Hi Guys,
Thought I would share my rig for 09 seeing as it’s not something most of you will have seen or heard of. The frame is a Rage DH, it’s a project some friends and I have been putting together for a while. It has what we consider agressive race geometry and we have tried to get the niggling details right that sometimes let frames down for example to avoid any slop after some abuse all pivots are on 12mm axles with standard bearings that can be found almost anywhere to try and keep the bike user freindly on and off the bike. So this is what we came up with, a single pivot driven bike a simple linkage that allows us to keep the whole frame light, with a low center of gravity. All pivots are on 12mm axles with standard bearings that can be found almost anywhere. As I said, we wanted it to be user friendly on and off the bike.
It has 210mm Travel from 240mm eye to eye Cane Creek Double Barrel Shock that I have to say works realy well. Frame and shock with steel spring weigh 5kg.
Up front I’ve got some Bos Race Ready Idlye forks, the fork is fairly RaRe as I have fork number 45, not that many of these floating about just at the moment. They work really well, bed in time is quite long, I’ve had 4 rides on them and they aren’t 100% friction free yet but having tested a couple that were a bit older thab mine, I can put up with a little friction to start with. They weigh 3.3kg (real weight) with full steerer tube, that’s apparently 700g lighter than the original with the piggback.
All bolts are Ti as standard which is a nice touch.
Brakes are Quad Dime Pros that are from a UK company, these are prototypes and are giving good results so far.
Complete bike as in the pic weighs 18kg about 40lbs
Hope you like it, as I said it’s something different.
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Thought I would share my rig for 09 seeing as it’s not something most of you will have seen or heard of. The frame is a Rage DH, it’s a project some friends and I have been putting together for a while. It has what we consider agressive race geometry and we have tried to get the niggling details right that sometimes let frames down for example to avoid any slop after some abuse all pivots are on 12mm axles with standard bearings that can be found almost anywhere to try and keep the bike user freindly on and off the bike. So this is what we came up with, a single pivot driven bike a simple linkage that allows us to keep the whole frame light, with a low center of gravity. All pivots are on 12mm axles with standard bearings that can be found almost anywhere. As I said, we wanted it to be user friendly on and off the bike.
It has 210mm Travel from 240mm eye to eye Cane Creek Double Barrel Shock that I have to say works realy well. Frame and shock with steel spring weigh 5kg.
Up front I’ve got some Bos Race Ready Idlye forks, the fork is fairly RaRe as I have fork number 45, not that many of these floating about just at the moment. They work really well, bed in time is quite long, I’ve had 4 rides on them and they aren’t 100% friction free yet but having tested a couple that were a bit older thab mine, I can put up with a little friction to start with. They weigh 3.3kg (real weight) with full steerer tube, that’s apparently 700g lighter than the original with the piggback.
All bolts are Ti as standard which is a nice touch.
Brakes are Quad Dime Pros that are from a UK company, these are prototypes and are giving good results so far.
Complete bike as in the pic weighs 18kg about 40lbs
Hope you like it, as I said it’s something different.
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(Still I think I won't be that sorry either when it finnaly gets here 
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