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| Deck's medium carbon Titus X |
One of the rules of racing (ok, we're going for a Jamboree, but
you know what I mean) is that you should not use anything new
on race day. Why? Simply because new things are untested.
Of course, this does not mean that if your inner tube burst
on your last practice, you can't change it for race day!
But these friends of mine are sooo amped up with this
coming WaCycles Jamboree that they got themselves new
frames :-)
Deck's sin is more forgivable because he just got the carbon
version of his aluminium Titus Racer X. The suspension is the
same, the angles seem the same but with the added bonus of
a lighter bike. His bike now weighs 10.8kg. That is with a full
XTR groupset, Hope hubs/DT Swiss wheelset and carbon
contact points. We were even pleasantly surprised because it
looks like the shock was tuned exactly for this frame. There
was no pedal bob and yet when he bounces up and down
on his bike, the suspension gladly cooperates!
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| Bal's 16inch titanium On-One 456 Evo |
Now, this friend of mine Bal is the one who committed a
mortal sin. He asked me to transfer over all the stuff from
his full carbon Scott Genius into this new Titanium On-One
456 Evo! The only new things that he bought were a Ti
Seatpost, Chris King headset and XTR high mount FD.
So from a carbon full sus to a Ti hardtail ?! AND we did the
transfer yesterday (Friday) ... not sure what's in store for him
tomorrow BUT the funny thing is that according to my
highly accurate heft-o-meter, the complete ti 456 bike with
CK hub/ZTR Arch wheelset/150-130-110 Talas Fox is lighter
than NoLights Louie's carbon Scott Contessa/XTR wheelset/
100mm Fox fork bike ?! Bal's heft-o-meter reading also
came up with similar readings. So I'm definitely not
imagining things.
Anyway, see you guys on Sunday!
