This is what's wrong with The Industry™
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I pedaled down the entire length of the american rockies on dirt with a 60lb bob trailer
wot?
I rode the divide bro
the summer before I moved out here. It was the only time in my life I'd have time to do something like that with no job. Back then it was printed maps and we saw like maybe 4 other people doing it.
I drove through rawlins a few years ago and deliberately pulled off on a dirt road that was part of the route.....just an endless parade of rapha spandex, dudes with handlebar mustaches and bagged up fat bikes. So glad I did it when I did.
Its hard to say, I can't quit in seeing a massive pear shaped ass, it's like jabba the hut is hugging her thighs ..
That's actually pretty kick ass..
Where's their US presence at the moment?
Lots of companies in Golden, not sure how many there are up in Boulder.
First US HQ. Were they even in shops here previously?
I feel like Mondraker has lost a bit of mystique the last few years, but I’m becoming a fan of euro and canadian bike designers these days. New ideas, pushing the tech forward.
I feel like Mondraker has lost a bit of mystique the last few years, but I’m becoming a fan of euro and canadian bike designers these days. New ideas, pushing the tech forward.
I don't think they have any presence. I always figured they were direct to consumer. Like YT, or even Orbea.
I'm not saying Colorado is a bad place for a bike HQ. But I'd prolly get real estate by Commencal and Yeti in Golden. Home of Coors beer. Ahhh watered down horse piss....
Lots of roadies around there. Not too many sweet trails. If you want to shuttle something you're going down to Golden, anyways. Or up the I-70, So...
no one in colorado especially should ever forget
boulder, the home of the first self proclaimed international mountainbike advocacy org
number of mtb legal trails in boulder = ?????
welcome to your new shithole mondraker
there's no way in hell they didn't know what they were getting into. They deserve their fate.
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Yeah, IDK.
I hope someone that actually rides and knows a thing or two about a thing or two, showed them around and helped talk them out this move. Obviously didn't work.
But wait! There's valmont bike park!
Hold on. Don't even tell me it was because of Coach Prime. Son of a...
They had mystique? always kinda just seemed like a catalogue brand to me.
I don't think they have any presence. I always figured they were direct to consumer. Like YT, or even Orbea.
I'm not saying Colorado is a bad place for a bike HQ. But I'd prolly get real estate by Commencal and Yeti in Golden. Home of Coors beer. Ahhh watered down horse piss....
Lots of roadies around there. Not too many sweet trails. If you want to shuttle something you're going down to Golden, anyways. Or up the I-70, So...
I'm about to re-release zero offset stems
gonna call it senduro geometry
whole new generation to take money from
Pretty sure they went slacker and longer than most other designers a decade or more ago.
Zero offset ain’t my bag, but most American brands were pushing long offset forks in those days and generally offering shit geo.
Zero offset ain’t my bag, but most American brands were pushing long offset forks in those days and generally offering shit geo.
they didn't
they just told you they did and people believed them
they had the same geometry as everyone else and just wanted to sell you a stupid stem
New downhill bike and geometry woes
Apologies if this topic has been done to death, but I'm weighing up options for a new big bike as unfortunately my evil undead has done something completely unexpected of an evil and cracked in three places. Warranty/crash replacement is a no go as Evil don't have any undead front triangles...
ridemonkey.bikemag.com
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Yup, Orbea was the only other brand doing that kind of progressive geometry back in the day. And they weren't as long/low/slack as Mondraker. After they abandoned those stupid zero offset stems (and with the notorious exception of of a couple of generations of 29" Foxys) their offerings were pretty solid in terms of performance and equipment. Maybe a little pricier than other European brands, but boy they are fun and fast AF.
orbea is the only bike company that is self owned by all of their employees, some kind of collective.
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might want to look up some old bike geos
as much as I fucking hate to say this outloud specialized was making longer, slacker and lower demo 8s years before mondraker wanted to sell you a stupid stem
the turner dhr I had 3 years before mondraker wanted to sell you a stupid stem was a 62 degree headangle and half an inch lower with almost the same wheelbase for a given size
In all fairness though the dhr was supposed to be 63 degrees but it was what it was and we convinced him to keep it
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I have never seen so many blatanly posed ass riding pics as the bullshit on this page 
mondraker.com
FORWARD GEOMETRY OF MONDRAKER
Mondraker’s Forward Geometry has proven to be the geometry benchmark for high-end performance mountain bikes nowadays and this is one of our proprietary most unique leading technologies to date.
mondraker.com
the 2011 pitch was also a bike with quite modern geo, only the 1 1/8 headtube should have been tapered already
Wasn't your DHR drilled? You could also short-shock and set up an 2002 M1 to be low and slack.might want to look up some old bike geos
as much as I fucking hate to say this outloud specialized was making longer, slacker and lower demo 8s years before mondraker wanted to sell you a stupid stem
the turner dhr I had 3 years before mondraker wanted to sell you a stupid stem was a 62 degree headangle and half an inch lower with almost the same wheelbase for a given size
In all fairness though the dhr was supposed to be 63 degrees but it was what it was and we convinced him to keep it
In the workshop of the LBS where the local DH folks hung out Saturday after the shop had closed, all bikes coming in were measured and compared. One guy had the 26" Mondraker and it was defintely the slackest of the bunch, Legend was close, all Demos, Scotts, Lapierres were steeper. I always had the steepest HA with 66° on the Socom.
That was 2010-11-ish.
Was 2001 the 5th element shocked wavy monocoque front end one?
And was it the 1999-2002 M1 that had the three rear shock mount positions? Wasn't the low mount pretty slack and low (BB)
I remember a coupla friends who had M1s around then saying they thought they were too low/slack in that position.
and @kidwoo weren't those first Mondraker forward geo frames just an inch longer in the top/down tubes per size? I remember riding someone's and hating it but can't remember exactly what it was about them I disliked so much. I still rode DJ and loved a shorter bike even for DH at the time. (kinda still do)
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Might as well do it yourself. Nothing came close to what Mondraker did back in the early Barel and Cesar Rojo days, when they adopted the Zero suspension system.
Just remember to convert from millimeters to libraries of Congress when comparing the US made bikes of yore to their yuropian siblings.
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I'm with you on all the bullshit bingo overused cliche'd zero original thoughts of their own mountainbike lingo and phrases. But hadn't even realised the word "moist" had gotten in there. I refuse to believe a single one of these cycle dweebs has ever made a woman moist.
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