Recent content by ponti33602

Very nice bike you have and picked up for a nice price. When you say longer travel front shock do you mean longer rather than longer travel? I thought I read over the years that these actually worked best on fairly short-ish travel forks? The original design had a non suspension fork...

This bike works extremely well when seated and acts like a hardtail (URT design) when standing. Due to this fact it is not ideal at all for going down-hill. I find it works quite well off-road and seated. These URTS get bashed a lot from the down-hill folks but is was never really designed...

Hi - Enjoy posts on the retro bikes here on this site. Here is my recently re-acquired Klein Mantra. Very clean example. 1998 Klein Mantra Pro (Large) Blue Koi -Replaced Sram ESP 9.0 with XTR M952's -Decals on rear dropouts are a reasonable copy but not original. -Chris King Hubs -Ringle...