maybe thinking of the caramba (different company) double barrels?
ah, the good old days of sketchy, but pretty cnc parts.
Long bikes are... bad???
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ah, the good old days of sketchy, but pretty cnc parts.
Those are the ones!
But I think kooka had some Rasta anodization?
as long as we are on the topic, I broke two pairs of the original Race Face CNC models...catastrophically
But I think kooka had some Rasta anodization?
as long as we are on the topic, I broke two pairs of the original Race Face CNC models...catastrophically
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I remember Kooka merely leading the way in turning billets of aluminum into snapping cranks. Cook Bros and Caramba were right there too. Raceface forged their cranks, then finished them on a CNC so they were the strongest of the CNC era cranks. However, their first gen with cutouts along the top and bottom did have some failures so the next year didn't have those cutouts and were a standard I-beam shape. My 9th grade self had the original lighter version and they held up to my riding.
yeah, i went through a couple sets of the OG RF (pre forged) turbine cranks. i recall installing a set of new warranty cranks, & bending them minutes later on a stair gap (as was the fashion in the day) across the street from our shop. fastest warranty turnaround ever. fortunately none of mine sheared off, just torqued out of shape. RF was surprisingly kind, despite the obvious abuse we were subjecting gear to. was amazing the volume of broken hardware going through the warranty process in the shop at the time.
that said, i subsequently got the new forged atlas cranks (2006, i think?) that have been passed on to several bikes & are still running strong to this day.
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fuckin kook
You look like the result of IVF that accidentally got sperm from both Binary Visions and Jeff Foxworthy
Tune cranks FTW. They were flexy but did not break as frequent as other lightweight options.
Same height and feel 470mm to 485mm is my ideal range. My Bronson is 470mm and I need to run a 50mm stem. The Reactor is 482mm and I run a 40mm. I prefer the overall feel and handling of the Reactor. I expect the actual Reach on both bikes is not as stated due to running both bikes in the low setting and cockpit setup. I don’t like anything longer than 485mm, but I see the benefit for high speed tracks.
I had two sets of Toplines (Tune clones) over the years. Flexy as fuck, but never broke.
Granted I'm a little dude and they were on XC bikes.
Thanks! I like to look like that when I do the Ebike laps on the DH tracks with my friends who are easily uncomfortable. That’s my Swiss German alter ebiking ego. His name is Reto... Reto likes to fuck with people.
I’ve got an English alter ego who’s named Doive! He’s also an ebiker.
Haha, bikes are sofa king serious business!
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I had kooka rasta's on a few bikes and finally blew them up hucking the mega stairs to flat at the colorado symphony center... fun times
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CNC'd parts that have tool marks like that annoy the shit out of me.
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