Just got my new DH Bike :)

[simon15]

been after one for ages now something decent that wont hold me back.

and seeing as its Bonus time coming up in work felt like treating myself for a change  

an expensive treat but oh well ... need to do some overtime this month too i think  


here it is:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ih=003&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&viewitem=&item=130091489943&rd=1&rd=1

[Jim-Willy]

I would want a engine for that money!  Bloody push irons :lol:

[simon15]

ha ha ha  :lol:  :lol:  :lol:


i bought 65% of my range rover with the amount im spending on the bike  :D


but its worth it hopefuly.  :o  :?  :shock:

[martha focker]

thats pretty cheep :D good buy :P

[narked]

Very cheap! Bargain. Spent more than double that to build up my hardtail!

[strapping young lad]

the only probem with DH bikes is that due to the stresses of caning it down tracks they are sturdy but heavy

hope you got strong legs for flat bits as they arent the best for normal cycling

but going downhill nothing's better with pedals! :)

[landy4x4xfar]

you could have got a s3 for that

[strapping young lad]

nah you could probably buy something with the cost of this one..

http://www.leisurewheels.co.uk/products.php?plid=m1b0s1p1525


one of the best DH bikes you can get short of spending 10k on one!

[landy4x4xfar]

over here s3 start at £500 and up from there try auto trader, but 10k for a bike, i am sad but not that sad, i would spend 10k on a landy but something a toerag can ride off on, paper boys around your neck of the woods are being over paid matey!

[Devon-Rover]

crikey a few years back i spent 500 quid just on an hardtail.

[Bush Tucker Man]

the only probem with DH bikes is that due to the stresses of caning it down tracks they are sturdy but heavy


hope you got strong legs for flat bits as they arent the best for normal cycling

True, they're always seem so slow & saggy.
Plus; what goes down, must go back up (the hill)


Digressing (as I usually do )
I was in Evan Cyles at 'Xscape' (Castleford) yesterday & was gazing in amazement (or was it just surprise?) at some of the ludicrous down-hill bikes.

Then after drooling at the carbon-fibre Trek road-bikes, my eyes were caught by this beauty (the only difference was that the one in Evans was silvery-grey)
I could have taken that home with me :(biglove):

Oh & the one I saw didn't have Zipp rims & 'tubs', just normal rims & 'wire-ons'

I quite fancied a couple of the StumpJumpers as well.
Now that's a model name that's lasted years, I remember Ned Overend riding them in the very early 90's

[deepender]

My son spent £900 :shock:  on a second hand one with carbon frame..............and broke it within 2 weeks. :roll:

[Bush Tucker Man]

My son spent £900 :shock:  on a second hand one with carbon frame..............and broke it within 2 weeks. :roll:

Admittedly it's light & can be layered to suit stressed areas, but when C/F goes, it goes!

I've still got my (bought new in 1994) Titanium road-bike hanging in the garage.
It's a bonded construction (tubes 'stuck' into the lugs)
The techniques used are allegedly so good that the titanium would shear before the adhesive parted company!!

A friend used to have a Yeti 'FRO' & you always got the feeling that it would survive almost anything, as it seemed so solid.

[narked]

True, they're always seem so slow & saggy.
Plus; what goes down, must go back up (the hill)

And that is why the farmers who own the land that the tracks are on make a killing driving their tractors with trailers up and down the hill all day long :P

Though there are actually lunatics out there who pedal these downhill beasts back up the hills. Wouldn't catch me doing that! Having said that I haven't got the bottle to throw myself down those hills at anywhere near the speed those bikes are capable of achieving.

[strapping young lad]

there's a brit called Steve Peat who is current world DH champion i believe and if you youtube for him you see why he is that good..

what i prefer watching is them trials guys on mtb bikes, one of the best for this is Ryan Leech (youtube and you'll see why) in one scene he rides down a rail on a railway line, stops, jumps and does a 180 and lands on the other rail and cycles away!  :shock:

also a newer sport in prominence is called Slopestyle where you use gravity (ie its all downhill) and you have different jumps and stuff on the way down to show your skill..

personally if i had the money and the lack of guilt on spending i would get this one ;)
http://www.pedalon.co.uk/acatalog/giant_anthem_advanced.html

[Bush Tucker Man]

there's a brit called Steve Peat who is current world DH champion i believe and if you youtube for him you see why he is that good..

Have you heard of Jez Avery?
He used to be very good before he transferred to trials bikes

Then there's Ot Pi (Scandinavian?), I've seen him at the Sheffield Arena, when he was a warm up for the World Indoor Trials Championship.
Amazing!!

