Loss and Prophet !

[trek_y]

So with a bit of emergency home fixing requiring £££ to be magic'd from somewhere I had to say goodbye to my Camber Carbon XX 29er ... a sad loss ! :cry:
But a chat later with an acquaintance at work revealed an interesting replacement sat in his garage for the last 5 years offered at a price I couldn't refuse ...







Prophet !
Would never have even considered one of these but they seem to have good reputation. Anyone else here owned one ???
The odd-est looking bike I've ever had but something really appeals to me about it - 140mm travel front and rear with adjustable XC or AM geometry and that funky carbon Lefty Max fork. She's a bit of a heavy beast ~ 29lbs so the plan is to try to swap around some parts to lose a few lbs and see if love really is blind.

 

[racefacecannondale]

Looks similar to a rush I owned once. Didn't have for long though. As px'd it for a Gt zaskar team carbon.

I'm sure you will get down to a modest weight as with your other builds in the past.
:roll:

 

[trek_y]

A modest weight is the plan but this time seriously no funds so the bits coming off will have to pay for the bits going back on - plus whatever Santa might bring lol.
Sold the High Rollers already and flippin 'eck they're heavy at over 900g each so perhaps some Racing Ralphs or similar can replace them and save getting on for 2lbs right there.

 

[ba57ards]

thats a lush lookin bike tbh had a cannondale jekyll and had to sell for repairs to the car but the lefty and the ride was different but loved how it looked

poss loose the brakes as might be a bit of weight in them ?

 

[trek_y]

Yeah was thinking about the brakes. Hope Tech M4's. They look great and work brilliantly but perhaps too much for what I need and found from previous experience that the lighter stuff from Avid - Juicy Ultimate / Elixir XX - will stop me plenty well even with 160mm rotors. Selling the Hope's would probably easily pay for some new brakes plus some left over towards a better crankset or seatpost.

 

[mattiamerca]

wow! hope, thomson, lefty and that frame that, in my opinion, is one of the best c'dale frame of everytime... simple and beautiful...

 

[Sketchyxup]

Re:

Fantastic bikes, had one for a few years. Really versatile and strong, i took mine on everything from big XC rides and with some heavy forks and tyres went on a few alpine DH type adventures with me.

I got a back hub that you could bolt up with allen keys to sitffen the swingarm at the hub end which I recommend over a QR, the only thing that broke was the lower shock bolt which I replaced with one from betd.

Think of it as an orange 5 but less ugly and built better.

 

[racefacecannondale]

A modest weight is the plan but this time seriously no funds so the bits coming off will have to pay for the bits going back on - plus whatever Santa might bring lol.
Sold the High Rollers already and flippin 'eck they're heavy at over 900g each so perhaps some Racing Ralphs or similar can replace them and save getting on for 2lbs right there.

Tubeless, lose the hope rotors and stem, hope brakes will shed a fair bit of weight.

As ever though, I can see either xtr or sram xo on the list

 

[Mindmap3]

Love these. Really wish I'd owned an MX one when I had the chance. My only criticism is that the top tubes are a tad short. Looks to be in great nick too.

I'd be well happy if my bike was sub 30lbs (the Rune comes in at 33).