A new bike for me :)
05-10-2005 | 06:35 PM
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A new bike for me :)
Well I'm kind of kicking myself because I didn't get a sportbike, I know I would've killed myself, that and it would have been just way too much money for the bike and insurance and ****.
My new bike is a 2005 Jamis Dakar XLT 20th Anniversery Special Edition. I ****ing love it!
My new bike is a 2005 Jamis Dakar XLT 20th Anniversery Special Edition. I ****ing love it!
05-10-2005 | 06:41 PM
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Re: A new bike for me :)
It's got Hayes full hydraulic dual piston disk brakes, which are sweet as hell, as well as a full Fox suspension, and SRAM x-7 shifters (27 gears :D ) And to top it all off it has clipless pedals, which are great.
05-10-2005 | 06:45 PM
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Re: A new bike for me :)
I got them up to like 30-40 feet, I still have to get used to this bike, because it's 6 inches longer than the other, and I have to tune the front suspension for stoppies.
05-10-2005 | 06:50 PM
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Re: A new bike for me :)
How much does something like that cost?
05-10-2005 | 06:53 PM
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Re: A new bike for me :)
you guys are going to laugh, $1400.
But I do have some friends on base, and we pile the bikes in his truck and we go downhilling which is a shitload of fun. I feel like a ****in kid though, I really need to get a ****ing grown up's bike, lol.
My record is about 70 feet on the old bike, and that's coming in at 30, lol.
But I do have some friends on base, and we pile the bikes in his truck and we go downhilling which is a shitload of fun. I feel like a ****in kid though, I really need to get a ****ing grown up's bike, lol.
My record is about 70 feet on the old bike, and that's coming in at 30, lol.
05-10-2005 | 07:06 PM
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Re: A new bike for me :)
Working on the no handers, the clipless pedals help a lot with that, however my bike is still minty, and I already looped it doing no handers, as well as falling over while surfing, flipped *** over tea kettle from a stoppie, and laid down once in a corner. (Maybe it isn't so minty after all, haha)
05-10-2005 | 07:24 PM
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Re: A new bike for me :)
Originally Posted by Frogger
Working on the no handers, the clipless pedals help a lot with that, however my bike is still minty, and I already looped it doing no handers, as well as falling over while surfing, flipped *** over tea kettle from a stoppie, and laid down once in a corner. (Maybe it isn't so minty after all, haha)
but yeah man, get some of them REAL small bar ends, they'll protect your shifters/brake levers in the event of a loop.
most of the other parts should take the abuse though....
clipless pedals? that's no cliped in right?
05-10-2005 | 07:30 PM
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Re: A new bike for me :)
actually clipless pedals are clipped. There is a special cleat that goes on the bottom of a set of special shoes so you can clip in. I don't know why they called it that, but that's what they did.
Coasters are slowly coming, that bike has such a high balance point, it's going to take me a little bit. I've only had it a week, and now it's in the shop getting tuned up and a brake lever redone.
Coasters are slowly coming, that bike has such a high balance point, it's going to take me a little bit. I've only had it a week, and now it's in the shop getting tuned up and a brake lever redone.
05-10-2005 | 07:45 PM
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Re: A new bike for me :)
Originally Posted by Frogger
actually clipless pedals are clipped. There is a special cleat that goes on the bottom of a set of special shoes so you can clip in. I don't know why they called it that, but that's what they did.
Coasters are slowly coming, that bike has such a high balance point, it's going to take me a little bit. I've only had it a week, and now it's in the shop getting tuned up and a brake lever redone.
Coasters are slowly coming, that bike has such a high balance point, it's going to take me a little bit. I've only had it a week, and now it's in the shop getting tuned up and a brake lever redone.
so, can you pull your feet off if you loop?
05-10-2005 | 07:52 PM
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Re: A new bike for me :)
yeah i can pull my feet off, it just takes enough pressure from the bike or me pulling to get out, or I can twist my foot a little to get them out. It becomes an instinctive reaction after a while.
