The Downhill Thread

[darnijl]

Nothing beats Greg Minaar's old Honda G-Cross

 

http://www.sicklines.com/gallery/data/534/medium/honda-RN01.jpg

[Capricorn]

 

man.. what a thing of beauty..

 

 

 

but u hit on one of my pet irritations with modern bikes: that jolt when changing gears under load. Thought they would have gotten rid of that damn jolt when the chain finally engages.

Capricorn2009-11-16 13:55:27

[DownhillingKing]

Ja and only weighed 17kg

[Capricorn]

17? wow.. that g-cross sure looks a lot heavier than it is! impressive!

[darnijl]

It's worth over $50 000... APPARENTLY

[DownhillingKing]

I know. the one that we had in the shop was the cheapest G-box bike around and it cost R55 000 which isnt that bad compare to $50 000

[darnijl]

the bike is called the Honda RN01 and is the team bikes for honda

g-cross team' date=' who is greg minnaar, matti lehikoinen and recently

brendan fairclouth. Basically that gearbox is a derailleur and a

cassette in a box (interesting fact: most gearboxes (or for jargon:

internal gear transmission system) are made by sr suntour), although

honda keeps everything, from the geometry to weight to the components

to the gearbox EXTREMELY secret. The coolest thing about that gearbox

is that you can shift gears while freewheeling, so you can give gas out

of a turn immediately.

In a interview with Mike van Zyl (Mike is

Greg Minnaar's mechanic), he says that only the showa carbon fork setup

is worth $20 000 and only the CASING of the gearbox is worth $30 000,

so that bike should reach far over the $50 000. If i could buy it, i

wouldn't, as the components are very fragile. Mike says that many times

greg breaks his fork setup (i hate carbon) and usually rocks puncture

holes in the gearbox casing! Then Mike just goes back to the van and

gets a new one. If they run out of forks, components and gearbox

casings, they just call honda japan and they send more!! (wish i rode

for team g-cross!!!)

 

Honda recently held a very hush dealer

event, but some information leaked out. Honda said they want to bring a

cheaper model of the bike into production and onto the market. The bike

will be called the RN01G, but all this about the production of the bike

are rumours.[/quote']

 

Yup, just have a read there ^

[darnijl]

^^ That was a post made in '07 btw.

[DownhillingKing]

There is another site somewhere that does mention the weight and the specs of the bike

[darnijl]

Here:

 

Spec

http://world.honda.com/MTB/img/spacer.gif

http://world.honda.com/MTB/img/line_l.gif

http://world.honda.com/MTB/img/spacer.gif

Honda RN01

http://world.honda.com/MTB/img/spacer.gif

Overall Length (mm) 1,835 Overall width (mm) 695 Overall height (mm) 1,068 Wheelbase (mm) 1,155 Road Clearance (mm) 296 Weight  (kg) Under 18 Frame Type   Single-tube Tire size (inch) Front 26 Rear 26 Suspension Front Telescopic Rear Mono-sus

http://world.honda.com/MTB/img/spacer.gif

 

This is for the 2005 one.

The 2006 and 2007 ones had nothing

 

Kinda useless though

[DownhillingKing]

Ja but weight under 18kg wo my bike not even that

[parabola]

Would love to strip that bike and take everything apart, must be an engineering masterpiece.

[darnijl]

Ya well they don't specify.

 

They just say "under 18"

 

Like all 'ooooohhh not telling yoooou'

 

So it could be like 10kg. Ha

[darnijl]

Why the upside-down fork?

 

Is there a reason?

[DownhillingKing]

Er to copy honda's MX. Must admit upside down fork are awsom and stupid at the same time the wobble alot as have no cross bar over the wheel and also it is very easy to hit your stansions on a rock but they look really cool

[Bakkies]

What oil would you recogmend Bakkies?

 

 

 

Engen copper slip on the headset, bb and all auspension jionts. bicycle grease on stem, fork clamps, seatposts. Bakkies2009-11-16 15:02:24