rigidftw
Retro Guru
I've got this thing in late 2020 and it is one great piece of kit.
The frame and fork came from Switzerland, barely used by the previous owner, which seemed to be more sensible than getting a complete bike and changing most of its parts to my liking.
I did not think this through though. Import taxes were eye-watering.
But apart from a annoying creak coming from the seatpost (30.9mm post w/ shim in 31.6mm seat tube), that I could fix just by changing to a dropper post with the correct diamerer it's been faultless.
The 36t chainring I used initially proved to be too big for both the frame and the kinematics. I rubbed the clear cote off the chainstay and sitting down up a climb it tended to bob around A LOT.
I changed it to a 34t chainring and there have been no further issues.
...apart from the SID Ultimate fork that I got with the frame. Within in 3 months it had developed quite a lot of bushing play, Ultimately the lowers were replaced by SRAM/Rockshox, I sold the fork and went with a 120mm Pike Ultimate instead.
The frame and fork came from Switzerland, barely used by the previous owner, which seemed to be more sensible than getting a complete bike and changing most of its parts to my liking.
I did not think this through though. Import taxes were eye-watering.
But apart from a annoying creak coming from the seatpost (30.9mm post w/ shim in 31.6mm seat tube), that I could fix just by changing to a dropper post with the correct diamerer it's been faultless.
The 36t chainring I used initially proved to be too big for both the frame and the kinematics. I rubbed the clear cote off the chainstay and sitting down up a climb it tended to bob around A LOT.
I changed it to a 34t chainring and there have been no further issues.
...apart from the SID Ultimate fork that I got with the frame. Within in 3 months it had developed quite a lot of bushing play, Ultimately the lowers were replaced by SRAM/Rockshox, I sold the fork and went with a 120mm Pike Ultimate instead.
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