Bike porn

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Once again you have confused bling with porn

Porn!..the bike, not him.

It's purple and lime green and you people are arguing over the choice of grips?

I guess it depends on how much tension the chords are under normally (i.e. how slack the get when the fork is totally compressed).

true, just seems a bit odd that the front end would lift under braking. not that you were defending it

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Same frame Greg 'hairball' Herbold used to race DH on...he also converted one to run rockshox rs1's in place of the seatstays before Manitou copied the idea.
I always liked Herbolds one as he had all his sponsors stickers on the top tube and plenty of boutique anodized parts.

Once again you have confused bling with porn

I think you've confused Gold with bling.,,just because something is gold coloured it doesn't instantly make it bling.
The Miyata frame was a good frame...Carbon main tubes into alloy lugs...with bolted on seatstays. Similar principle to a Fisher CR7, which was a very good bike, as was the Nishiki alien which also used bolted seatstays.

I had a CR7, before some oiks nicked it out my parent shed - fucking insurance company replace it with a Specialized - WABOC

Did you rate it?

i bought it second hand in 91, having saved up for it (it was in a LBS) for months, had it knicked after 2 days, none of which were spent using it in anger, so cant say i had a valid opinion, just loved the design, and the rep it had at the time - did you get that PM i sent you re mystery downhill frame?

did you get that PM i sent you re mystery downhill frame?

I don't think so?

Just re sent it

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liban?

Marzocchi made the biggest leap forward with the bombers definately...they stopped worrying about weight and made forks that were actually stiff and amazingly smooth. After that everyone else had no choice but to step up their game, which is why so many independant machine shop style companies disappeared, because they couldn't do the forging and couldn't make the complex internals. People were bored of elastomers that went rigid in winter and like chewing gum in summer.

The Bomber was definitely my all time favourite fork, hell I still have it on my old Kona Hahanna.

The other advantage is having a suspension pump allowing you to adjust the pressure for certain terrain, that was the biggest leap forward for me being able to cope with gnarly gravel the size of tennis ball as well as on the smoothest singletrack.

Ahh, France is the best place to go off roading.

gnarly gravel the size of tennis ball

word to yo sus!

speaking of old MTB porn, I just saw the bike I use to lust after when I was a kids back in the 90's near Waitrose, if I didn't have moral I would've nicked that beauty;

if you ever "lusted" after a cindercone at waitrose, you needed help then

Lol

Intense M1 Prototype from 94 . . . HHSMTB from back in the day

I know I'm going to get rinced for this, but for some reason I really like it... and it's not really my cup of tea

This thread is starting to make me want to dig my '95' hoo koo e koo out of my mums loft! I loved that bike and never had the heart to sell it when I eventually got my Ellsworth.

they were shit and heavy

they were shit and heavy

take that back...!

nope!

nope!

Bastard! :)

yes i know, it was my mum's fault, i couldn't help it