I'm starting to think it's just an optical illusion caused by the brick pattern background.
Help with some burly hardtail pics...
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i dont think its photoshopped. i think it just looks deceiving. that must have been done by a profesionla to mamke it look that good.
As I realized recently, some snapshot cameras do f***ed up things. My girlfriend's camera has this lop-sided fish eye thing going on. Check the rear wheel on my new bike. The camera makes it look like I have a 24" in the front and a 29" in the back!!
Ditto!
The lop-sidedness you are seeing is due to perspective. This is a common occurance when using wide angle lenses for objects close to the lens. Because a wide lens "sees" so closely, distances are totally blown out of proportion. Likewise, if you took a photo with a telephoto lens, you expeience what is call compression. You know all those pics you see of NYC with all the people literally jammed up against each other? A telephoto will exaggerate that effect just as a wide-angle can distort close objects. It's a popular photo-journalism technique for environmental/working portraits. The subjects remains big while capturing all of the scene behind it as well. I've seem this technique put to GOOD use in DHing.
Dude, what the heck is that?!?!Originally posted by Acadian
I usually get some sleep sometime between 4-10am. Usually. My wheel builder didn't leave until an hour ago though, that dude's a riot. Got a bunch of wheels punched out though. I was just replying to some e-mail before getting to sleep.Originally posted by Acadian
PS: don't you ever sleepyou are worst than I am..hahah
So any idea what that bike's about? I think I like the rear dropouts, but those mega-gussets and the headtube juntion is fugly, even for a guy like me!
That looks like a RAD knock-off tubest to me.
Banshee. A new company out of Victoria I believe. They make a Kona Look alike and another HT frame without as many gussets. they offer a 10 year warranty on their frames and the head tube is 10mm thick. Seem like good bikes for a 10 year warranty.
here's one... belongs to Lama
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Okay, so you guys with your pics got me all psyched to go out and get a DS frame again, since I sold my old one a couple years ago. I checked out all your pics, and specs on different frames. Got a Z1, MRP slalom and some new hayes at home for something as well a good mix of XT/XTR. Which frame would you buy if you didn't have one already. Kinda liked the pictures of the DMR trailstar with the 24"er's. Where can you buy one if you live in the states?
Don't know if I'd race it, but I might. Mostly it would just be fun bike for jumps and sh*t.
Don't know if I'd race it, but I might. Mostly it would just be fun bike for jumps and sh*t.
Thanks a lot...
I'll check those out. I've forgotten how much 'fun' I had on mine before.
I'll check those out. I've forgotten how much 'fun' I had on mine before.
If you guys are interested, I recently contacted Banshee and got the specs of the freeride and hardtail bikes. The specs are on this link:
http://www.bikesutra.com/bansheebikes.html
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My Planet-x, burlier than before....since my last pic, I added a FSA Pig headset and a Planet-X Goliath Crankset with a 36 blackspire Middle Ring and a 24 tooth Blackspire Chuck Granny, I also put on some Easton Flatboy pedals.
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Pic two......see next post
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Right here
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Acadian,
What did you do to post the last pic? I tried but it was too big and I didn't want to have to go resize it. Any trick you could tell me.
Thanks.
What did you do to post the last pic? I tried but it was too big and I didn't want to have to go resize it. Any trick you could tell me.
Thanks.
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how do you actualyy host it. i have no clue how to do that type of stuff. pleas explain
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like this?
If you're using Internet Explorer, right click on the image and click on "Properties." you will see an address in the gray box that pops up.....just copy and paste that link into the text box that pops up when you click on the "IMG" button in the post reply section of this site.
For Opera...just right click and click on the "copy image address" or whatever it says and paste it in the same spot here.
Sinister is a local company out of Boston that makes some really nice, beafy hardtails. I would love to get one, but the frame alone costs somewhere around 1000 bucks so it's a bit out of my price range. Too Bad
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ima try forgive me if it dont work
those sinisters look real damn nice....too bad there so expensive
I mostly do dirt jumps and urban/skatepark riding. Shore too but not as often. I only have a back break in the picture because i snapped my Z.3 in half and had to borrow my friends Z1 (in the picture) for a while and it didnt have a disc brake mount. Marzocchi wouldnt waratnee my fork so now i have a borrowed pair of judys on it.
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Marzocchi wouldnt waratnee my fork so now i have a borrowed pair of judys on it.
They didn't warranty that? Didn't you tell them you were JRA?
Dude - if the stanchions snap like that, it's from abuse and not something any fork maker would cover under warranty... I'd hang that sucker up as a trophy!
that thing is.... beyond.... words.... my.... gawd.... hellllllll yaaaaaa!!!!!Originally posted by Acadian
lol yeah, i wasnt expecting them to warantee it or anything. Airbomb was quite amazed when i brought the fork into them. They thought i had it on a downhill bikeOriginally posted by Ian F
They didn't warranty that? Didn't you tell them you were JRA?
Dude - if the stanchions snap like that, it's from abuse and not something any fork maker would cover under warranty... I'd hang that sucker up as a trophy!
. They didnt snap from me running into a tree or from me screwing up. They just snapped when i landed off a jump. I didnt even case it! But oh well now i have no more money so i need a job to get some new forks. Oh and im dumb 
what does JRA stand for.