herzalot
iMTB Hooligan
I agree with you completely, for maybe the second time in my life.
Tempted by the Fruit of Another: Tallboy vs. Blur TR
- Thread starter Cyclotourist
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iMTB Rockstah
What!?!? You're kidding right? Is your memory waning like mine? I have a Revel Ranger
herzalot
iMTB Hooligan
I just wanted you to say it, given the direction this thread went!
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iMTB Rockstah
Your face is telling me the oppisite, they blow...Revels suck.
BTW I LOVE my Tallcan. But mine is the generation after yours.
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herzalot
iMTB Hooligan
I've made that stupid puffer face when playing sports all my life. Great basketball picture in my HS yearbook with that face!Your face is telling me the oppisite, they blow...
BTW I LOVE my Tallcan. But mine is the generation after yours.
Cyclotourist
iMTB Hooligan
Well, I committed to the Tallboy today! Check out the upgrade:
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iMTB Rockstah
Whoa! That's a game changerWell, I committed to the Tallboy today! Check out the upgrade:
Cyclotourist
iMTB Hooligan
Didn't know what I was missing!!!Whoa! That's a game changer
Runs with Scissors
iMTB Hooligan
Well, I committed to the Tallboy today! Check out the upgrade:
Yep, those are some awesome pedals!!!
Tom the Bomb
iMTB Rockstah
niiiice!Well, I committed to the Tallboy today! Check out the upgrade:
Cyclotourist
iMTB Hooligan
No half-commitments here!Yep, those are some awesome pedals!!!
Cyclotourist
iMTB Hooligan
Nice red sticker! We all know red is faster
pperrelle
iMTB Rockstah
Definitely more aero. That should gain you 5 watts.Well, I committed to the Tallboy today! Check out the upgrade:
Cyclotourist
iMTB Hooligan
At a minimum!
Cyclotourist
iMTB Hooligan
Welp, looks like I have a new bike.
Seller dropped the price, threw in an extra fork (original 32 step cast) and met me half way in Murrieta.
Even with the updated rear axle, what could I have done otherwise?
I got it home and swapped out wheels with the ones on the TB3 as the Blur has brand new wheels that I didn't want to besmirch them with common dirt. I'll keep the fancy (Onyx/Reserve) wheels with the Blur, figure out tires at a later date.
VERY quick little ride up to the local park, and that thing is fast. Effortlessly. Climbs up a wall with hardly any effort it felt like. I actually took the hard line by accident and it just went up it. For my local trails, I think this will be the right bike. Revel Rangers on sale were VERY tempting, but my garage can always make room for an other Santa Cruz product! Need to put some miles on it, and make a choice, Sophie.
Comparing and contrasting:
Seller dropped the price, threw in an extra fork (original 32 step cast) and met me half way in Murrieta.
Even with the updated rear axle, what could I have done otherwise?
I got it home and swapped out wheels with the ones on the TB3 as the Blur has brand new wheels that I didn't want to besmirch them with common dirt. I'll keep the fancy (Onyx/Reserve) wheels with the Blur, figure out tires at a later date.
VERY quick little ride up to the local park, and that thing is fast. Effortlessly. Climbs up a wall with hardly any effort it felt like. I actually took the hard line by accident and it just went up it. For my local trails, I think this will be the right bike. Revel Rangers on sale were VERY tempting, but my garage can always make room for an other Santa Cruz product! Need to put some miles on it, and make a choice, Sophie.
Comparing and contrasting:
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iMTB Rockstah
Merry xmas!Welp, looks like I have a new bike.
Seller dropped the price, threw in an extra fork (original 32 step cast) and met me half way in Murrieta.
Even with the updated rear axle, what could I have done otherwise?
I got it home and swapped out wheels with the ones on the TB3 as the Blur has brand new wheels that I didn't want to besmirch them with common dirt. I'll keep the fancy (Onyx/Reserve) wheels with the Blur, figure out tires at a later date.
VERY quick little ride up to the local park, and that thing is fast. Effortlessly. Climbs up a wall with hardly any effort it felt like. I actually took the hard line by accident and it just went up it. For my local trails, I think this will be the right bike. Revel Rangers on sale were VERY tempting, but my garage can always make room for an other Santa Cruz product! Need to put some miles on it, and make a choice, Sophie.
Comparing and contrasting:
herzalot
iMTB Hooligan
I'm confused. Is the one in back with the gold seatpost and more red color the Blur? Or is that the trusty Tallboy? Which is which here?Welp, looks like I have a new bike.
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And if the red one is the Blur - which I think it is, cross-referencing with your other post and looking at the skinny seatstays, why on earth would you take a photo of it behind your old bike? Sacrilege! Blasphemy!
Cyclotourist
iMTB Hooligan
Red = Blur; Orange = Tallboy
Yeah, should have staged it better for its introduction to society. Order just worked out that way. Basically the same bike which is kinda' funny. Blur is lighter with a 120 fork vs 130, and 100 rear vs 120. Head and seat tubes are ~1^ steeper. But other than that... It's just made in China factory products.
Probably the bike I should have bought originally TBH. But I couldn't have afforded it new. Five years of depreciation makes it quite attainable!
Cyclotourist
iMTB Hooligan
OK, the proper order of things!
New Blur -> Red and in front
Old Tallboy -> Orange behind
Blur actually looks a little slacker, but it's the opposite!
New Blur -> Red and in front
Old Tallboy -> Orange behind
Blur actually looks a little slacker, but it's the opposite!