My butt likes what it likes.
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I have found that leather saddles designed to âhammockâ are more comfortable with some nose up. Otherwise you slide forward on to the narrow, stiffer part.
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Oh shit saddle chat reminded me I wanted to ask about the rubber Selle Anatomica saddles. Anyone ridden one? Worth checking out?
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All people who talk about the angle of leather saddles either donât ride leather saddles or are doing it wrong.
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Ya know, I was looking for one of those the other day and I couldnât find one!
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I wouldnât have any nads left if I rode my Brooksâ like that.
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Did some dithering on this between whatâs starting to be an annual tradition of riding to the park to hang out and eat donuts around my b-day. Vintage Takagi crank and Suntour pedals, slightly less vintage XT 739 v-brake levers, Jan tires, and Oury grips. Probably done dithering on this after I get around to installing a set of recently acquired XT 739 v-brakes. Maybe some gearing dithering as well.
This thing is so much fun.
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Whatâs the story on that pokes?
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Yeah that bike looks like it predates the zit laden current pukeback varietals
Swelligant.
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Jimmy found the frame in a shop in Bend that was selling a bunch of stuff in a moving sale, I think in late 2020. They had some other 26â frames with mods IIRC, so they may have had all the triple mounts added (fork, under DT, both existing bottle mounts modded), along with removing the rear cable hanger and painting it a sparkly brown (the best part). Not sure what their goals were with all that, looks cool tho.
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A local dude or two had a business âJ. Livingston Cyclesâ kinda run out of a LBS. Theyâd take typical cheapo CL vintage 80s/90s MTB or Hybrid steel frames, maybe add a zit or two, maybe convert to a mixture, swap u-brake bosses for cantis, etc.
The frames got powder coated, basic 1x w/ chain guard, city bars, often matchy powder coated fenders, rear rack. Silver components.
I see them around town fairly often, no two exactly alike. I think in the end it just didnât budget out, but they must have made 100+ of them at least.
The Stumpjumper @Bootus has was I gather more of a personal project to make a backpacking-esque rig. The typical J.Livingston bikes were built from lesser models for sure.
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Wow thatâs really rad. Too bad it didnât work out for the guy. I wonder if he had anything to do with the disk tabs and neat blue paint added to my Rocky Mountain frame.
My understanding is the guy doing the fabrication/mods either moved away or moved on to other pursuits.
They made some great looking bikes, really perfect townies.
(Note the GT in the below lineup)
This wall was much more depleted by when I got there, but there was really nothing worth getting the pitchforks out over âruiningâ.
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