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New Morewood All Mountain bike

02 Sep 2010, 21:31
Like the slack head angle they've put on there. Looks good too. To be fair they'd want to be some yoke to better the current Shova and if they do? Well it's just to nice a bike for the likes of me
02 Sep 2010, 22:55
i like the old single pivot design myself..more raw and sexual..you can't beat a single pivot bike with 2.5" tyres and 130mm travel..the Franken******s of the Bike design World can fook around with multi linkage bikes and try and con riders in to thinking that a CAD designed bike with 50 points of contact and bearings only found under a cabbage when the Moon is in Capricorn are what you need to make you deadly.
When all you really need to enjoy mountainbiking are brakes that work, Gears that work and shocks that don't turn to snails arseholes..
rant over !!
White bikes are cool though...real cool..like having sex on an iceberg or growing a moustache !
02 Sep 2010, 23:04
Your right there, all that counts is the geometry and having he shock set up right and your sorted, most of its down the rider... the bike just gives you the extra bit!
02 Sep 2010, 23:14
Ben Reid rode for years on an ancient Giant and was world class..but people who get up in the morning and look at themselves in the mirror and say " I'm a bleeding gnarly rad dude mountainbiker !! and I need a shock created in a vacumn and built by people who had their little fingers gnawed off by rats to be a real kick ass roosting huck to flat true MTB god !!"
well they really need to fcuk off and become tri athletes !!
Because every year the Companies have to re invent the wheel ( pun intended ) because Greg, the world is not full of deadly riders like you and I, its full of fat unfit goobers who believe that if they add mass + money + magazines+ Videos = MTB Sainthood !!
There are no shortcuts and there are no easy technology greasing easy ways to be a MTB Superstar..theres only Passion + Sweat+ Sacrifice+ Commitment+ talent = MTB Megastardom !!!
02 Sep 2010, 23:20
Even though they look the same I'd take one of those over a Trek made from tin foil though :-)
I'm laughing here the at two sponsered riders saying it's the rider not their bikes, at least ye haven't sold your souls to the corporate devil.
Fair fecks Keepin it real
02 Sep 2010, 23:24
Originally posted by Byrner View Post
White bikes are cool though...real cool..like having sex on an iceberg or growing a moustache !
I've two of them......and a black one for my dark side!
02 Sep 2010, 23:26
two words Bren..
Split Pivot !!
and to answer your bitter, sarcastic comments ..
the reason we are sponsored is because we are real..
people like to touch us and hope, Bren...yes Bren, we give Hope to the little people..
People go in to shops and they say I want to be like Richie and Greg..give me a bike like Richie and Greg have..
They might go in to the Barbers and say " can I have a beard like Bren has !!" but we'll never know , Bren, because you're not real, Bren..
Sorry but I googled you and all I got was a second world war machine gun !!
Meanwhile , all them bikes are crap..KTMs are the only decent bikes worth buying and they make deadly hats !!
02 Sep 2010, 23:32
the most innovative 'inventions' are usually the marketing ploys trying to convince you to buy a new bike every odd month, like this new one from Canyon - now it's a nice bike, but acc. to the marketing blurb it's;

"Located somewhere in the region between all-mountain and freeride and built for rocky uphill passages and gritty descents"

if I don't believe in "all-mountain" or "freeride", how the hell am I supposed to believe in something that's in between ?

my new hard*******tail Greg is building for me in OC Tuning (you've got it nearly finished, right Greg? ) is going to do the lot for me this winter, I guess I know this because I ride my bikes as often as I can, with 'proper' bikers, but if you're a once-a-month Ballinastoe warrior, and you're reading these magazines which are full of favourable reviews for everything they test, and not talking to copped-on riders - I guess your inclined put your money where someone else's mouth is, because you don't know any better

