[spacemanspiff06]

built it up a few weeks ago, just got around to stopping riding it enough to post pics. this thing is a blast! so much fun, so snappy; i'm in love :love: 2 weeks on the bike and i'm landing 360's! (pics/vids soon to come) my gemni has been getting dusty, but SS opening is this weekend. the gemni is going to feel so bulky now.
yall can tell most of the spec from the pics. pike is a 426 and the gearing is 36-18, which i was told was to easy, but i've yet feel like thats true...

 

[escapeartist]

Nice. I ride my the Shoe is the only place i ride my bigbike at now that I have a HT

 

[Bicyclist]

Lookin' good! Hardtails are a blast.

 

[SirChomps-a-Lot]

mmmm... the dimensions on that look a lot like my old cove.

 

[Quamen]

**** pics but a great bike

Q

 

[v-digit]

lovely bike. that frame is almost as sexy as my fallguy. aaaaalmost.
i love 243s. i've had a FR frame back in 04+05 and that thing was solid.

u'll have lots and lots of fun on that thing.

i ran 36:18 and indeed found it to be a bit too easy. after going through like 4 different gear combos, i found 30:13 - which i been using and loving for over a year now.

 

[spacemanspiff06]

^^^ is 30:13 on 24's or 26's?
yeah the pics are a little blury, but RM rules say 800x800 max pixles. (they where 2000 somthing x 1800, but nooo....)
oh, the thing is only 33 lbs, and those funn rims seem to be holding up very well. 3 weeks of urban, park, DJs and 3s and the rear is still as true as the day i built it. they come in 26 to, i'ld recomend them for somone who wants a beefy rear rim but not as brickhouse as mag 30s or halo SAS's.

 

[v-digit]

its on 24s, i'm running on my tonic fab fallguy.

 

[scurban]

lovely bike. that frame is almost as sexy as my fallguy. aaaaalmost.
i love 243s. i've had a FR frame back in 04+05 and that thing was solid.

u'll have lots and lots of fun on that thing.

i ran 36:18 and indeed found it to be a bit too easy. after going through like 4 different gear combos, i found 30:13 - which i been using and loving for over a year now.

30-13? I've been thinking of giving that ratio a try. I've been using 28-13 on my fall guy for a while now, and I love it for street/park, but I've found it holds me back a little at the trails. On some of the bigger sets I end up topping out when I'm pedaling towards the first lip.

I like easier gears for park/street, just because I find it easier to change direction (like rolling out of 180's, & abubacas) Maybe I'll give 29/13 or 30/13 a try.

 

[spacemanspiff06]

all of the djs i ride have roll-ins or are on a down slope, so i'm a lazy bum and don't have to sprint upto them

 

[CHOP]

Looks great. All you guys from the Roanoke area love those 243's don't ya?

 

[spacemanspiff06]

we got 3 in cicurlation now, mine and an other one set up a lot like mine then the other is $2,500 4X race bike/trail bike. they're sweet bikes...

 

[spacemanspiff06]

just tossed a Ft brake on there since the serman on my gemni died at SS.
---Anyone getting a pike and wanting to put on a Ft disc---
plan on havng to face the disc brake tabs. of the 5 that have come through the shop here, 4 of them have had to be faced.



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