Your ride today....

[Elybazza61]

Bikes looking great ! Love the Orange / Anodised colour coding in with the Decals. My OCD approves hugely 🙏

It's not quite right as the Faran graphics are more of a copper colour but the Hope orange has toned down a bit with age so matches a bit better ; originally had looked at Chris King as one of their colours was a closer match but couldn't justify the price increase over Hope and also annoyingly missed out on Hopes Bronze that was unavailable when I got the frame.

 

[sevenfourate]

It's not quite right as the Faran graphics are more of a copper colour but the Hope orange has toned down a bit with age so matches a bit better ; originally had looked at Chris King as one of their colours was a closer match but couldn't justify the price increase over Hope and also annoyingly missed out on Hopes Bronze that was unavailable when I got the frame.

It’s always impossible to cross match exact shades (Of Anodising) across Brands of colours. I should know from trying on numerous BMX’s. Some colours bring worse than others.

Add that into different production years, batches, manufacturers etc. And also then add in trying to match rubber and plastic parts to those metal parts - it’s an OCD nightmare if you let it be…..

To be fair though - even some (Most ?) expensive Factory fresh bikes exhibit those traits. I should still say yours look great !

 

[cosmicbike]

A rather fab, mostly off road through forest trails and gravel tracks, including having to wait for the ball whackers at Sunningdale golf club (they were in groups of 8, took me a minute to realise they all had caddies, how the other half lives eh....). Perfect weather and met lots of dogs including greyhounds who I try and stop by for a chat. Just over 23 miles makes this the longest in a few years. Onwards and upwards. A brief pause at the end of the runway at Fairoaks.

 

[Elybazza61]

Spin out on the Helium today mostly as a shake-down as it hasn't been ridden for a while and have a 'reunion' unofficial club ride on Saturday.

47km at a brisk 28.6kmh including a slow cool down around the 'village' ;it's much faster than the other bikes but also more uncomfortable as the Helium is very racy and has a long reach.

Mostly ok but have the occasional 'crack' when going over any big bumps etc; I did re-set the headset and torqued to spec but I'll have another look to see if I can spot what it is including checking the seat-post and saddle, I'll probably drop the fork to double check there's nothing nasty going on with the steerer.