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Any mountain bikers??

#621
Sweet shots, Maki. Gonna pound a local park tomorrow- day off, wife's b-day. Gotta grab a rim liner(old cloth velox sh- bunched up & exposed the sharp edge of the spoke hole...), maybe replace a crankset.. don't wanna do ANYTHING as the boss bought me lunch- Togo's hot pastrami & cold Heineken. I love my boss. :cool:
 
#622
bassteban said:
Sweet shots, Maki. Gonna pound a local park tomorrow- day off, wife's b-day. Gotta grab a rim liner(old cloth velox sh- bunched up & exposed the sharp edge of the spoke hole...), maybe replace a crankset.. don't wanna do ANYTHING as the boss bought me lunch- Togo's hot pastrami & cold Heineken. I love my boss. :cool:
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You work for a good boss:D
 
#627
bassteban said:
SIIIGH...
Waiting on frame, old bike wanting to retire(tired BB & several other parts). Realized I'll need a seat post, unless someone has a 31.6mm one lying around..? :D
A bud at my LBS offered my a freshly rebuilt/upgraded Fox Float 36 & front wheel for $475... Go or no?
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What year, what damper and what wheel/hub/spokes?

Sounds like it could be a good deal though. I love love love my Float 36!
 
#629
bassteban said:
Not sure the year- a pretty good friend is selling- RC-2..? I think... White Ind(Bros?)20mm wheel, some kind of wide rim. I like beefy over lighttweight.:cool:
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You're preaching to the choir here! I'm running a 36 with Mavic 521 rims laced to Hope hubs, built by a local builder known for building strong wheels.

White Industries? Wow, fancy US made stuff. Certainly sounds like a good deal. RC2 is a good damper. Rebound and both high and low speed compression adjustments. Only possible glitch is that the 160mm 36 is not 10mm longer axle-crown than the 150mm 32, it's 25mm longer (35mm longer than the 140), which will slack your front end out noticeably more on an already slack frame. Personally, I think I could live with it. :D

You do have the option of dropping the travel and A-C height on that fork with relative ease. I think you can drop the 160mm 36 down to 100mm in 10mm increments using spacers. Pretty simple operation, I'm told.

My 36 saved my ass this morning. I got off line on a steep rock roll and instead of hitting the nice smooth transition I hit the abrupt side. Bottomed the fork but managed to ride away. The 36 really ramps up at the end of the stroke so it sucked it up very gracefully. The o-ring on one of the stanchions was touching the crown after. I'd never bottomed it like that before. :p

On a positive note, I cleared this climb for the first time this morning: It's 4 rock step-ups in short order. 3 out of 4 are off-camber and there's less than a bike length between the second and third (just below the bike in the pic). Stoked!

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Looking down:
EDIT: Haha, look at the scars on the lip of the second rock. Lots of big rings smacked off that. :D

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#630
Sweet! Thanks, Mark- I trust the seller, known him for a good 10+yrs. Takes care of his stuff, in fact just had the fork upgraded by Fox. Said he'd drop the travel for me. Being long relative to actual travel might be good- I don't know that I *need* more than 120-140mm, but I'm sure I'll dig the slack HA
 
#631
bassteban said:
Sweet! Thanks, Mark- I trust the seller, known him for a good 10+yrs. Takes care of his stuff, in fact just had the fork upgraded by Fox. Said he'd drop the travel for me. Being long relative to actual travel might be good- I don't know that I *need* more than 120-140mm, but I'm sure I'll dig the slack HA
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More travel = more betterer! :p

Dropping the travel also drops the A-C on the 36 as far as I can remember.
 
#634
Yeah, the lockout is likely a deal-breaker... I hate the sloshy feel of a long-travel fork on pounding climbs. Got a few on watch on the bay, will price new units at le shop tomorrow. Would LOVE to go Fox but those Sektors look appealing, especially for the prices I'm seeing.
 
#635
If it has a low speed compression adjustment (which it does if its an RC2) you probably won't miss a lockout. A few clicks of low speed compression should damp most of the pedal-induced bob. Worth a try anyway. The 36 is definitely a beefy fork. Incredibly stiff, tracks perfectly over ridiculous terrain at stupid speeds.

That being said, if you find you're really missing lockout I think it's hard to go wrong with a Sektor for the money. Available in all 3 axle types too.
 
#638
Yeah, I have no prob w/protests but when it pisses off people who may have NOTHING to do w/the issue &/or have no way of effecting the desired change, that's not good.
On a positive note, my frame should be here in 3 or 4 days AND I know my steerer/headtube measurements now, making fork choice much easier. HOORAY :hyper:
 

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