Plastic fantastic stealth bomber! (carbon 456 :) )

delcol

has the babby finaly poped out dodge congrats... what did you have ?

we will defo have to pop up rivi for a ride soon.. was up there with our kid on sat.. had a close encounter with a peat bog but my determination not to get wet feet despite being hub deep and still wheel spinning won.. i was hopping around like danny mac trying to keep the bike upright and moving....

DodgeT

Cheers guys, yeah mini dodge aka William John joined us just over 2 weeks ago, Sunday 6th May at 8:16am

delcol

awesome,, dodge please tell me he was'nt born in wigan...

has he got his first bike yet?..

DodgeT

He was....... he's a pieeater

Not yet, but, I reckon i'm going to have a go at making a wooden balance bike for him, should be cool :cool:

delcol

nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo poor poor poor little thing,, a wiganer..
at least your's were'nt born in warrington,, :x :x :x :x :shock:

stick him in your back for a few laps of the quarry.. or oooooooooooop rivi...

summer loved well still loves her ballence bike, it's a bit small for her now but she still hucks it off everything and jumps up kerbs on it...

IT66T

Little William looks great but was it nessary to strangle him :shock: .
Well it's great to see he looks healthy but does that mean he's got a healthy apertite though .

toastedone

Gratts dude, wave good bye to your life

DodgeT

delcol wrote:

stick him in your back for a few laps of the quarry.. or oooooooooooop rivi...

Got a papoos for him today, so we'll see how he go's in that first Might have to get a trailer...

IT66T wrote:

Little William looks great but was it nessary to strangle him :shock: .
Well it's great to see he looks healthy but does that mean he's got a healthy apertite though .

Was just practising for when he hits the teenage years
Definately, currently on about every 2 hrs..

toastedone wrote:

Gratts dude, wave good bye to your life

Cheers fella. T'is not all bad, still getting lots of biking in, been out 5 times in the past 2 weeks including a cracking day up gisburn today

IT66T

IT66T wrote:

Well it's great to see he looks healthy but does that mean he's got a healthy apertite though .

Dodge T wrote:

Was just practising for when he hits the teenage years
definitely, currently on about every 2 hrs..

Sounds like he's gonna be strong and healthy for when he starts learning to ride his first bike 8) .

DodgeT

Certainly got a healthy set of lungs on him

DodgeT

Obligatory dirty (albeit not very - but it is dry at the moment) pic..



Had a cracking ride on saturday on her, can you guess where?



Getting on pretty good with the single ring, only had one pushing moment on sat.. Missing not having a dropper post though, reverb should be here soon, was ordered last wed from bike discount

IT66T

DodgeT wrote:

Certainly got a healthy set of lungs on him

It looks like you'll be getting some ear plugs then and at least you know his breathing is good lol .

I take it your saturday outing was up at Gisburn then unless i've got my trails mixed up but you enjoyed it out there and that's a great sign of the bike working as it should 8) .

DodgeT

Aye Gisburn, last rest point before whelpstone cragg and the slab. Was a cracking day, couldn't believe how few people were out.
For the observant types, the bike with mine is a cube ams 29er size XL, prob one of very few in the country, it's fecking mahoosive !

DodgeT

Reverb finally arrived today from bike discount after a bit of a caffuffle with the delivery, but the bargain was worth waiting for



So, best get it fitted

IT66T

Wow i hadn't realised how big those wheels are on the cube as i was to busy admiring your bike and the scenery , i'm really surprised it wasn't busy while you were out but at least you got to enjoy the ride as it must have seemed like having your own private play ground out there 8) .

You'll have to let us know how you get on with the Reverb when you've had trial run with it as it certainly looks the part .

1mancity2

Will it be on for Saturday? so I can waz it down the DH run for you?

DodgeT

IT66T wrote:

Wow i hadn't realised how big those wheels are on the cube as i was to busy admiring your bike and the scenery , i'm really surprised it wasn't busy while you were out but at least you got to enjoy the ride as it must have seemed like having your own private play ground out there 8) .

You'll have to let us know how you get on with the Reverb when you've had trial run with it as it certainly looks the part .

They are quite big.. What suprised me though is when we were out another time and I was on the enduro, which is a large, there is not much difference in size between it and the 29er which is an XL. A thing what a lot of people perhaps don't realise also is that if the 29" wheels are fitted with smaller tyres, ie 2.2 or similar, there aint that much overall size difference (assuming you've got bigger tyres on the 26"), certainly not the 3" as you would expect.

1mancity2 wrote:

Will it be on for Saturday? so I can waz it down the DH run for you?

You'll have to have a go on it soon pal, as soon as we can arrange a ride !

DodgeT

Treated her to a couple of goodies, a 180mm front disc for a little beefier front end and some all black SS excel grips, as I pinched the red ended ones for the enduro and also as I wanted to get a rid of some of the red on this one.



Also swapped the red seatclamp out for a black one, for added stealthness Oh and the reverb is obviously now fitted, trimmed the hose to give a nice route with no looping going on. It's so easy to trim / bleed these things..

Reverb is nice, although is it any better than the previous KS i900 I had? certainly not in use but maybe reliabilty wise I hope. Saying that, the only issue I ever had with the KS was grit etc getting in the cable causing the lever to be a bit stiff, the actual post was flawless. I can see this being better on the 'verb as there's nowhere for any grit to get (cable wise).

Looking well used after a day at Llandegla





Hopefully shouldn't be changing anything for a while now.... except I would like a short cage mech for her as the long one does wang about a bit..