Thats freakin hot
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@OUTSTANDING_FLAGS_HOME_DECOR I’m really into 3DPrinters so please report back and let us know if you’re left with a honeycomb hole.
This is a hub dynamo and fookers away from being a bike you’ll never ever want to sell.
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Nailed it, I’m keeping my eyes peeled for a SON on Germany Craigs. I ripped off the front light and will probably take ths rear off too since my current dyno has lost its rubber and is basically a pipecutter blade. Couldn’t see a nice routing option to the rack.
Fookers will come, and as much as I should hate these generic plasti-core beartraps, they got bite. Synthetic dampening you just won’t find in metal!
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Hold on a sec…thingies mounted under the bars? Can you reach your index finger around enough to push back or what?
And is that a rockbros bell or a Spurcycle?
Yea so far the mounting seems good, will have to get more saddle time in but it’s quite easy thumb and index reach. I swapped the cable between a front and rear and run them opposite sides from intended. Not sure if it was 100% necesary but saw it done on the more expensive version.
Bell is definitely the cheapest one Amarzono had, clone of a rockbros clone. The thing dings though, serious resonance.
(screengrab I referenced)
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Wooooooah didnt know you could do that. I rock my thumbies vertical but not swapped left to right
I know Riv has been preaching that thumbie mounting for a long time, and the amount of time those guys spend in the small/big I know it must shift good enough, and it looks nice tucked away, I’ve just never cared enough to try it.
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This is The Way and how I setup any sweepy back bars now after experiencing it as the stock setup on my Clem.
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I think my interests have diverged from Tarck.
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I love that all this dithering has led to a not-riv (and sometimes riv!) style garbage bike but can we get back to fast bikes with fat tires and TAF paint jobs
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Not everyone gets to be a hermit and buy any car they want as long as it’s an audi
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Tarck has always had a split between high performance go fast bikes and slow all terrainasauri, its just that the latter has become popular with the masses so it makes sense more and more would show up here.
When I first started reading the forums close to a decade ago back in the original fast bikes with fat tires thread this would have my dream bike. Now I have it, 700x38s, 11-28 x 46/39, slammed long and low cruiser bars. Goes as fast as I can make it, which isn’t saying much.
edit: fast bikes and fat tires just over a decade ago, aside from a million pics of guyshoe’s kilo WT still a fun read.
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It’s funny I went in the opposite direction. I spent grad school drooling over a Riv 650B Saluki, bought a used one post grad school, graduated to a Rene Herse fopmobile, and now I’m back to screw anything bigger than 28 mm, maybe 32 mm if I’m roughing it.
The only bike I regret selling is my Toei, which was a rando that only took up to 28 mm tires. If anyone knows who has this bike tell them I will buy it back.
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Yes the under the bar thumbie thing is what I have on 1 or 2 bikes now. The Hillborne had that two but I think I like it right-side-up on the upside down Albas.
ultraomanticman has some thumbies upside down way away from the grips which I wanted to try too but prob on a diff bike
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My only real rides on that Hillborne, as it is, has been to take the dog for our leisurely cruise, which is 2.5mi at most right now, but i’m going to ramp her up to 5mi.
so…its perfect
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Jesus must have some really long fingers.
Did you sell this to James?
I don’t remember who bought it, and I don’t think I know James. This was like 2013 or so.