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Willie_B

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Same thing only different
« on: March 04, 2008, 06:02:24 pm »
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Re: Same thing only different
« Reply #1 on: March 05, 2008, 07:44:27 am »
A horst link 856. Judging by the canti brakes, Girvin vector, 24 speed, and fully active swingarm front pivot, this would make it circa 94 or 95?
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Re: Same thing only different
« Reply #2 on: March 05, 2008, 12:44:17 pm »
It looks like the weird love child of proflex 855 and an amp b3 :-\ :o,  retro chic though!
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Re: Same thing only different
« Reply #3 on: March 10, 2008, 05:10:50 pm »
Hmmm Amp b3.

So the amp has a strut with cone mounted or something to the shock, and swung inside of the seatstay. I wonder what it would take to mount a carbon swingarm to my diamondback response? Would make it a Diamondflex? Them put my crosslink on the front and it could be a Diamondflexlink? ???

I think I have been sitting at this desk too long. ;D

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Re: Same thing only different
« Reply #4 on: March 27, 2008, 04:49:53 am »
Anyone remember the long travel kits that RDI made for the 855/6 bikes.... I tested one of Callums for a while and it was super plush.... bit heavier, but so smooooooth....

Don't have any pictures sadly...

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Re: Same thing only different
« Reply #5 on: March 27, 2008, 09:23:06 am »
Something like this?
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Re: Same thing only different
« Reply #6 on: March 27, 2008, 03:54:38 pm »
Thats it!

I always thought that they were pig ugly... until I rode one and oh my goodness.... so plush, I loved it.... Is that yours?

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Re: Same thing only different
« Reply #7 on: March 27, 2008, 05:36:41 pm »
Yes. Got it last year for very little on eBay as nobody else bid on it. Still tuning it as I need a stiffer rear spring.
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Re: Same thing only different
« Reply #8 on: March 28, 2008, 12:39:46 am »
I'm after one of them if anybody has one going cheap. Saw one on ebay UK last year but it went for £40-odd...
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Re: Same thing only different
« Reply #9 on: March 28, 2008, 01:54:37 am »
Quote from: Willie_B on March 27, 2008, 05:36:41 pm
Yes. Got it last year for very little on eBay as nobody else bid on it. Still tuning it as I need a stiffer rear spring.

Callum at RDI has stiffer springs for those...

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