I rode what you dug last summer

[beno]

one of only 3 in the world! Made in Taiwan to my specs, front triangle is GT Ruckus, rear is Azonic Evolution.
DJ1's
FSA Xdrive Xtreme tubular cromo cranks with 48 spline sealed euro BB-strong as!
Navigator 6 pots f & r
FSA DH bar and stem combo
T.H.E. pad on stem to protect knees and nuts!
A2Z hubs
proto rims
x-pedals

http://www.farkin.net/forums/album_thumbnail.php?pic_id=9133 (http://www.farkin.net/forums/album_pic.php?pic_id=9133)

Lets see if this one pisses anyone off, since my other bike ruffled a few feathers! Oh yeah, recently voted better than a Yeti DJ and a Cannondale Chase at Slam by the local grommets! Sorry Mungus.

[johnny]

Oooh my Chase is getting jelous about the amount of time I'm spending looking at your pic :) What kind of chainguide is that?

Only a spec'd up evil imperial could look tougher than that (or my chase....). Seriously sexy stuff!

[bikeman_baldrik]

are you plannin on sellin those frames cos it looks awesome. Wats the build quality like?
How much would you seel them for?

[monkeymagic]

thats lookin mighty fine! :P

[man]

thats a damn pimpin bike youve got there :D , and the fact thats its one of 3 in the world makes it even better 8)

[beno]

was looking at importing em about 2 years ago, before everybody had a jump bike in their range! Ran into massive legal hassles with Specialized with the name Epic, bastards.

I have had the name floating around in my head for a few years, but never did anything about it until I had the prototypes in the country, and even then I Trademarked it a month before Specialized! All to no avail though, as cash buys justice in this day and age, they've got heaps and I don't!

So if you ever see Michael Sinyard (big kahoona at Specialized) give him a kick in the nutz for me, and if he's already limping i may have got to him first, but give him another kick anyway. Now where are my steelcaps, interbike isn't to far away!

Oh yeah chainguide-FSA chain pimp-dont rate it! gotta love being able to use funky bmx chainrings though!
Frame finish quality is brilliant
and I have.... ahem all 3 of them, the one above, one that i use as my demo for Navigators ask Squidly and richard from BA, lincolin and mick from SIC, Boys at the bike shed how it rides, they all want one. And one spare gathering dust in the wharehouse- hey Squidly tell richard he may be able to talk me into selling that one now!

[Jordy]

isn't epic also a custom made frame producer over here ?

[Dane]

isn't epic also a custom made frame producer over here ?

could you be thinking of ethos?

[cooper]

I thik that it is more than half GT ruckus, being an owner.

yes the fron is the GT style but it looks to me like that chainstay yoke is the same and the bike definatley has the Gt dropouts and hanger. the only diference is no triple triangle boz gusset for the seatsaty/seat tube area.

cool bike though! and specialised u r gay , give the little guy a chance for once

yes i know that iam being anal but i'm board so go figure.....

[j5ive]

Is it that hard to come up with another name "BENO"? ;)

I dig it.

[MUNGUS]

those groms at slam clearly had no idea n e way ben. u probably talked them into saying that

[dh rider]

yeh the bike rides heaps well but every time i tried to ride backwards the chain farked up.

[Rexy]

ah style and lots of it!
so how did they join the two bits of the frame together, it sounds pretty tricky!
so if they did go into production :D how much would one of those beasties retail for?

[tu plang]

ah style and lots of it!
so how did they join the two bits of the frame together, it sounds pretty tricky!
so if they did go into production :D how much would one of those beasties retail for?

id say it would be very similar to they way they put any other hardtail together. :roll:

[Dicky]

... And one spare gathering dust in the warehouse - hey Squidly tell richard he may be able to talk me into selling that one now!

oh really..... :P

well, er, maybe... i was going to buy a car, and Dad says i'm out of allocated bike space in the shed (4 already)....





....but dammit that lil thing was fun. Cheers for lending it to me. aw hell PM me anyway :wink: