Rocky Mountain Thunderbolt 750 2015

schmako

After looking around for a while ended up going with the Rocky Mountain as a replacement to the ageing Club Roost. I'm really impressed after taking it out yesterday/today. I can't believe how fast it is on the up as well as the downs. Nice to have a bike that doesn't make loads of horrible creaking/squealing (well the Orange is fine, just not an xc bike). New bike but still managed to get a puncture today, my old friend thorn through the tube.

Spec:

Fork: Fox 32 Float 27.5 120 CTD. 120mm
Shock: Fox Float CTD
Drivetrain: SLX/XT and Raceface Turbine Crank 2x10
Brake: SLX
Wheel: Sun Wheeltech Inferno Rim and SLX Hub

Some pictures from today:

paul.skibum

Jelly - those things look the bomb - I'd get the BC edition with the 130 fork personally.

mike hunts alpine

Lovely bike.

lawman

really want to have a go on one of these, they look great fun, a burlier fork and a dropper and that is ripe for hiding!

ilovedirt

lawman wrote:

really want to have a go on one of these, they look great fun, a burlier fork and a dropper and that is ripe for hiding!

Ditto! These things look great! Short travel and slack angles, recipe for fun!

schmako

Cheers for the kind words! May well invest in a dropper at some point, the fork on it is still way ahead of my old vanillas on both older bikes, but wont go doing any massive drops on them thats for sure. Still getting used to locking them out as neither of my other bikes had this!

Feels great on the ups as well as the downs, 2x10 gearing is decent with a good range of easy and hard gears.

Got the weekend off so will be blasting about on this for sure!

Thewaylander

Nice tidy machine,

wouldn't worry about lock outs on the fork at all, never found it helped climbing ever, a firmer pedalling switch on the rear though is very helpful!

Like that muchy!

Herdwick

great bike there mate enjoy,
what's the price difference over the lovely BC edition over there?

we don't have a RM dealer down here...