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As the title states 🙂 ....
For me its got to be my Marzocchi Marathon LR Forks 2011 I got for £107 wasnt to sure but needed a budget forks for my Stumpjumper HT so I could get the Hardrock back on the road ..
A lot lighter than the Gran Fondo 1 I had and so responsive , what an absolute bargain not the lightest but light enough for me and they have transformed my Stumpy 🙂
XTR'd my bike.
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Road bike...
Hope stuff for my new Sov.
A new 29er
Puncture repair kit.
Sunline V1 bars and xc-one stem for less than £60 for the pair.
Alt bars for my singular..no more sore wrists 🙂
This chainring...
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and this bike...
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either the right weight spring for my forks or a one way train ticket 150 km west; just spent the weekend riding home 😀
I order of awesomeness
Bronze medal - full UST wheel and tyre setup
Silver - Orange Five
And in gold medal position ... Reverb
Garmin 🙂 eBay purchase. Amazing!!!
Train tickets for LEJOG!
Sanderson Breath
£10 Garmin GPS (no really...)
Racing Ralph
The best news
I've made no MTB purchases this year
😀
XT groupset & Sid to hang on my 40th birthday enigma ego Ti frame....
Well a 5 frame......obviously.
Bionicon Chain Guide.
Not an upgrade, a new thing that has really worked
APF
Don't think I have bought anything bar replacing wear and tear in a year or more
Rockshox Sektor Air forks - They perform just as I hoped they would.
A cove g spot. Amazing bike and wish I had bought one a while back
First - A new 29'er
Runner Up - Garmin Edge
Inbred 26 with carbon forks.
Hope X2 Evo's & a set of Hoops (crests).
Sombrio merino jersey (very comfy).
It's April.
topeak baby sitter bike seat, get my 10 month year old daughter into biking......yey
Return tickets to Vancouver for £350 😀
Garmin 800
1st: Solaris frame
2nd: Reverb
some tubeless racing ralphs off on-one, damn they're quick, mucho squirmy fun due to the rain. Makes for an interesting ride 🙂
Spank Spike pedals...which were actually a present. Genuinely much more impressed with them than I thought I would be, after all they are just a pedal.
One of these Deuter Race X rucksacks
Does exactly everything I need from a rucksack without loads of stuff I don't. The straps are brilliant as well. Would recommend 100%
Garmin 800, its ace.
Finished my Five build that has been about 8 months in the making with the last bit being a Gravity Dropper off Ebay. Best MTB thing ever.
One of these.
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Surly Karate Monkey
Shadow plus rear mech, planned to wait until it filtered down to slx but a broken mech forced my hand, shelled out for the xtr and won't regret it until i've broken it (by which time i'll hopefully have the option of a shadow plus slx replacement), it's on my Five so glad of a bit less noise!
A night an the Best Western, Port Talbot. Beach walk, swim and sauna, followed by a day riding Afan with my sons.
Weather was "character building" 😐
Soul frame 2nd hand but current model. Steel is...... 😀
So far.
Gold - Dropper post (even if it was a cheapy Forca).
Silver - BFe frame and some bombers.
Bronze - some new Royal gloves.
slainte 🙂 rob
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My Santa Cruz TRc frame...
A subscription to MBUK.
So not much a purchase. But signed up to strava and has made my comute far more interesting as well as making me fitter
Couldn't get the Mint Sauce keyring, so it has to be the last ever Cotic Simple frame (in non-clown size).
My Les Arc/Sainte Foy ticket.
A pair of the Endura Singletrack waterproof trousers and they stop your boats filling up with cold water!
Reverb
SB66
Hosepipe for washing it
Cake.
A PowerTap wheel so I can monitor and measure my training
Re-geared (1x9) my Coyote Dual with SLX kit after a couple of years as a SS. Almost like having a new bike, fallen in love with it all over again! Might stick some wider bars on it next. 8)
Deore discs, secondhand Hope stem, secondhand Easton EA70 low-riser.
