I'm bored of my On One - anyone got any suggestions for a good XXXC type frame? I want to avoid steel frames ideally, but apart from that have no idea where to start!
Thanks in advance! 🙂
I guess that Ragley thing would be the place to start.
Did you really just use the term XXXC? You just wait!
er what is an XXXC frame?
XXXC?
is this, very cross? (like in cyclo cross)
or
extreme to the max rad cross country?
surely this is like saying "reccomend me a bike"
we need more information?
what parts are going on it?
forks?
aimaing for light weight?
heavy?
"welter" weight?
decender?
climber?
whippet?
brute?
"top-shelf" xc? 😉
You just wait!
😆
anyone got any suggestions for a good XXXC type frame?
So do you want a frame for naked riding? 😯
Or a frame for someone who rides "cross country" and thinks they are to "rad" and "core" for a normal frame? 🙄
Or perhaps the swear filters have got a bit confused? 😕
bored of the bike or bored of riding??
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Bored of the bike.
Have none of you guys ever heard of XXXC ("triple X C")? I thought it was a pretty common term; gets used all over the place. I guess put simply it's basically a more aggressive type of cross country riding.
Are you talking XXXC-lite, rad or core?
"u r xxxc jeyboy" - doesn't have the same ring.
i quite like the term "XXXC". just add more X's the X-treme you (think you) are
"I want to avoid steel frames ideally,"
Well no good asking on this forum then 🙂
Santa Cruz Chameleon
Cove Handjob
Cove Hummer/ Ti456 if you're feeling flush
Can someone clearly define triple x xc for me please. I'm not sure I'm agressive enough...
Btw chameleon or banshee spring to mind.
Add to that list - Stiffee, Kinesis XC 120, Marin Rocky Ridge.
Oh and that Whyte thingy with the slidey dropouts.
isn't XXXC bordering on freeride lite?
a little but with a hint of ambient jeycore
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Nice first post tco.
I look forwards to many more like this......
*envisages some lycra'd n logo'd up little bloke gettin lairy with families/beginners in his way at trail centres* 😮basically a more aggressive type of cross country riding
I think you need to specify your XXXC a bit more...
Are you for example into the flowcore side or perhaps the more FR-Lite-Xtreme? Or are you actually just going to pad up like a wannabe mxer and tell everyone in the Glentress car park how cool you are?
For XXXC it would have to be one of those porno named Cove jobs (take your pick)surely
My scandal is ex-ex xc.ie I used to be cross country,then I stopped,then I started again.Or you're talking bollox.
tis thread is funny 😀
Does shouting aggressively at sheep and rabbits make me xxxc?
I am also at a loss about XXXC - Sounds like taking XC fast and full on? thats sounds like cyclocross to me 🙂
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[i]XXXC[/i] xc for fat barstewards?
Pace RC305 + 130mm fork, light, quick downhill, reasonably quick uphill
Shut up everyone - he just wants a hard tail he can thrash down stuff without worrying.
On-one 456? 😉
why does everyone get on-one when someone asks a daft question..... oooooh see what I did there 🙂
Is XXXC a way of life or a state of mind?
Has it been graded on the 'core equation -
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This thread delivers, without question.
IanMmmm, of course this thread delivers - the OP will be sending it, xxxc style any time now
Rad to the Power of Gnar
I though that was a hyperlink because it was underlined and was puzzled when nothing appeared ... I'm extra thick on Mondays 😆
the boatman lol
I have rice and tomato sauce splattered all over my screen and keyboard now lol
he hee!..I like this!...XXXC hmmm saw a well built guy riding at Nant Y Arian yesterday... team discovery shortsleeve jersey and matching lycra shorts topped off with big knee/shin pads, wish I'd known he was at the forefront of style....XXXC style!
I did a fair bit of XXXC riding this summer and I used a NS Bikes Surge. Did the job on steep climbs and also tore up the descents too.
If you're after another hardtail, I'd recommend this.
Sorry just reread the question and realise you're not after a steel frame!
I'm stumped in that case! Ti Ragley perhaps? I believe that also features the slack/steep ratio preferred for this XXXC business (correct me if I'm wrong!)
It breathes! Give it a year and XXXC will have spread like a nasty rash! Crazy legs might remember its start a few months back... It was so bad it just had to take off. Now it's out there and gaining momentum. Yikes.
Probably more way of life than state of mind though. The only way to be XXXC is to live XXXC, you know?
To be more useful, Alu or Ti ragley are probably the main non-steel options just now.
so did i miss xxc or did things just jump straight from xc to xxxc?
more like a quantum leap than a jump. kaboom!
[i]Crazy legs might remember its start a few months back...[/i]
You're right, there was a thread on here a while back asking "what tyres for XXXC". Now we've got "what frame..."
Pretty soon there'll be a complete bike ready to rip the XXXC scene to the max. 😉
[i]more like a quantum leap than a jump. kaboom! [/i]
Oh and re "quantum leap" - In real physical systems a quantum leap is not necessarily a large change, and can in fact be very insignificant. In the popular sense, the term is usually applied to mean a large or significant change, which is thus not strictly correct. So there.
on one scandal - xc
cotic soul - xxc
on one 456 - xxxc
sc chameleon - xxxxc
dialled alpine - xxxxxc
i'd go for the cotic myself but that might not have enough x's... 😉
In real physical systems a quantum leap is not necessarily a large change
In fact, the size of the change is irrelevant, a quantum change is an immediate change from one position/qty/etc to another rather than a continuous change (eg volume of water in glass when you fill it from a tap) - eg if you have one bike and then get a second, that's a quantum change since you don't progress from 1 to 2 bikes through all the quantities inbetween.
<geek mode off>
it's basically a more aggressive type of cross country riding.
Read: mincing about round Llandegla..?
[i]eg if you have one bike and then get a second, that's a quantum change since you don't progress from 1 to 2 bikes through all the quantities inbetween.[/i]
You might do if you bought it piecemeal off CRC/Wiggle/LBS etc over the course of a couple of months, then built it up.
[/pedantic geek mode]