Having sold my Rune and steel Switchback to buy a Ti hardtail as my only bike, I decided that I quite fancied an oldish DH bike for trips to Stile Cop and the odd uplift day.
Initially I bought a Morewwod Shova LT which is a tad tatty (need to sell it now) but I came across a Demo 8 frame with a pair of Mazocchi 888's and a few other bits. It was fairly cheap because it's been repainted in Ford asbo orange used on the Focus ST. It looked so so in the pics but was actually much better than I was expecting as most older DH bikes are pretty ropey these days. Not only that but the forks are 888 RV2's not the RV's which have no compression adjustment.
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Plans are to use as many parts left over from the Rune - Easton wheels, Zee brakes, Saint shifter, Zee rear mech, Atlas cranks, Answer bars and Superstar pedals. I also had an I Fly saddle and I Beam post in the garage.
I've already bought an E13 chain device and a new Sunline stem.
The green decals will be getting removed too and replaced with black and white ones. I've already removed some stickers.
All I need now are a BB, ultegra cassette, chain and some tubeless DH tyres so it should be ready for March. The forks need a service be sus the seals are leaking which I knew about. Luckily I have a spare set in the garage from the days when I had Shivers and 888's on my old DH bikes. To top off all the good news, the rear sping is the right weight for me.
I use to have a Demo 9 way back which I really liked so it'll be interesting to see what I think of this. It shouldn't feel too bad because the HA is 64 degrees (measured) so isn't too far off modern bikes. I'm going to fit an offset shock bush to reduce this to 63 degrees. Think the only place that it'll feel old is in reach which will be much shorter than modern bikes. Plus the lack of a bolt through rear end - Spesh for some reason designed the bike with a QR rear end!
Initially I bought a Morewwod Shova LT which is a tad tatty (need to sell it now) but I came across a Demo 8 frame with a pair of Mazocchi 888's and a few other bits. It was fairly cheap because it's been repainted in Ford asbo orange used on the Focus ST. It looked so so in the pics but was actually much better than I was expecting as most older DH bikes are pretty ropey these days. Not only that but the forks are 888 RV2's not the RV's which have no compression adjustment.
http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/rr18/Mindmap3/Spesh%20Demo%208/df1a25b4b351ecd356dee5169607819b_zpsf3kkmyub.jpg[/[IMG]
[img]http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/rr18/Mindmap3/Spesh%20Demo%208/896c4b8de8232c07f278a238e1a58138_zpsns6yw8uv.jpg
Plans are to use as many parts left over from the Rune - Easton wheels, Zee brakes, Saint shifter, Zee rear mech, Atlas cranks, Answer bars and Superstar pedals. I also had an I Fly saddle and I Beam post in the garage.
I've already bought an E13 chain device and a new Sunline stem.
The green decals will be getting removed too and replaced with black and white ones. I've already removed some stickers.
All I need now are a BB, ultegra cassette, chain and some tubeless DH tyres so it should be ready for March. The forks need a service be sus the seals are leaking which I knew about. Luckily I have a spare set in the garage from the days when I had Shivers and 888's on my old DH bikes. To top off all the good news, the rear sping is the right weight for me.
I use to have a Demo 9 way back which I really liked so it'll be interesting to see what I think of this. It shouldn't feel too bad because the HA is 64 degrees (measured) so isn't too far off modern bikes. I'm going to fit an offset shock bush to reduce this to 63 degrees. Think the only place that it'll feel old is in reach which will be much shorter than modern bikes. Plus the lack of a bolt through rear end - Spesh for some reason designed the bike with a QR rear end!