Lucky number 13

Hmmm

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Always check your new frame is, I suppose, the lesson here.

Longer, lower, slacker - but with a higher saddle?

Time to rectify that.

Very satisfying and simple:

But the finish leaves a little to be desired:

Enter the de-burring tool:

Also satisfying:

Better:

Longer, lower, slacker - but with a higher saddle?

Higher BB?

It has to be, static, as it's got 40mm more travel in the rear.

And now waiting for my BB socket.

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Apologies for probably being dense but 2 x bikes that are the same that have no real use in Singapore?
Confused!

One is downhill (never to be pedalled uphill)

the other is more enduro with dropper post, less travel but better pedalling

Thanks for the explanation 👌

The enduro bike (bottom) I raced the weekend before last, here in Singapore - it's not optimal for the terrain here, but it's fun. As James says - it can be pedalled to the top of whatever you want to ride back down, and (pertinent to here) it will go up some pretty technical terrain due to the sheer grip the suspension and sticky tyres develops.

It's got 160mm of travel at the back and a 170mm fork.

The DH bike at the top would make be awful for 99.9% of the riding I do here, but amazing (albeit, maybe a bit dull ultimately) for 0.01% of it. It's 200mm rear and 200mm front.

I don't plan on ever working out how it climbs, but I suspect the answer is that it would have huge grip but still be dreadful.

There are DH tracks in Malaysia, but I need to go and ride them on the Enduro bike to work out whether the additional capability of the DH bike outweighs the "how do I get to the top?" issue.

I rode my Raaw Jibb yesterday after a bit of fettling and changing things wound- 1.5mm spacer under the brake caliper which has resolved the 203mm rotor on a metric fork issue, dropped the bars by 30mm, put an extra 5psi in the rear shock and swapped the brake levers to Oak Root levers- is much better, had one of those rides where you keep finding new lines through familiar trails. Did like.

CentreHub update - "by the end of November", apparently.

Slowly getting there still, now I'm just waiting for the pedals but other than that it's together (albeit without the centrehub, but that will go on when it turns up).

However, I noticed that being a godlike genius I'd mount the front tyre backwards, which was very annoying. Now resolved.

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New MRP back board turned up today, I’ll stick that on and then it’s finished finished, unless and until the WRP centrehub turns up.

Odd question- how do I test this bike, without the terrain it’s designed for? I.E. it’s probably a bit ambitious to turn up to Queenstown never having ridden it.

Massive stair gaps? I'd imagine theres plenty street riding to be had in SG but its probably illegal...
Street riding was all I done when I was 16, not sure I'd have the brass neck for it now though.

Which bike is the centrehub going on?

By cycling around in the city with a full face helmet on and a speaker blasting music strapped onto the handlebar.

As suggested I'd say some stairs are your best bet?

I imagine that would have armed police response here.

Centrehub is going on the Yalla (when it turns up).

Although on the Centre Hub - I got a despatch notification on the 23rd of December but no actual tracking information.

Given the level of communication it’s quite possible that this is an oversight and it will be waiting at home for me- but at this stage I’m probably 50/50 as to whether “my” Centre Hub actually exists or not.

No response to my email asking for the tracking details.

Hah, possibly because he’s riding at Skyline at the moment per his Instagram. Maybe I can ask him in person.

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And in use

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