Paging @cousinmosquito to the vintage Santa Cruz chat
I have had one for a long time, just took it over to Oz so I have something to ride when I visit my oldest daughter. It used to be my lunchtime rides bike and lived in the bike shed at work. I run a Fusion 130mm straight taper travel fork⌠or was it 120? It has room for a 27.5 wheel. I think some people are still doing straight taper forks. Not many tho
The only bushing I have ever replaced on it was in the shock eyelets. Twice since Ive had it. Just did it the other day. Ive never replaced the main pivot bearing. I honestly do not find it âbobbyâ but I think I pedal pretty smoothly. I also have a Santa Cruz Tallboy 29er with the wanky linkages. The new Lauf XC fully is single pivot. Orange was always single pivot but that was in DH i think.
Ive always had a lot of fun on it but the 26 inch wheels dont roll over stuff when pedalling up hill the same way that the 29ers do. When I started poop barning in 2010 it was on this bike and it probably gave me the least issues of any of my rides.
I went out to Moab some ~10 years ago and I borrowed my bossâs old 26" stumpjumper. On a couple of occasions he would trade me is 29" epic and I had infinity more fun riding a 29er with dated 2014 geometry. That experience absolutely killed 26" as a viable platform for offroad riding. I shouldâve brought my (now long gone) gen-1 KM instead.
Not sure why but I still really enjoy 26ers. Of the three I still have the F700 handles the best, of the hardtails. I think my KM was gen-2? Not sure but it still had the canti studs which meant that I could afford to parts bin build it with existing crap. Eg Mavic Open pro road wheels with 2 inch mtb tires and vee brakes ! And obviously later on rim braked trispoke and rear wheel with wheel covers. I dont think I ever had a suspension fork on it.
most bikes from that era are two sizes too small from a current MTB perspective, with short reach in the cockpit and even shorter wheelbase from the steeper HTAs of the time
that âcurrent gravel bike geoâ can be pretty cool for nerd purposes with hardtails
but for FS they were also still working around a minefield of patents that have since expired, and still fumbling through marketing explanations for why their proprietary combination of workarounds made sense technically
Hella cheap OG Allez
Group buy?
How do they compare to the IQ-X (of which I own 4)
if ppl are serious iâd organize/admin the gb
With the arrival of the new 1.5W Dynamos arises the question of how to get a good light out of even less energy. A problem that has now been solved by Busch + MĂźller! The Onefive will provide 30 Lux brightness, with an IQ beam Pattern. The Onefive is only intended for 1.5W hubs and is not recomended for 2.4W or 3W Dynamos.
https://www.bumm.de/en/products/dynamo-scheinwerfer/parent/165/produkt/165rtsndi.html
wonder how much light they make if you overdrive them
That is a real bumm.er
I feel like overdriving leds by that much over their design voltage for a long time is not going to give you a very long use out of the device (if it works at all).
So run two (or three, if you want people to confuse you with a locomotive) of them in parallel.
Extra points if you mount one to that fancy electronically levelled mount that B&M make for e-bikes but set the controller to move the light arount a-la Mars light.
those are great for $10 each
but youâre not outfitting a bikeshare fleet
and an 80 lux Cyo Premium is so much better
Iâd love three on the front of my Bullitt. One moves with the wheel and two are mounted to the frame.
How would that work to run two of the 1.5w lights in parallel off a 3w hub? I donât know how this shit works. Just literally wire them in parallel and youâre good to go?
Also, could I run two tail lights and one 3w headlight off one 3w hub?
Iâve done it. It worked but everything flickered more than usual at slow speeds.
That makes sense.