You sir are a very funny man. Once its all built up I'll have to come down and go ride with you. That is if you still ride bikes, because last I heard, you just pretend to.
How would you know? I'm from The Bay, fool! We gettin' stupid, dumb and hyphy like nobody's business.
Your grammatically correct use of commas and apostrophes in this sentence automatically shows that you are in no way the Thizz king.
Awww... ouch.
looks like it. thats how my banshee was.
It's not on there. It came in a seperatre bag with all the cable guides.
Holes are drilled into the frame and through the bearing walls and the zerk fittings are press fit in, so the grease goes to the bearings.
Herb who designs all the bikes at Versus built his Blitz II up to 32.2 lbs (medium frame). It had a 36 Talas, SDG I-Beam seat and Seat post, DHX Air, Thompson Stem, Formula Oro brakes, XT Cranks, X0 rear derailluer and shifters, XTR front derailluer, Heim guide with a mrp carbon bash gaurd, Hadley Hubs, 5.1d rims, Xpedo pedals, and lightweight 2.3" tires. I'll try to get a picture of it and I'll post it in a few days.2nd on buying from a small company. They handle you like you matter (cause you really do).
Plus, Versus built such a beauty of a bike doing the Blitz. Those machined plates are practically works of art. Almost sorry I didn't buy it now. Thanks
(Actually were you to produce a pic of this bike built at 35lbs I might just have to do it)
Here's a pic, its got carbon everywhere. I haven't seen it on a scale but I was told a similar # in the complete weight.
I try to stay out of the weight weenie arguments, but 32.2lbs seems highly unlikely. I have a similar build on a frame that is over 2lbs lighter and it weighs around 33.5. The only thing lighter on that build than mine is the crankset, and seat/post. My wheels are lighter and everything else is almost identical. 34.5 I would believe, but not the claimed 32.2.
Yea i hear ya, weights are definitly a case where most people tend to round down a little too much
Yeah,the white plastic shims are Delrin thrust washers to take the side loads. So far the washers have held up great. The first prototype Blitz was recently inspected to see how it had held up after a year of hard riding, and the washers didn't show any wear. After cleaning all the grease off you couldn't tell the difference between the used one and a new one.
I was actually the one who put the bike on the scale and watched it go to a little over 32 lbs. The frame was also a medium so it will be less than the 10.75 lbs because that is a large frame. It had a carbon road seat post, and lightweight tubes too, but I can't remember what bars were on it. They might have been easton carbon DH bars.
Think about the function; to maximize strength while reducing weight and having a shape to give the desired ramping rate and leverage ratio. The form clearly follows function. As you can see the 3 flanges (similar to an I-beam) give the rocker link strength vertically, while it's relatively large width provides the neccessary strength laterally. The aluminum in the middle areas on both sides where having more metal would not contribute as much to the strength of the link has been machined out to minimize the weight. If you look at a rocker link on the Blitz I (looks like a more traditional design) and compare it to the link on the Blitz II, the Blitz II's link is quite a bit lighter and also I believe something like 15% stronger. Herb spent 3000 hours designing and perfecting the bike. After he removed some material on CAD he'd use FEA to make sure strength was not sacrificed. You could machine holes in it to save a very small amount of weight, but it will become much weaker.