anyway, Byrner, I thought you were supposed to be turning all these poor ignorant clipes into blazing banshees/basturds on bikes - are you not finished yet?? you need to get a move on...
02 Sep 2010, 23:33
what a legend epic technical bike conversation this has turned into this tread should be locked now for fear it will become unfunny and make sense.
02 Sep 2010, 23:34
hey they weren't bitter or sarcastic words at all. I ment it, wise words in a thread that in another planet called the UK would have decended into a Solid is better than KTM hoedown.
Hey and the beard keeps the mud off roight !
02 Sep 2010, 23:36
sorry Furgul , i'm only getting through one or two a week..i'm not ****ing Mother****ing Theresa you know !!
Sorry Al..i ruined your erection , didn't i?
I know Bren..i'm not quite drunk enough !!
02 Sep 2010, 21:31
Like the slack head angle they've put on there. Looks good too. To be fair they'd want to be some yoke to better the current Shova and if they do? Well it's just to nice a bike for the likes of me
02 Sep 2010, 22:55
i like the old single pivot design myself..more raw and sexual..you can't beat a single pivot bike with 2.5" tyres and 130mm travel..the Franken******s of the Bike design World can fook around with multi linkage bikes and try and con riders in to thinking that a CAD designed bike with 50 points of contact and bearings only found under a cabbage when the Moon is in Capricorn are what you need to make you deadly.
When all you really need to enjoy mountainbiking are brakes that work, Gears that work and shocks that don't turn to snails arseholes..
rant over !!
White bikes are cool though...real cool..like having sex on an iceberg or growing a moustache !
02 Sep 2010, 23:04
Your right there, all that counts is the geometry and having he shock set up right and your sorted, most of its down the rider... the bike just gives you the extra bit!
02 Sep 2010, 23:14
Ben Reid rode for years on an ancient Giant and was world class..but people who get up in the morning and look at themselves in the mirror and say " I'm a bleeding gnarly rad dude mountainbiker !! and I need a shock created in a vacumn and built by people who had their little fingers gnawed off by rats to be a real kick ass roosting huck to flat true MTB god !!"
well they really need to fcuk off and become tri athletes !!
Because every year the Companies have to re invent the wheel ( pun intended ) because Greg, the world is not full of deadly riders like you and I, its full of fat unfit goobers who believe that if they add mass + money + magazines+ Videos = MTB Sainthood !!
There are no shortcuts and there are no easy technology greasing easy ways to be a MTB Superstar..theres only Passion + Sweat+ Sacrifice+ Commitment+ talent = MTB Megastardom !!!
02 Sep 2010, 23:20
Even though they look the same I'd take one of those over a Trek made from tin foil though :-)
I'm laughing here the at two sponsered riders saying it's the rider not their bikes, at least ye haven't sold your souls to the corporate devil.
Fair fecks Keepin it real
02 Sep 2010, 23:24
Originally posted by Byrner View Post
White bikes are cool though...real cool..like having sex on an iceberg or growing a moustache !
I've two of them......and a black one for my dark side!
02 Sep 2010, 23:26
two words Bren..
Split Pivot !!
and to answer your bitter, sarcastic comments ..
the reason we are sponsored is because we are real..
people like to touch us and hope, Bren...yes Bren, we give Hope to the little people..
People go in to shops and they say I want to be like Richie and Greg..give me a bike like Richie and Greg have..
They might go in to the Barbers and say " can I have a beard like Bren has !!" but we'll never know , Bren, because you're not real, Bren..
Sorry but I googled you and all I got was a second world war machine gun !!
Meanwhile , all them bikes are crap..KTMs are the only decent bikes worth buying and they make deadly hats !!
02 Sep 2010, 23:32
the most innovative 'inventions' are usually the marketing ploys trying to convince you to buy a new bike every odd month, like this new one from Canyon - now it's a nice bike, but acc. to the marketing blurb it's;

"Located somewhere in the region between all-mountain and freeride and built for rocky uphill passages and gritty descents"

if I don't believe in "all-mountain" or "freeride", how the hell am I supposed to believe in something that's in between ?

my new hard*******tail Greg is building for me in OC Tuning (you've got it nearly finished, right Greg? ) is going to do the lot for me this winter, I guess I know this because I ride my bikes as often as I can, with 'proper' bikers, but if you're a once-a-month Ballinastoe warrior, and you're reading these magazines which are full of favourable reviews for everything they test, and not talking to copped-on riders - I guess your inclined put your money where someone else's mouth is, because you don't know any better

anyway, Byrner, I thought you were supposed to be turning all these poor ignorant clipes into blazing banshees/basturds on bikes - are you not finished yet?? you need to get a move on...
02 Sep 2010, 23:33
what a legend epic technical bike conversation this has turned into this tread should be locked now for fear it will become unfunny and make sense.
02 Sep 2010, 23:34
hey they weren't bitter or sarcastic words at all. I ment it, wise words in a thread that in another planet called the UK would have decended into a Solid is better than KTM hoedown.
Hey and the beard keeps the mud off roight !
02 Sep 2010, 23:36
sorry Furgul , i'm only getting through one or two a week..i'm not ****ing Mother****ing Theresa you know !!
Sorry Al..i ruined your erection , didn't i?
I know Bren..i'm not quite drunk enough !!