Today's Ride

[highlandsflyer]

Great capture!

 

[26er]

Never heard of Cantabria b4, but it looks stunning. Is it far from Alto de L'Angliru?

Equally stunning is that last photo from San Rafael. Love it!
Indeed great capture!!!

 

[Davichin]

Never heard of Cantabria b4, but it looks stunning. Is it far from Alto de L'Angliru?

Equally stunning is that last photo from San Rafael. Love it!
Indeed great capture!!!

Angliru is in the neighbor and also beautiful province of Asturias. From Santander TO THE TOP of Angliru is 210km and roughly 2 hour drive on a highway/nice road (that is, before the start of the climb ):

https://www.google.es/maps/dir/Santande ... 77!1m0!3e0

Both provinces share the Picos de Europa National Park which has spectacular views and rides (even with a cable car with a 1000m vertigo uplift that only allow MTBs first time in the morning and then you have long, obviously mostly downhill, routes back down... http://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attraction ... abria.html

 

[mullinino]

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Dreaded the ice-roads, but hey-'twas fun! Snapped my pawl-spring on the rear hub though ( missus...)- wondering now if the spring/o ring was susceptible to the cold...?

p.

 

[FairfaxPat]

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Man, that looks cold! Today-Monday-A typical winter afternoon around here, about 60 F. and sunny, but chilly in the shade-got a pic of a sun halo today...

 

[coomber]

It's been a really great week of Holiday rides here in Marin. Orange Phoenix today.

Please don't take offence but is this bike deliberately proportioned like that? I.e. so you have such a long high rise stem and such a long seatpost? How does it ride? Long stems are the norm but not such high rise.

Love the colour, is it a respray?

Nice trails too

 

[NeilM]

I.e. so you have such a long high rise stem and such a long seatpost?

Looks like an ideal set up for The History Man.

 

[FairfaxPat]

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Halaburt is a huge guy...

 

[halaburt]

Please don't take offence but is this bike deliberately proportioned like that? I.e. so you have such a long high rise stem and such a long seatpost? How does it ride? Long stems are the norm but not such high rise.

Love the colour, is it a respray?

No offense at all... and you're certainly not the first person to observe/wonder about that.

A lot of this was covered in the bike's build thread: http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewto ... p;t=243086 And then also in discussion around the nomination and voting in the October 2013 BoTM threads: http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewto ... p;t=274115 and http://www.retrobike.co.uk/forum/viewto ... p;t=276882

As Pat noted above, I am tall... about 6'5". The Orange Phoenix is an 18" frame (C-to-C with a sloping TT). That was the largest size that WTB made at the time... but they later added a 19.5" size which is what you see in my pics from a few days earlier of the drop-bar Ti bike.

The bike fits me GREAT and the fork, stem and seatpost were all done custom and very specifically in these sizes to work for me on this bike. The stem is a little deceptive because the flat bars are heavily (about 17 degrees) swept back... which effectively negates about 1-2" of the stem's length. The curved seatpost and long stem put the saddle and bars in effectively the identical position relative to the BB and the wheels as most all of my other MTB's. It handles great and is probably my favorite for tighter, twistier trails.

It is a re-spray (the frame was a mess and the fork and stem were new). The color is "Molteni Orange" (a popular color from ~1970's and 80's era road bikes... Eddie Merckx, etc.). It's Dupont Imron wet paint (i.e., not powder coat) done by Joe Bell.

 

[The History Man]

And very lovely it is too.