Platypus HQ - Functional Bikes and Trips

@platypus nice! Are you keeping the cotic?

Raaaaad. You gonna do routes again by any chance? Always enjoyed your route choices.

So you and C have matching bikes now too?
Hope to ride with you soon!
Also- very jealous indeed.

ditto this comment.

thanks everyone!
the bike isn't what you think it is....
@Chak yes, I will run the forum bikepacking weekenders again. First one in mid-May.

Awesome. Really need to get back into the whole pedalling thing, so looking forward to it.

You running 130mm 34's?

thanks.
yes, exactly. but the rest of the bike is a little unusual, it's more for day rides than my cotic which is still the best bikepacking bike I can imagine for me.
I'll post more soon.

I think an adventure is called for.

Is this the one I forwarded? Modded?

:) thanks again!

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@lowbrows @Thrasher @Chak @whoever.else can hold 15th-16th May for an adventure.

clue to where?

Ooh I'm not working! Held.

Noiiiice. Yeah should be able to take time off for that. What's minimum requirement for self sufficiency?

today was good, bike rides nicely, just needs a few little tweaks

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then I hit a big boing and the pads did a bigger boing, right out of the brake
hurtling down the jump line with no front brake was scary to say the least
went for a tea and bread pudding and made a plan of action
somehow managed to find all four pads in the leaves
ray mears style fix works better than the OG magura design

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to do list:

• buy BB7s to go with those lush XTR 950 levers I've had in the parts bin for years
  
• take decals off everything with heat gun and acetone
  
• actually measure it up and figure out the right place for saddle and bars with #science
  

Does that only work with organic pads?

#bodgegoals

Yeah if you use the four separate pads rather than the combined jobby that comes with the MT5 you need the retaining screws...

Creative solution though!

buy BB7s to go with those lush XTR 950 levers I've had in the parts bin for years

Strong combo! It's wild how much the levers are going for on eBay these days or I'd run them on every bike I could.

Is there a thread about this intriguing Isen/Kona collab?!

And from this and Dammit's Magura woes, are they to be avoided at all costs? Not that I'm considering any, BB7s for life

#bringbackrep

this is the thread, i'll trickle the details out over time
my maguras (same model, trail sport) on the cotic are so good once I finally got them working, lovely delivery of power and modulation. however the only time I found a mechanic who was great and capable with them he lived in a medium-sized polish city, not too practical.