Yes! I’d love to test ride one 
What I hate most about QBP carrying Hope. Come one, man, you know I want that purp purp. Just give it to me.
They misspelled STORN.
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Fuck, that is cool. And to have that single speed silence on a big bike would be incredible.
It’s real squeaky in the video.
Squeaky holds nothing to the clanging around of the chain against every fucking stay imaginable. Okay, maybe that was just my Intense, that I tentatively got a mech at the shop to buy after he does his taxes.
too rad not to post. my coworker just got himself a super sick new hardtail ripper. this bike is amazing. the chainstay yoke is awesome and the whole thing is basically flawless.
watching it come together over the last few weeks, i flipped my scalpel and picked up a honzo frame to do my best approximation at having something similar, which i’m very stoked for.
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Damn, he really went for it with XX1 and all the kashima.
V nice.
Ca$hima atmo
that is basically the ideal bike for my geographic location and preferred riding style
Ok mtb friends, should I buy a 2018 Transition Sentinel with NX for $2100? My only concern is it might not match the type of riding there is around here because there isn’t much wide open fast stuff. But on the other hand we have lots of steeps and big-ass rocks and I’ve been dying to ride these trails on a big boinger.
Price is good and bike is fire, I’d say go for it!
I’m thinking it’s brakes and maybe due to all the dry af dust it’s squeaky.
If set up properly it’s probably as silent as my Starling, I only hear tyres on the ground and 0% rattling/squeaking…
Thom reviews a big enduro bike he’s had for the last year in MA. I think he surprised him how good big bikes are these days.
The dirtwire people are always so cagey when people ask in the IG comments about the locations of the trails they ride; it bums me out because I’d like to find more rocky and techy trails near me. I guess they’re either poaching or on private property.
thom built a lot of those trails himself and is generally a huge grouch
i guess what happens is people learn about “his” trails and then build runarounds and generally make the trails less gnar
and then he gets sad
This has happened on some of the trails I ride and it makes me sad too. The twist is that in one area it was done by the original trail builder.
I mean, I guess just got to JRA and they would probably tell you where/when they’d ride there.
Beyond the high school/early college overtures of “Over the passage of time” shit, this is pretty cool riding video shot in the northeast.
Trumbull, CT
Beacon, NY
Blue Mountain outside Peekskill, NY
These are all accessible by every-hour local light rail from NYC. God I wish this person would get back to me about the bike I posted this morning so I could go ride it at one of these next weekend.
And yeah I skipped all the narrative and muted the vid lol
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lmk if ur out at one of these spots.
tbh fatter and slower than ever.