New winter project: Lipstick on a Pig

[Tomasis]

cool project! it reminds me that I can do something with old norco 2002 dh team that I still have. Very different from Sunday, I suppose (FSR Horst design). At 6" setting from 8" I get 65 ha and about abit above 14". Itde be interesting if links can be modified due HT is 1/1.8" anyway.

[sbabuser]

+1 on the Loveseat.
Although if it were me, I'd just make due with a decent 6" bike that weighs 15 lbs less. Oh wait, that is what I'm doing.
Or wait around for one of those $60 Sunday frames to surface...

[boogenman]

Nice score for $300 I hope you can get the stuff you need for the fork.

I also scrapped my DH bike but for stupid work schedule issues.

How do you possibly have a kid on the way? That's one of those things where it is yes or no.

[Jim Mac]

I no longer have das barZ & stem (on said klunker wife bike), but found a 70mm Diablus stem for 31.8 and have some old Kona barz from '04 in 31.8 - all yours for a mere pittance if you want it. E13 chain guide was from 2007, just missing cog.

[Sandwich]

+1 on the Loveseat.
Although if it were me, I'd just make due with a decent 6" bike that weighs 15 lbs less. Oh wait, that is what I'm doing.
Or wait around for one of those $60 Sunday frames to surface...

sure...but if I want to ride someplace non-dh, like highland, I'd probably rather take my trailbike, which is in pretty good shape. I really like riding DH, like real DH, not buff trails with BMX jumps every five feet....which isn't as much fun on a six inch bike. If you find a $60 sunday frame, buy it...then spend $200 on replacement linkages and another on custom shock tunes....then limit your shock selection to basically one shock. I've been there, if you can afford to get the right shock and tune, totally worth it.

Nice score for $300 I hope you can get the stuff you need for the fork.

I also scrapped my DH bike but for stupid work schedule issues.

How do you possibly have a kid on the way? That's one of those things where it is yes or no.

wife and I might start working on one. So...not yet, but maybe?

I no longer have das barZ & stem (on said klunker wife bike), but found a 70mm Diablus stem for 31.8 and have some old Kona barz from '04 in 31.8 - all yours for a mere pittance if you want it. E13 chain guide was from 2007, just missing cog.

could you send me photos of the guide? I think the stem is going to be too long for what I want to do...

[Sandwich]

Few updates:


The saddle is a Selle san Marco raceday. Arguably the least comfortable saddle of all time. I bought it for $50 from an LBS because I'm a retrogrouch and it was blue. Hurt my butt worse than a tapered steerer on a double crown fork, so into the parts bin it went. Turns out the ultra-narrow profile and long sides make it a great DH saddle.

Pedals are my HTs that were gifted to me by woody via the taiwan trade show a few years ago.

Despite the blurry picture, if you squint right you can see the lightly modified box guide. I think the chain will skip out the upper part of the guide if it really wants to, and the bash might be a bit small, but it's a start.

I also modified the stickers to more accurately reflect my riding ability.



I dropped the top crown as much as I thought was reasonable, and swapped the 20mm spacer under it with a 5mm spacer so I still have some room between the two crowns. The hose clamp is my fix for the cracks, and it has worked for a few test rides with no weeping. $3 and done...


Outside of the geometry, the next major thing might be this guy here. Like most rock legends, it's not quite straight (even after tweaking with a long wrench), and the shifter is split at the clamp. I have parts to fix it in the bin.

More pressing is probably what I intend on doing with these...

[yd35]

More pressing is probably what I intend on doing with these...

Are those dong donuts?

[4130biker]

I also modified the stickers to more accurately reflect my riding ability.

Bwahaha! Hilarious you spent time customizing the sticker! Are those K9 cups, btw?

[Sandwich]

Nope, angleset. I've...got...a...plan....

[Jim Mac]

Nope, angleset. I've...got...a...plan....

Does it look like this?

[Sandwich]

Little more like this:

[rockofullr]

I'm curious how this beast will clock in compared to your...

hooked up trail bike

I would think that times on a top of the line 6in travel bike would be similar on everything but the roughest tracks.

[Sandwich]

I'm curious how this beast will clock in compared to your...

I would think that times on a top of the line 6in travel bike would be similar on everything but the roughest tracks.

Well, it's not a top of the line 6" trail bike. It's a mid-line 4" travel trail bike. I think it's capable of handling highland and lower burke mountain, as parts of those are glorified BMX tracks. It's the Plattekill/Diablo/Mount Snow/Attitash/Jiminy trips that will kill my 28lb trail bike, which is why I want this. My trailbike works really really well on trails, it's robust and reliable (thanks shimano disk brakes+drivetrain) but it's no 8" travel monster.

I know this is the DH forum, but my trailbike is just that...a bike to ride trails on. It is not a glorified DH bike that you can just barely pedal to the top of your epic 3000' local system and completely shred on the way down...we don't really have that here.

[Sandwich]

gotcha.

while the MAG's were likely worth playing with, i would strongly suggest against spending any money outside tossing a bleed on the el caminos and seeing if they will work better.

hey, I have the opportunity to trade my broken 888 for a pair of hayes nines. Worth it? I could probably turn around and sell off the caminos for $50... I didn't mind my mags, though they didn't have the power that my saints did, they were relatively fade-free and fine on non-plattekill trails.

I did take the caminos for a test run in the yard, and even two-fingering was...questionable.

[4130biker]

hey, I have the opportunity to trade my broken 888 for a pair of hayes nines. Worth it? I could probably turn around and sell off the caminos for $50... I didn't mind my mags, though they didn't have the power that my saints did, they were relatively fade-free and fine on non-plattekill trails.

I did take the caminos for a test run in the yard, and even two-fingering was...questionable.

I rode 9's for a long time, and was always fairly happy with them, until it came time to get them bled right. That was a pain, and the backing off lever throw adjustment was annoying (loc tite could fix it), but they had decent power. Maybe not modulation, but it'll stop ya.

I'd look at if they need new pads/rotors/bleed- are you going to be spending a lot to get mediocre brakes running again?

If so I'd say it's not worth it, but if they're dialed, it might be worth a shot.
I'd wait for some older shimanos to come around and jump on those.