Sample (best with sound turned off!!)

[strapping young lad]

the ot pi name rung a bell as did avery.

very very gifted people!

ive seen a couple of people on trials bikes round here in chorley using the flower beds and park benches to show off, however showing off MUST be accomplished successfully in full view of rush hour traffic cos if you fall off EVERYONE NOTICES!

one guy tried to back wheel jump from one bench to another and mis judged and ended up singing soprano! ;)

[narked]

Heh, talking of Steve Peat, was watching one those outtakes programmes on tv a couple of years back, was a clip from a news story about him. The idea was he was supposed to ride down this slight slope on a field, and skid to a halt by the presenter. Would have been alright, apart from him falling off! :P

"Downhill World Champion Falls Off Bike On Slightly Slopey Field!"

Got a DVD somewhere about DH riding techniques, taught by Peaty and a few others, some of the stuff they pull off is mental.

[CJ]

Blimy, never thought i would start reading about Dh on here lol

Can anyone remember the name of the guy who used to ride trials for Orange ?  flippin amazing rider but i cant remember his name !

We used to have one of the best Dual corses down here at newnham park, event held every year, than they stopped cos the local res thought it was too noisey      my missis stopped me riding as i spent too much time in hospital for trying silly things  :lol:

[CJ]

ohh and on the subject of ultamte rides, anyone heard of a company called  Brooklyn?

24inch wheeled monster DH bikes - that would be my choice  

[deli hustler]

Brooklyn Machine Works not realy a dh bikes more big huck bikes, you want to watch a guy called Josh Bender, he can't land anything but he'll throw himself off anything, got a dvd of him doing 50 to 60 foot drops, man is insane

[CJ]

i know what ya mean, BMW bikes always were too heavy, but i just  love the look of them, ive got some vids of Josh B on some of my Sprung Vidiomags somewhere, flippin nutcase...

I used to have my lovely Sanata Cruz but i sold it to fund my collage courses    i was gutted cos i spent so much time and money on it but got nowt money back  :lol:  ho hum

Its funny now talking about it but i really must drag my bmx cruser out and start messing around again  

[strapping young lad]

was he the guy who did a jump over the tour de france riders?

[narked]

That's the problem with these bikes, you spend so much on 'em and you don't get anywhere near it back when you sell. Think I ended up letting my 456 Inbred go for about half what it cost me to build, and that was only a few months old! :P

[simon15]

its the same with cars though aint it :)


thats why im buying an already built bike as its sooooooooooo much cheaper, £550 for a bike with £2K+ of bills


only 3 weeks and 5 days till i get it :(

[Bush Tucker Man]

SWMBO & I were talking last night & I said I'd been in Evans, she even suggested we get a pair of MTBs :shock:
So, should I get a Trek?, or a decent Kona?

I don't want namby-pamby full suspension. I may consider front, if it's a lot more rigid than the early Rock-Shox (they were terribly flexible)
Pace forks & Manitou were considered the best when I was riding MTB

the ot pi name rung a bell as did avery.

very very gifted people!

I've got some photos somewhere of Avery trying his 'reverse wheelie on a MTB Tandem (ie; where he balances it & pushes himself backwards with a foot on the front wheel)


Does anyone remember his 'team' called 'Hot Pies' (in tribute to Ot Pi?) & the Geordie predialection for the meat & pastry offering?
Plus their sponsorship by Been-bag clothing & ETTO helmets, & the ears they wore on the holmets??
(I've got a picture of SWMBO -that could be scanned- wearing one of those helmets, complete with ears, before she got a Bell Image 2)

[narked]

Personally I prefer the Konas, though the last bike I bought fully built up was a Specialized.

[Bush Tucker Man]

Personally I prefer the Konas, though the last bike I bought fully built up was a Specialized.

My last MTB was a Pace Research

A friend currently has a Kona (don't know what model?), but he races 'Experts' with it , if that's still the correct terminology?

But them again, he's had; (that I know of &  not in order)

Marin Pine Mountain (I had one as well, I had mine back in 1989!)
Kona Kiluae???
Marin Team Titanium
Yeti FRO
Yeti ARC
Klein Pinnacle
Orange Aluminium O (SWMBO ended up with this!)
Schwinn
Ritchey P-23
Scott (x 2?)

[narked]

Some of the Scott's are nice bikes. If I wasn't quite the big pie-eater that I am I'd quite fancy one of their racier models meself.

[strapping young lad]

kona stinky's are cool

if only for their wacky colours and cool name! :)