I hope everyone had a lovely Christmas and managed to spend time with family or friends.
We had a very lovely relaxed Christmas with the three of us and the pets.This year I built Caleb up a new/old bike. He has been growing like a weed the last year and while he still uses his Hardrock for going about I noticed he isn't riding it as much, then noticed he is getting a lot taller. When he has gone mtb riding with his friends he takes my Pugsley or the 1X1.
As we recently finally finished putting his Wester Ross road bike together I decided to build him up a Surly Karate Monkey 29'er. Only this Christmas give him the complete finished bike.
He rides my Pugsley when we go mtb riding as he doesn't have a proper off roader as his Hardrock is set up for touring and he loves all the Surlys about the house so even though the frame for this was second hand I wanted it to be for him and not one of my hand me downs. So I bought a frame a couple of months ago and hid it in the loft and then slowly put the parts aside. Then the week before Christmas I started putting it together.
It's a really nice 2006 Metallic Skid Mark brown Karate Monkey.
It's set up 1 x 9 as is my Pugsley as he likes that, it's fitted with Mary bars as he loves those on his Hardrock and the back of the tandem, BB7 brakes as simple, effective and easily adjusted and some really nice wheels that Brian built up, XT hubs with Kris Holm 40mm 29'er unicycle rims, double walled and holed to which I fitted a night sky rim tape. A massive thank you to Brian for building these.
Came up really nice and he was shocked to see a bike under the tree, to say he was pleased was an understatement.
Hope everyone has had a nice one.
Jamie
He rides my Pugsley when we go mtb riding as he doesn't have a proper off roader as his Hardrock is set up for touring and he loves all the Surlys about the house so even though the frame for this was second hand I wanted it to be for him and not one of my hand me downs. So I bought a frame a couple of months ago and hid it in the loft and then slowly put the parts aside. Then the week before Christmas I started putting it together.
It's a really nice 2006 Metallic Skid Mark brown Karate Monkey.
It's set up 1 x 9 as is my Pugsley as he likes that, it's fitted with Mary bars as he loves those on his Hardrock and the back of the tandem, BB7 brakes as simple, effective and easily adjusted and some really nice wheels that Brian built up, XT hubs with Kris Holm 40mm 29'er unicycle rims, double walled and holed to which I fitted a night sky rim tape. A massive thank you to Brian for building these.
Came up really nice and he was shocked to see a bike under the tree, to say he was pleased was an understatement.
Hope everyone has had a nice one.
Jamie
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ReplyDeleteIt is lovely to see ones offspring coming along and growing in confidence.....and size....and then one's own bike gets borrowed..!!
That is a nice present!