I don't really like this post but I will put it up anyways. I just sold my prized possession. The Transition BottleRocket which I had in dream configuration is gone. Someone purchased it on eBay and I dropped it and the spare parts off at the bike shop tonight and they are going to take care of shipping it so it was the last time I will ever see it.
Let me remaniss about this bike...
I sold a slingshot farmboy 29er for at least a $300 loss and a transition Vagrant at an $1100 (I know) loss to purchase this bike for $1500. I got the bike and soon realized why it was 1500... shit parts all around, only thing I kept original on the bike literally were the handlebars, every single other piece from bottom bracket to the headset was replaced with new or new take off from another bike.
Everything purchased from Tree Fort Bikes or eBay. I swapped the parts with the vagrant before I sold that so I got wheels, and brakes from that. Everything else had to be replaced.
The marzocchi 66 ETA it came with had seen better days, replaced with a new take off rock shox dominion coil which I converted to u-turn. New headset that wasn't a 1 and one eighth conversion headset, new stem for the 1.5" steerer tube, new cranks cause his were a joke, new pedals, then a Yess ETR-D tensioner and a single speed kit and tadah... I had my dream bike, a slopestyle/freeride single speed bottlerocket.
I had the bike from november to now in may and it saw dirt... ZERO times. Work, location, lack of riding buddies has caused my complete lapse in freeriding. I have been trail riding 2-3 times a week this season so far but there is nothing within 4 hours that resembles a lift park.
Financially it was the right thing to do though, now I have funds to put towards the Sunday Model-C which I'm not 100% sure I'll ride much more! Ha!
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