Show Posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.


Topics - jonxmack

Pages: [1]
1
After The Ride / What kind of riding do you do?
« on: July 14, 2014, 03:29:44 AM »
So while we all ride the same bikes, I was wondering what kind of riding people are into?

For me I'm a roadie first and mtb'er second, so I really enjoy what can only be described as "pure XC", fast singletrack, nice climbs, not too techy or scary, just fun general mountain biking, I've never really got to terms with berms and so it's the technical stuff like that where I let myself down.

I'm also into racing mtb's, did a 12 hour 4 man team race about 6 weeks ago where we came 6th out of 49 teams, and did a 24 hour 10 man team race a few weeks ago where we came 22nd out of 25, although I did have completely different team mates and attitudes towards the events. I've been looking around for more races in my area because I find them so much fun, although I do find whenever I go to a race I end up wanting a new bike, last year it was a 29er, this year a new frame, so who knows what I'll end up with next time!

2
29er / Carbonal Orion build thread. Aiming for 8.5kg (18.75lbs)
« on: July 11, 2014, 04:00:01 AM »
Just placed my order for a Carbonal Orion - http://www.carbonality.com/orion-29er-1250g.html

I'll be stripping my existing bike this evening (On-One Lurcher) but the build of that is as follows

Forks: Niner
Stem: Thomson Elite 100x0
Bars: Ritchey Carbon
Grips: ESI Chunky
Shifter: SRAM XX
Front Brake: Hope Race Evo X2
Front Wheel: Hope Pro 2 to Stans Crest
Front Tyre: Schwalbe Rocket Ron 2.25
Seatpost: Thomson Elite
Seat: Velo
Cranks: SRAM XX1 32t
Pedals: Time Atac Alium
Rear Brake: Hope Race Evo X2
Rear Wheel: Hope Pro 2 to Stans Crest
Rear Tyre: Schwalbe Rocket Ron 2.1
Rear Mech: SRAM X0
Chain: Connex 10S8
Cassette: SRAM PG1050

Not sure what the actual weight of it is since I changed the bars and rear tyre after I did my calculations and have now removed the Reverb that was fitted but with 2.1's F&R, alloy bars and a Reverb it came in at a claimed 9140g, that was measuring all the parts during the build as opposed to the actual full bike.

The weight of the existing frame is 1575 and the claimed weight of the new one is 1250g for the 19". I've ordered the 17 so I guess it'll be a little less, maybe 1200 or so. I've removed the Reverb and gone to a Thomson which is ~300g lighter, as well as gone from Answer Pro Taper alloy bars to Ritchey WCS Low Rise which are a claimed ~60g lighter, but have swapped the front tyre from a 495g 2.1 Rocket Ron to a claimed 520g 2.25 so there could be some weight gain there.

Either way it's looking like it should drop to around 8400g, depending on the weight of the new frame. I'll leave this up as a progress report since I've not seen much chat around these frames.

UPDATE: The bike is built!





The scales lack in accuracy, I weighed it three times and it came out at 8.2, 8.4 and 8.7.

3
29er / ICAN X6
« on: July 10, 2014, 06:39:48 AM »
Does anyone have any experience with the ICAN x6 frame?

http://www.icanbikes.com/html/MTB/29ER_frame/230.html

Looks to be a lot like the IP-256SL but with slightly different geo, namely a BB drop of 69mm and 450mm chainstays.

For me it's between this and the 256, the advantage being that I can get this shipped out within 3 days of payment, whereas with the 256 I will have to wait 35-45 days.

I probably should have planned it out better but I sold my frame today assuming I'd only be without a bike for 7-10 days and my heart set on the X6, but seeing the BB will drop to -80.9 with my Niner forks (470 a-c) I'm having to reassess what frame I'm going to pick up!

Pages: [1]