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Offline sullie363

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check out my new ride
« on: May 26, 2008, 02:10:06 PM »
Picked her up this last weekend.  It's a brand new 2006 Haro X7.  Basically it was sitting unbuilt in a box for over a year until I found it so it couldn't be any newer.  Originally sold for about $1700, got it for $950 so I feel pretty good about that.  I've had a Haro X6 for two years, and at a distance the bikes look pretty similar, but the X7 is a totally different beast.  Basically, everything is bigger and better.  Still, I'll probably end up putting about $1000 into it over the next year upgrading things.





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Re: check out my new ride
« Reply #1 on: May 26, 2008, 04:22:02 PM »
Far out!  Beautiful country too!

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Re: check out my new ride
« Reply #2 on: May 26, 2008, 06:45:20 PM »
That horizontal shock absorber looks ominous. 
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« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2008, 07:37:34 PM »
At my age, if I ever used that much shock travel I would probably puke.

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« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2008, 08:39:29 PM »
Hehe, it's only 7" of travel on the rear and it will be a while before I'll be using the bike to its potential, assuming I still have health insurance  :D
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Re: check out my new ride
« Reply #5 on: May 26, 2008, 08:47:36 PM »
At my age, if I ever used that much shock travel I would probably puke.
:lol

Long ago I read that bikes with shock absorbers require more energy than those without. Now that may not be the case today. However, I think a bike is prudent. Wish I could ride one to work.

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Re: check out my new ride
« Reply #6 on: May 26, 2008, 10:23:42 PM »
:lol

Long ago I read that bikes with shock absorbers require more energy than those without. Now that may not be the case today. However, I think a bike is prudent. Wish I could ride one to work.

Yeah big suspension bikes aren't that good for cross country or just pedaling around since some of your pedaling energy just gets absorbed by the shocks.  But downhill and freeride bike riding wouldn't be possible without big bikes with long travel suspensions so it all depends on the application. 
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Re: check out my new ride
« Reply #7 on: May 27, 2008, 03:01:16 AM »
Well since it's related...
 
My buddy in the group shot wearing the green shirt broke his leg just a few hours after the ride while wrestling another friend in the apartment we were staying at.  I even have it on video and you can hear, on the recording, two distinct pops.  It really sucks too cause we all have a big race coming up which he now won't be able to compete in, and he's good too.
 
Actually this last weekend was just weird.  Arrive friday for a weekend of bike riding.  Friday two of my friends wrestle in the apartment (seperate incident) and one gets knocked into the fridge and starts bleeding like crazy from his head so we take him to the ER.  Then the next day my friend breaks his leg while wrestling my friend who sent my other friend into the fridge.  Then later that day a third friend calls needing a ride to the same ER cause she has mono and it is making her feel like death.  Basically the folks at the hospital were getting to know us a little too well.  My friend with the broken leg didn't know it was broken though, we were thinking it was some soft tissue being torn or stretched since he was able to sorta walk of it, and he doesn't have health insurance so he didn't want to go to the ER.
 
So in a three day weekend, we got one ride in, one head injury, one broken leg, one mono patient withdrawn from school and shipped home to Alaska, and two seperate hospital visits.  Other than that it was great.
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Re: check out my new ride
« Reply #8 on: May 27, 2008, 07:47:16 AM »
i don't want to do any sport where i have to wear body armor. Hospitals, doctors, and pain are not a few of my favorite things.