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Delivery between 9am-6pm.
*drums fingers, looks up at every hint of a van going past the window*
Cooool. get it built and tested ASAP.
I want strava figures today !
[i]Delivery between 9am-6pm.[/i]
The "while you were out" card is already on the door mat...
Mine turned up yesterday and is built up waiting for me to pay for it. Then I'll strip it and rebuild it.
Then I'll strip it and rebuild it.
I do this too as a matter of precaution. What have you got?
The "while you were out" card is already on the door mat...
Don't you know it, I have to do the school run at 5pm, what are the chances...
Genesis Equilibrium Disc 20 but it will be upgraded before it hits the roads.
Nice!
Which courier?
I had a school run timed delivery recently. Left a note saying 'school run' and the DPD driver turned up just after I got back saying he saw the note, did a couple of other local deliveries then came back.
DPD - thumbs up!
DPD are awesome! You can follow the van around on a map on the website, and it tells you which number you are in his delivery queue and how many he's done so far. Well worth paying a few quid extra for.
Oh and photos when it does turn up 🙂
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*gets excited *
Er, that's not a Giant, is it?
Why do you ask?
Looks like a cheap box.
I upgraded my box to carbon, sick of those .heavy, flexy cardboard ones
gonna miss your what bike threads 😥
hmmm, still nothing... No rushed lunchtime build?
[i]gonna miss your what bike threads[/i]
Give him a minute!
It doesn't look like a Giant box, unless they've scrimped on printer's fees for 2015. I still want to cash in my prize for correctly guessing what bike you would buy.
The bike has been revealed already.
[i]The bike has been revealed already.[/i]
He's started a separate thread just for the box?
Weird.
The shop probably just used a bigger box to package it after it was PDI'd.
Now about this build...
Well, here it is, adjusted, everything at the "right" pressure, Ron replacing Ralph at the front, cable rub protection on, just need to order a chainstay protector (not sure I trust the clutch mech that much) and a mucky nutz fender.
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First around-the-garden impression are good, but not so good for the Yeti - but I'll wait until newbikeness has gone away before I make a decision on that.
Strangley, the bike looks "more" in real life than it does in pictures.
Them there wheels are 2.4Kg of heavyness...
So, what bike for cyclocross? 😉
Anthems, at the least, deserve to have the stem flipped and preferably slammed.
Do this now, instead of going through the years of experiment I went through to discover just that. It makes it feel flippin' mental fast.
Them there wheels are 2.4Kg of heavyness...
2kg according to Giants site, although the whole bike is only 27lb, but give me a chance ffs, its just come out of the box, upgrades later..
munrobiker - its a long stock stem (100mm). I anticpated replacing it immediataly but like that it feels fine but a bit upright. I'm sure it'll go down some spacer before I get to where I want to be, but before i replace it (its OD2), I want to be sure everything is right.
2kg according to Giants site, although the whole bike is only 27lb, but give me a chance ffs, its just come out of the box, upgrades later..
I've had them and weighed them... give me till later and i'll give you both the weights front and rear.
Overdrive puts be off Giant completely. Blatant standards for cash.
its not overdrive
Looks a bit different to what you were going to buy..
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I ran mine with a 100m stem and 700m wide bars. Shorter stems just didn't suit it- it is a race bike.
Honourablegeorge- they've given up on it now for most of their MTBs I think.
dirtyrider - Memberits not overdrive
Funny, the OP says it is, and he has the bike in front of him, and the specs on the Giant sire agree with him.
dirtyrider - Member
its not overdrive
Its got "overdrive 2" written on the headtube and one of the spacers - its a 2014 not 2015 bike if thats what confused you. YOu can buy new stems aftermarket but anyway, it feels fine as it is, and as said above, i bought it for racing so want to be more long, forward & less relaxed on it.
A 2014 bike with a now-dropped, short-lived "standard". It's already been superceded....
So? It has open bath non-FIT, non kashima forks, a 9mm quick release at the rear, and non dropper post as well.
Crikey I'm almost crying in my beer what have I done....
😆
thankfully!Looks a bit different to what you were going to buy..
do they still have silly BBs aswell? Unlike the stuff you've mentioned [i]that[/i] would put me off.It has open bath non-FIT, non kashima forks, a 9mm quick release at the rear, and non dropper post as well.
Not sure what you mean by "silly"? Its Shimano pressfit.
I have ridden a few bikes with a dropper post and it's only after the ride I think "ah, I probably could have used that".
I have ridden a few bikes with a dropper post and it's only after the ride I think "ah, I probably could have used that".
Takes a while to get into the habit of popping it up and down. I'm sure I'd be the same if I went back to riding a mtb with a front mech 🙂
I thought you were buying the sx?
lexinoo - Member
I thought you were buying the sx?
My rational changed. I really wanted to keep the Yeti, and the SX wasn't giving me the "long haul" advantages of a 29er. The Anthem 29 was going cheap(er) so... I took the decision to buy that for the longer events.
I'm going to let "new bike" syndrome wear off first but should I find I don't need the Yeti I'll sell it on.
Well I'm happy for ya's, clearly the stem needs slamming and stay clear of dropper posts, other than that get it proper muddy.
Get used to it.
Race it hard.
Get out of breath.
