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Transmental's bottlerocket

Transmental

Chimp
Sep 26, 2007
10
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Australia






Spec List:
Frame: 07 Bottle Rocket large with Fox DHX 5.0 Coil
Forks: 06 Travis Single Intrinsic 180mm
Headset: FSA headset ORBIT Extreme 1.5 sealed
Wheel set: Mavic DeeTraks
Tyres: Maxxis Minion DH R & DH F
Brakes: Avid CODE 2007 8"
Drive Chain:
06 Truvativ Howitzer Hussefelt
E13 Chain Ring 34T
XR BB Truvativ
FUNN Viper Soljam sealed
07 SRAM PC-991 Cross Step chain
07 SRAM PG-970 (12-26) cassette
07 SRAM X9 Shifter with Nifty Matchmaker gadget!
07 SRAM X9 Short Cage Derail
Gamut P20 Chain Guide
Cockpit:
SDG I Beam Seat post
SDG Bel Air Saddle SL Black
Thompson 4x (1.5 x 31.8) 45mm
Deity bars 31.8mm White
ODI Rogue Lock On Grips
Weight:17.3 kgs
 
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rmb_mike

Chimp
Sep 18, 2007
24
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If I wasn't such a die hard Rocky Mountain fan boy, the Bottlerocket would probably be my next bike. It looks like a DJ with suspension in the back. I like the black paint job.
May it bring you many hours of trail-shredding fun!

What part of Australia do you live in?
 

ZHendo

Turbo Monkey
Oct 29, 2006
1,661
147
PNW
i like it a lot. i was driven away from the bottlerocket because of the short seat tube and short travel, but every time i see one, i still wonder what they ride like.
 

TheMauler

Monkey
Sep 20, 2007
170
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805
dont know what looks liek a garage sale means, but nice ass bike bro... so down with the deity bars and codes very nice bike hows the ride?
 

manimal

Ociffer Tackleberry
Feb 27, 2002
7,212
17
Blindly running into cactus
wow there's a lot more clearance for a dhx on the large frame. mines a small and i had to mount it the other way to keep the reservoir from hitting the frame.

sick ride btw :thumb:
 

William42

fork ways
Jul 31, 2007
3,908
634
doesn't the blindside have a curved seattube? i think he just put a boxxer WC on his BR
 

zahgurim

Underwater monkey
Mar 9, 2005
1,100
12
lolAsia
Nice!
Bottlerocket rides awesome w/ a bigger fork.

I have a 888 set at 180mm on mine, couldn't be happier.
 

manhattanprjkt83

Rusty Trombone
Jul 10, 2003
9,644
1,214
Nilbog
this is funny i am doing the complete opposite, blindside with a 36...sounds odd but i think it will be right about where i want it.
 

BlackHornet

Chimp
Feb 25, 2008
25
0
i have a pink bottlerocket and everybody always just looks and laughs at me because im riding a pink bike but everybody that knows something about bikes just look in aw, i love my bottlerocket and am very pleased with the purchase, im still in the process of upgrading parts but as soon is it gets to how i like it, ill post some pics and man your bottlerocket is so sweet, im jealous
 

freeridefool

Monkey
Jun 17, 2006
647
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medford, or
I liked the look of it with the manitou, but the 36 is a far superior fork. The boxxer just looks like poo. When it had either single crown on it, I would probably say that my favorite br ever.
 

unskilled

Monkey
Jul 12, 2007
218
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any specific reason for running the 11-26 cassette? i was thinking about going to 11-26 on my bike and running a smaller front ring.
 

Transmental

Chimp
Sep 26, 2007
10
0
Australia
any specific reason for running the 11-26 cassette? i was thinking about going to 11-26 on my bike and running a smaller front ring.
Im only running a 34T front ring for clearance and to make it a bit easy riding back up. Therefore no need for the likes of 28-32 rings at the back. This combo can become a bit peddly at speed so I'm currently looking at going to a 36T front with the same cassette.