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I'm about to head out to the Wild West for some vacation riding and decided to get the Sugar 293 built and ready to go even though my Chris King/Velocity Dyad/Sapim spoke wheelset is not yet built as the builder and I wait for the slow boat from Australia to arrive with the Dyads. That's okay, I didn't expect the wheels until the end of August early September when I ordered the rims from Velocity.
So, I am "borrowing" the Speedcity's off of my Karate Monkey for the trip.
Somebody on this forum mentioned something about an ultimate super plush ride of a Sugar and a Thudbuster on top of the Fisher to ice the cake. What the heck - I had a Thudbuster sitting around in the correct diameter, so I threw it on to try it out and set it to ignore most of the small trail chatter.
Against all better advice and counsel from Marzocchi itself - I used the Avid 185mm's since I had them. To help guard against thorns and what I might face in the Wild West, I mounted up the Bonty's with the Bonty slime filled two niner tubes both back and front. The slime filled tubes, Thudbuster and Mavic Speedcity wheelset add that extra "oomph" to my boat anchor.
First observations after some riding (I'm still dialing in the suspension): This XL size bike feels "small" compared to my XL Karate Monkey. I may have to get a longer stem and make sure to use a set back seatpost. However, I can really maneuver this bike through the turns and short switch backs with its current stem length. Gotta remind myself the right hand now has the front brake, but that shouldn't take too long to get used to for this bike. SRAM X.9 goodies are just as sweet as the X.0 goodies. Hope the chain is the correct length. Without any cutting and running the chain big cog and big ring (not through the rear derailleur of course), only one link overlapped right out of the box. Added the masterlink and it looks good to go, but I hope that is long enough to take into consideration the rear suspension.
Here are a few shots:
So, I am "borrowing" the Speedcity's off of my Karate Monkey for the trip.
Somebody on this forum mentioned something about an ultimate super plush ride of a Sugar and a Thudbuster on top of the Fisher to ice the cake. What the heck - I had a Thudbuster sitting around in the correct diameter, so I threw it on to try it out and set it to ignore most of the small trail chatter.
Against all better advice and counsel from Marzocchi itself - I used the Avid 185mm's since I had them. To help guard against thorns and what I might face in the Wild West, I mounted up the Bonty's with the Bonty slime filled two niner tubes both back and front. The slime filled tubes, Thudbuster and Mavic Speedcity wheelset add that extra "oomph" to my boat anchor.
First observations after some riding (I'm still dialing in the suspension): This XL size bike feels "small" compared to my XL Karate Monkey. I may have to get a longer stem and make sure to use a set back seatpost. However, I can really maneuver this bike through the turns and short switch backs with its current stem length. Gotta remind myself the right hand now has the front brake, but that shouldn't take too long to get used to for this bike. SRAM X.9 goodies are just as sweet as the X.0 goodies. Hope the chain is the correct length. Without any cutting and running the chain big cog and big ring (not through the rear derailleur of course), only one link overlapped right out of the box. Added the masterlink and it looks good to go, but I hope that is long enough to take into consideration the rear suspension.
Here are a few shots:
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