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Started by DRKWNG, May 08, 2008, 07:40:07 AM

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MadDuck

#5625
May 27, 2013, 02:39:23 PM
Quote from: DRKWNG on May 27, 2013, 02:31:25 PM
You call that an edit?

Expanded version, edit, whatever.......... get off my case.......   ;D ;D
No modification goes unpunished. Memento mori.  Good people drink good beer.  Things happen pretty fast at high speeds.

It's all up to your will level, your thrill level and your skill level.  Everything else is just fluff.

DRKWNG

#5626
May 27, 2013, 02:56:59 PM
Quote from: MacDuck on May 27, 2013, 02:39:23 PM
Expanded version, edit, whatever.......... get off my case.......   ;D ;D

Can't make me!   :D

And just because I've always been there to help push you over the edge in times like this, consider this me pulling you back away from said edge. 
And the sugar fountain fairy swore so hard when she came to super-size that stale hope soybean; liiiike a homeless German woman. Who is this super-sizing spirit-crushing femme? And tell her I'll break a tree root up in her shrimp.

Being faster than you thought possible…it feels good. No, screw thatâ€"it feels like shotgunning a gallon of adrenaline and chasing it with an all-night orgy aboard a burning Viking boat.

MadDuck

#5627
May 27, 2013, 08:31:52 PM
Quote from: DRKWNG on May 27, 2013, 02:56:59 PM
Can't make me!   :D

And just because I've always been there to help push you over the edge in times like this, consider this me pulling you back away from said edge. 

I'm not going to part with it easily.
No modification goes unpunished. Memento mori.  Good people drink good beer.  Things happen pretty fast at high speeds.

It's all up to your will level, your thrill level and your skill level.  Everything else is just fluff.

DRKWNG

#5628
May 29, 2013, 05:50:09 PM
No mountain biking for me today, so I dusted off the Seven and took it out for a twenty mile jaunt. 
And the sugar fountain fairy swore so hard when she came to super-size that stale hope soybean; liiiike a homeless German woman. Who is this super-sizing spirit-crushing femme? And tell her I'll break a tree root up in her shrimp.

Being faster than you thought possible…it feels good. No, screw thatâ€"it feels like shotgunning a gallon of adrenaline and chasing it with an all-night orgy aboard a burning Viking boat.

MadDuck

#5629
June 01, 2013, 04:47:25 PM
No bicycling this morning.   :P   Sleeping in was wonderful!   :D  Sold a seat cowl this afternoon.  [thumbsup]
No modification goes unpunished. Memento mori.  Good people drink good beer.  Things happen pretty fast at high speeds.

It's all up to your will level, your thrill level and your skill level.  Everything else is just fluff.

MadDuck

#5630
June 01, 2013, 04:49:09 PM
That last post, at 1:48 pm today, got us to 100,000 views of this thread.  How about that!!  [Dolph]
No modification goes unpunished. Memento mori.  Good people drink good beer.  Things happen pretty fast at high speeds.

It's all up to your will level, your thrill level and your skill level.  Everything else is just fluff.

DRKWNG

#5631
June 02, 2013, 01:55:38 AM
Borrowed a Niner from one of the local shops and took it out for a few laps of singletrack.  Interesting bike for sure.  Designed as a cross country race bike, but it didn't seem to steer all that intuitively.  Rear suspension felt great though, even considering it only had 76mm of travel.

Quote from: MacDuck on June 01, 2013, 04:49:09 PM
That last post, at 1:48 pm today, got us to 100,000 views of this thread.  How about that!!  [Dolph]

[thumbsup]
And the sugar fountain fairy swore so hard when she came to super-size that stale hope soybean; liiiike a homeless German woman. Who is this super-sizing spirit-crushing femme? And tell her I'll break a tree root up in her shrimp.

Being faster than you thought possible…it feels good. No, screw thatâ€"it feels like shotgunning a gallon of adrenaline and chasing it with an all-night orgy aboard a burning Viking boat.

DRKWNG

#5632
June 02, 2013, 07:32:16 PM
More mountain biking.  Took the borrowed Niner down to fountainhead for about twelve miles worth.  Bike handled these trails much better than yesterday's, but I'm still not sure about it.  It definitely likes the faster trails with beamed turns, and doesn't do so well in the tight and twisty stuff.  Guess it's more of a west coast design...
And the sugar fountain fairy swore so hard when she came to super-size that stale hope soybean; liiiike a homeless German woman. Who is this super-sizing spirit-crushing femme? And tell her I'll break a tree root up in her shrimp.

Being faster than you thought possible…it feels good. No, screw thatâ€"it feels like shotgunning a gallon of adrenaline and chasing it with an all-night orgy aboard a burning Viking boat.

