Sintesi Bromont

[Dave_H]

Bought the frame very cheap off ebay and it's a bit too scruffy to warrant an early '90s DH build with an extravagant spend on a load of NOS stuff ... plus I'd never ride it if I did that!

So instead the build is based around an imaginary story that it had been bought new (I always fancied one, couldn't afford it), had done a few years service as number one bike and then by the mid/late '90s had been downgraded to number two trail bike.

This is that no. 2 full suss play bike.

 

[Dave_H]

More pics

 

[Dave_H]

And to the right

 

[OrangeRetro]

Very nice.

 

[Elev12k]

It is a fun bike indeed. Love the ride of mine

Maybe slowly upgrade to more period-, quality correct parts ?

 

[Dave_H]

Maybe slowly upgrade to more period-, quality correct parts ?

That had been my original plan but the frame - there's a couple of biggish dings inside the swingarm in particular. If I spend a lot on it then I'll be precious over it - whereas where it is now I can just ride it into the ground and just enjoy it. The frame only cost £28 after all!

Do you have any guide for the rear shock pressure? It's a bit low for me at the moment and find air shocks a bit of a pain to set up. I'm guessing it's pretty high pressures?

 

[Elev12k]

Things in the swing arm ? :shock:

I think I have my shock at 12 bar.

 

[Dave_H]

Things in the swing arm ? :shock:

Dings not things.

Dings are dents.


Ta for the pressure - what do you weight (if you don't mind me asking). It'll give me a starting point.

 

[Elev12k]

Normally 68kg

12 bar is quite rigid. It smoothens out the big bumps effectively though.

A review in the Dutch mag tells me 9-12 is recommended. You find the review (and more covering) overhere

 

[Dave_H]

Thanks for that. Will get tweaking the suspension tomorrow.