Like most people in here, an Orange Five frame, pimped out with Kashima and some Float 32 RLCs. Sold my old frame, so a Reverb will likely follow tomorrow.
Some Sunline V1 745s and a Sunline XC 80mm stem too, I think that was this year.
A pair of Sombrio hi-line shorts that are the comfiest thing I've ever worn on the bike
The only (and best) bike related thing I've bought so far this year is a bottle of stans fluid so I could go tubeless (valves were free - old innertubes cut up)
Decree Absolute
A couple of bread rolls for trailside puncture repairs...
Easy, an Orange Pure 7 frame.
I've now got something to hang my spare Hope headset and Rockshox Pikes from. Of course, it meant I had to buy a new Pro 2/719 wheelset, Deore cranks and a Charge Spoon saddle but the resulting bike is ace.
DrRS**** - Member
Decree Absolute
Ooo, I've got one of those coming to. Decree Nisi was yesterday 🙂
Other best bike purchase was a GT Avalanche for the new missus 🙂
Actually.... good piont PJM... my Orange Pure 7. I bloody love it!!!
I finished my Pure 7 just a couple of weeks before I had an op on my shoulder, which means to cycling until late May at the very earliest.
I'm desperate to ride that bike again 🙁
I miss riding it more than I do either of my FS bikes.
my met parachute at a bargain price i might add.
PJM - I bought mine about 3 months ago. Since then my full suss has been out the grand total of.... once! The Orange? Virtually daily! I'm absolutely loving it!
Ermmmmmmmmmm, dunno? Not bought anything game changeing this year yet.
Top 3 of 2011 for me.
1st prize: Propper winter shoes, waterproof, gore tex, fleacey lining the full kaboodle, best £150 I've ever spent on bikey bits
2nd prize: Singular swift (or generaly the upgrade from rigid SS 26er to 29er)
3rd prize Reverb (good, and worth the money, but I don't ride more because of it which is what the other two achieve)
Probable top 3 for 2012 once they've been bought/built:
1st: Building up a new bike for the missus so she can stop making excuses not to ride with me.
2nd: Lyriks
3rd: New XT brakes or super thin flat pedals, both will be an uprage in feel if not performance, looking foreward to seeing which is the more worthwhile as I already had Mk2 burgtechs and avid elixirs.
IMO the best money spent is always petrol/time/flights/accomodation/guiding to ride somewhere new though, even if a week in spain/italy/wherever cost as much/more than a set of fox forks!
Cable cutters!
Thanks binners!
I bought mine as a commuting bike to share with stepson 1, but after the first ride I decided it was too good for him and that I ought to keep it for special occasions only.
It's my first hardtail in eight years and I cannot for the life of me understand why I didn't buy one sooner.
Hans Dampf tyres, I'd say.
Or maybe Devilles - first ride on them tonight, at last.
I'm hoping it'll be the C456 frame I got for £250. £250 I wouldn't have spent if someone on here hadn't started a thread on it and I hadn't been killing a few minutes waiting for a cab to take me to the airport.
2 weeks with mountainbikekerala.com in india to celebrate my 40th.
http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/a-terrific-10-days-with-mountainbikekerala
Sorry PJM1974!!! Didn't men to rub it in. I hope you're all betterer and back in the saddle soon fella!! 😀
Cotic BFe. I know they are a bit of the STW luvvie bike at the moment but I find mine so much fun. Much more suitable for my local stuff than my FS, and I can actually jump with it. I still love my FS and find that great fun but its just different.
orange 224 - knew I shouldn't have sold my DH bike years ago
Finished my Five build that has been about 8 months in the making with the last bit being a Gravity Dropper off Ebay. Best MTB thing ever.
and you've still not put a picture of it on your darksnow thread........
Oh and a blackspire stinger, and a trail-gator for the boy!