First DH rig

RedBaros

This Knolly on pinkbike is nice too http://ep1.pinkbike.org/p4pb9589419/p4pb9589419.jpg

but I have to pay monthly, and a bit more for the Myst

rockmonkeysc

Interest free credit card is the best way to get finance. It allows you to shop around for the best deal and gives more choice

RedBaros

I had deposit sorted and was ready to buy the Saracen Myst Team but my credit application was declined, then after weeks of searching through Pinkbike found this last night..

http://www.pinkbike.com/buysell/1408934/

So that's my first DH rig. Myst would have been nice but saved 2k of debt grief, just a few weeks of living on beans now til payday!


Good deal?

RedBaros

Anyone know this bike much?

rockmonkeysc

Don't do it. They don't ride too nicely and are far from solid.
Rear suspension doesn't work very well and there's too much of it.

RedBaros

RockmonkeySC wrote:

Don't do it. They don't ride too nicely and are far from solid.
Rear suspension doesn't work very well and there's too much of it.

Too late!! Already paid for and will arrive by the weekend.

I'll take your opinion on board and test it out asap.

Reviews are hard to find but the ones I have are mainly positive. Here's one..

http://www.imbikemag.com/issue8/?page=141

And as I'm fairly new to uplift DH I could do with a forgiving bike as I learn. I had to slow right down in places on my XC cube so I'll see how it goes with that extra bit of suspension on the back.

While at Revolution bike park there was a guy there with an Intense which had the same travel. He did mention the danger of clipping pedals with the extra bounce but it's something you get used to and learn to avoid.

This was the best review I could find about the bike

http://roscolines.com/2010/12/solid-mis ... irst-ride/

Just in time, as I get my new Solid Mission 9 bike set up I get the flu… and snow falls for a couple of weeks. I’ve been dying to get out on this bike for the past few weeks and I finally got my chance today. I headed out with Rosco to one of our training spots to see how it would go. The bike is a custom Solid Mission 9 supplied by James O’Carrol of OC tuning. It’s a pretty sweet setup with Fox suspension all round. I got 2011 internals in the front forks, giving better reliability (hopefully) and easier access to low/high speed compression adjustment at the top of the stanchions.

The geometry of the bike has been tweaked too to give a shorter 435mm chainstay length, BB height of around 355mm (adjustable) and 225mm of rear travel. The bike is tiny and is so easy to flick about on the trail. To compare, Rosco’s KTM chainstay length is 457mm, right Rosco?

On the trail the bike feels pretty well planted. It’s still only a single pivot design, but has a linkage system to give a really nice progressive spring curve. It’s totally supple at the start, but you never feel like you are going to bottom the thing out. I also have confirmation from bike wrecker Ewan Doherty that these frames are super strong. He says it’s the first frame he has never cracked… yet.

It’s been around 4 weeks since I was last on my DH bike so today was more of a day for getting used to things again and getting some speed up. I felt pretty natural on the bike straight away and think i’m 80% there with the setup. The biggest thing that was holding me back was my fitness and thats a good thing – when you can jump on a bike and have that much confidence in it so quickly. Hopefully by the start of the season everything will be ready to rock.


I'll update this thread as soon as I've had a test ride. First place will be Antur Stiniog....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM8tShcn-dY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAszMEVZrRQ

RedBaros

To bump an old thread! I still haven't taken the Solid out for a spin, took ages to get around to sorting the seatpost but I have it now, and first spin at Antur Stiniog should be Saturday 19th unless it's howling up there.

Went to watch the race and got some of the fever back, it's DH time again!

Second reason for posting is to ask opinions on the upcoming YT Capra Pro. Looks immense.

I'm thinking about waiting until the price drops next year (if it does and there are any left), sell my XC Cube and DH Solid and put the money towards the YT.

http://www.yt-industries.com/shop/en/Bi ... pra-CF-Pro

rockmonkeysc

I wouldn't. The wicked and tues are both not great to ride. Really let down by very linear rear suspension which just blows through the travel too easily. Just because a bike looks nice and has good components doesn't mean it will ride well.
Personally I prefer to have a dh bike and an xc bike otherwise you end up with a bike which is heavy for xc and too fragile and twitchy for downhill. I tried it with a Giant Reign X and gave up after 6 months and went back to two bikes.

RedBaros

RockmonkeySC wrote:

I wouldn't. The wicked and tues are both not great to ride. Really let down by very linear rear suspension which just blows through the travel too easily. Just because a bike looks nice and has good components doesn't mean it will ride well.
Personally I prefer to have a dh bike and an xc bike otherwise you end up with a bike which is heavy for xc and too fragile and twitchy for downhill. I tried it with a Giant Reign X and gave up after 6 months and went back to two bikes.

I see what you mean, and I'll get a better idea after testing the Solid, probably will want to keep it after trying to ride those tracks on a XC!

It's new XC bike time next summer anyway and I'm sold on the 27.5 wheel thing. I'd want to see more reviews about the Capra after it comes out because there's no test rides available. Ones I've seen say it rides better than it looks so
Capra Comp with 160 travel might be better and keep the DH.

It's at the top of the list so far anyway

fielonator

Why does a bike become a "rig" when downhill's involved?