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Official e.13 taco has arrived

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My Nuts Are Flat
Apr 18, 2002
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The official, DW sanctioned and engineered e.13 Taco is here. No more homemade bashguards and excess weight. Full writeup coming shortly.

This one is a pre production sample, so ignore the iffy last minute printing.

 
manhattanprjkt83

manhattanprjkt83

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Thanks for this Fraser...I was just asking about this in another thread so funny how many folks were saying 'Christ will come before we see a production taco' :rolleyes:...

Looks good and simple.
 
Zark

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not even Tapatio would make that tasty.
No tortilla, no steak, no onions......no care!
 
MikeD

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Oct 26, 2001
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I was picturing a soft, translucent/smoked Tuffmax shell filled with high-tech, juicy-delicious carnitas...
 
sriracha

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my feeling is that the weight difference is negligable.

the biggest advantage of the production taco is that people won't be throwing plastic in the trash.
 
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Turbo Monkey
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But hitting your lower boomerang DOES mess up ISCG mounts.


I guess that's the only complaint I've got about my Socom so far. I've got an LG-1 and while Riding at Keystone I hit a rock on the boomerang and it peeled the ISCG mounts up just a tad. The tack weld holding the top most tab of the ISCG mount cracked and created about a 1-2mm gap.
 
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My Nuts Are Flat
Apr 18, 2002
18,040
3
Towing the party line.
sriracha said:
my feeling is that the weight difference is negligable.

the biggest advantage of the production taco is that people won't be throwing plastic in the trash.
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It is probably less than half of the weight. I will try and find a scale tonight. It is MUCH lighter just holding it in your hands, noticeably so.
 
toodles

toodles

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Sah-weet! I hope it sits closer to the chainring than my current hacked up Supercharger does. I've had sticks and crap make their way into that gap.
 
Mani_UT

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It is probably less than half of the weight. I will try and find a scale tonight. It is MUCH lighter just holding it in your hands, noticeably so.
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For reference a chopped taco is 80g + 20g for the mounting hardware. Looks great. If it cost the 1/2 price of a taco that would be good too!
 
profro

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It works for some frames that have really beefy ISCG tabs built into the BB shell. I have had frames with a tack welded ring and I broken them completely off while using a LG guide. For me, my current setup and my hack-a-tron style the SRS is better. But it works great for others.
 
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My Nuts Are Flat
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Ya, I believe the iscg05 standard includes all the proper specs for not getting lame, noodly ISCG mounts. Plenty of manufacturers tend to ignore these, unfortunately.
 
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davetrump

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Who?

...and does anyone know if a bent/cracked ISCG mount is something that Intense would warranty for free?
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my guess would be that hitting your taco, bashguard, whatever you have on there into the ground hard enough to bend, break, or crack the ISCG tabs does NOT constitute a manufacturer's defect.

back on track, i have seen E13 taco's crack into peices with no damage whatsoever to the ISCG tabs. of course this was on a frame with properly designed tabs.

another plus of the taco is that it is eliminates bent cranks arm spiders (problem i always had running the SRS setup), and lets you get away with running a lighter crank s a result
 
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davetrump said:
my guess would be that hitting your taco, bashguard, whatever you have on there into the ground hard enough to bend, break, or crack the ISCG tabs does NOT constitute a manufacturer's defect.
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I understand that. I didn't hit it that hard though. The chain and chainring hit rocks several times on the same section of trail when I was at Keystone. Never had a problem with the chain and chainring and didn't notice the chainguide being messed up until later. I don't know if it hit one of the times when I hit the chainring on the rocks or not. I can't recall a moment when I hit the chainguide.
 
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