Blow chunks.
😆
My plans, waiting until after Christmas (will ride it as it is in the winter) to keep my marriage alive are:
New lighter wheels
Stem lowered, possible flipped
Possible swap of the Thompson carbon flat bar from the Yeti
SLX gets upgraded to XT as it wears out
KCNC Scandium lightweight post.
Quaxar rotors
Possible Praxis conversion
I reckon thats it at 25.5lb then, which will do just nicely
slam that stem!
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That steerer needs trimming. I'm surprised you can get the Garmin on.
silly. I know some people don't mind them but they've put me off buying a couple of frames I was otherwise seriously considering. I thought manufacturers were starting to move away from it now.pressfit
Having read up on OD that sounds like a pisstake too, but if you don't do a lot component swapping I guess it's not really a problem.
Well, I intend to build it lighter as mentioned above but I'm not worried about missing out on the weight of the Stem vs something else. And in all my biking years I've never broken one so... *shrugs*
Also as above I'll probably go praxis conversion with standard HT2 cups the first time that needs changing...
Talking of which, I popped out the morning and played around resulting in lowering it by 10mm and flipping it. You wouldn't believe how much this subtle change alters the look of intent of the bike...
Test ride this lunchtime hopefully!
On a related note I just joined the clown wheel brigade awsell, got a nice low front end, feels great on the climbs and properly motors along. Unfortunately, after about 20miles it starts killing my forearms, shooting pains up them when hitting rocks and allsorts of pain if I let go of the bar and "roll" my wrist. At first I assumed it was the sweep of the new bars but I put some old favourites on and it's better but still not right, thinking I may have to raise the bars, but... I ride my cx bike [b]a lot[/b] and that's more stretched and lower (albeit with different hand position) so not sure, difficult to test aswell when the problem only manifests after quite a few miles.
Sorry for the slight hijack.
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Now christened. 😀
And... wow. Just ****ing wow. It has no right to be that fast, especially considering the wet & slimy conditions.
My observations;
a) Having ridden the same trails with the same 26" tyres on Saturday what they about 29er versions/wheels having more grip is true
b) Stem could go lower still
c) Still playing with the shock pressures. The O ring only went 3/4 down even after I'd let -10psi of my ready-to-ride weight out.
d) That maestro system is awesome. Even out of the saddle there was little bob, and I could feel it being arrested by a platform in either the shock (trail mode) or the design, and on the trail is was super comfortable, and in a good way, forgetable.
Its a bloody good bike, efficient, lots of fun, wants to go fast, not like a barge at all, god knows how quick it'd be/feel with 500g less in the wheels.
On the one hand, I'm really happy with my decision. On the other, I'm a bit sad now about whats going to happen with the Yeti. I'll still give it more time though.
^^ that looks better 😀
Don't be too tempted to slam it yet, get used to it first then over the next few weeks drop it a bit.
All too easy to take the piss, like I do sometimes, about slamming stems but it has to be comfortable and controllable.
Looks way betterer 8)
Nice 8)
Can't see your other bikes getting much of a look in for a while!
Oh and slam it and get some flat bars on there 🙂
Ha ha. I'm off to Afan soon, and really don't know which bike to take. Taking this could be either dull, or the final nail in the yeti coffin.
I found with my 29er that the front end was just too high with an 'upright' stem, slamming was a near necessity, and improved control no end!
Looks good though. 1370g for my 29er wheels...
1370g for my 29er wheels...
I'm probably going to be in contact with you between January and March about that if you don't mind. I've worked out how to save 300g (seatpost, bars, top cap, rotors, seatpost clamp) without touching the wheels or groupset, so add that ^^ and we are talking a 1KG saving. Jeez, a [i]just[/i] sub 25lb 29er (by my calculations) for what will be an approx £2.2k spend overall, not bad...
Junk the front mech and get a NW ring too. Save a bit more going tubeless.
Going tubeless this weekend - on the grand assumption those stock wheels will go straight up with Stans.
Well, after reading Weeksy's excellent Charge thread, i thought id post up some comments after a visit to Afan this weekend.
TBH, I'm amazed at how well the bike handled. Despite the fact all the trials were wet, it was comfortable, never got me into trouble (well, once but that was user error). I guess one minor niggle is that Evoloution fork doesn't feel as smooth as the 2012 FIT fork on the other bike - but I wouldn't notice that on any other than the really rough stuff that's developed at top of Graveyard. I'm astounded at how well the maestro system just works - little if any movement on the shock up climbs, and I barely noticed it moving going down, although it did. Both front and rear felt smoothly damped after I got about 6" of air on Energy. Even the Schwalbe performance tyres gripped without failure all weekend on the wet rocks and roots - with the thicker sidewalk will I ever buy the expensive ones again?. The bike as a whole seems to carry a lot of energy / momentum allowing a real pace to be developed in flats and rollers, I carried loads of speed there.
The biggest problem I had was reigning in the pace of the bike on Darkside after a couple of days and when I was tired. The bike just wants to push on.
I'm very happy and I feel I've got a lot of bike/ potential for my money, only bettered by a chap on the same bike that paid £1k for his via a employee discount.
Overall, taking a 100mm xc bike to Wales was a bigger success than I could have ever imagined.
*smiles*