iirc that one had slots for using hose clamps/zippies to attach wherever. seemed like a nice cage
go, go tarck photoshoop
Nice to see a couple burros in the MAKED show coverage, but dear lord this gearing on a 20" is just ridiculous.
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jfc, 50T-ish big cog and 32T-ish chainring on a minivelo? sometimes i roll my eyes at “i’d fall over if i tried to pedal a gear that low” but this is genuinely down there, like something around a 13" gear. Top gear is kind of stupidly low as well at ~65".
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the dangler cage and chain also have to be kissing the tire sidewall at a couple points in the range?
And Transmission derailleurs are massive, they look like 1.5 scale display models
I remember a video of the “steepest hills in Pittsburgh” race where there was a guy on a tandem, captain only, with a hilariously stupid low gear, possibly from differently sized captain and stoker chainrings, just craaaaaawling up the hill while everyone else was up out of the saddle on their road bikes
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The Dirty Dozen!
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[jan smile intensifies]
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38x52
bizzaro world shit to me
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seems like a good ‘pedal up a wall’ gear atmo
edit: also, Divide is much more fire-roads/double track than single-track mountain biking. Having a big front ring is probably good for covering distances like that
all I’m saying is that’s just a lot of teeth for one chain to wrap around
bring back the elegance 
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shift with spoke
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No way Grant is not going to blahg about this.
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“It won’t be finished, maybe ever, but if he had our SILVER™ derailleur with friction shifters…”
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Im a touch surprised a lot of these TD rigs don’t have sliding dropouts for this exact scenario
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WEIGHT
Its all about weight, until you are talking about danglers, dangler batteries and chargers. His bags looked real easy access. And sleeping 6 hours a night looks like a winning formula to me, but his position looked pretty extreme.
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anything is possible when you used to race the pro tour
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