Skoze Posted August 15, 2009 Report Share Posted August 15, 2009 (edited) Evening all! As anyone who's ridden with me in the last 6 months or so will know, my Fatty's were royally f**ked and rather scary to ride with (what with the steerer not actually being attached much) So thanks to some heroics from Jon Granger and Sam Nichols, I got hooked up with a set of Pashleys and a front brake to go with 'em Sent the forks off to Paul, had the mounts lowered, the forks primed and sent back to me for the sum of 20 English pounds, lovely jubbly! And one for Ross; i've ditched the Moto!All sorted now, got it the way i want it bar new pads (which will be duly supplied this week) a stem that only clamps my bars with a train ticket as a shim and a raped headset but I can't be arsed to change those just yet;NICE welds, sir.Geo is 1035, +20, 385, 74* (aka total awesome)Usual spec;Leeson 609 BumpPashley forksFront and rear Avid UltimatesFront and rear Chris King ISOs on Sun Rhyno LitesMiddleburnsEtc...So big thanks to the people who've kept it going over the past few months - Rainbird, Granger, Sam, Paul, Steve-A and co. Hugely appreciate it all Enjoy! MattPs i want more comments than Simp Edited August 15, 2009 by Skoze Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dale-Hill Posted August 15, 2009 Report Share Posted August 15, 2009 PIMP! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 15, 2009 Report Share Posted August 15, 2009 Nice, very nice sir ! Not too sure on the stem if it was black an all round winner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J Trials 31 Posted August 15, 2009 Report Share Posted August 15, 2009 Super nice! I wish I can have a 24" so bad!!! That one looks spot on!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrDoom Posted August 15, 2009 Report Share Posted August 15, 2009 http://jforjustice.co.uk/banksters Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan Thornton Posted August 15, 2009 Report Share Posted August 15, 2009 Looks sweeeeettttt!I think it looked better with the fatty r's on it though.Dan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Burrows Posted August 15, 2009 Report Share Posted August 15, 2009 Looking good Matt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Rainbird Posted August 16, 2009 Report Share Posted August 16, 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mat Smith!! Posted August 16, 2009 Report Share Posted August 16, 2009 Looks beast, shame backwards mount vee doesn't acctually work as good as front mount . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Nichols Posted August 16, 2009 Report Share Posted August 16, 2009 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CurtisRider Posted August 16, 2009 Report Share Posted August 16, 2009 Cheers Matt :$ they look really good, as does the rest of the bike! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom Booth Posted August 16, 2009 Report Share Posted August 16, 2009 That's gorgeous, Matt. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross McArthur Posted August 16, 2009 Report Share Posted August 16, 2009 Lovin it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skoze Posted August 17, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2009 I think it looked better with the fatty r's on it though.Dan.Yeah, they did look/ were awesome. Shame they decided to part company! I'll probably fix them up at some point, but the Pashley's are a suitable stand-in Looks beast, shame backwards mount vee doesn't acctually work as good as front mount .Haha, it's working fine for me, ta *pic*Hero Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onzatrip Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 looks amazing matt :$ if you want some fattys hit me up i need rid of mine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephen Morris Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 Why is the head tube so big? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luke Rainbird Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 It's the 609 Bump - it has elastomers in the headtube to give a little room for hard knocks etc. All the info will be on here if you want more Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam Nichols Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 Do you need all the nuts and spacers for the pads?Do you want a raceface prodigy stem? Not sure on the rise but it's less likely to kill you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash-Kennard Posted August 18, 2009 Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 that bike is f**king beautiful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skoze Posted August 18, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2009 (edited) Why is the head tube so big?Basically, Porter snapped the headtube off a 660, so Clive came up with a way to avoid that by using a 1.5" headtube, with an elastomer in it with a normal headtube inside it, basically just soaks up big impacts. It's proper overkill, was a prototype and unsurprisingly never caught on 'cos nost people didn't give their frames THAT much abuse (i'm sure you'll remember the days of Porter before he got smooth haha) I like the feeling, has a little bit of give in it but still feels plenty stiff enough. From what i can tell (well, from what Mr. Stedman's told me) Matt gave it a fair hammering when it was in his hands, and it's all still in the right place so it can't have been too bad an idea! Only downside is it's pretty ugly in any colour other than black and it weighs a metric shit-tonne, but the bike's an absolute tank anyway. It rides really nicely so that's all that matters.Original topic here: have a read. I think i'm gonna paint it blue again after the tour...Do you need all the nuts and spacers for the pads?Do you want a raceface prodigy stem? Not sure on the rise but it's less likely to kill you.If you've got them dude! If not i'll nab them off the Plaz pads or something.And yeeeeah why not, if the geo's fairly right it'd be a winner! Edited August 18, 2009 by Skoze Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
toyota200x Posted August 20, 2009 Report Share Posted August 20, 2009 Amazing looking bike especially with a front & rear V. Is the front brake quite with the reverse V mount? How is the bite, hold, & modulation? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skoze Posted August 20, 2009 Author Report Share Posted August 20, 2009 (edited) There's a tiny little squeak, but nothing that bothers me too much!As for performance - i'm well happy with it (considering the current set up) i've got some utterly clusterf**ked plaz pads on there on a very dirty smooth rim, bite's not great, but i can live with it and it's perfectly fine if i actually ride properly and shift my weight around, modulation is great, nearly endo'd down the balance beams at Barrow Farm last weekend, just needed some bigger testicles And again, hold's fine if i move around, and even if i don't it's nothing to complain about! Edited August 20, 2009 by Skoze Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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