Oggy’s got a brand new bike:Update
November 3rd, 2009 @ 12:40 PM
James Brown once sang similar lyrics about his dad and a bag. But Martin “Oggy” Ogden is singing it about his new Haro Slopestyle machine, “The Porter”.
We don’t hear much about Haro these days but this bike looks like a nice simple single pivot machine,the website says “The Porter is about as close to an exact replica to the complete bike that Eric Porter rides. We used most of the same parts he uses on his own bike. Yes, it’s expensive! But like good wine and fast cars, most of the finer things in life are expensive.”
Vague news for UK fans though, I just contacted the UK importers of Haro Bikes and they said “As yet we are unsure if we will be bringing The Porter into the UK”
UpDate: Just spoke to Adam at HaroBikes and he says The Porter will be coming to the UK, the first shipment due in before Christmas with a guide price of around £2200/£2300 which seems like a good deal.
The US specs on The Porter are:
“The Porter”
Frame: Porter Team Replica Slope Style Specific Jump frame; 4.5″ travel
Fork: FOX 36 Float RC2 Custom 100mm Travel and Height for Haro
Shock: Fox Float R
Color: Smurfy Blue
Crankset & Bottom Bracket: Gravity Gap Mega EXO
Front Derailleur: Gravity Chain Guide with PC Bash
Rear Derailleur: Shimano Deore XT Shadow
Freewheel: Shimano HG 61 11-28t 9 speed
Pedals: Pivit Featherlite CNC Thin Pedal
Handlebar & Stem: Gravity Riser bar / Gravity Gap stem
Shifters: Shimano Deore Right Only
Grips: Gravity Lock On
Seat/Seat Post: SDG OPatriot / SDG I-beam Micro Adjust
Hubset: Gravity Wheels
Front Rim/Rear Rim: Gravity Wheels
Front Tire/Rear Tire: Kenda Small Block 8 2.35 R / Kenda Nevegal 2.35 F
Front Brake/Rear Brake: Hayes Stroker Ryde w/ 160mm Rotors F/R
Levers: Hayes Stroker Ryde
MSRP: about $3,350
6 Responses to “Oggy’s got a brand new bike:Update”
November 3rd, 2009 at 1:39 pm
That looks rather tasty eh?
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:04 pm
I’m not so keen Isaac. It looks a little prehistoric
November 3rd, 2009 at 3:22 pm
It looks a wee wippet you could chuck about nice. I remember Oggy ridin 4x at Fort wully think it was 2002 & some dick’ed official wrote off his magic run for a gate incursion or some pants & Oggy marched up the track (holdin up the next run) with rage in his eyes I thought he was gona knock out the jobsworth….superb true grit passion.
November 3rd, 2009 at 4:10 pm
Don’t know about prehistoric. Looks like a nice short-travel take on the Heckler/Bullit idea.
November 3rd, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Exactly!!! Pre Historic!!
November 4th, 2009 at 4:13 am
there are quite a few single pivot ’slopestyle’ bikes knocking about now and that has to be by far the most disgusting of them all
Tell us what you think