1996 Trek Y22 OCLV

Of course you rock the cop look and clean up the streets of London :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rp21BeAWM8o

sssshhh they are Y33's

Get rad with Hans Rey
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T0rlwnKWsA

Perhaps @TomvanHalen would part with his fluro HS33s for a massive amount of money ;-)

no speed no balance no control...

it's like me at BPW

...you have precise also to be

....Yoda...is that you?

Must vist BPW.
last did it when it was a Dragon DH race, and the Venue was called Gethin, the rock garden was exciting on hardtail :) and up the road was the old pedal devil track of Mountain Ash. Strangely was at both venues when they got set on fire, maybe Rheola could have been Ash we got shot at. Miss the Dragons, effing scary races, but fun :)
Going to drag my big squisher bike out of storage, but it's only 10years old so not really retro.

You look at how far things have come, Klein was absolute cutting edge in it's day, now days the ways they can manipulate alu tubes and frames...... early carbon was plain gauge tubes bonded to lugs, then stuff like the Y bikescame out, think someone made an electric guitar from a frame.....
Love these threads :)

one million dorra

Sorry but who the fuck in their right mind would go down stairs on dual death wheels? I have one, and that’s scary enough 😂

Also, was just out on the Trek, and, as prophecised, this seatpost design isn’t the greatest and my saddle assumed a most uncomfortable position, from which it could not be moved, apparently. So here’s a picture of my ugly new seatpost, and ugly saddle angle, on my very anti (for now) bike

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Yeah that seatpost is really ugly I think I’m going to have to swap it out... unless it somehow works when I carbon-ify the rest of the bike, but I really doubt that

Dunno, add slick tyres, v-brakes that would be a fast city bike.

Clamp up that seat post, USE do spare heads. Had other posts that required a lot of effort to do up the bolt to stop slippage.
https://ultimateuse.com/use-components/alien-cyclops-clamp-kit

Not sure if you've changed them, but pretty sure USE posts need hex bolts and not some flat head things. At least all the ones I've ever had did. The last one having a single hex bolt that worked well enough.

I do belive Chak's right.
never even noticed the screw driver flats.
That is most likely cause of slippage, your going to struggle to get the clamp tight enough with a screwdiver.
Just had a look for images.
looks like 4mm allen head bolts (what my older post uses too) with a washer.
easy to fix.

is this the bit where the forum reccomends you hammer frozen shit sausages into the lawn of the seller of the post you bought :)

Found an image of the carbon post, link takes me to Hilary Stone, old photo, no carbon aero post, but he has an Alu Alien head post for £38....... my old XCR suspension post must have value then...... and I found the spares kit for it... maybe a CP thread coming there.

But you have the wrong bolts in Blud.

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That is most likely cause of slippage, your going to struggle to get the clamp tight enough with a screwdiver.

Possibly the other way round - too much clamp force achievable with a flat head has buggered the 'rails'. The allen heads are tiny and it's very hard to put significant torque on them without rounding them.

The clamp design is 'clever clever' and as such is a bit shit really. If the bolt slackens off the whole thing falls apart and the bits vanish. And it's very hard to correct it out on the road with a multi-tool allen key.

Was always worried when doing up mine but never had a problem (not an Alien head)
Suspect the bolt swap on Bluds is due to rounding out original bolt head.

Still, nice to see you can buy new heads which have evolved indicating an issue with older ones.

On a random note, checked my stash of mag's. Seems i had a purge years ago and oldest i have is 2003 MBA and Bike and Dirt. Ditched all the older ones.
I remember reading up on the Y-bikes when they first appeared, at the time a totally groundbreaking design in the frame, kinda let down by Unified Rear Triangle suspension.
Must be around the time that specialized aquired the rights/patents to the Horst link from AMP research, renamed it FSR and then we had suspension wars for years to follow as companies went to great lengths to work around the Horst/FSR set up to avoid paying Spesh a licence fee.
Even Turner Bikes had to pay a fee and Dave worked for AMP and was part of the team that created the Horst 4 bar linkage system......... how shit is that, you work on something and then get shafted for years to come by the rival company that bought out the rights/patent.

Yeah this clamp design doesn’t seem too great, but I wouldn’t be surprised if the original bolts were rounded. Bloody allen key bolts. I’ll probably end up replacing the bolts, if I keep the seatpost on the bike. If I don’t, I probably won’t bother.

On an unrelated note, those HS33 hydraulic brakes mentioned a while back look totally pimping, and I really want to chuck a pair on this.

It’s funny considering how relatively simple rocker driven single pivots are still still being bashed out.

Saw this in the flesh yesterday, super fucking rad, same for the Kona. Can't wait to see it in the dirt.

Cheers man, and thanks for taking that bike off my hands. I’ll definitely try to make it out to Epping with the Kona.

cool - new owner was delighted with the red bike!

Really glad to hear that. I’m just happy it’s going to get some use and not just rust in my garden

Okay so the plan was to get started on this build this month, but my dream guitar came up on eBay this month, so I just had to have it. Since this is the case, I may have to sell my Kona, to fund this project.

Any interest or advice, before I list an advert in classifieds?

List it on Pinkbike.

Will do. Does anyone have any ideas about price? It’s a 2006 Kona Stab Deluxe with full Deore XT (other than Deore derailleur), and the 200mm aftermarket Marzocchi DH forks