NicoBoshoff

Yebo. New frame and some new parts with carry over from my Enduro for the rest.

Meet Stumpy McStumpface

And then there's Rupert's appearance fee.

Still reckon the Spez Kenevo makes sense to me. It's essentially an unashamed shuttle bike. Big travel, aggro geometry, basically a DH bike with it's own lift system. Even I find that hard to argue with.

The Gods must be crazy is the trail name.

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Hard times create strong men. Strong men create easy times. Easy times create weak men. Weak men create e-bikes.

Wait...that's NOT how you do it????

So much rationalising on the eletric motor cycle (see that?) side. If it's no big deal, just own it bro. It's almost like you're somewhat ashamed of it? It's like this "buff guy who is natural > buff guy on juice but owns it > buff guy on roids and swears he's natural" I only have an issue with the last guy. Fact is the bike industry is running out of variations of the same product to sell and keep the wheels turning. Enter the marketing team to convince you that despite thousands of unfit, fat, old, injured people finding ways to get into the sport and improve themselves to levels where they can ride when and where they want for literally decades, THIS product will finally open the sport to them. Cool story.

Tip #1 - Take your rain jacket. The PDS probably thought I'm coming again this year...

Bought two pairs in 2015 and they're still going strong. No stretch in the fabric, chamois still does the job, can't fault them.

Also, watch out for the sidewalks. They're deadly...

Well that's the point. Trail bikes are meant to ride trails. NOt green corridors. That trail was rough, but by no means in the DH category of things. This is what separates brands like Pyga from Spot. Suck it up, replace, improve. Not "yes, but..." all the way.

So what Condition is that model specified as? Because that drop that snapped the frame was not of any consequence. Also, attaching a speed to it is bizarre. As for setup, I think the guy that arranged the bike for him works for Spot and he set it up.

Same Spot that had a spectacular failure on Singletrack Sampler's youtube video. Spot's response was pretty worrying. Something along the lines of "The bike is meant for mild riding and sending it off a 1m drop is going beyond that so obviously the frame snapped...". Yeah, nah.