Sunday Ride

John's Turner Sultan 29er

Sunday and this time it was me who 'caught' the PadyakPinoy

group while they were having their break @Zheng Hwa.

Good thing that I caught them because if not then I won't have any

thing to post for today LOL.

The first time I saw a 29er was when SK of Toykar bought

his Pivot Mach 429. My memory is a bit hazy but I think before

he got his Mach 429, he was riding a Jamis Dragon 29er as well.

That was a year ago.

Fast forward to today and now 29ers seem to be gaining

foothold in Singapore.

John (Hup Leong's mechanic) assembled a Titanium Dean's

Hardtail. But I have never seen that bike hit the trail and there

he was this morning riding a Turner Sultan 29er!

He told me that he has already brought his bike to this

rooty trail (we all shall call it Bf trail) and apparently,

it had made short work of all the evil roots in there....

note to self : maybe I need this bike? 

Equipped with Tubeless Stan's Raven 29

    John was using a pair of Tubeless Stan's Raven tires today.

These tires have very minimal knobs. They look fast standing still !

However, I don't think I will survive one loop in BT if I use these tires.

These tires (I think) is best used by more skilled riders.

New XTR XC brakes

    The bike porn doesn't let up! He was also using these new

30 Speed XTRs!

Lastly, I asked ReyToots to go and have a short testride

@Zheng Hwa while I go and record a short video.

My phone camera acted up again and all I got was lots of audio

which did not correspond to the hanging few seconds of video

that is showing on my phone screen.

I wanted to hit my phone with a sledgehammer but that

will have to wait for July so I can get another 0$ phone.

In the meantime, here's what I can salvage from this

morning's session.

DW Link

10 cogs on the cassette, notice carbon cage on new XTR RD and
the very shiny XTR XC hydraulic calipers

Benjie's Ti Eggbeaters. Not related to the 29er but I want this and
I think this is the closest I could get to it :-(

Lastly, as I was looking at the individual bikes of the other

PadyakPinoy guys, I saw these new Ti pedals on Benjie's

weightweenie bike. These pedals cost as much as my fork :-(