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29er: Hindrance or Multi-tool?

August 16th, 2007 | Category: adventure/story time, bikes/bits, rides, swedish defector | Author: JINX

So I’ve been riding the Redline Monocog 29er alot recently up in the watershed and finally got some pics to document the stuff I put this bike through…there is much more, it just hasn’t been captured on film yet. The bottom line is, I haven’t found a weakness in either it’s ability or structural integrity on this bike yet. I can do as much as a 26er can, if not more. Here’s the proof.
A surfer at the bail-out point…
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and rollin’ down a head high ladder up on the original drop trail from the Manor….
ladder29er.jpg

I drop as many things as I feel comfortable dropping…by that I mean, things I think the bike can handle. It’ll take a 3-3.5 foot drop pretty smoothly, but anything higher than that is pretty jarring to me and causes my hands to blow off the grips and tires to attempt to blow off the rims. The bike is fun, and as I continue to push it’s limits I’ll try to get pictures of it.
Thanks to Cory who ,mostly unknowingly, signed his bike up for this.
RobQ

3 Comments so far

  1. johnson August 16th, 2007 8:10 am

    are you kidding? you are totally channeling cory when you do that shit. also, i doubt (unless the wheels break) that you will snap that frame. its small framed 29ers that have the baby head tubes thats break.

  2. voice of reason August 17th, 2007 12:26 pm

    i hate to side with casey (as we all know the devil needs a lawyer too!) but when i sent the bike to live with rob, i hoped that this is what would come of it.

    i mean, i’ve ‘known’ others who had made a ‘bunny hop bar’ but no one who could hop more than 16″ or so.

    i have been anxiously awaiting exploits of rob and the monocog. and am happy with the results.

    and rob i would love to be able to rock it with you, maybe i’ll wait until you get some snow before i turn up. you know to make it interesting.

  3. JINX August 17th, 2007 5:20 pm

    hmmm, I haven’t run the monocog over the bunnyhop bar yet…I’ll do that this weekend and get pics. I bet the watershed is fun with snow on it.

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