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

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 :LOL: :LOL:

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i've changed the forks for a set of rst 381's for lightness.......
 
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.
 
i'm building a 2003 spesh epic for t1nt1n at the mo

it looks nice. it feels nice.... i can feel my principles slipping
 
BarneyRubble":206u1jdm said:
messiah":206u1jdm said:
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.
 
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