Damn David, sweet bike!
what did they do different? i thought they dont do custom tunesRoutier - the double barrel is absolutely DIALED for this frame. Malcolm (from CC) worked rather extensively with at least one of the Xprezo team riders last year to get the tune perfected.
tu(r)ned the knobs.what did they do different? i thought they dont do custom tunes
That thing looks sweet!
Arent most mk1s also old enough that even if they had warranty it would be long after it?Watch out, no warranty on the MK1 as it is a "prototype" One of them gave way at the chainstay last weekend and this is what was told to the owner
http://builttoride.pinkbike.com/Honestly I've never put much faith into a warranty anyway. Everything is so conditional and circumstantial that I wouldn't even bother trying. I'd just order what I needed and carry on rather than wait for a month while the company decides who's fault it was and then possibly still deny the replacement.
You guys are all kinda freakin me out a bit though...
Anyone know what Keith's user name on PB is?
and you bought a production frame, shame on you!I also have a machinist bud who can't find enough excuses to fire up the mill and loves free beer, so that might come in handy as well!
The beer's free for HIM, not me! And just because he likes to use the lathe doesn't mean he's on the ball with it! He(obviously) has to enjoy his free beer BEFORE he does work! We ARE in the midwest, after all! lol!I'm pretty sure Keith Scott used IGUS bushings on Mk1, which are not any special dimension bushings. Why don't you ask them directly? Sorry, if it's written already here.
I love beer in general . Where do they have it for free ?
haha props for the old school Formula One
i definitely loved mine back then, except for the ****ing X works dorado but oh well thats another story...Yeah, I have always coveted these bikes and I couldn't resist the temptation when one came up in the classifieds.
I haven't had a lot of time on it yet but so far it feels like a definite upgrade over the kumicho it replaced.
Despite the weight penalty, it jumps easier, feels more balanced in corners, brakes better, and holds a line better. I'm still getting used to it and dialing in the Vivid, but I'm pretty pleased so far. I'm going racing this weekend so we'll see how it does against the clock.
last year, at eurobike. why?Anyone seen the COPE bikes??
Bushings are all standard size IGUS things, they don't wear out that quick. The problems we had were actually more to do with the bushings eating away the pivot axles (3 of em are alloy) and the front/rear triangle material itself. If you have a mate who's a machinist, I suggest getting some new axles made up out of stainless or something suitably hard, and possibly getting some stainless top-hat shims or something made up to press into the 6061 parts of the frame that the bushes actually bear on (and machining out other parts to fit). The swingarms were also prone to breakage where the uprights are welded to the chainstays, but fortunately the new Mk2 swingarms are compatible with the old link setup should you break the Mk1 swingarm - I know a guy running exactly this. The new swingarms have addressed the problem with the uprights breaking, the weld area is now much larger as is the upright itself. The derailleur hangers are identical between Mk1 and Mk2 as far as I can tell. As for maintenance - I suggest regularly pulling out the pivot axles, wiping them (and the pivots) down and regreasing em. I hate doing maintenance but the pivot hardware in those really is about as simple and user-friendly as it's physically possible to be, it literally takes about 1 minute per pivot (other than the main pivot which may require you to pull the cranks off) to service em.Ah sweet! Thanks man! I actually didn't know they were keyed! I popped the one side off and the other side didn't turn. I was thinking it was something like that or siexed and didn't want to mess with it until I learned more about it. That was half the reason I wanted to talk to Keith as well, just to get those little bits of advice and input on how to care for this thing.
But bushings and stuff for the MK1s are readily available still? I guess I can ask Keith as well. I also wanted to grab a spare derailleur hanger...
Thanks a lot man, now I'm nothing but stoked again!
Think they were 7075, though I could be wrong. Everyone I know had issues with em (3 of us), however it's just a pivot axle... not the hardest thing in the world to get machined up if you have to.Hey Socket, do you know which grade those alloy pivot axles in Mk1 used to be? 60xx or some 70xx? Did even weekend DH warriors have this problem with them, or only racers?
i definitely loved mine back then, except for the ****ing X works dorado but oh well thats another story...
Man dont go back there. X works was crap, regular dorado was very nice but maintanance crazy and the new one is different than both of them. Same name - different forks.Nice to see someone else who actually owned one and knows the truth behind such garbedge.