Rate my new ride...
Jestrada
http://gallery.mtbr.com/showphoto.php?photo=5650&size=big
http://gallery.mtbr.com/showphoto.php?photo=5566&size=big
http://gallery.mtbr.com/showphoto.php?photo=5651&size=big
http://gallery.mtbr.com/showphoto.php?photo=5668&size=big
* 4X/Dual Slalom style bike
* Versatile for light free riding, street, urban, dirt jumping
* Awesome looking special edition lightning paint on the frame
David Martin
3c6ce75d.04120...@posting.google.com, "Jestrada"
<jest...@despammed.com> wrote:
Doesn't seem to have rack mounts or be possible to put a Klick Fix mount on
the handlebars. It'l lalso be quite hard to fit mudguards and the child
seat.
about 4/10 from my perspective. You can keep it.
..d
nobody
DaBomb? Is that a Halfords own brand?
Just zis Guy, you know?
<d.m.a....@dundee.ac.uk> wrote:
>about 4/10 from my perspective. You can keep it.
It's one of those strange upwrong contraptions. Not my kind of thing
at all.
Guy
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Hmmm. "bomb". "molotov". "urban". Is that the sound of an Echelon
twitching? ;-)
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David Kerber
jest...@despammed.com says...
it. With that low saddle and only one hand position, I'd be dying by
the time I got only 20 miles into my ride, and the rest of the time
would be pure misery.
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Judith Wheat
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> In article <3c6ce75d.04120...@posting.google.com>,
> jest...@despammed.com says...
> > My new custom 2004 DaBomb Molotov...
> > http://gallery.mtbr.com/showphoto.php?photo=5650&size=big
> > http://gallery.mtbr.com/showphoto.php?photo=5566&size=big
> > http://gallery.mtbr.com/showphoto.php?photo=5651&size=big
> > http://gallery.mtbr.com/showphoto.php?photo=5668&size=big
> >
> > * 4X/Dual Slalom style bike
> > * Versatile for light free riding, street, urban, dirt jumping
> > * Awesome looking special edition lightning paint on the frame
>
> Probably adequate for its designed use, but I wouldn't have much use for
> it. With that low saddle and only one hand position, I'd be dying by
> the time I got only 20 miles into my ride, and the rest of the time
> would be pure misery.
I'd have to launch off a lot of stairs and hit a lot of dirt jumps to even
*get* to 20 miles on this bike in one ride! :)
Doki
Looks alright. Too many gears for that sort of bike, IMO.
David Kerber
judit...@hotmail.com says...
Yeah, 20 miles of BMXing or freeriding would be a loooooooong ride!
Werehatrack
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Where's da fuse? How can there be an Earth-shattering kaboom if
there's no fuse?
</mode>
Nice; I certainly wouldn't complain if it showed up under my tree, but
I could be just as happy at a significantly lower cost. But then, I'm
a cheap bastard who shops for bikes at thrift stores, police auctions
and garage sales. (And I rather like doing it.)
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Werehatrack
<rau...@earthWEEDSlink.net> wrote:
>Nice; I certainly wouldn't complain if it showed up under my tree...
But on second look, I'd have to put a relly long seat post on it, and
fudge the bars up about 6 inches, before I could ride it very far.
OTOH, list the frame on eBay and transfer the kit to one of the old
large frames in the roof of the garage, and I'd have a good bike and
some pocket money too.
David Kerber
@earthWEEDSlink.net says...
> On 1 Dec 2004 07:11:14 -0800, jest...@despammed.com (Jestrada) wrote:
>
> >My new custom 2004 DaBomb Molotov...
> >http://gallery.mtbr.com/showphoto.php?photo=5650&size=big
> >http://gallery.mtbr.com/showphoto.php?photo=5566&size=big
> >http://gallery.mtbr.com/showphoto.php?photo=5651&size=big
> >http://gallery.mtbr.com/showphoto.php?photo=5668&size=big
> >
> >* 4X/Dual Slalom style bike
> >* Versatile for light free riding, street, urban, dirt jumping
> >* Awesome looking special edition lightning paint on the frame
>
> <mode=marvinthemartian)
>
> Where's da fuse? How can there be an Earth-shattering kaboom if
> there's no fuse?
>
> </mode>
>
> Nice; I certainly wouldn't complain if it showed up under my tree, but
> I could be just as happy at a significantly lower cost. But then, I'm
> a cheap bastard who shops for bikes at thrift stores, police auctions
> and garage sales. (And I rather like doing it.)
This guy's probably getting pretty aggravated that we're all running
down his new ride. Oh, well.... <Grin>
Evan Evans
NIce Bike! - if you are not old enuff to drive.........
