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4 hours ago, CMAX said:

Anyone tried running the bike with a 27.5" (650b) rear wheel?

I'd thinking about it and would run a 2.6 or 2.8 tyre

Yes, mine is mullet at the moment, 29er 2.6 front and 2.8 650b at the back. Rides amazing! I had 650b front and rear but the mullet has transformed the bike

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On 10/27/2023 at 9:29 AM, dasilvarsa said:

Just a Little Bit "OFF TOPIC"

@MORNE

 

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Still not getting all this slack head angle “wheel-too-far-away-from-the-down-tube” business hey @dasilvarsa?😅

but seriously though, you should really just try a bike built for pointing down hills once. The rush the first time you realise just how slow you have been going totally worth it. 

Regarding the bike in picture, and to paraphrase @Jewbacca - 100% would smash that! That thing looks like one of those oldschool 24” 300mm travel ones! It’s so wrong it’s right. 

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33 minutes ago, MORNE said:

Still not getting all this slack head angle “wheel-too-far-away-from-the-down-tube” business hey @dasilvarsa?😅

but seriously though, you should really just try a bike built for pointing down hills once. The rush the first time you realise just how slow you have been going totally worth it. 

Regarding the bike in picture, and to paraphrase @Jewbacca - 100% would smash that! That thing looks like one of those oldschool 24” 300mm travel ones! It’s so wrong it’s right. 

I'd definitely smash that bike! 

It looks like something Brett Tippie used to throw off cliffs in the 90s

Posted (edited)
2 hours ago, MORNE said:

Still not getting all this slack head angle “wheel-too-far-away-from-the-down-tube” business hey @dasilvarsa?😅

but seriously though, you should really just try a bike built for pointing down hills once. The rush the first time you realise just how slow you have been going totally worth it. 

Regarding the bike in picture, and to paraphrase @Jewbacca - 100% would smash that! That thing looks like one of those oldschool 24” 300mm travel ones! It’s so wrong it’s right. 

400 mm

R U having a bad day ?

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On 10/31/2023 at 3:10 PM, CMAX said:

Anyone tried running the bike with a 27.5" (650b) rear wheel?

I'd thinking about it and would run a 2.6 or 2.8 tyre

Built it up like this as soon as I got mine. All turned out exactly as envisioned and I enjoy it more than any MTB I have owned previously, mainly because it keeps the rubber side down so well for me.

2.6x29” Asegai on the front 

2.8x27.5 DHF on the rear (wanted something in 3.0 but couldn’t find stock locally at the time and wanted to just ride)

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1 hour ago, Yusran said:

Built it up like this as soon as I got mine. All turned out exactly as envisioned and I enjoy it more than any MTB I have owned previously, mainly because it keeps the rubber side down so well for me.

2.6x29” Asegai on the front 

2.8x27.5 DHF on the rear (wanted something in 3.0 but couldn’t find stock locally at the time and wanted to just ride)

 

 

Well done, bloody good job.

  • 2 weeks later...
Posted (edited)

So I had a lapse in judgement… gonna sell my full suss and keep the Rapide, she is too pretty to sell, and hasn’t even touched the mountains yet.. anyone here run a 140mm? I have a freshly serviced Rockshox Revelation 140mm fork I wanna slap on, but worried as I want to also use her to train and cover some distance as it will be my only bike.. maybe worth a shorter travel fork instead?

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