My new mountain bike

[SeanScalpel]

Hi all,

 

 

 

I finally decided to upgrade from my 2004 GT Avalance 3.0.

 

 

 

The old GT:

 

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The new Trek:

 

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Thank you for watching.

[Overlord]

 

[darnijl]

That Trek owns the GT. Guess it's gonna be SeanTrek from now on

[SeanScalpel]

Thanks guys!

 

 

 

darnijl, I wanted to change my user name, but only found out now that I can't Would have liked to change it though.

[gummibear]

Nice bike.

[Guest Agteros]

Be nice to admin... you might get lucky

[JuicyUltimate]

What an upgrade!!

 

Its going be one of those thing where you're going to say "Why did I only bought it now??!?"

 

 

 

 

[bduplessis]

Jislaaik,nice upgrade.

[Justin]

So Sean, how does it ride? Cos, from what I understand you had the whole weekend to try it out?

 

 

 

Must ride like a dream!

[BrendonMyb]

Sean, Brendon here

 

just wanna say, Neal & I think youre a little b!tch. Are you too good for us now that you have to upgrade like that. Ive decided you can now go ride on your own & keep to yourself. We not worthy of your new bike

 

Kidding bud - What a buy & what a beaut she is !!!. Ill still race that pants off you, actually its the other way round but im just saying that to make myself feel better.

 

Congrats on your new ride & c ya on Friday evening. Mabalingwe will be a good tester for you & your new ride

 

BTW - Nice Bike !!! 

[SeanScalpel]

Thanks for all the great comments guys! I'm really chuffed with the new bike! A huge upgrade for me!

 

 

 

@ Justin - I still have a few thing I want to do with the bike before taking it for a serious ride, but I know it's going to be awesome

 

 

 

@ Brendon - Hehehe! Thanks man! I'm indeed very excited to tackle the Lion Man with this new bike, going to be the 1st real test!

[na_vtec]

Like I said to you before, you deserve an upgrade for the way you ride

 

Congrat's dude, AWESOME bike!

[SeanScalpel]

Thanks na_vtec!

 

 

 

So over the last two days I have been getting the bike ready for the Lion Man racing coming up this weekend.

 

- Got two new tubes with racing valves that can unscrew and put slime in.

 

- Decided to swop the front Bontrager Jones ACX with the Kenda Blue Groove I had on my old bike. The Bontragers are heavy offroad and the Kenda has less rolling resistance. Going to see how that works out.

 

- Put some clear protective sticker/film on the bottom of the frame to protect again small rock and mud.

 

- Fitted my speedometer.

 

- Fitted saddle pouch.

 

- Adjusted rebound to what I think is right on the fork and shock.

 

 

 

Looking forward to putting my new bike through its paces this weekend!