It definitely has room for fenders even with these 2.2" tires, and has the appropriate brazeons…
…but yeah there’s ~1 week out of the year that’s relevant in the bay area.
Also even though I know y’all PNW folks do it all the time, I’m generally warry of the safety of fenders on dirt. Do people just not ever have issues with sticks and rocks getting jammed in them and wrecking the fenders/sending you OTB?
The first person to deny that is getting a stick accidentally jammed through their fenders
Yeah, stick in the fenders sucks. Ask me why.
Who made this? It’s very pretty.
I run fenders offroad and have only gotten a stick stuck once. The PDW safety release is key.
John Fitzgerald, out of Santa Rosa. He’s popular in the SFBay rando community but will build pretty much anything.
Definitely had them jammed in my rear fender, but the pdw qr is great.
The saddle to bar drop is blowing my mind.
I’ve definitely crumpled a few fenders. Once not even from sticks just some wimpy stays plastic fender collabo and it bounced hard enough to catch the knobs and suck the fender up.
The one time I crunched a front fender and crashed was on plain old asphalt, catching a stray stick.
–was not using the quick detach fender mounts, now I always do.
–was riding RIBMOs, which turned out to be cursed tires for several other reasons including an unexplained sidewall blowout. Others have said good things about those.
I blame the gods.
the lack thereof? yeah yeah yeah, but it’s not quite to a faster-backwards level.
I like to be able to get my weight back when i’m in the drops and bombing down a good fire road. Hard to do when my hands are around the level of my shins and I’m face-down while desperately peering over the top of my glasses. I wince whenever I see a gravé bike with roadie levels of bar drop - there are some funny crashes because of this every year at Lost&Found. (of course, the dirt roadies get their laughs in when we get to the flats and they leave me far, far behind)
We should definitely go for a ride when this global pandemic is behind us.
The next hotness, dropper steerers / stems
Gross
There’s frame droppers too, can’t remember who makes them though.
2 things
They’re still in the process of installing it in that photo. Wait another 90 seconds, camera guy
I remember when I used to put Buff stickers on stuff. Like, 10 years ago
Sks have quick release hardware
Dropper built into the frame? I think 9.8 made one.
Found this
I was talking about a bike that had a flip chip type mech that was controlled by a lever on the bar. Or maybe it was part of the shock.
Kona Abra Cadabra had some little uphill downhill flip switch in the frame.
