Is it or isnt it?

[mi16kie]

Would you class my S+M Chris Bennet as mid or is it just not damn old enough?
I will put pics up if it is mid but dont want to say "hey look at my bike" if its not!

    Pictures on hold........

[Philbert]

i'd say it creeps in there! if its an early one.

the bennet frame kicked of around 98 ish i think. s&m alex will know for definate. but it certainly isn't a new school job thats wafer thin to keep weight down, really low top tube for whips and a maximum chainring of about 33, so i'd entertain it! used to come in a nice beige if i remember right.

[darkersomeday]

i concur,
mid in nature but entering via the back door,

bring forth the photographs post haste!

besides,
bennet fooking rocks!

[SaMAlex]

Id say it is Mid. I try to stick to the 1" S&Ms cos they were the "early years" but the bennet wasnt light weight so it werent NS. Mid is bound to cover A-head as that was smack in the middle of the 90s. Mid has gotta spill into the 2000s a little.

I had a bennet for a while and I really didnt like it. It was that frame (and the Next Gen Dirtbike I had before it) that started me think about the weight of my bike as it was so heavy. I also didnt like the chain stays being below the rear axle and I hated that droopey withbone. I had a PBR after that and that wasnt much better. After those 3 beasts I went back to riding my Challenger, intill the LAF came along and answered everything! I think I got mine in 2000ish but they had been out a while. I dont know when they came out tho.

[mi16kie]

Ok you twisted my arm





    I bought the frame from new when they first came out i had to wait a month or so for seventies to import them and have ridden it ever since.It even still has the original paint
    Its the one i rode at hayle a couple of weeks back with you alex.

[SaMAlex]

Ive always liked that spoke mod you did with the U brake hanger. I was checkin that out again the other week.

Looking good!!!!


(I thought mi16kie was you, but I wasnt sure. Bloooody "user names"  )

[darkersomeday]

nice, looks heavy

the tt wishbone is like a big fat droopy dick,

i loved the big box section dt wishbones on these too,

check out the brake mods, tech shit!

milk bars?

standard stem on an s&m though wtf were you thinking!?
you know what you've made it with that dont you......?

 

[harris]

nice solid ride,strange mix of parts  but looks bomb proof 

[SaMAlex]

hey Harris, you gotta be lovin that gyro. Someone other than you has got one!

[harris]

   i just binned 2 off mine as i couldnt stand the flack over the last year     

[mi16kie]

Dont diss the UFO!!!!!   I have got a blue one at work as a key fob
   The stem was from my standard sta before the s+m and the rest has just kind of evolved.It wasnt built as a mid bike it is just what has happened. If it aint broke dont fix it.  Or as my mate says  "if it aint broke fix it till it is!"

[Lazarou]

I've got an S&M stem on a Standard, didn't realise there was a stigma attached!

[SaMAlex]

wow there Laz. Next thing you are going to say you have a profile chainring on primo cranks! That will push DSD over the edge! 


I am a bit of a sucker for having everything S&M but I think it shows more thought if you use a frame from one company but like a stem or forks from another. In the mid 90s I saw a girl cycle past who had an early A-head dirtbike and standard stem. I imagined that she had put loads of thought into the stem, and the fact that she wanted a bit more rise that a redneck gave, and as a result, I was madly in love with her. When I eventualy got to know her it turned out that the shop she got the bike from didnt have any other A-head stems so she had to get the standard one! (I was still madly in love with her for ages! ha ha)

[harris]

mixing parts     no i wouldnt even concider that   

[Lazarou]

mixing parts     no i wouldnt even concider that   

   Of course not Dan!

[harris]

that was rather subtle laz  cheers   

[Philbert]

i've used a standard frame with some generation of redneck for the last 7 years. best combo i've found!

unfortunately if you don't dis the ufo, theres not really a lot else that can be said about them. harris, congratulations on binning said item

[MartyC]

I like the style of that, very chunky but effective