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Long story.

Lend by MTB for a buddy to ride Trans Augrabies.

Every weekend we ride with the boys, when I took my wife`s bike, she frowned... 

Did not know Giant rims are made of cheese, managed to dent the rim, with my youngest on the Feeva seat.

Well new tyres...she did not notice🤐

First Maxxis in our house, Schwable and Conti previously.

 

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39 minutes ago, mecheng89 said:

snip snap snip snap

struggled to upload picture - so deleted it for now  as I don't want to post without a picture...

 ...my purchase glows in the dark... 😜

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After a lot of messing around with handlebar height, roll, stem length and angle, I zeroed in on some extra sweep being what was needed to get me 100% dialled into this bike. Unfortunately, the options for bars that have some extra sweep in SA are basically non-existent, until I found the Farr Supa-Moto bar on Takealot. Seems like they're doing some importing of Farr products still.

Did my first long-ish (5hr) dirt ride with it yesterday, and I'm blown away by it. The extra sweep (16° vs standard bar 9°) made a huge difference to hand comfort, and I found myself  in the normal grips position for 90% of the ride.

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With my old bars I used to switch out riding with my thumbs over the grip, or holding inboard of the brake levers, to relieve pressure in my palm. Used to have a bit of hand soreness or numbness after long dirt rides. No such problem now though.

I also found that the bars seemed to be quite a bit more damped than previous bars I've used, reducing vibration substantially. 

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Spent much more than I would have liked to on bars, but it was the same cost position as buying some SQLab 30x16s (except they didn't have the rise I wanted) or importing (or paying for the flight down to CPT to "borrow" @Jewbacca's) Surly Sunrise bars,

Side bonus - they look moto AF with the rise at the ends.

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5 minutes ago, MTBRIDER1234 said:

I have made a few recently, a PYGA slakline frame, a lyrik ultimate, formula cura brakes and Lyne AMP V2 HE edition wheelset.

 

Pics, or it didn't happen

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4 minutes ago, MTBRIDER1234 said:

Haha yeah I tried to but the picture exceeds the 4mb limit, anyone know a workaround?

Just resize the image? Download image resizer? Right click, resize image, Upload. 

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