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I continue to be wowed by the D-T. I've been on it about three months now and am still really impressed. I'm not sure how it does it but I never thought a 38-39 lb bike could climb so well. I have an hour long fireroad climb to the top of my local peak (seen in the background of pic #1) where most of my fun, steep, DT-worthy descents start and I just sit and spin right up. I'm pretty sure I could do it a bit faster on the HH....but I don't necessarily.
Weekend before last I took it down to St. George and was priveledged to have El C and Wasea04 show me some of their goods. Wasea has built a multi-jump descent off one of their local hills that is a masterpiece. The D-T flew straight and landed all the jumps and drops I tried nice and solid. I'm sure a second (or third) run down would allow me to be smoother but the D-T saved my bacon and was very forgiving when I flew too long, came up a little short, or landed a little flat on a couple of the features.
We then did a techy climb up Zen which follows along the bluff for aways then ends with a really fun, rough, fast descent back down to the valley. The D-T just eats that stuff up. I love it. Going back for more next week.
A few observations:
-I'm not sure if it's the moisture freezing in the cable housing on that big loop under the bottom bracket for the front deraileur or the FD itself but riding in the snow for more than a half hour or so can cause the FD to freeze up and not shift.
-The 55RC3 seems to be getting even better as it breaks in. Very supple on small bumps yet ramps up nicely on big hits. As it loosens up and breaks in though I notice it does bob more on climbs... especially on out-of-the-saddle efforts. I'm not sure but I think I may be able to detect a slight amount of play in the bushing when I grab the front brake when stopped on the driveway and rock the front wheel back and forth.... maybe. I certainly don't notice it when riding and if that's the price to pay for stiction free action... I'll gladly accept it.
I'm still pretty impressed with the DHX-Air but will probably try a coil at some point. Probably a Roco TST.
I'm not careful enough to have such a pretty-when-new-and-clean dark blue powder coat frame. It's starting to show some signs of cable rub, chain slap, and even some paint flaking in a few spots of excessive wear. I'm not sure if it's just that this color shows these signs of wear more readily or if it's quality issue.
Anyway.... still very happy with the Delirium T
A couple more recent pics.
Weekend before last I took it down to St. George and was priveledged to have El C and Wasea04 show me some of their goods. Wasea has built a multi-jump descent off one of their local hills that is a masterpiece. The D-T flew straight and landed all the jumps and drops I tried nice and solid. I'm sure a second (or third) run down would allow me to be smoother but the D-T saved my bacon and was very forgiving when I flew too long, came up a little short, or landed a little flat on a couple of the features.
We then did a techy climb up Zen which follows along the bluff for aways then ends with a really fun, rough, fast descent back down to the valley. The D-T just eats that stuff up. I love it. Going back for more next week.
A few observations:
-I'm not sure if it's the moisture freezing in the cable housing on that big loop under the bottom bracket for the front deraileur or the FD itself but riding in the snow for more than a half hour or so can cause the FD to freeze up and not shift.
-The 55RC3 seems to be getting even better as it breaks in. Very supple on small bumps yet ramps up nicely on big hits. As it loosens up and breaks in though I notice it does bob more on climbs... especially on out-of-the-saddle efforts. I'm not sure but I think I may be able to detect a slight amount of play in the bushing when I grab the front brake when stopped on the driveway and rock the front wheel back and forth.... maybe. I certainly don't notice it when riding and if that's the price to pay for stiction free action... I'll gladly accept it.
I'm still pretty impressed with the DHX-Air but will probably try a coil at some point. Probably a Roco TST.
I'm not careful enough to have such a pretty-when-new-and-clean dark blue powder coat frame. It's starting to show some signs of cable rub, chain slap, and even some paint flaking in a few spots of excessive wear. I'm not sure if it's just that this color shows these signs of wear more readily or if it's quality issue.
Anyway.... still very happy with the Delirium T
A couple more recent pics.
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