Comments on: Emmitt Smith http://mysticnegro.com/kranky3/2009/06/27/emmitt-smith/ Sweet Jumping Jeehoosifat It's Cold. Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:50:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Matt Stahl http://mysticnegro.com/kranky3/2009/06/27/emmitt-smith/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Matt Stahl Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:28:28 +0000 http://mysticnegro.com/kranky3/2009/06/27/emmitt-smith/#comment-39 Well I talked to the guys at Macneil months ago about this frame. From what they told me they have been testing it for about two years now. I agree that super thin tubing is a scary deal but lets take a tour of my current mountain bike made by none other than eastern. This is all you need to know about my mountain bike. The Frame in only 5.4lbs, its a hard tail and I havent snapped it yet. So maybe Macneil knows something about frame building the rest of us don't. You can bet money that I will be getting one of these new deuce deuce's hopefully by the end of the year. I'll be sure to try to break the shit out of it. Also on a healthy note! I am officially quitting smoking! Well I talked to the guys at Macneil months ago about this frame. From what they told me they have been testing it for about two years now. I agree that super thin tubing is a scary deal but lets take a tour of my current mountain bike made by none other than eastern. This is all you need to know about my mountain bike. The Frame in only 5.4lbs, its a hard tail and I havent snapped it yet. So maybe Macneil knows something about frame building the rest of us don’t. You can bet money that I will be getting one of these new deuce deuce’s hopefully by the end of the year. I’ll be sure to try to break the shit out of it.

Also on a healthy note! I am officially quitting smoking!

]]> By: Noel http://mysticnegro.com/kranky3/2009/06/27/emmitt-smith/comment-page-1/#comment-27 Noel Mon, 29 Jun 2009 05:02:40 +0000 http://mysticnegro.com/kranky3/2009/06/27/emmitt-smith/#comment-27 Standover is an issue, for sure, if you want to keep the frame proportional, but I also have to wonder about the razor-thin tubing on this bike: thin walled and quintuple-butted tubing on an unusually long bike can't exactly help things structurally. 4.9 pounds is great and all, but on a bike whose wheelbase is longer than the USS Nimitz I have to wonder what happens when I'm jumping a box jump backwards and overshoot the tight landing. It's harsh enough when I land flat...what if Matt Stahl does it on a bike like this? I have visions of even a 25T chainwheel scraping the ground. My next frame will probably be a Solid or FBM custom (with a standover that casts an intimidating shadow over any Killorado within glaring distance). Standover is an issue, for sure, if you want to keep the frame proportional, but I also have to wonder about the razor-thin tubing on this bike: thin walled and quintuple-butted tubing on an unusually long bike can’t exactly help things structurally. 4.9 pounds is great and all, but on a bike whose wheelbase is longer than the USS Nimitz I have to wonder what happens when I’m jumping a box jump backwards and overshoot the tight landing. It’s harsh enough when I land flat…what if Matt Stahl does it on a bike like this? I have visions of even a 25T chainwheel scraping the ground.

My next frame will probably be a Solid or FBM custom (with a standover that casts an intimidating shadow over any Killorado within glaring distance).

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