bloody hell - you took longer to build yours than I took to build mine! They are great frames, though.

I ride mine with an inline post and an 80mm stem, so it'd be interesting to see how your setup rides.

Quality bike. Hope you enjoy yours as much as i do mine.

I have found the paint finish surprisingly resiliant as well.

the wet manky weather didn't help the build time much at all ;)

i may experiment with the stem length a little, and i'll definitely try a shorter stem, just for comparison. it rides very nicely, and i quite like the stretch in the cockpit - it certainly feels, and is actually, very fast.

what colours did you both go for?

Classy fake Ti

Suspension seatpost?! Pouf.

nice build hobo. how are the tyres?

Aye it is a suss post, and yes i will take being called a pouf(sp) ;-)

They tyres :-)

As a back tyre they are a Kenda Nevegal copy. If you want the tread of the nevegal (I like) with a bit less 'size' (the 2.35 panaracer sizes small) they are good. It is wearing ok but is worryingly showing quite a few very deep slashes to the main tread area which is down to the sharp rocks i ride.

I dont rate them as a front tyre. The kenda blue groove is 10times the tyre for what i want (Predictable).

Its obviously not a speed freak tyre but rolls quite well imo.


Considering i am going from full suss to hardtail, after the first few weeks of getting lines right etc, i havent had many pinch flats either which some people complain about with panaracers.

I will be interested to know what yours weighs. I think mine came in at 28.5lbs which is fine for general xc stuff.

Figured if i do any enduro type stuff putting light tyres and taking the bashguard off may make a little diff.

i haven't taken mine near the scales yet. it's worringly heavier than i expected it to be, with all the carbon bits and stuff. i'll try and get it weighed asap. it's certainly not heavy enough to prevent it from being very very fast :)

I havent seen another sirius on the trails ever!! How exclusive is that :-)

The bike looks pretty nice, the seatstay seems quite long to me how snappy is it?


As for exclusive, I haven't seen anyone riding my local trails on an argos barracuda either...

;-)

Hobo, get yourself a thudbuster ST much better than that post.

Hobo, off to the Lakes shortly, you riding Saturday or Sunday am ( leaving 4ish Sunday ), can't e-mail is screwed. Be based near Keswick with Car, Friday or saturday night ride is also possible.


If so call me, 07958 192557.

Lock up your daughters, Keswick, Dylan's coming to town....

...and your Mothers!!!

And least you didn't say Grand mothers DK :)


I'm with the GF there all safe this time sadly :(

Even the GF??

I havent technically organised a ride for sat yet dylan. Leave yer phone on tomorrow.

to bring this thread back on to topic...

...i think it'll probably be a while (i hope) before i see another pipedream on the trails