no, there are still hundreds of different cross checks available, but some have different geometry
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I stand corrected.
Im a bit confused at Prolly calling the Singular Gryphon a touring bike. Its always been a drop barred MTB. Both the Gryphon and the Peregrine predated the gravgrav movement. I would have said the Peregrine was a touring bike. Pretty sure my buddies 08 Gryphon came with no bosses on it either, for anything. Hence when we started bikepacking in 2010 we used the Freeload (Thule) racks. EDIT: Confirmed.
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wow, prolly just made things up and generally got it wrong? I am SHOCKED
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yeah, from Bicycle Manufacturing Company. tbh the Time Machine is one of the best named bikes ever. it’s up there with the comic book level meeting of the Giant Iguana and Giant Boulder
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Also I’m 90% sure the Fargo came out in 07, the Swift was a 29er MTB frameset with no mounts for anything, and Monstercross bikes were already starting to bubble up all over the place.
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Yeah im pretty sure Sam called the Gryphon monster cross himself.
Jason Boucher? From QBP probably had prototype versions in his GNAT likes bikes blog before 2008.
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The Singular Peregrine was on my short list of drop-bar + discs + 700x45 + steel, bitd. I wanted more than my Poprad could fit. I was also trying to avoid just getting a 29er, tho a few non-suspension corrected options did exist (Raleigh XXIX, O/S Blackbuck, others).
From memory Rawland dSogn, Steel wool Tweed, Salsa La Cruz, Traitor Ruben(with different fork) were the other good early monstercrossy candidates.
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Monstercross started from the early-mid 90s
There were a whole bunch of Sky Yeager designed Bianchis along with a bunch of Specialized and Trek bikes with drop bars and/or 700x50 clearance
The cross-check came out after the tail end of that, with a rich selection of sweet hybrid tires to choose from
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Oh man I had one of these singlespeed with drop bars and big apples back in the day. I thought it’d be the perfect “winter city commuter” but the wheelbase and wheel size made it really really hard to carry up my six flights of stairs
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We should talk more about the Giant OCR Touring.
2004
700c
Fatish tires
Disc brakes
Hella awesome early 00’s bars
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I stand corrected, Prolly is even more wrong than I had thought lol
Bill Horner was also responsible for those Bianchis. I believe he also had a hand in the design of SunTour’s Command shifters (which I absolutely hated).
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more like prolly is probably not amirite
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That broke loose a memory of reading this, a letter reply to a Dirt Rag piece on early 29ers. Some interesting details in-between the old man yammering.
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lol here we are, 8+ years prollys prime and we’re still experts in how wrong his bike statements are
Aheadset
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QUILL STEM
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Old dudes arguing about who did the dither first. Meanwhile, the bar to dithering entry is low enough that there have to be folks at opposite ends of the earth pursuing the same dither.
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That’s a tough read but it gets the facts right.
The bar to dithering in this case is, unfortunately, based on tire molds which are quite a high financial bar. I’m still amazed Bruce Gordon made the Rock and Road happen.
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