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Echo Control - Best Christmas Present I've Ever Given Myself


psycholist

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Delivered directly to my house on Christmas Eve :D:

For want of a better reason (too many colour choices available) I went for the Irish tricolour (green/white/gold) with silver instead of white for my component colour scheme.

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The build is an Echo control frame, pretty much a full echo component build (Straight off the tartybikes website) with an Urban fork rather than the control fork and Maguras at both ends - I land on the spots where the disks should be way too often to risk even a front disk. White bros ENO 72 freewheel - 18:14 ratio. Rock green pads on both maguras. 105mm stem and V8 pedals...

The handlebars bike are a lot lower than I was used to (2004 Echo pure with 80mm stem and riser bars). This makes hopping on the front wheel more difficult (Not that I was any good at that anyway) and puts a lot more weight on my arms. After the first few cycles I had seriously sore muscles across the front of my shoulders because of this - no pain at all after last night's cycle though (So it only took 3 or 4 sessions for my muscles to adapt). The lower front should allow me to hop higher and maybe even hook onto things better - still working on this one too... The lower handlebars will allow me to stay balanced on steeper upslopes (rather than tipping off the back) and give more front-back weight shifting room on the back wheel too. Still tempted to go with a higher stem though, but I'll try it for a month or two to get used to the rest of the bike's geometry and see then...

The brakes are fantastic on dry unground rims, but I'll probably have to grind them for my own safety - one drop of water on the rims and the brakes barely work at all. They're quite noisy at the moment, so deafening may not do them justice after grinding. I'm guessing the brake blocks are so soft they'll get eaten in a matter of weeks after the grind too, so I'll try grinding as light as possible (Possibly with a sanding disk rather than the angle grinder) first...

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What is it with some forum members posting shite pics of their pride and joy :S ? you invest your time and energy in working hard and saving up, buliding the bike up, and yet after all that mamouth effort, you post the most shite pic known to mankind. the image is not even in fcuking focus. is taking a decent pic so damn hard for you. anyway on the issue of the bike, i dont like the colour scheme as it should have been green rims, green cranks, green bars. anything lower than 10 degree rise on the stem is a bad idea for modern trials riding esspecially if your using low rise bars.

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These are the pads I'm running at both ends: http://www.tartybikes.co.uk/product.php?id=10010

I have some higher resolution pictures here:

http://www.skynet.ie/~ceason/photos/Trials...os/DSC00639.JPG

http://www.skynet.ie/~ceason/photos/Trials...os/DSC00640.JPG

http://www.skynet.ie/~ceason/photos/Trials...os/DSC00650.JPG

http://www.skynet.ie/~ceason/photos/Trials...os/DSC00653.JPG

Some of them are a bit blurred - it may be the summer before I get lighting suitable for use with phone camera :P...

As for the gear ratio - I run a 48:15 on my heavy steel MTB commuter (Most people on single speed road bikes with way less drag and weight don't go that high, so I must do the torque thing well). I snapped another stem on the commuter bike yesterday after fitting it new less than 6 months ago - for some reason 1" quill stems aren't quite up to the job of taking the twisting put through the handlebars pushing that gear up hills :P.

The gear on the new trials bike is slightly lower than the 22:17 I ran on my previous bike. The mental thing is I can barely gap 4 feet without a run up - possibly because I'm not that light, though I'm still working on better technique :P...

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