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Bikes for Enduro... The restart


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Guest Omega Man

If there is no hub activity from me this w/end, you know what I'm doing!

You better be building trails. I'm gonna phone Richard and tell him to hold your girl to ransom. Hehe.

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Definitely gets a plus one for being different. buuuuut it looks to me like they sacrificed a lot in order to be different there are better ways of solving their engineering problems rather than machining it out of one piece of billet aluminium which still flexes a lot! seems to me like they really liked machining things and building a bike came second.

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Guest Omega Man

Definitely gets a plus one for being different. buuuuut it looks to me like they sacrificed a lot in order to be different there are better ways of solving their engineering problems rather than machining it out of one piece of billet aluminium which still flexes a lot! seems to me like they really liked machining things and building a bike came second.

If you are talking about the Empire It's not machined. It's cast. I read an article a few years ago on the AP1 on the process and the reasoning etc etc. Nice bikes in the flesh. But I agree with you on why they do it.

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Fabian's setup

 

http://reviews.mtbr.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/Fabian-Barels-Canyon-Striv.jpg

 

ooh, I am drawn to that fork. Anyone think 180mm will be too much fork for local riding, state your case now.

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