My steed

BIGWill

My lovely Karpiel Apocalypse. Only got the one pic of it at the moment but it gives you a pretty good idea of the spec.


Spec is as follows:
Karpiel Apocalypse frame
Avalanche DHS 3.0 with Ti coil
Fox Vanilla Air
Manitou Dorado
Sun Double Wide on Hope hubs (Pro II front Bulb Rear)
Nokian Gazzaloddi tyres (3.0 front 2.6 rear) and DH tubes
Chris King headset
Blackspire stem
Azonic Pyramid Double Wall bars
DMR Zip grips and Hope Grip Doctors
Hope Mono M4s with Goodridge braided hoses (8 inch rear rotor, 9 inch floating front rotor)
Race Face Diabolus cranks and BB
Wellgo V12 copy pedals
MRP chain device
Goldtec 38T chainring
Shimano XT mech and shifter
XTR Ti cassette
XTR gear cable
SRAM chain
some crazy ass seatpost
Hope seatclamp
Azonic Hot Seat

Well there she is in all her glory! I'm switching the wheels for something 26" and a little more weight-friendly some time soon. Hope at least a few of you will like her, she serves me well!

nicklouse

looks fun.

but a bit odd with the fork and the very high and short bar/stem combo.

BIGWill

yeh the stem combo does look a bit odd, but i always ride with short stems and i recently switched to dorados from monster t which dropped the front end quite a bit so i slapped the higher bars on mostly for comfort, rides like a dream

nicklouse

i would look at some 888 and lower bars

but there are 2 big forks that one should own at some time or another. Monsters and Dorados.

well done on both counts.

nicklouse

Oh then there is one other fork. the SMTs

BIGWill

haha thanks, i had some super monsters too at one point very briefly, but as awesome as they looked they weighed an absolute ton and completely destroyed the geometry. i have a set of risse hamps lying around somewhere too that i keep meaning to sell. i like the way it rides now, just wanna ge some 26" wheels on there and shed a few extra pounds 'cause she's a weighty beast

nicklouse

SMTS 7kg of lurve.

I have some on an 8KG frame, if you look through this part of the forum you will see the Tank!
26" handle and roll soooo much better.

BIGWill

yeh that's why i'm swtiching to 26", the 24s combined with huuuge tyres just slow me down far too much and suck the energy out of me! the tank looks awesome! i'm guessing it weighs in excess of 50lbs?

nicklouse

Mmm my scale only does 25 Kg.... so yes maybe 50lbs.....

BIGWill

my karpiel was well over 50 when it had super monsters on it, was kinda fun and pretty cool to look at but was just too difficult to ride

nicklouse

thats the mad thing about the tank. with 200mm on the front it was a bit too sharp. well it does have 250mm on the rear. Ideally it needs a 250mm fork but it does ride well (DH only) would not like to pedal it up hill.

You know Jan is making new Karpiels back in Poland. after Duncon bought them?

Dowse40

BIGWill wrote:

My lovely Karpiel Apocalypse. Only got the one pic of it at the moment but it gives you a pretty good idea of the spec.


Spec is as follows:
Karpiel Apocalypse frame
Avalanche DHS 3.0 with Ti coil
Fox Vanilla Air
Manitou Dorado
Sun Double Wide on Hope hubs (Pro II front Bulb Rear)
Nokian Gazzaloddi tyres (3.0 front 2.6 rear) and DH tubes
Chris King headset
Blackspire stem
Azonic Pyramid Double Wall bars
DMR Zip grips and Hope Grip Doctors
Hope Mono M4s with Goodridge braided hoses (8 inch rear rotor, 9 inch floating front rotor)
Race Face Diabolus cranks and BB
Wellgo V12 copy pedals
MRP chain device
Goldtec 38T chainring
Shimano XT mech and shifter
XTR Ti cassette
XTR gear cable
SRAM chain
some crazy ass seatpost
Hope seatclamp
Azonic Hot Seat

Well there she is in all her glory! I'm switching the wheels for something 26" and a little more weight-friendly some time soon. Hope at least a few of you will like her, she serves me well!

Does that have twin rear shocks?

jay12

that looks really good. i'm not too sure on the forks though.

BIGWill

Yeh it has twin rear shocks. With the air shock on the rear the forks make the suspension feel perfectly balanced. Yeh I've been keping up to date with Karpiel's progress, just wondering when they're finally gonna reveal the X1 prototype!!

fourcrossjohn

remins me of benders bike

Whytepeak

Everything on it is BIG

I like it