Bicycles
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What an amazing week I had in Andalucia, if you're planning on going for a training week I strongly recommend Vamos Cycling. The roads were silky smooth and with almost no traffic. Did 550 km with 12 km of vertical ascent in six days in superb company. The weather was a bit cold, but thankfully we only got caught out in the rain during the last two hours of the last day so I'm extremely happy and will definitely go back next year.
I'm super-happy with the bike as well, completely fell in love with it during the week. Works flawlessly and rides amazingly.
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That looks like a great place to ride, thanks for the pics.
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^ cool bike.
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^ cool bike.
Thanks , they are super fun to ride just a single gear non fixed and 29 inch wheels. The miles just drift by.
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Updated the wheels, gearing and drivetrain for the 2015 bike touring season. Got a 700 km five-day trip coming up in a month and at least a week in july. I just love how this bike rides. This is also my winter training bike and can handle anything from cyclocross to fast gravel grinding without a flinch.
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Anything from www.WorkCycles.com. There is a dealer in Hamburg, where I bought mine. Too pleased.
i may have to "give away" my drivers license again…now i need a fucking bike for sure!
recommendations? my budget should be around something like 1-2k -
Got a new toy recently but realized I hadn't posted a photo. She is fast. Can't wait to see how fast it'll be once I switch out the wheels for something not so heavy, but that'll have to wait until I'm no longer a poor student
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A few weeks ago when bc was more smokey than normal
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Had a fantastic day today riding around one of the offroad trails in South Wales called Cwmcarn with one of the lads from Mojo Suspension.
The owner of Mojo, Chris porter, has some pretty interesting ideas ( and as it turns out good ideas ) about MTB geometry. He experimented with very long bikes with conventionally speaking, very slack head angle ( 63.5 degrees ) and steep seat tube angle ( 77 degrees ). He has put his money where his mouth is and is now selling these unconventional geometry frames.
I am 5ft 11" and took out the medium ( longer ) size and got on very well with it. I was waiting for it to be a pig in the tight stuff but nothing of the sort, it felt very good. Pointing it downhill and it is a beast, loads of traction and you need to remember to keep your weight on front of the bike over the bars. Most regular MTB's you generally need to hang off the back of the bike when the going gets steep and technical, not the Mojo GeoMetron, it was a very confidence inspiring bike, loads of traction!
I am about to break up and sell my Yeti SB6c frame and fork and move the bits over to the GeoMetron frame, I was that impressed with it!
http://www.mojo.co.uk/mojo_nicolai_geometron
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Really interesting, thanks for posting. Everything about the geometry sounds promising. I'm guessing it climbed well with that seat tube angle?
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@DanielAFC the bike did indeed climb very well and it was to do with the steep seat tube angle and also relatively long chainstays. The bike was running a Fox X2 air shock with no lock out and it did not need it. The Mojo design has slightly changed the linkage size and pivot position on the downtube to optimise the antisquat part of the suspension action. At no time did I feel I wanted a shock lock out.
The test bike I took out had the exact same tyres I run on my Yeti. Super Gravity Rock Razor rear and Snake Skin Magic Mary front. This was perfect as it allowed an identical back to back traction comparison with my Yeti. There was significantly more traction on the GeoMetron compared to the Yeti. I did back to back trail laps on the two bikes to compare. The GeoMetron felt more stable and offered more grip on what was a wet and muddy trail.
I had an interesting discussion with Chris Porter ( Mr Mojo ) regarding the geometry and how it sits within the industry. The big bike companies, Trek, Specialized, Giant etc have been getting longer and slacker every year but in minimal increments. However for one of these companies to go dramatically longer and slacker on their bikes would be a difficult proposition as they have admitted that they would likely need to do it across all ranges which would be an expensive proposition. The other factor that would maybe stop them from such dramatic geometry changes even on a single line of bikes is that it would almost look like an admission that the 'standard' geometry bikes are not as good.
I suspect the smaller brands who offer a more limited range of bikes may start to experiment more with similar long / slack geometry. Canyon, Mondraker and Orange are already getting close but have not yet gone as extreme as the Mojo design.
If you get a chance to test out one of these bikes then go for it, ignore the geometry numbers and ride it without any preconceived ideas and you may well be pleasantly surprised.
Some interesting reading on Mr Porters Geometry ideas:
http://www.mbr.co.uk/news/size-matters-why-were-all-riding-bikes-that-are-too-small-321374
http://www.mbr.co.uk/news/bike_news/size-matters-part-2-finding-limits-geometry-sizing-323289
http://www.mbr.co.uk/news/bike_news/size-matters-part-3-bicycle-geometry-sucks-324160
