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Fucking dropped the 1x1 onto a bench at the train station today and have put a pretty big dent in the top tube.
I bet it is coz I thought about selling it recently. I'd been tempted by a Surly Instigator on ebay but after realising it was pretty much the same size as the 1x1 had decided against it.
I have however picked up this frame from retrobike
And these forks from ebay
I'll be using them to build a bike which will more capably do what the Kona does now. The Kona currently looks like
thisactually I don't have a very current pic but its this,plus a set of Salsa Cromoto forks, this front brake and a pair of 2.3 Conti Verticals.
I've been using it on pump tracks, thrashing descents and jumps etc at local trails and stuff like that. Stuff I want to do more of this year.
The Fire Eye will be able to run the other half of that^ brakeset on the rear and with 150mm of travel up front is hopefully going to help with my ambition to ride the Fort William dh course this year.
The new bike will be sharing the Alfine wheel with the Surly to start with at least, I'll probably look to get it its own rear wheel to run ss once my bank balance recovers.
Hopefully I can justify keeping the Kona and I'll chuck the Racekings back on it and run it with just a rear brake for riding at the bmx track, pump tracks, cruising in the summer etc.