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Wait....What, the fuckedy fuck am I looking at here??? I've not been keeping up with your build threads here but wut? I sort of recognise the rear end, but that front end is way too slack for it.
What the hell are the lowers on that fork (revelations?)
This is wild dude? Can you change the geometry of the shock?
Vandal made bars? That sweep is looooovely; almost Cinelli priest like
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Starting point was a steel GT LTS500o. I chopped the front off and built it the new longer, slacker one. I also steepened the seat angle and fucked about with the top of the seatstays and lower shock mount in order to decrease the bb drop and provide room for the 2.4" tyre. It's proper mullet, 29" front, 26" rear.
Fork is a custom painted Pike. Well, it was sold on ebay as a Pike but the serial number comes back as a Revelation. It has more travel and better damping than a Rev would have though. That said, it's started leaking from the damper side so I have some parts on the way to rebuild it.
Edit: Yeah, bars are made by me too. And yeah, the black 'chips' are meant to be reversable to change the shock geo. I've not tried them the other way. I think (originally) this way is more travel, the other way is less. I'm not sure that the spring would clear the rebuilt mount if I were to try them the other way around.
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This rim chat is making me feel better about the rear wheel/tyre that I couldn't get to seal with a Spesh tyre and is still losing pressure with an Argotal. It's an i35 rim and 2.6" tyres by the way.
That's on my Honzo which I've not taken any decent photos of yet.
Here's a couple of photos of my LTS. The tensioner still allows for a bit of chain slap. Not sure if shortening the chain and repositioning the tensioner would help with that but think I'm going to crack on with trying to build a bb concentric pivot frame anyway. Did briefly think bout doing a URT design, I think bb concentric pivots have almost as many negative points as URTs so...?