My Pelago rack has a 30 lb capacity, but I don’t know if I’d want to navigate trail with that much on the front end.
You gotta set it up so the chainsaw makes the wheels turn
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I just tried to jam my chainsaw into an old Chrome bag. It barely fit and was very uncomfortable. It looks like I have an old Blackburn rack around I could throw on back. That + straps should be decent. I don’t think weight up front is a good idea here.
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I couldn’t figure a safe way to strap the chainsaw onto my front rack and I don’t have a rear rack on any of the bikes I have near the rail trail. I’m also pretty sure I’m not supposed to be running around the rail trail with a chainsaw so I’m looking for a sort of concealed carry situation.
My Clydesdale is probably the obvious solution here.
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They make backpacks for chainsaws
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This $350 EVOC pack looks kind of like my kid’s Easton baseball backpack. I could try loading the chainsaw into that?
Yeah @paris im kind of in the same position of not being authorized to be chainsawing in there. But I think no one cares.
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Silky Big Boy is concealed carry chainsaw, according to the tip of my thumb.
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Just walk in with the saw bros
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Multiple valid ways to do this my dudes
This grintech-based Benno ebike is our current attempt at a dedicated backcountry trail clearing bike for toting a chainsaw or brushcutter along with gear
On that initial upper clearing ride I had a KatanaBoy over my shoulder
On a top-to-bottom ride the next day we just carried a BigBoy and Gomboy for surprise treefall
And today I hiked up a few miles from the bottom with this gas saw handheld to clear some bigger logs
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IMHO it’s a relatively narrow set of circumstances where electric saws make sense
have to know there’s enough bigger trees that you wouldn’t take care of it easier with a Silky saw, but limited enough in scope to not burn right through the batteries
The Benno’s cycletruck-style basket is presumably less of a handful off road than a fork-attached basket, right?
I still really want a KatanaBoy.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
they are kinda just two handfuls
the frame-attached front basket can’t have the chainsaw vertically because the wheel would hit the bar, also projects the weight in space, is bouncier to the cargo, and keeps the headlight from turning
I forgot this part but I remembered hinging at the hips and keeping my arms bent enough to be able to extend and absorb. More muscle recruitment in my lower back with that position so I might be feeling that tomorrow morning.
Once I got over it feeling like I was going to fly OTB, I got to enjoy a lot more traction on the front wheel. Set a good amount of descending PRs at a place I haven’t ridden in months.
Also, new wheels feel fantastic and I set a bunch of climbing PRs, too.
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I found my old BC skiing Dakine pack which does a solid job of holding my 12" electric chainsaw. It’s made to carry a pair of skis strapped together and slung diagonally across the back. The top ski loop is perfect for holding the bar upright. Maybe I’ll ride out and clear some trees tomorrow.
I’m still tempted to buy myself a katana boy though. It would work great for surreptitiously clearing old logging roads on my neighbors’ property for cross-country skiing.
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Cut a slot in plywood for the chainsaw blade and sandwich screwed it to my rack.
Seemed to hold up fine on a shakedown ride. Into the woods next.
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Opened up the super deluxe coil I got in order to change an internal part, so that I could change the stroke. Almost got it done in like an hour, but then wasn’t sure if some parts of the rebuild I skipped just to get to the hydraulic bottom out bolt I needed to replace were necessary or not to get a good bleed, so I went back in, and then back in again. Shim stacks falling apart randomly every time (At least rockshox has great documentation on these–I’ve learned a lot about shim stacks!).
Think I also potentially cross-threaded a bleed port where a grub screw goes, so now I’ve also ordered a new $30 part just in case, and the shim stacks will have to come off again. There’s this wonderful step where you’ve got red loctite on the piston shaft thread and are threading putting your shim stacks onto the shaft, past the threads. Good grief. Of course there was zero loctite on those threads when I first took the shock apart because fuck that. I think I’ve got a great idea for keeping loctite and shims apart while I do this, so at least I get to try it now.
Really messy but unfortunately this is how I learn?
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I need some tokens for a Bomber fork, but Marzocchi doesn’t sell em from what I can find. Is there a Fox equivalent?
If it’s a recent Marzocchi they are the Fox spacers - I put a second one in my 130mm Z2 and the factory installed one was Fox branded.
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