Retro Full Suss - The good, the bad and the ugly?

[dorsetbikeloving]

Thats a lovely pic Pickle, great atmosphere about it!

I agree that the RTS is a great ride, good all round bike!

 

[big.eck]

i have a nice kinesis full sus that i'm very happy with . it managed to keep up with a couple of downhillers on a downhill track at the start of the month

i've changed the forks for a set of rst 381's for lightness.......

 

[cagiva gezzer]

How far ahead are new suspension frames? I'm happy pottering around on the RTS. . .

Tempted to get a new fangled one, but i don't want to spoil myself and go off the RTS.

 

[MJN]

Light years......

 

[cce]

i'm building a 2003 spesh epic for t1nt1n at the mo

it looks nice. it feels nice.... i can feel my principles slipping

 

[messiah]

In about 1997-99 Haro made a lovely single pivot bike and Diamond Back (DBR) made a Faux Bar which were ridden my friends of mine.

Both of these bikes were amongst the best and least well known functional full-suss bikes available.

If you can track one of these down it should be a bargain since almost nobody will know how good they are.

A friend of mine has one of the DBR's sitting in his garage (frame and a few other bits only). It was a great bike and he loved every minute of owning it, but in the end struggled to find the bushes when they wore out. Having said that i bet BETD could find something.

Yep, both of these had funny Nylon type top hat bushes which wore - if you didn't replace them they eventually ate into the frame. Easy enough to get something machined up to fix this though.

 

[oldschool]

anybody got any info on the marin quake 5.0 frs as ive just bought one . can post pics later

 

[dainesefreak]

Nice one, what year?

 

[cyfa2809]

big.eck waht rsts are they? any pics?

 

[oldschool]

its got zuccie fly forks and a fox rear shock were they good bikes