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Softride project
 My size?  SRS 510  Not. when I was hanging out with Benwah one night at Fox Studios and a guy at the gym there had one (I was gawking at it so hard he came out to protect his baby). I was at MCC yesterday trying to get the Basso in shape for the Tuesday night Centennial Park ride and I walked out of the shop with a faux disc wheel and a softride frame. The disc wheel is rubbish. It's basically one of those retro aero wheel covers which are installed over a normal wheel (I can't remove it without damaging it). The wheel itself is dead straight, has a nice 7 speed suntour cassette on it but it's a tubular, meaning I'd have to buy a glue strip and tubular tyre if I wanted to get it going. The frame has no decals on it, they've been stripped. It's some sort of chromoly as it's not that heavy. It uses a smaller 650c front wheel (oh no not again). Some Softride bikes:   What they look like today. Older models below:      The guys were going to bin this gear. But of-course I had to at least grab it, and leave it lying around at my place for at least a while before I contemplate binning it! 
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08-04-09, 08:22 AM
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oh dear, hes gone mad!
i wanted to make a ss softride once. |
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08-04-09, 08:29 AM
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Damn! Is there a type of bike you don't own?
(do it, build it, ride it!) |
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08-04-09, 08:33 AM
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he doesnt have a new roadie!:O
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08-04-09, 08:38 AM
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08-04-09, 08:40 AM
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LOL. If I stopped spending cash on old things I run into I'd have a new roadie and a DH bike by now! Grrr!
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08-04-09, 08:43 AM
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Made in the USA, I hear that’s something that will shortly become quite rare…perhaps yours will be worth something someday.
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08-04-09, 08:49 AM
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What? Downhill bike?!
Nah, looks like a very interesting project. Justin, Velocity have some 650 wheels on runout at the moment, could get you one sub100. Want me to havea look and see what's around? |
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08-04-09, 08:54 AM
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I just double checkED the front fork and it's a 700c.
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08-04-09, 09:04 AM
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Bit of an asian moment there Justin... "I just double check fork it 700c!"
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