{"id":505,"date":"2009-07-03T21:41:19","date_gmt":"2009-07-03T20:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spanner.org.uk\/?p=223"},"modified":"2009-07-03T21:41:19","modified_gmt":"2009-07-03T20:41:19","slug":"love-you-long-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spanner.bike\/?p=505","title":{"rendered":"New Arrival – Love You Long Time!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"LYLT<\/p>\n

So – here are the built-up\u00a0pics at last.\u00a0I did build her up and go for a test ride not long after the frame arrived, but that reminded me that the front end felt really high, so I wanted to get it set up properly before taking any pictures!<\/p>\n

I’ve seen race shots of me on Ti-Bride and I look like a hunchback trying to compensate for\u00a0the\u00a0riser stem and bar, this was because the bike was originally designed with a nod towards being a\u00a0Hardcore Hardtail.\u00a0Time for a bit of a Jey makeover, I thought, so on went a flat 70mm\u00a0Hope stem\u00a0and the hunt started for a decent width flat bar.\u00a0Now I’d really like a pair of the Ritchey carbon ‘flat yet bent like a riser bar’ bars but they clock in at \u00a3110 so I had to make do with a\u00a0pair of Truvative ‘Singlespeeders’\u00a0instead! These come in a serious 700mm width with a comfy 10 degree bend,\u00a0I’ve cut\u00a0them down to 26″ which appears perfect for my setup. Overall the bar height will have come down by about 2″.<\/p>\n

Building the frame up was easy as everything seemed spot on, all the threads were clean and everything was straight\u00a0and where it should be. The chainline seems better than on the last frame too, but I might still shift the cranks over to the left by a spacer.<\/p>\n

Parts were carried over from Ti-Bride so it’s\u00a0sensibly light stuff, the Fox F120 forks are A1 and the bolt through option keeps the steering sharp. Wheels are Hope hubs with Syncros XC rims, Aerozine cranks and XT transmission and brakes.<\/p>\n

Overall weight is a surprisingly\u00a0light\u00a022lbs, I thought it might be heavier but then again I am using the bathroom scales! Handling seems very good, it doesn’t have the tendency to ‘jack-knife’ under very tight cornering as Ti-Bride did and the stability at speed seems good. Despite the increase in wheelbase it\u00a0doesn’t appears to have affected the ability to thread through woodsy singletrack like a Speeder Bike from Star Wars!<\/p>\n

I’ve ended up with a bike that’s an evolution of an XC race bike with a longer travel fork – it should be perfect for my mix of XC racing, Enduro’s and general messing around in the woods!<\/p>\n

Special thanks to Jase from The Big Adventure Store<\/a>\u00a0in Swindon who did a lightening\u00a0headset cup swap for me\u00a0when\u00a0I popped in the other week!<\/p>\n

\"LYLT2\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So – here are the built-up\u00a0pics at last.\u00a0I did build her up and go for a test ride not long after the frame arrived, but that reminded me that the front end felt really high, so I wanted to get it set up properly before taking any pictures! I’ve seen […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[11,12,10],"class_list":["post-505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-hardtail","tag-mtb","tag-xacd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9GLNb-89","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9779,"url":"https:\/\/spanner.bike\/?p=9779","url_meta":{"origin":505,"position":0},"title":"Spanner Bike’s Peeping Tom titanium trail hardcore hardtail.","author":"andrew","date":"13th December 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Go on, ask me where the name comes from. 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