Yeah I love the eTap. Aside the fact that every shift is perfect and there’s no maintenance, I ride that bike year round, including winters and it seems to be a lot less vulnerable than mechanical systems. (Note that the eTapping actually occurred 4 years ago when I was still riding a lot)
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OK i’m back with more bullshit
This one needs a different set of bars, some graphite paste…maybe new stem, we’ll see if the bars move…1bolt clamp is bullshit
Here’s the Stooge
Here’s the Riv, waiting on a front rack to mount a light
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Those all look like they provide fairly similar, yet different enough to justify their existence, types of fun. Shocked you can pull off that rim width on the bstone.
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Will you be friends with me?
How is the stooge different from the mone
I dont know look at the geometry.
EBB on the stooge vs the adjusters that get stuck on the Mone.
Looks not as apocalypse? More klunker looking I guess? probably longer
yeah thats what i feel. in reality i could sell like half my bikes because they all overlap enough but im an idiot
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How often do you change your chain tension
Is it every time you change cog size or is it more like a “I should have bought a geared bike in the first place” sort of situation
I kinda like the MB1… always wanted to put drops on one.
I wish grant would break the mold and make a GB-0 that is basically a crust bike with riv branding
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its just an answer to your question. not often enough that any of these things matter, that said when i did want to change stuff on the mone the motherfuckers were stuck and it was annoying.
it’s a nice design and probably/maybe/no idea changes points of failure but paragon sliders work really well just not as nice looking i guess? the mone system is cool
did the mone do the telescoping stay thing? that seems way more complicated and failure prone than paragon sliders/rockers
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Jels of the rivs itt
I’m feeling it.
My #1 badass front end manager just got a Mone with the telescoping stays. It’s on v3.0 or something. She’s going to build it and ride the ever living shit out of it. So hopefully it’s awesome.
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I’m sure they work, and i suppose they are probably lighter than sliders/rockers, but i have a hard time thinking on why i would rather telescoping steel tubes. I also basically never ever want single speed tho, so theres that. other than 25/9 on 20" wheels.
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oh really? I did wonder about them when I first saw them. How old was it / how long since last adjustment when it was seized? (Did you apply antiseize or anything, did they break free with persuasion?)
The telescoping stays are so gross to me. How thin are the tubes? Do they bend? What a barbaric way to secure steel
Those moneys also are crazy short