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Bucky

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Quite a few bits have changed on my bike recently.

Before:

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Now:

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As it's main use is riding to work and back, I felt it needed to be focused more on being a road bike. The new wheels and crankset has shed quite a lot of fat which has made one hell of a difference.

A few more things still need to be done. The pedals are about 5 - 6 years old now and are feeling a bit rough. I want to put the matching fatty forks back on but the steerer is too short, so needs extending. And then a few less important things, like the headset.

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So, a load of us went riding to sherwood pines yesterday, all trials riders who dabble in mtb bar one lad, and one of them had a bit of an off

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He's currently in Scunthorpe hospital awaiting surgery, suspect he needs plates a a screws. Gonna be a lengthy lay off the bike for this one

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How at pines?!

On the 'semi' DH bit. Where you go down the ramp and the track splits off into two. Aaron (stuntman terry) went left, I went right, Mark (lad above) followed me, and he washed the front wheel out on the second rocky drop, just after it had started raining. Me and Aaron had got to the bottom, and he wasn't there, so we walked back up and went back in to see him laid on the floor with his wrist at a horrible angle. He got knocked out as well because he said he couldn't remember anything for a bit after, didn't remember us finding him

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Aye, there's an art to falling off a bike safely, the smaller you are the easier it is!

The number of people I see riding at cannock that really aren't properly set up is scary, nice accessible trail centres = people out of their depth very quickly and it doesn't take much of a rock garden to throw a 16 stone man off his halfords special straight onto his helmetless head :( That said I've also seen plenty of people on 4-5ks worth of mountainbike with zero ability to ride it.

In other news, I have chemical burns and the powdercoat is coming off the intense :D

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Not you tom :P

Seen guys bin it OTB rolling down off the stegosaurus boardwalk! For those who don't know the cannock chase trails it's a 12" high elevated boardwalk about 24" wide with a 45° wooden roll down at the end.

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ooooft!!

Swingarm stripped and cleaned, no cracks, all good :)

Thanks to Tom for the paint stripper, it needed a quick going over with autosol to remove a bit of pink tinging residue from the powder coast but it's achieved the desired effect and only took 10 mins to do.

Now to do the front triangle, fortunately it's much simpler than the swingarm :D

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It's strip away pro, a dcm based stripper that is not available for public consumption ;)

Colour is staying as is, raw factory finish aluminium which is why I opted for the chemical stripping rather than blasting as I wanted to retain as much of the substrate as possible. As it is I still have weld discoloration and machining marks visible to give texture - not really keen on the uniform nature of highly polished aluminium frames :)

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New steed time. The GT frame was cracked, I had it welded up but it was still creaking, so I suspect it was cracked somewhere I can't see. Picked up a Titus El guapo frame and shock for £100. Been for a test ride today, it's unbelievable. So stable and planted, and climbs a damn sight better than the GT. It feels a lot more comfortable to ride, the geo is a lot more relaxed and less twitchy, and doesn't feel like it's gonna chuck me over the bars on a descent

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My dropper is the same make and model, it's been modified though to give more positions and gets stripped and regreased every month, it's only a 5 min job. Mine does have a very slight side to side play but it's nothing I can't handle. Only paid £30 for it off a guy on Facebook

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