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Cheers! There's something about thin steel tubing that still gets me excitedNice clean, slender lines. I like it.
I'm so tempted to do this. There's some LB carbon rims over in the classifieds that'd shave off 600g in one fell swoop. Being rotational weight is a bigger plus. Swapping the rigid post for a dropper will offset that. There's small gains to be made with the bar and that's probably it. Maybe brakes? (Hope x2s )Keep the solaris as your race bike, why would you change it? So pretty!
11kg is pretty awesome, and swapping out the flows will make a much larger difference than a carbon frame would.
Fuck the system, steel is real!
70 degrees at 100mm. The current 120mm fork puts it at 69. Which I agree isn't that steep, but coming off trail bikes at 66.5 and 67 degrees its a different feeling for sure!What’s the head angle on it? You mentioned it was steep...
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After doing some googling unfortunately the SID's are by far the cheapest option over the SC 32's, unless you go the performance versions which have black stanchions anyway. Maybe I'll keep an eye out for some on FB.The added weight of a dropper will not couter dropping 600g rotational weight, no way that’s equal! You still win with the dropper.
It’s a shame hope only do ano green for employee’s, they’d look awesome on this.
Stepcast 32’s would he great, you still get the kashima (only reason I’m not suggesting sids, the gold stanchions look mint on it), and being a thinner fork will be more comfy than than the 34’s. flex isn’t a bad thing remember, especially when you only have 100odd mm travel to play with.
I haven’t dreamt of a xc solaris at all! Nope, not even a little bit