Nah, Santa Cruz is NorCal. There's a builder in Pasadena but I can't remember their name and they're a bit obscure.
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Any mountain bikers??
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Nah, Santa Cruz is NorCal. There's a builder in Pasadena but I can't remember their name and they're a bit obscure.
Yep. I forgot to bring my cell phone on my ride this morning so no action shots but a picture of the new rig.
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I want to do things to that bike I'd get banned for telling
How 'bout an infraction's worth?.
BTW ... Killer rig there imdenialNJ
Reason # whatever I love my SS: Hosing her off post-ride never effs w/derailleurs/gear wires or pivot bearings. Carbon doesn't rust.
Ventanas are made in Northern California. There are times when I miss the simplicity of my old single pivot Ventana.
I could have sworn Ventana was SoCal. Where are they based?
Yeah, 30lbs isn't really much to complain about ... looking to get it down to the mid/upper 20's. Since I weigh in @ 175lbs ... that seems to be a good weight for me. Light enough to throw around and climb a bit easier ... but heavy enough & sturdy enough to plow when I need it to.
Every 30hrs for maintence ... so with how much I ride, once a month give or take. How many hours do most folks run between service? I know RockShox has 100hrs between services, but according to my LBS, as well as my experience; it's more like 1yr. About the same for Manitou.
The rear shock is a Manitou Swinger X3 SPV.
Can't complain about it. Perfectly adequate for where I ride ... granted I'm not taking drops higher than I am tall (more like 2-3'). The SPV works nicely. Not enough pedal-bob to push me to upgrade anytime soon. Even with the stock Manitou and the single-pivot design, it still climbs pretty darn good. I'll most likely go coil when I switch it out (summer-ish)
I think you could probably get that bike down to 27 or 28 pounds without too much problem but you won't do that if you switch to coil suspension unless you go with Titanium springs all around.
I was wondering if the shock had a pedaling platform because it makes a huge difference with a single-pivot bike. The Swinger SPV shocks were pretty decent.
If you ride a lot a 30 hour maintenance schedule is pretty intense. These days I can get away with about 4 months between oil changes (sadly). The good news is that it's a pretty fast and easy job. I miss my old Marz 66. Total set it and forget it fork. Change the oil once a season and it's all good.
Do you ride at Pisgah?
Very nice, but definitely not the AM bike you were talking about a while ago.
A friend of mine rode a Foes "The Fly" a few years back. It was an awesome descender.Neither does Aluminum.
Confession: I never wash my bike. I do the bare minimum drivetrain cleaning to keep it moving. Luckily, we don't have mud here. There's effectively no soil here so even though it's often wet there's hardly any mud.
Related, a great feature that Intense has adopted is the grease ports on the bottom pivots. Refilling them with grease every couple of months (takes 2 minutes) removes the need for any other pivot maintenance. Still not as simple as a hardtail but not too bad.
Video of my ride last Saturday. Nothing technical, just a nice cruisy ride on a nice day through a pretty area just north of Laguna called El Moro.
Rancho Cordova, which is outside of Sacramento, north of the San Francisco Bay.
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=ranc...gl=us&ei=fcCOUOyNK8v3igKm-IDYCg&ved=0CJ8BELYD
Ah, I didn't know that. For some reason my mind had them somewhere in SoCal. Sacramento is definitely north.
I've been to Sacramento, the Bay area, and down the coast to San Diego on various trips. Sadly, I've only been through LAX since I got seriously into mountain biking. Our head office is in San Jose and most of my counterparts are in San Diego. Maybe I need to get them to send me out there for "training."
There's someone in my area who rides a tandem Ventana with his wife while pulling their kid in a trailer!
There's someone in my area who rides a tandem Ventana with his wife while pulling their kid in a trailer!
I wanna pull the 7-yr-old behind the tandem on a trail-a-bike, but it would be SO long.
Somewhere there's a Three's Company song playing in the background; as a perky brunette and hot blonde pedal by the beach.
Somewhere there's a Three's Company song playing in the background; as a perky brunette and hot blonde pedal by the beach.
Sadly, I'm Mr Roper.
Sadly, I'm Mr Roper.
Nah, your bikes are too cool for that ... besides there's nothing wrong with Stanley ... always like him. Great one-liners with just the right about of smartass.
I can hear Helen calling him now .... Stanley! Stanley! ...Classic.
