MacRetro chat and rides thread

[velomaniac]

He Lives !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :shock:

Force yourself out on the bike, the adrenaline will give you the lift you need.

Now I'm off down GT with ZZ

 

[kaiser]

Nice one Jimi sounds like a nice build too.

 

[big.eck]

took a pic of the gt today , i'll get aone of the progear later

and i got this today , might keep it , might not :roll:

 

[clockworkgazz]

looks a belter JH and as velo said, you just got to get out- go on youtube and watch some mt bike vids. that always gets me inspired, mind you went out today and got another flat :evil: 2 mile walk home, but did give me lots of fettling time, got the clockwork stripped and ready for sale- any ideas on a price, paintwork is pretty scratched but got no response from the How much thread?

 

[clockworkgazz]

took a pic of the gt today , i'll get aone of the progear later

and i got this today , might keep it , might not :roll:

looks like the begining of a very nice mt bike albeit ano hell I suspect given your previous

 

[big.eck]

am on the look out for a purple glittery seat if you see one gazz :twisted: :twisted:

 

[velomaniac]

Fantastico day at the tress, found yet more secret trail, rode the green route flat out which was seriously big grins, did the red descent and due to an adrenaline shot caused by a narrowly missed wipeout the red mist descended and I rode like a loony on the edge of my ability I even got air off every jump I could find :shock:

Further reminded that I do need disc brakes but suspension is still for fairies

ZZ was on form, riding up all the hills SS stylee and going down again like a man possessed, could not keep up even with the red mist. He even avoided crashing untill the end of the last bit of red back at the bottom of the hill, then fell over fully clipped in infront of a crowd :roll:

Finally we met a journo from IMBikeMag.com (whoever they are) who was doing a piece on GT and asked us a few questions about retro bike and our take on the tress. We waxed lyrical and positive of course as you would expect

The Pie Run has been slightly sanitised with more path material so that some of the roots are less extreme but this of course makes it faster so swings and roundabouts :roll:

 

[kaiser]

Nice one eck, do me proud


Went down to the Drum today, weather was looking good till Kirkconnell where it started pishin. Undeterred I carried on and it eased off a bit. Got ready and unloaded the car Rik came over for a chat about the Salsa and mentioned Thursday night rides :twisted:. Said I'd pop into the shop later on. Out on the trail managed another over the bars job this time ran with it and managed to catch it , still put a slight bend in my mech hanger though

Met a guy on the way round and tagged along wisnae much up for the restin but it was good for it, kept the pace up and done the red/black in just under 1hr 40. He also mentioned Walkers doing night runs on Wednesdays. So plenty night run options.

Went by the shop and they just happened to have the rims I'm after for the Kona, wife will kill me but I bought them anyway

All in all a good one

 

[velomaniac]

I'm glad you west coasters have got the Drum, makes me less guilty about having GT on my doorstep.

Watch yourself with those scary brakes Kaiser

Good weekends mtb it would seem to me all round

 

[clockworkgazz]

lucky buggers :evil:

good reports fellas roll on next week, now to tell the wife