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I have an 09 Specialized Epic I like to ride, but have an Schwinn 01 Rocket 88 frame I am assembling the bits to build.
I think the SweetSpot bikes were (and still are) underappreciated. Still trying to figure out exactly why—I mean, of course it’s individual preference but I’ve always felt the variable shock rate was a smart implementation for a suspension design. Some of those full suspension designs were boing boing bob-city.
MyTomato, beautiful bike! Really dig the component choice!
Livernose, I found my 4-Banger on a local Craigslist and my 1995 full suspension through the Homegrown Facebook group.
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Moby, So true. The sweetspot with an air shock rides very similar to an Epic. With a little body english the shock can lock-out or be full floating without flipping a switch or relying on valve trickery. People say the carbon HG at 6lbs is heavy when in fact the weight is the same as a epic alloy and a C-Dale superV with Risse air shock i weighed a little while back.
The weight discussion is a non-issue. The HG framesets were amongst the lightest at the time. I think haters used to bring that up when they ran out of other things to pick on.
Those Cannondales were definitely pigs though. More downhilling, and less XC style. Horrible to pedal uphills.
[/quote]A friend of mine is still riding a Cannondale Super V. It’s a cool looking bike and nice for XC, but he let me ride it in hilly terrain one day and it bounced a lot pedaling uphill.
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I loved my Super V and if i was a cannondale superfan i would have kept it. There amazing with a Prophet swingarm and fox rear shock.
That’s legit. My experience has with the V’s have been with much lower spec’d ones and/or ones that weren’t tuned properly, so maybe I got a bad sample.
[/quote]Nice to see some vintage Homegrowns are still out there racing. What might be some of the comments you get from guys with the newer bikes?
There was a guy that designed a Homegrown jersey that was awesome. I bought one for myself, my son, and my daughter. He got a pre order and they went quick.
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