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Well in most cases you are right about HTs in Poland but... I think it has nothing to do with any theory and working or not working. It's just another league and top guys bloody rip! Like my friend marcelrider that commented below. Most riders (including these on fullys) never reach that skill level. I personaly would like to be as fast on my Nomad as they are on 50quid worth destroyer frames. I have total respect for them, not only beacuse they go head in head with full-hobby category in Polish DH, sometimes scoring faster times. It's just how fast they are regardless of what they are riding. Someone should make a segment in some pro video about them.
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Well, I this one here is a 150 fork so I guess now the bike has around 68,5. The number doesn't matter that much as I can't tell the difference between 1 degree. It just feels quite nervous. With 170mm 66 it will be more stable for sure, but at the same time I won't be able to ride XC with such high front end... I shall see.
I like HT as I started with it and later on I was a devoted HT rider even though I could afford a fully. It clearly hones skills  everyone should ride one from time to time. Furthermore there is this polish HT DH culture (same as in Uk I guess) that I like to relate to It would be cool to clash these two HT DH cultures in a competition one day  |
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Nomad is actualy getting covered in dust as I decided that I need to get some skills back. I was a smoother rider in the past, after 2,5 years on fully I feel that my lower body got very lazy on the bike. I need to make it active again.
I like how the bike looks but so far it handles pretty bad (at least I don't like it, the previous owner won some competitions on it and ripped couple of trails apart with it) with unusualy steep head angle. I'll se how it will ride with a 66sl fork. |
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Hi what's the name of the fender that you have on your Nomad? I'd really like to buy one as it looks great on your Nomad, and I happen to have a white Nomad too.
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I don't like clips anymore either but only on Fully. On HT, I personaly prefer retarded balance over loosing pedals from under my feet on roots and stones
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demn I just noticed it - U ride HT DH on flat pedals?!
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great picture! Really interesting light and composition. It's a lot of great pics from Czech photographers lately. You guys rock
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Winter on hardtail? I thought I was original! BTW why did you change godly TLD for LEGO helmet? patriotism?
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Or you just got to have fun doing it
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I think that is photoshopped cuz he is on a BMX and he wears a helmet.
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Wohoo that's the original one! Props to the photographer! Makes me want to turn on Kenny Loggins - through the fireeee
Just one hint for the future: these fabrics in biking clothes like polyester - they have a pretty low ignition temperature and sometimes they tend to melt into the skin... so make sure guys U made the same preparation as the guy on the pic... |
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how about: broken glass up your *ss - satisfied now?
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OMG, this is one of the most epic photos I have ever seen. My Grandma used to say: God blesses thee who wake up early in the morning
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I blindly stepped on the very slicky ground called: what is art... so i guess I'm screwed... however if you Eric didn't smash me here, I might be ok
In my job I work a lot with photorealistic photomontages like pasting renders of nonexisting buildings into photos of current site situation, sometime when the buidling to be torn down is still there. I have nothing against the guy who posted it, I don't want to dis him for that, everyone can post whatever they want (as long as it concerns biking ) I just get annoyed to see people gloryfying a poor job. I get even more annoyed to see that some are refering to higher virtues, like calling it an art. It's like Paris Hilton talking about God... I have some bad pictures of me riding badly in the woods - how many would be happy if that turned out to be a POD? I come from creative background so I se it as one of my duties to protect the good name of art (and of POD ) |
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wangs14 - ever heard of art of argumentation?
pssst... some call it retorics. chudders22 - I guess I was tripping indeed, too much anti cough syrups... I hold on to my point though - a man must deliver something well thought and elaborated in order to call it a piece of art, otherwise it's just a photomontage, graphic or... and yes art evolves what is natural but recently it mostly regresses. Whaevea... |
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man if you ever buy yourself a huge mansion with wooden walls in the saloon -> put this one on the wall in the size of 4x8 feet at least
Do you have the original pic? would be great to see it without HDR too |
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I say - this is an outrage for it to be a POD!
