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Fucking loveliness as usual. Well considered and looks like a riot to throw about.
I’m getting back the niner after loaning it out and the. Debating selling it. Weirdly enough, I’m sort of looking forward to ride it during winter more so than summer!
@BareNecessities Ben ignoring that thread a while. I’m predicting either Neil has something new, there’s a compression or wheel size debate, or e-bike hate.
Chak
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.