Thread: Bike Porn - Regardless of the motor, Show off your "two wheeled" beasties

Interesting rear swingarm and shock
Kinda looks like the old Suzuki Full Floater from the eighties
Does the shock get warm / hot after a long downhill ?

Down hill only. It doesnt have any pedals

Pretty rad having disk brakes and that suspension. Bet it wasnt cheap.

It seems to be a good suspension design, soaks up the bumps nicely without losing momentum or bobbing much at all when pedalling. I guess any shock will get hot if you work it hard enough, but its designed for the purpose and the bike is reasonably light (even if the rider isn't) so shouldn't get hotter than any other similar bike.

It has pedals now! Funny thing is cheaper bikes come with pedals and flasher bikes generally don't, because they assume someone buying a flash bike will have a favourite type of pedal they would replace them with anyway.

Just been out for its first ride in 29° heat, got a good sweat going!

Took the Stumpy into Big Bush this morning. Didn't see another soul the whole ride.

Got in a quick loop of the local trail after work on friday night.

That trail looks well made. Who builds/maintains them?

Latest project, 07 te450 with low hours. Just ordered a set of motard wheels as it has all the road gear with it. Hopefully getting road legal isnt too difficult

Originally Posted by Shearer

That trail looks well made. Who builds/maintains them?

Just volunteers from the local MTB club (though they are currently having issues with DOC bureaucratic BS). I clear the odd bit of windfall and will join them to lend a hand (and spade) next time they have a trail building day - great to have trails 10 min from town so I'm quite happy to help out.

There are only a handful of trails so far, that photo is the main through trail and there are a few steeper / more technical / less built-up ones branching off it (which DOC are currently calling unauthorised and closed, even though they've been there for years and the main trail is more recent). People just ride them anyway and there are plans to build more in future once the DOC issues are worked out.

Trail map here is missing a few bits but gives the general idea:

https://www.trailforks.com/region/cr...&lon=168.85798

Excellent. Most areas in the country DOC seem to be coming around to allowing MTB trails to be built as long as it is done through the right channels. Good luck.

Originally Posted by Philipo

Pedaling up hill might sound like alot of hard work, but fuck it's rewarding & an awesome time to think ( great quiet meditation time aye ) & as for going down hill on a MTB, fuk me doing 70+ kph down some rocky arsed track wearing a lightweight open face helmet, a pair of baggy shorts & a T shirt for protection can be enormous fun but also enormous pain


Great pic's & looks like a mint trail @GravelBen

Your comment re biking up hill resonated......agree with (most of) it but I wonder if you experience the same thought of thought patterns as I? I consider I have done plenty of it (biking uphill) and my thoughts are generally confined to a fairly narrow "fuck this hurts...when is it gonna stop" kinda thing.

I have a decent mountain bike BUT am getting a little too old for long days on it, I'm 73 now. I put this together for hunting coyotes down here on the desert. Mornings are in the high 20'sFahr.(-3C.) but warms during the day but usually dry so just an extra jacket in the morning. Running stand to stand I pack the jacket and wear a back scabbard with the rifle and caller in it. I have it set up with a Garmin GPS with a local public lands chip in it. It is a great little rig for running the desert two tracks and I can still run it on the highway which is illegal with an ATV.

Originally Posted by Maxx

Your comment re biking up hill resonated......agree with (most of) it but I wonder if you experience the same thought of thought patterns as I? I consider I have done plenty of it (biking uphill) and my thoughts are generally confined to a fairly narrow "fuck this hurts...when is it gonna stop" kinda thing.

Hahahaha yeah I enjoy climbing hills for some stupid reason ( done nearly 12,000mts this month already ) but depends on what ya riding too, had to ride my old bike this week as my Epic was getting serviced, fuk I missed riding a true light weight for climbing lol

Good to get out for a blast after being sick all week... even got my balls out of my handbag and hit some drops.

Croydon Bush by Ben, on Flickr

Originally Posted by AWS

I have a decent mountain bike BUT am getting a little too old for long days on it, I'm 73 now. I put this together for hunting coyotes down here on the desert. Mornings are in the high 20'sFahr.(-3C.) but warms during the day but usually dry so just an extra jacket in the morning. Running stand to stand I pack the jacket and wear a back scabbard with the rifle and caller in it. I have it set up with a Garmin GPS with a local public lands chip in it. It is a great little rig for running the desert two tracks and I can still run it on the highway which is illegal with an ATV.

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Nice setup. Before April 2019 I used to go hunting with one of dem Kolpin rifle carriers mounted starboard on the right side of my '02 Dyna, and a sissy bar rack for my backpack. I don't do that anymore, because my bike got seriously keyed (tank and fairing) by some anti-gun nut at a DOC carpark (they left a note to be sure I did not mistake their motivation...). I'm guessing, looking at your location, New Mexico, that's not likely to happen to you.

My best memory of New Mexico: heading back from Key West to LA, and being passed in New Mexico doing about 80 mph uphill on me motorsickle, by a elderly blue-rinse gal in an open-top Cadillac El Dorado with longhorns on the bonnet (i.e. hood for ye Yanquis) of her vehicle. Also, she was towing a horse trailer. The horse trailer was empty, which salvaged a little bit of my self-respect. :-)

Originally Posted by GravelBen

Good to get out for a blast after being sick all week... even got my balls out of my handbag and hit some drops.

Croydon Bush by Ben, on Flickr

Farken good stuff mate