MadDuck

#5633
June 02, 2013, 08:46:40 PM
So what's so great about a 29" as opposed to a 27"?  Ground clearance?
No modification goes unpunished. Memento mori.  Good people drink good beer.  Things happen pretty fast at high speeds.

It's all up to your will level, your thrill level and your skill level.  Everything else is just fluff.

DRKWNG

#5634
June 03, 2013, 01:47:40 PM
You mean 29" vs 26"?  The larger diameter tires have an easier time rolling over obstacles on the trail, and while they can be a bit heavier, they maintain their momentum better once you get them up to speed.  They are slower to accelerate, due to the increased mass, but are also slower to decelerate.  You also get a larger contact patch between the tire and the ground, which enhances the traction.  Most people claim/report shaving significant time off of a specified loop/trail when they transition to the larger wheel size.  My thing is that I'm currently riding a bike that is based on a nine year old frame.  The fork is close to toast, and it would end up costing me somewhere near $700 just to replace the fork with something I'd be interested in owning.  At that point, I'm close enough to getting a new bike.  Yeah, I know there's quite a bit of difference between spending $700 on a fork and $3+ grand on a new bike, but hey.  This way I get to go to the new tech and still have my old bike as a spare.  ;)
And the sugar fountain fairy swore so hard when she came to super-size that stale hope soybean; liiiike a homeless German woman. Who is this super-sizing spirit-crushing femme? And tell her I'll break a tree root up in her shrimp.

Being faster than you thought possible…it feels good. No, screw thatâ€"it feels like shotgunning a gallon of adrenaline and chasing it with an all-night orgy aboard a burning Viking boat.

MadDuck

#5635
June 04, 2013, 09:29:26 AM
So....... in effect, you're saying that you're going to pop $3k ( that's all?  ;D ) for a new bike and then another $700.00 ( give or take ) to put forks on your old bike.   [laugh]  [laugh]
No modification goes unpunished. Memento mori.  Good people drink good beer.  Things happen pretty fast at high speeds.

It's all up to your will level, your thrill level and your skill level.  Everything else is just fluff.

DRKWNG

#5636
June 04, 2013, 03:31:00 PM
Nope.  $3K to keep from spending $700 on a new fork for my current bike.
And the sugar fountain fairy swore so hard when she came to super-size that stale hope soybean; liiiike a homeless German woman. Who is this super-sizing spirit-crushing femme? And tell her I'll break a tree root up in her shrimp.

Being faster than you thought possible…it feels good. No, screw thatâ€"it feels like shotgunning a gallon of adrenaline and chasing it with an all-night orgy aboard a burning Viking boat.

MadDuck

#5637
June 04, 2013, 11:09:11 PM
Quote from: DRKWNG on June 04, 2013, 03:31:00 PM
Nope.  $3K to keep from spending $700 on a new fork for my current bike.

Wanna bet?    ;D
No modification goes unpunished. Memento mori.  Good people drink good beer.  Things happen pretty fast at high speeds.

It's all up to your will level, your thrill level and your skill level.  Everything else is just fluff.

DRKWNG

#5638
June 05, 2013, 03:02:18 AM
Quote from: MacDuck on June 04, 2013, 11:09:11 PM
Wanna bet?    ;D

Yep.  I'll actually be pulling some of the nicer parts off of it to put on the new one.  Doubt the old one will be ridden much after that, except for if/when the new one is down for maintenance.
And the sugar fountain fairy swore so hard when she came to super-size that stale hope soybean; liiiike a homeless German woman. Who is this super-sizing spirit-crushing femme? And tell her I'll break a tree root up in her shrimp.

Being faster than you thought possible…it feels good. No, screw thatâ€"it feels like shotgunning a gallon of adrenaline and chasing it with an all-night orgy aboard a burning Viking boat.

MadDuck

#5639
June 05, 2013, 09:27:39 AM
Quote from: DRKWNG on June 03, 2013, 01:47:40 PM
This way I get to go to the new tech and still have my old bike as a spare.  ;)

See, now that's a bit different.  I was under the impression that you would get a new bike and have a complete spare bike ( read as second bike ).  You're talking about having a bike to get spare parts off of it thus rendering it non-rideable.  I was looking at it like having two rideable bikes, the old one to use if something happened to the new one or you needed a spare bike for a friend to use, something like that, in which case you might fix/replace the forks.
No modification goes unpunished. Memento mori.  Good people drink good beer.  Things happen pretty fast at high speeds.

It's all up to your will level, your thrill level and your skill level.  Everything else is just fluff.
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