Rose custom builds
The guys from Rose Bikes UK are at Fort Bill to support four-cross and downhill racer Katy Curd and they had two interesting-looking custom builds on their stand. First up is a Verdita Green – the women's equivalent of the Granite Chief – which has been transformed from a 140mm-travel trail muncher into a 100mm playbike thanks to some fettling of the Fox Float R rear shock by TF Tuned.
It's the personal bike of Rose/TFT's Greg Marshall, who told BikeRadar: "The stroke of the shock has been reduced internally, which has sunk the whole bike down, and it also has a firmer platform. It started out like a jump bike but it's turned into a sort of four-cross/play bike. It's really nice." Why the women's frame? It's the equivalent of an extra-small men's bike, making it easy to chuck about.
Despite the bombproof build – including a Fox TALAS fork, single chainring and Gamut chain device, Shimano DX flat pedals, Spank jump bar and stem, and Formula The One brakes – it's surprisingly light. Rose didn't have any scales on hand but a non-scientific pick-up test suggests it's certainly sub-30lb.
Also on the stand was Rose UK main man Finlay Paton's custom Beef Cake SL. He reckons this 180mm-travel rig weighs just 37lb, including pedals. And that's without cutting any performance corners – the Fox 36 fork and Van R shock are both coil rather than air units (ignore the TALAS stickers on the fork – it has custom coil internals courtesy of TFT), and component swaps could easily shave off another couple of pounds
Taken from bikeradar
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