Just get Aerospokes and call it good
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If youāre riding OLH on a tandem you should be upgrading from 30 year old 27" wheels, if not getting a new tandem that takes advantage of non-dumb tire sizes and modern parts availability.
If youāre riding the Bay Trail once a month then just fix the problem (shitty old spokes that have reached their fatigue life).
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@joyofvaping I have an old set of 27" wheels with gator skins and a 7s freewheel. Pretty sure at least one of them is round and theyāre both probably 36h too. Come pick them up in Walnut Creek / Berkeley?
If you can find cantis that adjust low enough the extra space from 700c might let you go bigger on the tires too.
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especially since the 27" tire options are few and tiny
PUT 650B ON IT
/tarck
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Weld dickbrake tabs on it
/tarck
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When I still worked for SUNringle weād stock a small supply of CR-18 in 27"/48h. Give them a call.
SQ: couldnāt find the geo thread (might be buried in tarckhives)
So Iāve been thinking about geometry for crapbarning (not overloaded eg racks but buttrockets and junk buckets strapped everywhere.)
What geo makes the ultimate poopbarn bike? Longer slacker steeper? On a static bike would a steeper STA make it climb better on mountains? Iām basing a lot of these ideas off prƶgressive mtb geos:
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Iām thinking this:
468 ac fork
71ht/72st
46cs
Size āLā stack and reach for the st/tt/ht
On something like 29x2ā-2.2ā
i think pvd has some strong opinions, based on what sup told me about his recent facebook rants
http://www.peterverdone.com/2018-pvd-bird-of-prey/
I canāt believe I read all that
The over day, one of the vintage skateboard accounts on Instagram I follow posted a photo of PVD skating sometime in the mid 90s.
Thatās all.
i canāt believe it either.
i skimmed over a few words or two, trying to find the actual geometry details, but gave up
Iām down the PVD rabbit hole:
http://www.peterverdone.com/actually-youre-not-a-bike-expert/
Heās an EXPERT!
not sure why someone would put them through this kind of self-inflicted pain, but now iām feeling like itās my fault.
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I kid, I generally like reading PVDs technical articles, heās obviously passed the event horizon wrt to bike knowledge. Much of his writing requires I take notes to really understand and most all of it is inapplicable to my riding style. However the ideas and issues he raises are almost always unique and something Iāve not seen anyone address anywhere else.
PVD wouldnāt be the first place Iād look for info specific to bikepacking. His designs seem to be hyper-focused on where and how he likes to ride which is almost exclusively, aggressive so-cal trail riding with a weird military-industrial theme.
Iād look at the evolution of what people are riding on the Tour Divide of GDMBR - but my bikepacking is entirely serene southeast gravel riding so this text was just a mask to post that gif again.
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What Iāve learnt from his blog is that, heās an expert and likes The Devil wears Prada (which is a pretty good movie so heās right about a lot of things)
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I read a bunch of his stuff a few years back, and it was an amazingly Grant-like feat of vanishing down his own asshole.
Iām not planning on taking a second pass at it.
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