frenchman
Eats cheese. Sells crack.
been riding the little bike a fair bit lately after copping a good faceplant on the kavenz.
Mid last year I was struggling to gell with the bike, was looking at the norcos etc just to try and get something a bit lighter as I went too endurbro on this thing. but the swap to a lighter tyre choice and reminding myself that it's meant to be a little bike put that to rest.
Did my first roto trip with the little bike to encourage me to put the handbrake on riding silly shit on my own. It worked until I caught up with an old riding friend and just got him to tow me into shit which was a nice change. It rode everything apart from the Taniwha jumps. Had to have the LSC completely closed to stop it from diving, so a vorsprung luftkappe is in order. I never realised how much fox stuff would dive in the mid stroke until I swapped out the 36 air spring on the Kavenz for a smashpot.
It's a really great bike now its a bit lighter and the geo encourages me to ride most shit. The lack of travel in the back end is forcing me to be more accurate with gaps and lighter tyre choice means less squiding in corners to avoid blowing a bead off.
I'd like to get another set of trickstuff brakes for this thing and a 185mm droppper.
It's 5 years old now but there isn't really anything else currently that looks interesting so I'll keep riding it.
Pic below is from the local with mattyp.
Mid last year I was struggling to gell with the bike, was looking at the norcos etc just to try and get something a bit lighter as I went too endurbro on this thing. but the swap to a lighter tyre choice and reminding myself that it's meant to be a little bike put that to rest.
Did my first roto trip with the little bike to encourage me to put the handbrake on riding silly shit on my own. It worked until I caught up with an old riding friend and just got him to tow me into shit which was a nice change. It rode everything apart from the Taniwha jumps. Had to have the LSC completely closed to stop it from diving, so a vorsprung luftkappe is in order. I never realised how much fox stuff would dive in the mid stroke until I swapped out the 36 air spring on the Kavenz for a smashpot.
It's a really great bike now its a bit lighter and the geo encourages me to ride most shit. The lack of travel in the back end is forcing me to be more accurate with gaps and lighter tyre choice means less squiding in corners to avoid blowing a bead off.
I'd like to get another set of trickstuff brakes for this thing and a 185mm droppper.
It's 5 years old now but there isn't really anything else currently that looks interesting so I'll keep riding it.
Pic below is from the local with mattyp.
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