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  1. LazyTrailRider
    Sadly, I'm saying goodbye to my 110, hopefully it finds a good home! https://www.bikehub.co.za/classifieds/141465-pyga-110/
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    Yes, I run one on the front. It's much like a Maxxis Minion to be honest, seriously grippy with a fairly hard transition to the side knobs. If you lean aggressively into corners, it will work for you. Edit: Spelling
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    Not even remotely.
  4. LazyTrailRider
    Amen. I currently have both an S-Works and a PYGA in my garage. Do I think one is without a doubt better than the other? No. They're different, they're both damn nice, and they can both be ridden very fast under a capable rider (not always me!) More importantly, they're both a truckload of fun. Do yourself a favour and keep an open mind. Plenty of awesome bikes out there! Edit: Typo.
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    Haha. That place is awesome with capitals!
  6. LazyTrailRider
    It sounds like most people commenting here are kind of missing the point of Procore... It's primarily designed to enable you to do two things at the same time: Run low pressure for extra grip (Pure Savage, as a roadie you probably haven't been doing the kind of riding where there the "is there ever enough grip?" question arises).Not pinch flat or burp constantly because of the previous point. That's it, simple as that.
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    Ho.ly.crap.
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    DJR and IH8MUD, you won't see much of an advantage riding large-carge pedals with "conventional" stiff-soled cycling shoes. The soles just aren't meant to grip on anything flat, too many contours and holes. It's when you're using flat-soled even patterned shoes like fivetens, 2FOs or Shimano AMs that the benefits of support when not clipped in become evident.
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    Such a classy professional career when one looks at it from an overall perspective, and one of the nicest guys in the cycling world. Well done, it's been real!
  11. LazyTrailRider
    Buy or somehow otherwise get hold of bottom-out token and plonk it in, that's how you make a Pike more progressive.
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    Niterider, with bottoming I'm referring to the Revelation, not the Pike. The big brother feels like it has much better compression damping in that sense, and of course the token adjustment which you've pointed out. Capricorn, I reckon you're right about the two being fairly close, but with the Pike: Damn, that stiffness through super gnarly stuff! (as Niterider has said)The small bump sensitivity is better by just enough of a margin that it gives you that "this is real deal!" feeling.
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    Having run one for over a year (the 2014 model), I concur with what's been said. It's a very good all-round performer and has only two negative aspects: - Solo Air has a slight top-out clunk compared to a Dual Air setup. Practically it's not a biggie, but if it's set up firm (see next point) it tends to be noticeable in climbing situations when there's very little weight on the front wheel and you're riding it at the very top of the travel. - It could do with more progression adjustment at the end of the stroke, like the Pike. When hitting really big stuff, it tends to bottom pretty quickly so needs to run fairly high pressure to counter this. Mine is set up in Open mode with full LSC to prevent diving, which reduces small bump sensitivity, especially at the firmness I need to run it to prevent smashing all the way through the travel on big jumps and drops. Besides for the above, it's a stellar performer!
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    Pipsqueak, your stories and pics have an uncanny ability to make me feel like a total ninny for "not wanting to ride in the rain because it messes up my bike"! Very, very cool achievement (Pardon the pun)
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    Haha, I was waiting for Mr Capricorn to chime in with some ludicrously detailed Schwalbe info All correct of course! I partly disagree as far as the HD goes, my opinion generated over the last year or so is that the HD is actually a pretty damn good tyre, it's just very pressure sensitive so needs exact setup.
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    Tokai, where's that again? I've kind of forgotten about it. It's actually a good thing in a way, I regularly felt a pang of moral pain when thinking about the fact that I was directly funding ineptitude and bureaucratic bungling by paying to ride there. Yup, plenty of other places to go instead.
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    The problem is not right, it's left. On most setups, the chainring is too far right. Edit: Oops, said "crank" instead of "chainring".
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    Yip, I'm getting my baby around the beginning of May. The Pyga 160 looks awesome, but I would not mind a black 140 either...
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    This is a very, very progressive setup. Riding a bike with a 71deg HA is just plain silly for the majority of our country's weekend marathon warriors. If I wasn't moving to the dark side in the next couple of weeks I'd be seriously tempted to get an all-black Pascoe next. Pyga just simply makes the best looking bikes around at the moment...
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    Now that's how a Pascoe deserves to be ridden! Both these bikes are perfectly set up the way I like it. Nice!
  21. LazyTrailRider
    Yeah, although I have to say that a Trailstar HD ridden at the right pressure (it seems I've found the sweetspot recently) is not bad at all, it actually loses grip pretty predictably on the edge. The Butcher however is a completely different animal. I rode a 2.35 Butcher/Ground Control hard on a Camber Evo recently and you can feel serious bite from those massive side knobs. Going to be my next combo as well, maybe with a Slaughter on the rear...
  22. LazyTrailRider
    Mine does this, but in addition also rides bikes, likes sci-fi and action movies, kicks my ass at chess and Scrabble, and is an amazing cook. Yip, I know.
  23. LazyTrailRider
    I also got one of these at the start of the year. Brilliant piece of equipment, so easy to use! 2 bikes on the 3-bike version equals the simplest bike transportation yet.
  24. LazyTrailRider
    Patensie, that is a *beautiful* machine. Hot damn!
  25. LazyTrailRider
    Well... It has a towbar, just under 210mm ground clearance, and way more suspension travel than the 1 series, naturally. Believe it or not, it handles sand, mud and a few small ruts pretty well... In addition to the previous point, it also drives like a sedan when on the road. 0-100 in 8.5, 210km/h top end, and with the 8spd auto it cruises at 2000rpm at 120. Guess where most people (including me) spend 80-90% of their time driving? I'm too pedantic to put up with driving something that doesn't handle as well (or close to) what I've become used to. This thing feels almost like a 3 series when in sport mode and thrown around. Not quite as sharp as the 1, but perfectly acceptable. I'm a sucker for toys. Panoramic sunroof, xenons, automated tailgate, automatic highbeams, automatic climate control, automatic... actually, automatic everything. My garage does not fit a full-size bakkie. The X just-just squeezes in, and I've had to mount all sorts of stuff on the walls to make space.So, there you go. It all makes perfect sense!
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