Let's offroad / mountain bike / mtb / ride dirt

My frame turned up this morning (only 20 weeks after ordering)
Looking g forward to building and riding it.
Never had a full Susser before.

Project thread to follow

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And having been on 2,150 calories per day for four months now, I’d not know what to do with that either. Probably have a heart attack.

Might want to upgrade the shock.

Fuck it, I’m going to take the trail bike to Swinley.

Excellent Christmas present

It does feel a little wooden

Anyone been to Bedgebury recently? Is it riding ok or a slop fest? Is it even open?

swinley was slopfest last week

No bogs though.

yeah didn't feel like home at all

Anyone been to Bedgebury recently? Is it riding ok or a slop fest? Is it even open?

It was open today 8-3.30, we got a just over an hour in late afternoon today, it was riding ok today - nowhere near as wet as I've seen it.

Thanks, might wait for the dry days in a couple of days time and go to peaslake. Can only get out for one ride, so a day in Surrey is probably where to go. (Working on getting out twice hence possible Bedgebury tomorrow)

I rode Peaslake on Christmas Eve, the steep sections are fine, but The Slop Is Real when it's just an average gradient. I'm waiting to see what Storm Bella does tonight, but if she's blown through by morning (which is what the BBC Weather site is saying RN) then I think I'll head to Swinley - then the following day Peaslake area, as I think the faster sections of Swinley drain faster.

There's a section at Bedgebury which is quite fun - it's toward the end of the circuit, running downhill for a little while with a series of open corners and little lips to jump off.

At the end of the downhill section there is a small kicker which drops you into (or, if you're me, you overshoot landing in) a left hand berm.

I think you'd need to treat this as a hip, which I've no experience of, but I'm imagining that you'd need to hit the kicker in such a way that you'd rotate the bike counter-clockwise in the air so that you land correctly orientated for the banked turn.

So! Carve into the takeoff to bring the bike around in the air? Something else?

Something else?

Magnets

I found a Blake Samson tutorial- take the jump straight, dip your inside shoulder in the direction you want to land, twist your hips to bring the back of the bike round. Now to try it.

2012 purchase.. has sat in the former matrimonial home (garden) since this morning, no riding, no cleaning, nada.. needs some tlc, thorough service and some simple updates like SRAM GX 1x11 groupset, then off to discover trails at my ends..

Brakes still work, battery powered front light stills work, lol

My ex clearly doesn’t know what the frame is worth.. just picked it up two hours ago.

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Does the fork work?

Yes fork suspension still works. The frame cleaned up beautifully, titanium bead blasted matt finish.

The chainset, cassette, gear shifters will be straightforward enough to replace, I’m still contemplating whether this 29er should become a gravel frankenbike, I was never a hardcore mountain biker. All I need are some off road trails in the Essex/Hertfordshire lanes.. and a pair of 29 x 2.0 gravel tires. If that works then I may replace full suspension for CX forks / disk brake and leave this thread to the true MTBers on the forum

Looks like it's from the era of 70 deg and-the-rest head angles so probably better to retire it to Frankenbike duties.

Good call @Howard this will become my winter bike for shits and giggles at weekends, and commuting post pandemic in god awful weather

Thoroughly recommend Vittoria Mezcal tyre for winter gravel duties.
Got some a few weeks ago and I’m very happy with their performance

Good amount of central tread for hard pack/tarmac rolling and good amount of nobbly tread and shoulder grip for when things get muddier.

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great recommendation, thanks @furious_tiles

No worries, think they’ll look good against your Ti frame too.
If you’re tubeless make sure that you get the tnt version.

Think they’re pretty handsome on my gravel bike too.

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