A new Element

[Obi-Juan]

A 20 pound full suspension build is pretty incredible, and with disk brakes! I am quite impressed.

Thank you very much.
I really like how it turned out, and honestly, the most incredible thing about the bike is its fantastic weight distribution. It's very well balanced; in fact, it feels lighter than it is. Honestly, when you ride it, it feels like it weighs a kilo less.

 

[hawkhill97]

Really smashing build, great work! Would absolutely love a go on it, though it'd probably ruin me forever on my comparatively pedestrian/workhorse builds

 

[Obi-Juan]

Really smashing build, great work! Would absolutely love a go on it, though it'd probably ruin me forever on my comparatively pedestrian/workhorse builds

Well, I've had some luck.
Let's see, what's the percentage of chances of finding a red Ringle Moby Deux seatpost in 26.8?
And of finding a Candy Red R-Seven?
But I already had the R-Seven on a bike and didn't want to change it. I started looking for a new one, and a single-seat one appeared in Norway, never used, and for an affordable price, very affordable... that's impossible!!! You can spend 5 years looking for one and nothing shows up, and I found it on the first day of searching.

So now I have 2 Candy Red R-Sevens (plus another in black and another in carbon, a total of 4 Manitous R-Sevens)

As I said, I was lucky with the assembly, because I found what I wanted very quickly (and sometimes even cheaply).

 

[Obi-Juan]

The lamb lies down on Broadway?
No, in the Madrid countryside
Although I'm not Peter Gabriel either.

 

[Obi-Juan]

Jokes aside, this bike rides fantastic...how could I have gone 40 years without having a full suspension bike!!!