To all who believe this is art. If you call it art then I guess you are one of those who believe that art is anything - you draw or paint whatever as an adult or at least a teenager, then post it on their fotoblog or digart and call yourself an artist. Basicaly you are putting this photomontage here not far from pieces of art created by artists. This is a simple set of two or more pictures, put together without any bigger thought or craftmanship in it, that without any logical reason has been promoted to be a POD. Well I tell you my friends, you eat the bullbraaap that art galeries and art promotors fed the world with since 1950s and make it believe that some junkie painting a toilet with mustard is an artist. If they say that a couple of pieces of crap are pieces of art, then they are finaly going to find a looser that will buy one of these, for huge amount of money. Their small investment will bring them pretty nice shared income. Then there came the era of tolerance, internet with digart, fotoblogs etc. or bunch of well trained teenagers on a reality show moving as if they were paraplegic and that's "the art of dancing!" Suddenly everyone is an artist! Popoculture wants us to believe that you don't need to train and excel yourself to be an artist. No more struggle! No more sleepless nights in ateliers! Everyone can be an artist! ...just buy these clothes or this phone where you can upload you artwork and share it with your friends! So please do yourself and a mankind a favor and don't spread that bullbraap forward, don't call things like this art, because then what is Picasso's painting, Pavarottis singing or Russian balet? |
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oooh yes its art now... what next? paintbrush will be an art?
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Im totaly with you man. It's not a real pic, it's not an artwork, it's just braaaaap!
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I'd really like to see the original picture (unless there was no ugly house or something in the background) as it looks nicely "moody". I like that kind of light conditions a lot. I'm not a photographer so unfortunately I have no idea what HFD means. As I assume though there is no HDR as I guess there was no need for using it (I personaly dislike HDR manipulation unless it really helps to get something really spectacular out of the picture). In many cases it is the lens filter that does the job well enough to balance levels.
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ya clean as hell.. HDR hehe, vppbikefeeder, please... it would good, but why is this kitch google sky pasted in there? If the trees are blurred (by blur filter or just simply by short focal length "in reality") there's no chance for the sky to be sharp, isn't it?
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mysle ze model 2011 bedzie zajebisty, teraz ciezko powiedziec. Mnie osobiscie to loto bo zjazdowy sprzet jest dla mnie zbyt specjalistyczny, a ja lubie wszechstronnosc w gore i w dol
. Tu dopiero zaczynaja sie jaja ze sprzetem Bez zmiany skoku w zasadzie nie ma bata dobrze pojezdzic na jednym rowerze w gore i w dol, a niestety nikt poza RSoxem z U-TURN nie stworzyl systemu zmiany skoku zdolnego wytrzymac FR i DH. Cala reszta sie psuje. A U-turn tez taki sobie bo zeby zmienic skok trzeba krecic pokretlem przez 5 minut... Jak jade na szybkie wieczorne XC po pracy to tak sobie chce mi sie tym majtac. Teraz mam marcocha z ETA, i niby super ale, toto nie ma dolnej grniacy skoku, zablokuje sie tak gleboko jak wcisniesz i nie mozna jezdzic ostro na nisko ustawionym skoku bo rozwali sie system. |
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heh. Mieszkam w Goteborgu w Szwecji. Ze znajomych mi tu ludzi dwoch kupilo Boxxy 2010. Teama i WC. Jeden to konkretny wymiatacz drugi to przecietniak palacy tarcze. Oba boxxy sie popsuly. W Worldcupie od wymiatacza szalg trafil komore powietrzna, wymienili mu, potem jak zakladal na nowo amora to zauwazyl ze kolo jest skrzywione. Szybko sie okazalo po majtaniu polkami, ze to dolne lagi sa skrecone na amen. Kolo jezdzi szybko ale bardzo plynnie, mial Foxa 40 przez 2 lata i nie zepsul go. Drugiemu kolesiowi team pozygal sie na maxa przy okazji posypal sie nowy tlumik powrotu. Ja tam mam moral taki z tego typu przypadkow ze nigdy nie kupuje sie nowo wchodzacych rzeczy w pierwszym roku. Pierwsze 888 z 2004 z HSCV tez sie psuly na maxa. Nie wspomne o tym co dzialo sie z pierwszymi totemami. Chcialbym truvativa hammershmidt ale poczekam az naprawia pewne bledy. Tak samo czekam az poprawia sztyce z regulowana wysokoscia crank bros.
