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Built up and rolling last week with shakedown rides into work.
77 miles around the doors on Saturday and already love this bike 🙂
Not that bothered about the bike. But can I be the first to say: Best. Shed. Ever.
you'll have a road bike yet!
Dropbar MTB's rock. 🙂
Though latex gloves are a bit sinister. 😆
nice vid there, man. Good stuff
Great work shop, far too organised, and a great cider.
Packing my Fargo right now for a trip around northern France. D day beaches, cafes and bars.... And sun, please let there be sun .
Great video.
Lovely video! Awful choice of tipple, though! 😉
Very cool video and I love that build! Looks comfy and fast. I want one.
You have a sofa AND a park stool!!.....bastid 
just not sure how it will deal with the Peak.
It'd be fine. 🙂
Great video! Really enjoyed that. Proper garage and bike fettling (check your tools!) and lovely part of the world to cycle in. I stopped off for a couple of nights to see some friends "glamping" in funny Norwegian wooden tent things and really liked the area. Perfect Sunday night video...
Oh and its revived my drop bar 29er obsession too 😕
Al i have a road bike but don`t use it much,far too fast
2002 vintage, never heard of them before but it was free 🙂
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Stu; canny beat some latex 😉
Andy; Harvest Moon [url= http://www.harvestmoonholidays.com/ ]Glamping[/url] is right behind that track at 3 mins on the film, they don`t mention the pig farm right next door! 😆
Headsup; 5ft 11" 32" leg, medium frame with 100mm stem 🙂
You're buggered on the weather front. Charlie. Sorry!
ace 🙂
How do you find it compared to your Karate Monkey if you were running the same tyres? (if that makes sense!)
Liking both your choice of cider and bike, I enjoy both myself.
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Wow. Got my (2nd hand, mk1) frame last week. Can't wait to get the bits together and get it rolling.
headsup - Membersss - do you ride one? pics please!
I ride a Gryphon every now and again.
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andyh2; the bike is very similar to the KM and it is the wheels/tyres originaly fitted to that bike. headtube is higher for the drop bars and riding on the hoods is real comfy, and feels quicker on the road with the drops into a breeze 🙂
I dont want to hijack this with sales nonsense, but salsa are clearing the 2012 Fargo, making room for 2013... So I have dropped the price by a fair old whack. Here is the [url= http://www.charliethebikemonger.com/salsa-fargo-complete-bike-1394-p.asp ]Link[/url].
great film, glad I clicked play
Very jealous of both man cave the the riding you down there. You're just down the road, but those east Lothian beaches are just superb.
Charlie, can I get a fist bump for sending Joe from Norway to you for his Fargo? 😀
Me likey. How is it on bumpier stuff, roots, rocks, that sort of thing?
Cracking vid, nice music.. Good times.
But, the statue towards the end- was that a woman that had just given birth...Er?
Love my Fargo (the 1st generation rigid only version). Did a 47 mile ride today and it's just sooo comfy. Big Apple 2.35 tyres make for an awesome ride. Salsa Bell Lap bars are great as well. No having to look out for potholes as it ploughs through anything in its way.
Headtubes a bit fugly to some on my XXL but i love it.
Squidlord running 55 psi yest but with pressures dropped it should be fine on rougher stuff, i will find out soon 🙂
That statue is of poet James Hogg - [url= http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hogg ]The Ettrick Shepherd[/url]
Thats a collie dog underneath him 🙂
Headsup... I will check what's available in the morning.
The frames are cream, come with cream forks, but I could swap those out for black.
The one bike I truly miss!!!
Would buy another tomorrow if I could!
nice video 🙂
Nice bike and a very nice video too 8)
Love the video, that's the sort riding I do on my Van Dessel. Just would be nice to have your countryside on my doorstep. What do you think of the twin rails?.
The twin rails are a bit heavy esp with stans juice also in the tubes but they roll very well. They are ideal for winter here where i will be mostly commuting then riding rough roads and gravel tracks. will not be near much deep mud on them.
They give a real comfy ride with the big volume 🙂
Great bikes. I love mine. It just makes me smile every time I ride it. 😀
v v v v nice
currently converting my 93 kona to that sort of thing - midge bars, bar end shifters, 700c wheels, longer fork
Nice vid and nice bike. I nealy bought a Fargo but went for a Gryphon instead, I don't think there's too much between them. Superb for that kind of stuff, just getting out there and riding 😀
Great bike, love mine.
Great vid coast kid, loved the singletrack section at the start. looked well fast 🙂
Does anybody have one of these and not love it?
Tbf he sounds come across as a right arsehat though 😐
Spooky I'm just finishing a build, still pondering whether to run it with a single or triple chain ring. Might start with the single and see what happens. 2013 frames due in at the end of october. I had real trouble sourcing a frame and forks but eventually ebay turned up a brand new one that had been part built but never ridden.
Nice bike and film
Is that a flask of tea on the fork leg?
Nice vid mate, lovely bike. What's the advantage over a CX bike though? ( not being a tool here by the way) I live my CX for everything from a blast to a spin. If it just because then great stuff all bikes are good!!
Prob main advantage is strenght of wheels and luggage rack mounts at a price of weight and speed to a CX bike 🙂
It was a flask of coffee on the fork 🙂
PaulGillespie - Member
Great vid coast kid, loved the singletrack section at the start. looked well fast
Hi Paul, hope your well mate 🙂
Trail at start is section of the John Muir way, 1/4 mile from home,
Full lenght of section here; starts slow then gets quicker, is ace at night 🙂
I'm very tempted, but between my Gryphon and my Peregrine, my exploration / adventure bikes are pretty much sorted ...
Yours looks very much at home there.
(As a kinda aside maybe, but what do you shoot with / on? I still use my miniDV camera as I can run external feeds or external cameras into it, (like a bullet cam, or old analogue 8mm etc to give me options), but I could really do with something smaller, that's non-linear, and with better battery life).
Nice bike. Nice riding. Nice.
OCD; filmed with a Go Pro, bubble lense cover is scratched hense the funny light glows so i need to get a replacement!...
Only let down of the 180 degree fish eye lense is distant views are er.. distant!
New Go Pro 2 with 120 degree lense setting should be better 🙂
I just use a gorrila pod, chest cam mount, or mono pod to mount the camera
Well mine is now set up as a triple with midge bars and bar end shifters, it all came together first time, a rare occurence for me. Just the brakes to sort and ready to roll 🙂
Nice vid
Must dig out my Zero 7 cd's too 8)
Cool, thanks.
Scratched lens cover = arty shots, surely. 😉
The GoPro2 was looking pretty firm as the most likely candidate for my replacement camera [anyway], but it's very useful to see how they are actually being used in the real world - I'm particularly impressed with the exposure / colour balance I must say, it's caught some lovely light...
First they steal my design, then my colour...
Sam - MemberFirst they steal my design, then my colour...
Ouch!
Ah well, if the Gryphon was first then it must be first choice. Good. Glad that's sorted in my mind.
Just need to find the money now.
I'm with you Paul!
The gryphon was my first choice but there weren't any left so a fargo it was.
Great vid Bruce, you are in the wrong vocation!