[Closed] What should I do? (Jammy bar-steward content, with a Jammy Dodger and extra jam)

Easy. build the Yeti.

That other frame is gopping.

HTH.

sell them both and buy something without a shock that has the potential to crush the family jewels in a horrible way and also doesn't have one of those silly seat tubes.

Where is the pic of the "most sought after" frames?

lol @ RD

That lawn could do with some attention.

Stop purchasing expensive frames and invest in some lawn food?

Edit: Dagnamitt!

Personally I'd break them up and create a giant wind chime to keep the birds off your lawn when you reseed it.

Anyway, onto more important matters. You appear to have misled us with promises of biscuits?

I've no idea what the frame on the left is but it is [as mentioned above] a munter, I hope you didn't pay too much for it

someone has been fly tipping on your poorly maintained lawn?

That probably answers the question. If no one knows what it is build the pronghorn into a xc beast. I reckon the yeti might be more fun to ride but who wants a bike that everyone recognises.

+1 yossarian

Top marks on the willy waving post. Both horrid frames though

LOL @ Judderman! 🙂

Surely that shock is going to get trashed by your gritty shorts 😯

Why are these any better than a Boardman? Or do they just cost more?

Well it gets the thumbs up from me!

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Top marks on the willy waving post.

Not so - you get no marks at all for waving a hideously deformed willy like that.

The Yeti

Pronghorn is gopping

1, Build the Pronghorn
2, sell the Yeti (as it's gonna fetch more 2nd hand)
3, use the money to relay the lawn
4, take pictures of built bike
5, post pictures on here for more flaming.

This could be just the opportunity to get together with Elbry and Richie McCoy and build that fantastic semi-pro race team the world's been waiting for.

8th place in the 24hr National Champs might be within sight.

Yep, looks like people are fighting to buy them....

http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/new-yeti-asr-carbon-frame-medium-price-reduced-pics-and-everything-

I wouldn't bother. If you want to increase you're own sense of self worth, just shout at people on the internet.

Gutted. So who was driving when the car went over?

^ maybe not have been the responses he was expecting...

Build the pronghorn, even so, I do also think it's ugly.
Though ugliness doesn't mean it'll be rubbish, enjoy & ignore the friday posters...

You're all art-hating philistines of the highest order. The Pronghorn is a gorgeous bike, and unless you're packing the kind of tackle you'd normally expect to find swinging between the hind legs of a Grand National winner (woof!) the shock is going nowhere near your ballsack.

I would have had it with the blinging DT Swiss XR Carbon shock though. Oh, wait. That's right. I did 😀

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Sell the lot!!

Both frames, all the build kit, and other crap you’ve got, Buy a sensible off the peg bouncer and use the change for a skills course, Alps trip and a bag of grass seed….

Although in all honestly, I personally would build the Yeti up and flog the minger…

Yeti! The stickers don't help the looks of the 'horn, it looks like a secret project specialized forgot to make.

Didn't mean to come accross as willy-waving, more an attempt at a shameless plug 😉
I ride for Pronghorn, just doing my little bit to increase awareness of a little-know manufacturer, looks like a few more people have now heard of them. Personally I like the looks, but I realise it's not to everyone's taste. However, the kind of people that will be considering purchasing one are the kind of people who won't give a monkey's what the bike looks like, as long as it's fast, and this certainly is!
If you want to see one in the flesh we'll be at the Midlands races, BMBS and then Mayhem next month. Ask nicely and you may be able to have a spin on one.

And as Chunky correctly spotted, the Yeti is mine and is for sale, open to offers. http://www.singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/new-yeti-asr-carbon-frame-medium-price-reduced-pics-and-everything

Any chance of a better pic Ox? Yours is getting a bit lost in the background, but what I can see looks good.

Personally I'd have to admire pronghorn for their obvious stance as an equal opportunities employer.

Many companies talk the talk but to actually employ a blind bike designer is absolutely inspirational.

Chapeau

so.... you ride for pronghorn but couldn't decide whether to build up the pronghorn or the yeti?

i'd pull your sponsorship

I ride for Pronghorn

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dont really like the Pronghorn.....well if i'm really honest i think its ugly, really ugly. i'd build the Yeti as they're more widely recognised for a reason. They're superb machines.

Personally I'd have to admire pronghorn for their obvious stance as an equal opportunities employer.

