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I'm seriously considering replacing one of my alu frames with a steel one. Maybe a Cotic/Sanderson/Pipedream. It would be great to see any steel bikes Which you think i should consider.
cheers
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I LOVE my dialled Love / Hate bike, such an awesome ride, best bike I have EVER owned and I have owned a few 😉 - Steel is real man!!
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Any excuse to post mine, I love it 🙂
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Jackass - is your love/hate the bike that Mike@Dialled said was one of only 200?
Yeah!!
Hi Lee and thanks for the glowing report on the Love/Hate. It’s really great when I hear from customers and how they have connected with their Dialled Bikes frame. In fact, it kinda makes it all worthwhile and justifies why I do this.Unfortunately, sales of Love/Hates have really slowed down recently, so the current stock may actually be the last Love/Hates ever as at the moment, I couldn’t justify ordering another batch. So take good care of that Love/Hate as it is currently 1 of only 200 ever made!
Regards
Mike
Dialled Bikes
I have a custom Shand in columbus, will try and look out a pic.
Also a steel Ritchey road bike.
Cool - I've got one of those too, in the same colour, its nice to know its a bit of an exclusive one. Its an aweseom frame too so I'm surprised it never really took off. I guess there is a bit of competition in the SS market though.
Steel is for people who can't afford titanium. 😉
Saying that my Salsa wasn't cheap.
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Kinesis Decade Tange Prestige
Single speed or geared take your pick, and damn light too....
Cynic-al....would be interested to see the Shand.
Loving the Kinesis Decade, plus the flexibility is appealing.
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Steel is for people who can't afford titanium.
Saying that my Salsa wasn't cheap.
Steel is for people who think Alu frames are dull and titanium frames crack at the welds, eventually. 😉
Fisher Paragon 29er (Alu)
Inbred SS 29er (Ti)
Roberts (853/ Colombus mix)
Bob Jackson Pista (853)
And obviously a Kona or two, somewhere....
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My old one.
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I Ache - Is that the 853 version? Why did you get rid? I'm thinking of buying one.
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it doesn't have long travel forks and slack angles and a super low toptube. is it still allowed?!
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The Kona is about 15 years old (had it since new)
The Altitude is 2 days old!
Gary Fisher Ferrous, EBB, 130mm TALAS forks, Magura Louise brakes. I've had a lot of fun on this on the last few months (despite/because of lack of gears)
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My lovely new toy,
Cotic soul with DTswiss XMC 130's
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Zukemonster;
Bike win.
Lawn fail.
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The day I did the SS conversion. Although it has been in various guises as I have owned it since 1990.
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Bike win.
Lawn fail.
Haha I think you are being generous to call that a lawn! Anyhow that seems the right way round to me Bike > lawn every time 😉
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Coke it up. Had to get rid for financial reasons. Hopefully I will have another one day. It was the 853 in long handled so well.
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i have these two, will always love my cotic but the sovereign is in another league
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had this until last month
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now got this
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This one's is a pre-production prototype, and hence the only Enigma ever to be made in the far east.. Apparently they decided that their welding and quality was better, so 3rd hand down the line I got a Columbus frame for peanuts.
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This one had "Melbourne specific geometry" whatever that is...
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This photo is a thing of beauty
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2006 Kona Explosif
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This at least until I can get hold of a reasonably priced Simple.
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*insert superlatives here*
This bike is better than all the others on this thread apart from I Ache and Skiboy's. Science fact.
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i'm with spokes on that,
i've even done my own tests and the Evil sov is better than anything else in the world ever, 😉
will be doinganother test at cannock sunday on the spank the monkey trail, and i'm sure it will be faster than my soul as i won't have my soul there ! 🙄
Wow man. We should form an owner's club or something.
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Cletus the Inbred.
Its true they are truly great frames.
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Old Inbred
My new 853 Pipedream Sirius (well the frame's new).
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my old surly. love it more than sausages and mash. just.
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risers and bar ends PJay - hang your head...
Oh go on then 😀
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The only steel I own at the moment is one of these -
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But I have previously owned one of these -
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And two of these -
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His and Hers,
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Also got a '93 Fire Mountain in the shed waiting for me to have enough money to rebuild it (before deciding that it really isn't as good as I remember)!
One of my Kilis...
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my soul
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Robin Mather Rohloff specific 29er in Reynolds 725.
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Niche, or what ? 8)
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Fully bling-ed Gunnar
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My Bolx....
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My Simple....
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Also still own a 1988 Roberts White Spider, soon to be built up as my daily commute
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On-One inbred.
I'd put up a picture of my very-nice-to-ride Singular Swift, but it's been posted here several times now, so I feel I ought to get a new one first.
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just ride the **** thing, some serious seholes on here thugh.
BigDummy, what bag is it on the bike? Looks appealing (I need/want one).
Mine many a change ago:
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Mister P forgot he used to own this too...
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...it's gone to a good home!
If you search for 'Evil Sovereign' on here or the internets, you typically find large numbers of people enthusiastically gushing about how they are the best thing ever. I've never really seen such an enthusiastic response about any other bike.
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I definitely count myself as an avid fan.
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Frame is a Sanderson Breath that I got from the Classifieds and had powdercoated. I quite fancy some rigid carbon forks on it now...
This one's steel as well AFAIK
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alpin - what on earth is that stem?!
Thedoctor - is that a Gunnar?
ARobinMather and a Kili on this thread too - what does the other one look like?
Nice to see a bit of variety
hiding in the shadows, about an hour ago
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I do like steel frames...
My first Steel frame.. I killed it
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My stop gap till the cotic arrived.. BTW this is for sale, it's the summer season..
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My current Bfe.
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MrK, it's a VRO from Syntace.
many here (STW) have commented - and laughed - at it, but it comes into its own on long alpine climbs.
don't tend to adjust it at all when pootling around for fun, but when in the alps and you've got a long 2-3 hour slog uphill it's worth spending two minutes throwing the bars forward.
http://www.syntace.com/index.cfm?pid=3&pk=389
also weighs ****-all in comparison to some stem/bar combos.
huh, interesting. and there i was, thinking it was just a bodge to counter a stem with too little rise and too short a steerer on the forks... 🙄
Dammit have to move photo to flickr when I get home, doesn't seem to like facebook link 🙁 will post it then!
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Geared one
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The commuter one
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Rocky Mountain Blizzard. Not sure I'd ever sell it.
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I quite like steel frames me.
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oxym0r0n Is that a Gunnar?
Yep Fully tooled up Rockhound!
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I've had a few over the years 😀
Sanderson Life
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Voodoo Bizango
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Sanderson Soloist
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Various versions of an Inbred
Singlespeed rigid
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Geared rigid
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Commuter mode
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and last but not least Huffy M80 BMX
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1 week old and bringing a smile to my face. 🙂
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Various variations on this, over the years.
Rusty, that Brew is lovely!
That green Altitude frame up there owned by Mulletus is my old one and munkster is correct, I had forgotten I owned that Equilibrium too 😆