Post by kirky72 on Nov 1, 2014 20:14:01 GMT
I took the canyon hardtail out for the first ride since building it up this morning.
I've had a rotten cold for a couple of weeks and only ridden a couple of times since the end of August due to trips and illness so I didn't think I would venture to far. I told the mrs I may be just an hour if I'm struggling to breath.
3.5 hours and 25 miles and a lot of long climbs later around the hills of Hapton and linking up with the Mary Townley loop I finally arrived home feeling a little leggy but not too knackered really, fairing much better than expected, perhaps the carbon whippet helped.
The first few miles were mostly a steep climb which the bike coped with rather well, I've not been on this particular route before so can't really compare but I can't think that any previous bikes would have got me to the top in such relative ease. The only problems I had were down to the crappy rear tyre slipping out on the muddier sections and reared and occurred several times during the ride with a few sideways skids here and there.
On the flat, downhill and not to gnarly trails it flew along nicely reacting to every pedal turn. I felt that I had to try hard to reel it in a bit on some bumpier sections that I would normally plough through, partly due to wanting to protect the frame but also reduce the buffeting I was getting myself. Some adjustment back to the hardtail from the full suss maybe needed here.
Instead of looking for something to pop off I was looking for the cleanest smoothest lines which is something I've not been accustomed to doing.
The 40t cassette 32 chainring was just about enough, some sections I was close to needing more but coped, although I didn't get around to testing it out on the notorious climb from widdop res to gorple.
The guide brakes seem fairly excellent so far, I had to cut them down when fitting and lost some fluid from the reservoir due yo not tightening the adjuster nut enough however they felt great, lots of power but can be put down in a nicely measured way. Absolutely none of the old avid turkey gobble despite me only fitting one of the new type rotors and driving through many different flavours of livestock shit and mud for long periods.
im glad I've stuck the 120mm rebas on as I bottomed out quite a lot so I think I will stick with these rather than dropping to 100mm as intended for the frame.
Overall I'm pretty chuffed with the build so far, I'm sure it will be massively improve with some light cx type wheels and I have my eye on some already but will run the current ones through winter and then upgrade next April or May. I can already see this steed carrying me around the MTO challenge next September.
obligatory gunner style photos below but couldn't find a fence so used the MTL monument just before the steep grassy descent to Holme which was fun today being quite wet.
I've had a rotten cold for a couple of weeks and only ridden a couple of times since the end of August due to trips and illness so I didn't think I would venture to far. I told the mrs I may be just an hour if I'm struggling to breath.
3.5 hours and 25 miles and a lot of long climbs later around the hills of Hapton and linking up with the Mary Townley loop I finally arrived home feeling a little leggy but not too knackered really, fairing much better than expected, perhaps the carbon whippet helped.
The first few miles were mostly a steep climb which the bike coped with rather well, I've not been on this particular route before so can't really compare but I can't think that any previous bikes would have got me to the top in such relative ease. The only problems I had were down to the crappy rear tyre slipping out on the muddier sections and reared and occurred several times during the ride with a few sideways skids here and there.
On the flat, downhill and not to gnarly trails it flew along nicely reacting to every pedal turn. I felt that I had to try hard to reel it in a bit on some bumpier sections that I would normally plough through, partly due to wanting to protect the frame but also reduce the buffeting I was getting myself. Some adjustment back to the hardtail from the full suss maybe needed here.
Instead of looking for something to pop off I was looking for the cleanest smoothest lines which is something I've not been accustomed to doing.
The 40t cassette 32 chainring was just about enough, some sections I was close to needing more but coped, although I didn't get around to testing it out on the notorious climb from widdop res to gorple.
The guide brakes seem fairly excellent so far, I had to cut them down when fitting and lost some fluid from the reservoir due yo not tightening the adjuster nut enough however they felt great, lots of power but can be put down in a nicely measured way. Absolutely none of the old avid turkey gobble despite me only fitting one of the new type rotors and driving through many different flavours of livestock shit and mud for long periods.
im glad I've stuck the 120mm rebas on as I bottomed out quite a lot so I think I will stick with these rather than dropping to 100mm as intended for the frame.
Overall I'm pretty chuffed with the build so far, I'm sure it will be massively improve with some light cx type wheels and I have my eye on some already but will run the current ones through winter and then upgrade next April or May. I can already see this steed carrying me around the MTO challenge next September.
obligatory gunner style photos below but couldn't find a fence so used the MTL monument just before the steep grassy descent to Holme which was fun today being quite wet.