Many companies talk the talk but to actually employ a blind bike designer is absolutely inspirational.

class!

I offer my services as a designer to produce some nicer graphics and branding on the pronghorn. My payment can be a frame? Deal?

Seriously, I'd rather watch 2 girls 1 cup all day long on repeat than scroll up and look at that prong horn monstrosity again.

Build the yeti. Burn the prong horn. Burn it with fire.

I quite like those Pronghorns. Never seen one on the trails though, or even in a shop for that matter.

Building brand recognition fail?

Pronghorn hardtails are gorgeous and look fast. Regarding their full sussers, it's nice to know that function occasionally really kicks form's ass.

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Eh, you seriously think the above hardtail looks 'gorgeous'... 😯

Pronghorn hardtails are gorgeous and look fast. Regarding their full sussers, it's nice to know that function occasionally really kicks form's ass.

It looks like a mid 70s soviet prototype

You work for pronghorn/own a pronghorn then?

Let's go viral, YEAH!

The Proghorn HT appeals to me - neat lines and all that. Nice.

I'd sooner ride something pretty and fast, this applies to my cycling too.

Donghorn.

If you ride for pronghorn and are questioning whether to build it up or not then that doesn't say very much for the brand you're supposed to represent.

Both hideous bikes btw.

2 of the lads in the club rode pronghorns to podium in the 24/12. look ace built up and very fast.

Wronghorn

Why are these any better than a Boardman? Or do they just cost more?

Notice how no-one has bothered/tried to answer this perfectly reasonably question?

I spose if the geometry/design suits you better for your own style of riding, then they could be considered 'better', but it's an incredibly subjective thing, is not it?

It's doubtful that someone who'd spent the money on a Yeti or that other.. thing... would admit that the Boardman was the better bike for them, even if it were true.

andrewh - Member
Didn't mean to come accross as willy-waving, more an attempt at a shameless plug
I ride for Pronghorn

I don't know anything about these frames. Can anyone shed some light on the thinking behind having the shock absorber above the top tube? If it's to protect it from mud then you would think it would get muddy and scraped from shorts as someone else said.

A good point Elfie.

Any chance of a better pic Ox? Yours is getting a bit lost in the background, but what I can see looks good.

One from the top of Dumyat
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Don't really have any more.

Nice river.

they're both crap. and you're a cock.

I've had a rubbish day and this thread has cheered me up no end 😀

[i]Pronghorn hardtails are gorgeous and look fast. Regarding their full sussers, it's nice to know that function occasionally really kicks form's ass.[/i]

It looks like a mid 70s soviet prototype

You work for pronghorn/own a pronghorn then?

Let's go viral, YEAH!

No, sorry, nothing whatsoever to with Pronghorn.

I do like the look of the hardtail but then should have have said words to the effect of 'and as the full suss looks that gopping it had better be damn fast'. But didn't. But it was what I meant. I think I was trying to be polite. And I was certainly over-tired.

I think the looks of a xc racebike are pretty irrelevant, other than maybe grabbing attention. For schure, if a UCI event was being won by a geezer/burd on a pronghorn everybody would know that's what it was - even covered in kack

(not sure there'd be a lot of baggy shorts akshun on either bike, so chafage on the shock from shorts isn't a concern, is it ?)

I seem to remember a pronghorn getting quite a good review in stw (maybe even in terms of riding "normal" trails IIRC)

I do think it's the equivalent of white/gold spd shoes though - you'd better be faster than the haters, or very thick-skinned

Serious question. Why is the shock on the top? Surely it's not an effective place for it and it is likely to be more of an obstruction than in a more conventional place? Not trying to be a hater just asking.

Andrew:-

- Sell the Yeti, it'll probably snap after only 18 rides like the last one!
- Sell the Pronghorn, so that when it does snap some other punter can deal with warranty issues due to Pronhorn going bust (again - how many times is that now?).
- Stick with your hardtail.

I like the pronghorn.

I went to try and find some pics of it looking good with google image search.

Found this, which looks even better.

