 26 inch wheels.

Before that "jump bikes" were BMX


Time to start campaining to bring back more XC racing
Did XC ever really go away? I was a Dartmoor Lass until recently and spent so many weekends out there playing on my bikes.
I started with one of these.


and now have one of these.



XC bikes never went away, they just evolved a little.
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