The niner air 9 looks very tempting...now I just need to get a job at a shop again this summer to help pay for the parts...
Jay, post a ride report on the build.
That can be arranged..
How are you at crushing cardboard??
j
throw them into the parking lot and run them over with a car.
Crushing cardboard...I can do that...I have learned the finer points of breaking down bike boxes...
Ok.. I did!
Since you stole my tires I had to try the Rampages instead.
http://www.mtbnj.com/forum/showthread.php?t=538&page=5
You got a Rampage review? They were on the radar for a time but fell off. Seemed to do better on the West Coast than out these parts.
i'd love to ride one of these and see what they're all about. however....
...we'll need a new forum so i can discuss how former all-america goalie ex-powerlifter types who crush parts, fear riding old steel frames in the woods and love to talk about buying bikes (and making perfectly good FS bikes into nine speeds) can avoid any complications.
http://www.carverbikes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4&Itemid=12
You got a Rampage review? They were on the radar for a time but fell off. Seemed to do better on the West Coast than out these parts.
I rode that carver 96er at Pedro'sFest last summer.
Apart from looking weird the Reba fork felt ultra noodley. I had just spent a 1/2 hour on a prototype F-29er and comparing the lefty to the Reba to the Lefty is not fair.
The front end wandered and the bike felt like an accordian when you hit the front brake.
I am clearly lefty biased but I am not the first to say this..
Oh yeah.. The bike was fine but not inspiring in any particular way. The 96er thing is for real I guess but it still is a Frankenbike to me.
j
j - is that a 29 specific lefty or did you have to use a spacer kit?
They are pretty sweet, I have been considering one now that they are selling complete packages, although I think cannondale may be producing a 29er ss soon, so that also has my attention. I cant make up my mind, I ride something for a few months, I see something else, then I want that.