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OK, not quite the response i was looking for 😉
Although I note that the one person who has tried one liked it and everyone else takes the pi$$ based on nothing more than appearances... They would probably take the micky out of me for riding in lycra too.
Serious point about the shock placement, which both Pronghorn and Focus use, having the shock in line with the chain gives the bike a very particular feel, very different to the Yeti and Marins (single pivot and quad-link) that I've had before. Difficult to describe, but it makes the stroke feel more linear and seems to improve grip on the climbs. Also keeps it out of the way of all the mud. And no, it's no-where near my dangly bits, just ask yourself how often you hit yours on your top-tube? And how often at the back of the top-tube?

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Why? Is it your first time on the internet?

I also think the shock's in a silly place. It's bound to get rubbed by gritty thighs even in lycra, but esp with baggies.

I have tried a wronghorn. The big travel one, and the racer snake one you have. Ugly, uninspiring ride and expensive. It was when that fat balding bloke took them in. He was nice to chat to about them but meh

having the shock in line with the chain gives the bike a very particular feel, very different to the Yeti and Marins (single pivot and quad-link)

I'm thinking the horst style chainstay pivot contributes more to the feel than the shock being parallel to the chain.

Thank-you RS, an intelligent comment, rather than just having a go at the cosmetics. You may be right, I'm not an engineer so don't know the whys but I do know it feels nice.

sorry but it does look hideous too 😛

Fairy 'nuff, each to their own.

OK, not quite the response i was looking for

What response did you expect to a thread going 'OOOH EVERYONE LOOK AT ME AND WHAT I'VE GOT, AREN'T I LUCKY', then post a pic of 'the lightest, fastest, rarest and most sought after XC frames around, both new out of the box' - one of which happens to be one of the fugliest bikes on the market?

I was kind of hoping to start an inteligent discussion on the pros and cons of the frame design and whether or not it is better than a main rival, and then maybe get a few people interested enough to come and see one in the flesh when they see us at a race, rather than just a pi$$-take on something which looks a bit different.

And I am trying to sell the Yeti frame, so a bit of a cheeky advert too.

Didn't quite go according to plan...

I don't know who's this one is but I think it looks lovely.
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I was kind of hoping to start an inteligent discussion on the pros and cons of the frame design and whether or not it is better than a main rival

Might I suggest then that the thread title could have been 'Pronghorn vs Yeti, what do you reckon?' and that you didn't **** on them being ''the lightest, fastest, rarest and most sought after XC frames around'? Just sounded like massive boasting, which is inevitably going to lead to piss-taking on here (especially when you are boasting about having such a fugly bike 😉 ).

And no, it's no-where near my dangly bits, just ask yourself how often you hit yours on your top-tube? And how often at the back of the top-tube?

Really? Just me that suffers from that then... Nice to meet you by the way, the name's Dirk, Dirk Diggler 😉

Seriously though, odd/different/unique (I'm trying to be polite!) as the frame looks, the shock placement isn't going to be an issue to an XC racer in the slightest. Sure it would annoy the hell out of us mere mortals, but a 10 stone stick insect in lycra isn't going to so much as come within 6 inches of that shock, in any direction. FWIW, my mate has just taken delivery of one of these too (as he too is now sponsored by them), and though I've not seen it in the flesh, I've taken delight in giving him a good ribbing about it in advance... Mainly not due to the looks (hey, I ride a Maverick, if ever there was a bike that polarised people's opinions on looks it's mine!), but due to the fact that they had a very poor reputation for snappage not long ago, and well, he can kill ANY bike, and they've given him an uber light carbon fibre full sus frame! That said, it'll probably last longer than every other bike he's had for years whilst also helping him on the way to a number of PB's and getting him noticed by a more reputable bike manufacturer for sponsorship... 😆

At least it doesn't have a ridiculous Time Trial bike seat mast on it though...

Oh, and word to the wise, the guys round here aren't impressed by anything any more, certainly not a full sus XC bike, it's just not niche enough! (not that I give two hoots myself mind)

Good luck this season whichever bike you ride!

my mate has just taken delivery of one of these ..... and well, he can kill ANY bike

That buttercup looks lonely. 😥

Like that word 'gopping' though. 🙂

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Gobstoppingly gopping. 😀

There are pot holes around here that would finish off those road frames.

i have been riding, repairing and building bike forr as long as i can remember and i dont think i have ever seen a uglyer ride, nearly been sick on the screen.

sorry

Whilst I can see why some people like them I think it looks like it's been left next to an open fire.
Hope it ride better than I think it looks.

'Wronghorn'

Love it.

GB