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Well, I think all of the product lettering in GIANT signage should tell you something about who would own a bike like this and why they would ride it...
yeah these bikes are approx $20k and they don't even come with V-brakes. It's like some sort of old school style brake that I don't even know what its called.
Road bikes don't use v brakes. Educate yourself before you bitch and complain. They are not old school, they are highly effective for roadsides and lightweight.
And stop bringing up 10+ year old designs and complaining about how weird they look or how you don't think they work well. There is LOTS of info on the web, educate yourself
Road bikes don't use v brakes. Educate yourself before you bitch and complain. They are not old school, they are highly effective for roadsides and lightweight.
And stop bringing up 10+ year old designs and complaining about how weird they look or how you don't think they work well. There is LOTS of info on the web, educate yourself
those types of brakes are worst ones is what I heard
road bikes basically have this type:
Shimano doesn't offer a rebuild kit, instead they'll replace the caliper under warranty. I got my new caliper from fanatyk in whistler. They were great to deal with.
I bought a new saint for my knolly. Then I found out they would fix it for free. So now I have a saint on the front of my bottlerocket. It's a hell of an upgrade.
Man, you hit it right on the head. I've broken my elbow, fractured my lower back, and won a race on my knolly. All it haa needed in the last 4 years is bearings and brake pads. It's a beast.
Fanatyk is great, they fixed up my bike and got me back on the hill in like 20 minutes when I decided to see how whistler dirt tasted.
You have a similar setup to me, I have a trek Session 10, and a bottle rocket.
Obviously the session 10 will pound straight through even the most unholy of terrain, and it will soak up bumps the size of a full size truck without a flinch. BUT I find myself grabbing the bottlerocket more often than I grab my trek. It's just more fun, I have more fun riding my little bottlerocket on the edge, rather than pushing my limits on the trek.
On the bottle rocket I cruise around and ride a lot more mellow, and the lack of travel forces you to ride smooth and it's so light that you can huck it around. Whereas the trek is just good for days when I want to ride super hard, and chase faster times down A-line.
The trek is also good for breaking both your hands on as I did 2 years ago.
so somebody please tell me why is this front fork more beneficial than the conventional fork...
Simple answer: Cannondale is insane. That said, I have a friend who swears by his lefty fork. It was known as a light weight alternative to a dual fork. It incorporates both compression and rebound cartridges in the single fork, as opposed to standard forks where the comp and reb are split between the stanchions.
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GT has some unique rear suspension design
That bike is from a time when the engineers were trying to find the best suspension design. One that would soak up bumps and jumps, without the rider losing all of his pedal power to the suspension.
My Knolly is a 4 bar, while the Bottlerocket is a single pivot. The 4 bar is great for soaking up big drops and jumps. While the single pivot is higly active and is great for jumps and transitions.
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The trek is also good for breaking both your hands on as I did 2 years ago.
Damn!!!!
You'll find me riding my bottlerocket at Whistler most of the time now. I ride with my 11 year old, so the Knolly is just too hard to ride slower. It needs to be opened up.
But man, when I do ride her, it's something special.
A lot of you guys are comparing mass produced items to relatively bespoke bikes, last time I checked, you could pick up a bike that would get you from A to B for less than a thousand bucks at Can Tire. Honda CBwhatevers are just appliance cars with two wheels, compared to the SuperSoakerXL chrome vanadium molydexterous mountain bike with triple protoflex technology meant for a very specific purpose.
Bikes are awesome. Had a Giant STP stolen from me awhile ago, picked up another one last year. I love dirt jumping and DH or just screwing around on the streets
__________________ [13-03, 11:25] MG1 when you hit the brakes, it shoots cum at pedestrian - bukkake
[12-03, 19:06] meme405 That e30 is so mexiflushed I thought we were in albuquerque
[12-03, 23:03] rb when i see a modded element. I have nothing but respect. either the parents kicked him out or the guy is killing hookers in the back
[QUOTE=Yodamaster;8630381]A lot of you guys are comparing mass produced items to relatively bespoke bikes, last time I checked, you could pick up a bike that would get you from A to B for less than a thousand bucks at Can Tire./QUOTE]
Agreed. Timpo, I think you're going about this all wrong... a more apt comparison would be some $150 CCM bike from Canadian Tire to a $9,900 Nissan Micra. Or one of those $10,000 Orbea carbon fiber bikes to a $300,000~ Ferrari 458.
Very different versions of the same thing that gets you from Point A to Point B. A lot of research and development goes into the latter, and not so much into the former. Whether you see it or not.
Personally, I am not a cyclist but I can't help but think it cool when an average bike weighs around 20-25 lbs and has literally 10 parts but engineers are still able to make a "high end" bike weighs less than half that...
Need to rent a bike though... fuckin' Santa Cruz V10 got stolen living in Langley.
So sad.
This town truly needs an enema.
That said, if you're going to rent you'll soon find that the V10 was a great bike, but the new designs do it all. I rented about 10 different bikes 4 years ago before deciding on the Knolly. After trying 7 different suspension designs I realized I liked short travel single pivot, and long travel 4 bar.
But the VPP on the V10 carbon was really sweet too.
That's what my friend always says. The Lefty is the most rigid fork out there, and is great for XC. I've never had an issue with flex in my suspension, and I've done this drop dozens of times.
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