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"Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge is "empathy", for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world. It requires profound, purpose‐larger‐than‐the‐self kind of understanding." - Bill Bullard.
Groovy!Originally Posted by uno-speedo
Thanks. Excellent shifters and levers too :adore:
Since that photo was taken I've changed the bars and am waiting on a Type II fork from Potts. Then it'll be perfecto.
"It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle." Ernest Hemingway
what a sweet rig...i always wanted one of those...speaking of those bars, did you polished those or did Rody aka Groovy Cycles
Thanks. Excellent shifters and levers too :adore:
Since that photo was taken I've changed the bars and am waiting on a Type II fork from Potts. Then it'll be perfecto.
they appear on ebay every once in awhile. rody polished them.
Eriksen 29er in the heat-n-humidity this weekend
- Anne G
Aiming to KICK cancer's butt this time around
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Race Rigs Kent Eriksen
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Sweet Eriksen!
Niiice. Is that bear spray on the seatpost?
Folks have some serious MTBs up in here. Its almost a travesty to lump them all together like this.
VSalon has gained hella cool points in my book.
P.S. i love the Ericksen. Thats on my list of dream bikes.
we are about to break the surly bonds of gravity and punch the face of God!
Thanks. No bear spray, this shot will show it's simply a Big Air can.
It's a fine riding bike and has been great for the ultra 100s.
Agreed, there are some supberb mtbs in this group!
- Anne G
Aiming to KICK cancer's butt this time around
Race Go Drakes Coffee
Race Rigs Kent Eriksen
Power by Design Coaching, LLC
I can't recall if I ever shared this here so at the risk of repeating myself -
Here is a bike I built for myself over 15 years ago. I had an idea of how to design a unified rear triangle design that, unlike the others on the market like the Ibis, would not produce a large change in spring rate when the rider goes from seated to standing. The very low and far back pivot makes sure this happens. It has 4" of travel front and rear and is very easy to balance.
The bike is fully titanium, excepting the pivot axle which is a full 16 mm stainless. It was built as an "after school project" while working at Serotta. It was designed to be quick and crude to make a one-off of to test the geometry and not for looks or ease of cleaning or anything along those lines. I fully intended to ride it for a short period and then make another after learning the good and bad of the first design. Well I loved the design as it rides very well. I've changed shocks over the years but everything else is as it was built way back then and I've been using it ever since. The bearings were designed to be used in a combine so they are water tight even to 100psi of water being sprayed at them.
I keep telling myself that I'll build myself something new but customer bikes keep getting in the way :0 So I keep riding and enjoying this one.
Thanks for looking. I should tell the story of how this bike was stolen and recovered right before Karin and I were to take a mountain bike trip for our honeymoon.
Dave
Nice brakes boss
laughter has no foreign accent.
Hydraulic rim crushers.
dave
you should. I had a mountain bike stolen and recovered within 24 hours... around the same time I was jealous of my college buddies' hydro maguras.
I've been getting out on the trails alot more and until finishing this frame up two weeks ago I was using a loaner from a friend.
I am really psyched to have my own mountain bike again and this frame is proving to be a lot of fun with really short chainstays and fat tire clearance. A lot going on for a rigid hardtail that doesn't show up in the pictures like an eccentric bottom bracket, sectional Chainstays and ovalized top and seat tube.
Going night riding on it tonight. Getting a sectional Igleheart rigid fork in a couple of weeks that will let me run it as '6 '9er. Getting paint on the raw steel as soon as I have more frames to go to my powder coater with.
http://www.velocipedesalon.com/forum...ead.php?t=9544
Fun checking out all the MTBs on here, I have never ridden that "Lefty" style shock.
How the heck you get used to it?? Where there was once was two, there is now one.
I have a few mountain bikes, but since collecting this one last year, it's all I ride.
Jupiter Hotel. Portland. USA
Surveyor's Ridge. Oregon. USA.
Snowdon. Wales. UK
Wow that looks like a beast of a bike!!
What fun, I bet it rolls over stuff like nobodys business.
Gosh what beautiful places you bicycle, that trail into the pines looks like my idea of nirvana.
Thanks - it is a lot of fun to ride - I have a regular 29er front wheel too for racing and the like. That was a sweet trail, but unfortunately it's a good 6000 miles away now - I like in the UK, you see :^)
This bike now has over 2 years and a whole lotta miles on it. Not getting anywhere close to old yet...
Egads, I love this thread. On this one page alone we have the most beautiful Retrotec ever (perfect arc on that TT), a Jones Spaceframe, a one-of Kirk, a drool-worthy Eriksen, the holy grail WTB Phoenix, and a 650B Seven. Wow!
My next bike will be inspired by one of these jewels.
:)
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