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A brand new Hex?

Those forks aren't inspired. Look like Ashtons possibly, the dropouts look extra thin for alloy, which the Ashtons are.

Not necessarily, every frame needs adjustments to the front end, but your wheels are basically a lot further apart than on modern 24" bikes, and most of that is in your top tube, your head angle is steep and the back end is long, all of that pushes the wheels further apart and puts your weight further forward. With a top tube that long, lower bars will just be harder to pull up, but on a shorter frame it won't need to be as high. On Google your geo looks to be the same as the 2009 Inspired Fourplay, bikes have just got a lot shorter and lower since then.

They've got a very long top tube for a streety 24", ridden a few, none of them were nice, best you can do is roll your bars back and raise the stem or maybe get a shorter one (but make that higher).

Legend, good to see he's still going, he must be nearly 50 now.

I was there for a bit, good job! Pretty impressive average view time. I'm useless with streaming and I don't even know what Twitch is, does it only work live?

I did a few in 1999 too but I don't think it's been around for a long time.

It's actually been re done in satin black, but I think it was one of those horrible burgundy ones before. I can't see any numbers, paint must have covered it.

Cheers, they weren't cheap and I think they came around when short bikes were on the way out and long seatless ones had been taking over for a while, they can't have made many either, they hardly ever come up.

This was too nice not to make a topic for. Got it off Ben Davies. I had one 8 years ago and loved it but I never liked the Pashley forks, too short and too much offset but I just rode it as it was as I didn't have any better forks at the time. With modern 410mm forks it's... 1013 +8 383 About 73, I don't have a protractor. Only had a little manual about but it feels so right already, I think it was the most underrated mid-school frame there was, the other big old school ones were all too dated and there hasn't been much since apart from a Hex which I don't like the bb height.

Yeah, the chainstays around a metre shorter. You can't get your head stuck between the tyre and the seat tube.

Do it

Painted this a while ago.

I'm shit at acoustic, but I like dark coloured ones, stealthy, looks clean.

I'm pretty Sure Flipp had or has one.

My Saints used to do that, if I was really quick to pull it was firm, but if I pulled it in slowly I got way more travel. Probably air in there.

I'm not entirely sure these replies are all for the right reasons...

I saw one a while ago up for even more! I'm sure it was £500 ish.

When did mountain bikes all become enduro bikes?

Chainstays were around 400, disc mount is for show and shouldn't be used under any circumstances, wb I think was 1035 ish, guessing bb was the standard -5 or -10 back then, there were definitely nicer riding frames in that era. Then again I rode a Norco and I could bashguard kerbs if my tyres were flat enough.

That looks excellent, although I think yellow frame stickers would finish it off.

A lot of the Youtubers who get the most views are the ones with absolutely no talent whatsoever, if all you want is views then do reactions to other people's work and make a dramatic thumbnail, it is the absolute laziest content possible, some of the absolute shit I've seen lately.... and once a couple of people react to a song or video, the rest of them jump on it, there's no quality control whatsoever, once you've clicked that's it, I watch some genuinely funny channels by people who do it for fun and call out these attention whores, but yeah, you really have to be an over the top dramatic willy to make it to the top these days. I hate the internet. I just came on the internet to tell you that.

Is it confirmed gone? I sold a bike years ago and Hermes f**ked up the labels somehow and sent it to the wrong house, the person who was expecting my bike got some unrelated bollocks, they sorted it after about 4 or 5 days.

You'll find it much easier taking off from an edge as you get the pop from the tyre bouncing you forward, it's a nightmare from flat as it's purely pedal power and you get that unnecessary roll before you take off.