Well hello, knew about the forum for a while now but just decided to join. Like to start off by saying Hey and showing off my rides.

First off is my street/park/dirtjump ride:





Next is my downhill rig/ DH race rig





Finally my allmountin/ DH race rig





Dobermann should be seeing a matching pink dobermann rigid fork and the wheels painted white, I'd like to get new cranks on the commencal, and the A-line is staying the way it is for a while to come.

First of all Welcome. second how did you manage to post such big pictures, the is a 755 pixels limit, nothing that you did wrong but usually the system won't let you upload bigger pictures, just wondering how you did it

JuanTV wrote:
First of all Welcome. second how did you manage to post such big pictures, the is a 755 pixels limit, nothing that you did wrong but usually the system won't let you upload bigger pictures, just wondering how you did it

lol, I see.. what I did was I just use the ­embed­ code from photobucket. When that didn't work I noticed that the img tags were all caps, so I switched them to lower caps and voila.

I beat the system

You are the man , nice rides BTW

nice I really like the bikes. I have seen ur rides on other
forums before. how do you like the doberman rigid compared to
the manitou fork you had on there? and welcome

Matwashere wrote:
nice I really like the bikes. I have seen ur rides on other forums before. how do you like the doberman rigid compared to the manitou fork you had on there? and welcome

I havn't gotten a Dobermann rigid yet, this is a Kona rigid. But the rigid just feels so much better riding street and park. Have more control over the bike and flows the ramps so much nicer. I havn't gotten a chance to take it dirt jumping yet but hopefully it would still be as nice.

I'm not sure if I want to sell the Gold Label or keep it. I dropped alot of cash on it and it has a place in my heart ... and I may want to go back to it someday.

PS, didn't know if you meant the Dobermann rigid as a bike or you were referring to the fork.

yea just the fork im not into all of these terms haha

they are all nice,im not sure about the fork on the dob. personaly i would not go ridged, but its also not my bike

AWESOME looking bikes, love the commencal, who told you about this site?

So nice. You just keep getting nicer and nicer bikes, first it was the Doberman and the evolution of that. And now the Commencal which is friggen amazing.

How are the 24's treating you?

blaisepage wrote:
AWESOME looking bikes, love the commencal, who told you about this site?

Well I also bum around on the Dropmachine and Pinkbike forum and matt is always ­link­ing stuff from this site. I thought I'd join and see what its all about you know?

EDIT**

Matt you posted like a second before me. Thanks for the comments on my bike man. The 24's are so damn nice. If you don't have 2-4s on your Flow ­frame­, I higly suggest looking at getting a pair.... it'll make it spin even better than it already does.

Post edited by: Jon_Durham, at: 2007/09/17 15:56

^I had those camo stypes on the Cowan before I got rid of both of them.

I did love the 24's, they where lighter and spinning was easier (and with the Cowan I could not spin if it saved my life).

But they looked so weird and after a while I missed the 26's. If I had the money I did in the summer I probably would buy a set of 24's just to try, but im broke and work sucks right now.

that sucks man. See if you can find a cheap used wheel set like I did.

Hey Jon, do you race any of those babies?

JuanTV wrote:
Hey Jon, do you race any of those babies?

Yes I did. This last season I raced only the two Kelso DH's on the A-Line due to family and work issues. Next year I hope to make it to more races. Do you think that the Commencal would be able to handle the courses at say Fortune? I was building it up planning on racing at Horshoe but parts were late coming in and I had to work.

PS. Where can I look to see if you have any snaps of me? In the first race I was plate number 474 and race number two I was plate number 460.

I'm not sure about the fork, Matt B races a stinky with a 66, he will have a better idea.

Jon_Durham wrote:
JuanTV wrote:
Hey Jon, do you race any of those babies?

Yes I did. This last season I raced only the two Kelso DH's on the A-Line due to family and work issues. Next year I hope to make it to more races. Do you think that the Commencal would be able to handle the courses at say Fortune? I was building it up planning on racing at Horshoe but parts were late coming in and I had to work.

PS. Where can I look to see if you have any snaps of me? In the first race I was plate number 474 and race number two I was plate number 460.

That thing'l be fine. I've seen tons of people with 36's and low travel bikes kill it. Fortune isnt that bad, its just finding the right lines.