Well, it finally arrived - or at least it was given to me today. My
beeeautiful (and relatively cheap! Thanks Darren!) KH24 Freeride
arrived today, after two long long months and one even longer night of
waiting. We bought it for the Bedford halloween sale, so I got a little
bag of candy, some stickers, a bedford hat, and a free KH poster with
it. Pretty rad when you consider it wasn't even full price to start
with. woot, bedord!
I took it out of the box this morning, and having spent lots of time on
krisholm.com staring at all the components, it was kinda surprising how
real they were, but also how small some of the stuff, like the rails
bracket, was. I had to take about an inch off the seatpost, but now it
rides fine.
And there's something else.. for a minute or two, when I was outside, I
doubted. I was riding on pavement, and I couldn't even idle! I couldn't
ww the thing, hoptwists were about the same. The fusion seat is some
sort of crazy low profile thing, and definitely has the dual-density
foam. I took some air out of the tire and hopped around a bit. Very
nice. The spokes need a bit of tension. I was worried that the cranks
would be really long, but that turned out not to be a problem, and I
found the scariest thing was the pinned pedals. After having ridden a
20" freestyle with those little United stick-pedals, it was definitely
weird riding the Snafus. I really stuck to the uni for some of those
upds!
Finally, having had somewhat of a sub-par experience in my driveway, I
decided to take it for a run around the lake. The minute I hit the
trail, everything just snapped into place. I was tractoring up hills
I've never ridden up before, and I didn't actually make it that far
around the lake before a side-trail caught my eye. It looks like
something the local DH bike crew rides, and oh man was it fun! It
intersects and follows a crushed-rock trail now and again with stairs
in it, and I had no problems riding down those. The duro sticks like
glue to anything at all, and before I knew it I was bombing down some
narrow singletrack.
Anyhow, I have to get my girlfriend now so we can go celebrate my
birthday (make of that what you will 😄 ), so my ride wasn't long, but
one thing's for sure, I'm not dissapointed in any way. The thing is a
lean, mean, muni machine. Once I learn to hop a bit I should be set to
pick up some street tricks. wahoo!
Cheers,
Dave
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