I’ve been busy beavering away at a new route and ride page for the flowmtb website. What I came up with is no more than the joining of two ideas already out there on the web.
Archive for February 1st, 2007
Right, now Guy has bored you with all that info about his bikes, here’s some exciting stuff…my new pink frame has arrived! I’m amazed, ANC got it here in just 2 days - Parcelforce always seems to take at least a week. Hence I was shocked when the delivery driver called trying to find our building, and he was equally surprised to be delivering a bike here in February.
It’s a very pretty girlie pink thanks to Tom at Windwave who very kindly got it powder coated pink for me. Emily showed me some very cool star stickers that I think I’ll have to use on it. This’ll be my most ‘me’ bike ever.
Now I need to dig out my box of parts and get building it up. It’ll be the first bike I’ve fully built up from scratch so I’m pretty excited about that. Need to get out and find some rideable trails once it’s done.
Here’s me excitedly unwrapping it:
Oh and to keep with Guy’s listing of bikes, I’ll also be riding a Santa Cruz full sus, I’m thinking a Blur LT as a great all rounder. I loved the Juliana, but something with a little more travel would be handy round here. I’ll also be on the small VP Free when it’s not hired out. I’m looking forward to hitting the DH trails on that!
Firstly though, I’m getting on with building my new pink bike……
This summer I shall be the proud owner of a (nearly) new Santa Cruz Blur 4X… in shiny red. It’s been in the hands of Guy from What Mountain Bike magazine for a short while whilst he reviews it, but now it’s gonna be mine… all mine!
I’ve specced it up with a pretty standard Santa Cruz X9 build kit - with the All Mountain upgrades (fatter wheels, tyres, bigger brakes and oversized stem + bar combo..) - I’ve opted for a set of coil sprung pikes (I have to say I prefer springs!) - and a couple of additions to the usual build including a nice e-thirteen DRS chain guide to keep the chain in the right place.
We had one of these last summer on demo (which Tim, a friend of mine bought off us at the end of the season) - I loved the bike. And so did everyone who rode it. It just begs to be ridden hard; thrown round corners with one foot out; pumped and jumped at every occasion and generally acting like a child. I think the ‘4X’ name has meant that this bike hasn’t got the recognition it deserves - but now that they’re reduced in price and getting great reviews everywhere it can’t be long before everyone wants one. There’s not too many full sus bikes with uneven travel (there’s only 115mm at the back, with a 140mm fork up front) - it rides in a similar manner to my Prince Albert, but with even more hooligan tendencies 
It’ll be kinda like that - but red!