Peter Clinch
> My new custom 2004 DaBomb Molotov...
Not really my sort of thing, but one thing stands out as a very
serious problem: you haven't got any mud on it yet! To hell with
the "awesome paintwork", go and get it covered in crap and have fun
on it! ;-)
Pete.
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Simonb
Looks like fun to me. Nice paintwork. What's it like to ride?
Paul Cassel
Rather idiotic name, don't you think?
Blair P. Houghton
What? Sports Authority didn't have tassels in stock?
--Blair
"Seat looks cushy, dunnit."
Werehatrack
Tassels are so last-week. It's frame-mounted mirrors now.
Mike Kruger
I agree with an earlier poster. This bike would look a lot
better with some scratches and mud streaks on it (only a
matter of time if ridden enjoyably).
I don't understand the appeal of a black off-road bike,
though. Don't they have deer hunting season over there?
Mike Kruger
> My new custom 2004 DaBomb Molotov...
>
> * Versatile for light free riding, street, urban, dirt
jumping
A good illustration of how one man's meal is another man's
poison.
Street?
It's entirely black, and has no reflectors anywhere. No
generator. No rack. Aggressive knobbies.
On the other hand, you probably wouldn't be happy with my
bikes, either. Enjoy!
Tim
Wasn't there a "rate me" post feating this bike to
alt.mountain-bike in the not so distant past? IIRC the concensus there
was that it merited about 4/10.
http://tinyurl.com/474zd for the previous thread.
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Donald Gillies
>My new custom 2004 DaBomb Molotov...
>http://gallery.mtbr.com/showphoto.php?photo=5650&size=big
It seems that they forgot to install the engine in this motorcycle. I
would take it back to the shop and ask for an engine, please.
- Don Gillies
San Diego, CA
Werehatrack
<ns_dkerber@ns_ids.net> wrote:
>In article <K7mrd.16797$kI6.1...@news20.bellglobal.com>,
>judit...@hotmail.com says...
>
>> I'd have to launch off a lot of stairs and hit a lot of dirt jumps to even
>> *get* to 20 miles on this bike in one ride! :)
>
>Yeah, 20 miles of BMXing or freeriding would be a loooooooong ride!
But now that someone has mentioned it, there will doubtless be an
attempt made to stunt from Seattle to Tacoma or some such.
Claire Petersky
"Werehatrack" <rau...@earthWEEDSlink.net> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 11:51:54 -0500, David Kerber
> <ns_dkerber@ns_ids.net> wrote:
>
> >In article <K7mrd.16797$kI6.1...@news20.bellglobal.com>,
> >judit...@hotmail.com says...
> >
> >> I'd have to launch off a lot of stairs and hit a lot of dirt jumps to
even
> >> *get* to 20 miles on this bike in one ride! :)
> >
> >Yeah, 20 miles of BMXing or freeriding would be a loooooooong ride!
>
> But now that someone has mentioned it, there will doubtless be an
> attempt made to stunt from Seattle to Tacoma or some such.
Seattle to Tacoma isn't all that far. Seattle to Portland, maybe. I've seen
people roller-blade it (in one day, even!), unicycle it, and many many
single speeds and cruisers do it, so doing it on a BMX wouldn't be that far
off the mark. I now wait for someone to announce that s/he has done it.
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Penny
"Jestrada" <jest...@despammed.com> wrote in message
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> My new custom 2004 DaBomb Molotov...
> http://gallery.mtbr.com/showphoto.php?photo=5650&size=big
Mark Leuck
"Just zis Guy, you know?" <norfolk...@dev.null> wrote in message
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> On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 15:21:41 +0000, David Martin
> <d.m.a....@dundee.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> >about 4/10 from my perspective. You can keep it.
>
> It's one of those strange upwrong contraptions. Not my kind of thing
> at all.
>
> Guy
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Wierd looking thing isn't it? I'd think the rider would be sorta hunched
over those handlebars and that small seat... why are the pedals on the
bottom like that?
myles
Just zis Guy, you know?
wrote in message <R1bsd.506836$D%.83642@attbi_s51>:
>Wierd looking thing isn't it? I'd think the rider would be sorta hunched
>over those handlebars and that small seat... why are the pedals on the
>bottom like that?
Should give you a great view of the front wheel while riding along,
though :-)
Guy
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davek
> Probably adequate for its designed use, but I wouldn't have much use for
> it. With that low saddle and only one hand position, I'd be dying by
> the time I got only 20 miles into my ride, and the rest of the time
> would be pure misery.
And just think how fast you'd have to pedal to get up any kind of speed
on a flat road.
d.