Tuesday, 25 January 2011

just for kate...


step away from the textbooks and feast your eyes on the titanium goodness!
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kate said...

i don't use this term lightly *welsh accent* 'that is proper lush!' looks like it wants to go down steeeeep downs faaaaast. enjoy :) look forward to hearing trail reports!

...currently having a wee dram of ptarmigan whisky (from cairngorm) and searching out jane's atwood's

25 January 2011 at 20:33
Titus said...

I'd have said this was a boy thing, but look what's happened to Andy Gray.

25 January 2011 at 21:00
swiss said...

my (expanding) group of female mountain bikers with whom i'm acquainted would beg to differ but in doing so we would most likely all dissolve into some discussion fo angles and gear ratios and the like and thus confirm a certain set of truths about ourselves (and i shall do just that in the comment after this one!).

andy gray? what.a.tool. staggeringly i believe he has actually fathered daughters. what a joy it must have been for them to see him today trying to get his female co-presenter to stuff his remote down his pants. a public shoeing would ideally be in order (in the old northern european sense of 'to shoe' i.e. the boot is left on the foot rather than removed and hurled at the offending party)

25 January 2011 at 22:55
swiss said...

but anyway enough chatter with regard to lesser sports.

so, kate, your knees will love you for a 1x10 gear set up. obviously being of the ss persuasion top end speed isn't so much your thing but the travel up to the great dish of an inner ring is a joy. plus with a bash guard on the front ring i had no worries on bending teeth, something i've done frustratingly often this year.

but all that's before the 160mm of travel. i have no bikes that have this much. coupled with a 2.4 on the front (i didn't take it off because it's got a maxle and i know nothing about them) i felt i could cycle into a wall and it would soak it up.

for me i'd need slighter narrower bars (60cm rather than 70cm), a longer stem to start getting the best out of it but, even so, i had it out tonight (my third outing today believe it or not!), having put some clips on instead of flats and it went like stink. my friend doesn't mind me getting it filthy so i can't wait to clean it up and get it out during the day where i can proper tear it up. if i can get the van fixed i may even take it down to gt! (gypsy glen by the way - if you haven't, you must.) i may attach the camera and post some pics if i can make it work.

hope you're easing back into the new routine. not too big a wee dram mind!

25 January 2011 at 23:05
Dominic Rivron said...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBCctL88dRk

26 January 2011 at 00:09
swiss said...

nice! i feared it would be this!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1s0XsulDXtk

26 January 2011 at 08:37
Dominic Rivron said...

Haha! Completely new to me.

28 January 2011 at 08:16

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