The thing that he’s getting from his custom frame that you won’t from a production frame is tubes chosen for diameter and wall thickness to suit rider weight and frame geometry and result in a desired ride. You’re never getting close to that in a production frame because they have to just over engineer it to fit enough people to make money off it.
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Skinny seat tube means shorter droppers…
Does a skinny seat tube even matter on an mtb? Considering most of the length up to the saddle will be seatpost and you just need just the right amount of tube to get maximum usable post for your saddle height.
You’d think that. My friend was riding his skinny tubed mtb using a long rigid post so… wait wasn’t there a similar custom HT post on tarck sometime ago. Like deep custom, used for a specific application TAF colours maybe, or was I dreaming
dropper to post ratio is all wrong on that bike
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I honestly don’t really understand the need for the super long travel droppers. I have a 125, am 6 feet tall, and am much more likely to buzz my ass on the back tire than get hung up on the saddle when the dropper is all the way down.
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Long drop is for that side to side lean not off the back ATMO.
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Long dropper looks awesome because it’s almost like it’s just a regular seatpost and then it disappears.
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Cuz you shouldn’t quite be hanging off the back buzzing your behind. Sure it happens sometimes but your weight should really be more in the middle of your bike than that if you want to be in control and not just along for the ride. I noticed a big diff going from a 180 to a 210. Atmo ymmv haven’t ridden up the hill behind town since December cuz snow lol.
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I used to think this. Then i got a longer dropper.
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I think a 27.2 post is 95% of the ride quality feel in this case. Regardless of 28.6 seattube or shimmed into bigger.
I guess you could say 28.6 seat tube indicates other wiggle-bike adjacent design choices but that seems overly optimistic for factory.
Not sure about droppers, I have a 27.2 PNW Coast and it gives me nothing flex wise. Meanwhile bottom dollar kalloy rigid post can be visibly flexed by hand and at times feels similar to riding a elastomer post.
Lukes right.
Low and centered, not back.
It also depends on your proportions. Folks with longer legs tend to like a lot more dropper than their long torso short leg counterparts, for obvious reasons.
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This would mostly be on steep rock rolls/slabs where you have to get your weight back if you want to brake at all.
New England isn’t known for flow.
That’s when you get in trouble touching the back wheel. If you go over the edge of a rock roll and your wheel pushes your butt forward, you end up going otb. Trying to get forward is scary and counterintuitive but feels much better. You’ll see people with skills I don’t have actually hopping over some ledges, rear wheel up in the air, because otherwise their chainring would scrape as they go over. This is why I get back into push-ups last week after a winter recess lol.
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gives ya some wiggle room to slam ya caboose back further if ya really goin OTB
if you ever dropped into a qtr / half pipe, you aint scrubbin the tyre w yr nuts
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Shorter dropper is lighter overall and IIRC the way this bike was to be ridden it was the perfect choice.
I tried it out and it was so light it would be scary riding it where you’d want a big dropper
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