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tzn ten moj 66SL jest z tego samego 2006r co poprzedni rc2x
Akurat jesli o Marzocchi chodzi to 2007 jeszcze sie dalo zyc ale od 2008 to sie cofneli w rozwoju i to konkretnie. 2005 i 2006 serie 888, 66 i Z1 sa nie zniszczalne. Z tym ze w 2005 66 byl jeszcze strasznie ciezki. Moze na 2010 wezma sie za siebie. |
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Co do powietrza to trzeba sie przekonac, kupic widła i jezdzic conajmniej pol roku. Przejazdzka na baju kumpla niewiele daje, a nie ma nic gorszego niz porownywac powietrze ze sprezyna na parkingu. Mialem 66 rc2x teraz mam SL i stwierdzam z jak dla mnie SL jest znacznie lepszy. znacznie latwiej wchodzi w skok, wykorzystuje caly skok, jednoczesnie nawet przy minimalnym tlumieniu kompresji nie nurkuje tak latwo przy hamowaniu jak rc2x. Tam trzeba bylo konkretnie podkrecic kompresje zeby zapewnic sobie stabilnosc na jakichs wiekszych wertepach. Mam go juz rok i nic zlego sie nie dzieje, pracuje plynniej niz sprezyna, swiezo po serwisie po prostu plynie, a 0,5kg mniej droga nie chodzi. sprezynowe 66 sie moim skromnym zdaniem nie umywaja. Z drugiej strony mam tez ALL mountain 2 z 2006r z tlumikiem SSV i jego sprezyna powietrzna to inna bajka - zdecydowanie smutniejsza. Amor ma wszelkie wady powszechnie przyczepiane amorom powietrznym - straszna progresja z paskudnym wstepnym oporem. Prawda tez taka ze jak go przycisne w swoim HT to nie czuje roznicy i zastanawiam sie bardziej jak celowac miedzy drzewa niz jaka jest charakterystyka pracy...
Co do oleju to mialem w 66 wlane 5w najpierw i w zasadzie regulacja kompresji nie dzialala, zakres byl zaden. Powaznie uposledzalo to moje zapedy do jazdy pod gore, amor bujal jak glupi, tylko cisnieniem powietrza dalo sie go utwardzac. Teraz z 7,5w jest znacznie lepiej. pod gore max kompresja, w dol odkrecam do polowy i jest git. |
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Co konkretne zmotywowalo Cie do takiego kroku? Amor wyjatkowo mulił? Z ktorego roku ten 888RC? 2004 czy 05? ja bym chetnie wykombinowal do moich 66SL 2006 cos na odwrot: zwiekszyc zakres regulacji wolnej kompresji. Zeby dalo sie konkretnie zmulic amor, wtedy bawiac sie cisnienieme w komorach pozytywna negatywna mialbym znacznie wieksze mozliwosci regulacji skoku.
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That is pretty strange to see a Czech on a polish Duncon frame... you guys have RB which seems way better
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woo, good one! If I would live there and drink this finest of all lagers, I would style like that too... to all Americans: this is where the Budweiser comes from before Germans and then you corrupted it!
Budejovicki Budvar forever! It's ride-inspiring! CHEERS! |
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relax, no one said U do ride bad, or suck. We just said as it is, it looks a bit overdone, that's all. We don't want'ya to do a on foot pilgrimage to Santiago di Compostella to repay that sin. Therefore you don't need to bring up all these high morals
. Nobody does a pic or vid to become a POD, how can U do such a thing? Ok guyz tommoro' we do a POD photoshoot! Wash yer balls an' polish yer TLD jerzey and a compulsory study of riding stance in 45 degree burms by watching Earthed from 2 to 4. Cheers |
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afro-99 do U actualy own a Manitou fork at all, did you ever had one?
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I know it's a polish POD but damn, WRITE IN ENGLISH!!! is it that hard?
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for me that's one of things that make it a great picture - it makes you curious
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Good it's not the Yeti factory rider known as Blinky - he wears no back protection as few other "immortals". So if any of U guys that never had a harsh back landing believe that it's hard to happen and this stuff ws invented for motos - please look at it and go to the shop immediately.
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Cool setup. I like it how simple the bike looks. Still IMAO you could lower the rotating mass a bit. These tyres weigh a ton and the cranks are at least 100g heavier than they should be
Regarding the tres I don't know the kind of trails you are riding and how fast and aggressive is your riding style, if you have really rocky local trails and you like to rip the rockgardens apart, I guess you made the right choice |
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then go to the emergency, and they will fix it for you. If it's less than 3 hours betwuen you snapped it and they put it back on, you might still have a chance to get erection when you grow up.
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Any of you guys saw a South park episode "Bebe's boobs destroy society"? Well watch it, it's you guys in it. In this situation just replace Bebe's boobs with Kona bikes and watch how you behave.
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