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  1. LaharDesign

    Update on the Lahar m9#3 xCamCole Wchamp

    Punter got 3rd in the scot nats in the weekend. Spectator reports say that his radical lines down the steepest knarliest rockiest bits looked like lightning bolts out of a k-lubed a-hole. Now if only he'd do some fitness training... (Punter is called punter cause he just turns up and rolls the...
  2. LaharDesign

    Lahar Lovers.

    Regarding Raleigh's stinkbum pirating of the brandname, its been registered since 1996, we have IP treaties with everywhere they are using it and marketed in leading international MTB mags since 1999 (they began using it in 2004). Several hotshot IP lawyers have said "say the word and we'll eat...
  3. LaharDesign

    Honda RN01 frameset

    Here ya go Honda dudes. This one should smoke that title. You know I've been rooting for ya since I talked you into the gearbox prog in 01. I've even fixed the pivot hight and nylon chain routing block so you won't need the Big Red lockout button and so it'll eat the big bumps. BB raised for...
  4. LaharDesign

    Honda RN01 frameset

    Man your Honda is so spec'd out. No wonder it handles 60 footers so good. Wish I could have a go.
  5. LaharDesign

    Honda RN01 frameset

    On demand only. If you want some of my DNA to clone me in the event of my demise I won't deny you. It should be safe for a million years laminated in the resin matrix. (I have red pills too:biggrin: but you'll need to go elsewhere for blue ones)
  6. LaharDesign

    Honda RN01 frameset

    It didn't. A certain womble who's name I have mentioned and who is not welcome back in his country of birth for reasons both too sordid and numerous to mention has a habit of making the same stupid comments repeatedly on many forums. They are as typically divergent from reality as his belief...
  7. LaharDesign

    Update on the Lahar m9#3 xCamCole Wchamp

    Maintenance history: After Euro pro season: new chains, shifter cables, rohloff oil change, wax polish. didn't need any of these but you do whatever you can for a WChamps. After spring racing, NZ nats icl 2 wins in elite, and oceania cont' champs, sadly did get to give her attention myself...
  8. LaharDesign

    Honda RN01 frameset

    Good work Honda if you are finally going to sell them. I'm happy to give anyone advice if they want to throw away the one season cheesemetal and replace it with a nice light, strong single tube from gearbox to head. DamoDH you are just plain making things up. Cams bike had the same chain...
  9. LaharDesign

    italian gearbox

    I'm just not sure why you'd want to use twice as many sprockets and require both ends to shift simultaneously for the same range and steps as a one at a time rig. I guess the front shifting may be a little better if the ratios are tight, but generally shifting both at once would seem likely to...
  10. LaharDesign

    italian gearbox

    can't see patents holding water. Other than a few details perhaps. All been done lots of times dating back up to a century so priors and obviousness. If they hassle you say " fine, I'll pay you a licence fee for any details of your design I've copied. Or we go to court and you lose your patent...
  11. LaharDesign

    italian gearbox

    What are you running BCD?
  12. LaharDesign

    italian gearbox

    actually that'd give you a 13 speed with 6- 9% changes. Not very appropriate for DH where the ideal gap would be about 20%. I'd be looking at a 6 speed with 3 at the bottom and 4 at the top and a 250% range. These systems have some potential due to no need to move either cluster and minimal...
  13. LaharDesign

    Mmm Laaahhaaar

    Too be fair you should mention the the DH tracks were closed by heavy rain and you had to do your test on some walking tracks with sod all terrain or gradient. The Geo is what has been adamantly demanded by every dh racer that I know. We tried a little shorter and steeper with the m8 but it...
  14. LaharDesign

    Are the UCI at it again?

    Relieved they seem to be uping the points at the races. In 2001 I had trouble getting the 2000 national champ in(cause our races are in jan/feb) when we had no points in NZ for 2001. He was supposedly preentered by the NZMBA. It took two days of hassling Jesus(JR not JC). If they keep the 2...
  15. LaharDesign

    italian gearbox

    Can't seem to view that. Is it a double inverted cluster like Ritchie from NZ's been running. Edit: Guess it is
  16. LaharDesign

    Are the UCI at it again?

    Just because they are the marketing arm of big bike it doesn't mean they are sane or clever. Just sociopathicly greedy.(IMO FLR). Sorry but its at least a little naive to think that the power hasn't been thoroughly subsumed by big bike in the 100 years of cycle racing. Even at national level the...
  17. LaharDesign

    Are the UCI at it again?

    You mistook my comment on size. I have been to world cups with my own race team and theres no difficulty in managing races with fewer riders than many club races. Historical examples of the UCI killing the advance of bike design are: Recumbents when invented in the 1920's dominated races for...
  18. LaharDesign

    Are the UCI at it again?

    I don't see any way to argue that WCups were too big to manage properly. Certainly not good for the athletes to make it 20x harder to get in to them. So who benefits from this? Answering that question would tell us why its been done. The UCI has for 100 years been the marketing wing of big...
  19. LaharDesign

    Are the UCI at it again?

    The Wording I've seen is that you can qualify either with 20 points from 06, or 20 from 07 (can't add them together) or as a trade team or national team member. Its a disaster for anyone who got injured or took a break last year, and especially for up and coming juniors that want to use WCups...
  20. LaharDesign

    Mmm Laaahhaaar

    When I get over my tendancy to snarl like a pitbull whenever I see someone in a suit. (don't ask) Looking at doing a bare bones version with no floater and a steel swingarm, option of more all mountain geometry very soon. With basically only the mainframe in carbon I should be able to get those...