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Facebook did its 'here's a picture from the before times' thing and served up this just now. 520mm flat bars with bar ends. Flexy Sids. Tigerskin Bel Air. Hope Pro3/Crest wheelset with 24 spokes (the Pro3s seem to have been written out of history). Crud catcher copy and Crud Race. 23.5lbs.
It was an awesome bike.
What do you have now for comparison?
What do you have now for comparison?
My current 'equivalent' is a Jeffsy 29 CF Pro
I had that the other day. In 2009 I was riding a heavy, dual crown fork & gearbox equipped ‘freeride’ bike, with carbon bars, Hope 4pots and a Chris King headset (amongst others)
Now I’m riding a heavy, dual crown fork & gearbox equipped ‘freeride’ bike, with carbon bars, Hope 4pots and a Chris King headset (amongst others)
Now I’m riding a heavy, dual crown fork & gearbox equipped ‘freeride’ bike, with carbon bars, Hope 4pots and a Chris King headset (amongst others)
Lolz,
There's also the issue of price. That bike was one below the top of the range in 2009, so XT level, and was £2399. The current Anthem XT level bike is £6999. According to the Bank of England inflation calculator, £2399 is £3504 in today's money. So allowing for inflation it's twice the price. Obviously it's a much better bike today, maybe even twice as good, but it isn't going to make you twice as fast.
Those bikes wouldn't half as bad if the front wheel wasn't almost right underneath your chest when riding. It looks like it's been crashed into a wall.
Obviously it’s a much better bike today, maybe even twice as good, but it isn’t going to make you twice as fast.
No but we don't buy nice bikes to go fast, otherwise we'd buy motorbikes.
Yeah, the current edition is about 25% lighter than the previous, but the RRP has gone up about 125%
Damn, was gonna post pictures of Worf from Star Trek but thread in Bike section.
I've got Pro 3s on my Cove Hummer , it's my lifer bike , we've been together 20 years next year! 😳Been through so many adventures in some iconic riding spots around the world 😎 Not ridden in anger these days but still ridden regularly.
the Pro3s seem to have been written out of history
How so?
I was going to ask the same .
I had a similar bike to the OP - first generation Anthem, 80 mm travel. I put some 130 mm Revelations, 740 mm bars, 50 mm stem, and a dropper post on it and it was massively improved. Excellent XC trail bike, pedaled really well, great on tight, twisty stuff. I still have the frame, but it wouldn't take tyres wider than 2.1 inches so I swapped the parts onto a BMC frame with 120 mm travel.
Bagged a few KOM's on this beast
It's predecessor
@TheArtistFormerlyKnownAsSTR I'd forgotten about the green enduro, loved that bike, the newer one was futuristic with the "future shocks" - over kill for the Chatsworth loop tho lol
I still have my green Enduro. Shock died and couldn't get a damping rod for it so the bike is in the shed. I would resurect it if I could find a cheap shock. (Stealth ad alert, anyone got something?)
A way better bike than me. Never founds its limits and I bet most of us were riding things 10 or 15 years ago that in the hands off a really good rider would outshine us today.
Tigerskin Bel Air
😎
I'm still using a cow-print bel-air 😳
I put some 130 mm Revelations, 740 mm bars, 50 mm stem
Yeah, shortly after this pic was taken I managed to bend the bendy Sids permanently, so I replaced them with some new 120mm ones. They were less bendy, more boingy, slackened the head angle slightly and generally transformed the bike into something rather more capable. Also they were black and looked nicer.
So, pics.
Here’s the first gearbox DC freeride lump, all 48lbs of it…
Sold to flange off of here.
Here’s its, not as heavy as I thought, ~38lb contemporary…
Oddly, here’s my steel framed, upside down fork equipped hardtail from the same era.
Then it’s contemporary
And to show that whilst some things change, others stay the same.
March 2014…
Vs this morning.
Same frame, rims, saddle, pedals and headset, that’s it. I said when I first got it it was the perfect trail bike, my mind hasn’t changed.
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What's the spec? e-2-e etc. Found a few I had during a recent sort out. DT, Marzocchi 190s or 200 and Manitou DH coil. All as new, going for offers.