there is no “rudder” effect
we steer by leaning and countersteering, not by pointing the bars
you can mount that short stem backwards on the steerer too just fine, at only the cost of your dignity and people talking at you about it
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What are the options for step-through frames that aren’t chonky? PT and ortho consults for the hip are annoying to come by so I want to explore what I can do to keep riding. I know the VO polyvalent exists, is there anything else?
Jones
There was a guy I saw regularly for years who ran a backwards stem and bullhorns on his sweet fixie.
The Buena Vista comes in deadender rim brake or disc and still looks fairly classy:
https://www.somafabshop.com/shop/category/frames-frame-parts-bicycles-frames-990?search=buena+vista&order=
There’s also the Coco, which comes in acoustic or e-bike models:
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There’s the Marin Larkspur, very cool imo.
Bassi Rachel is another option, looks pretty much identical to the soma except with canti posts.
Wow, some great options. Not sure if I’m ready to go down the Jones rabbit hole, but the Marin, Buena Vista disc, and Kona options seem most reasonable. The Marin seems to overlap least with my current stable too so I could get additional capabilities
The Marin is rad. We’ve sold quite a few and everyone that has snagged one has been super stoked. We would probably sell even more if people were not weirded out by the semi-step through frame. The people’s ATB.
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i haven’t ridden one but larkspur looks like a rad bicycle. @Jacobell can confirm/deny in addition to braden
Best production bike ever made
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A thru axle update to this with a carbon fork would be bananas.
Don’t get me excited 
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woah
i guess i didn’t realize we’d advanced as a society enough that you can be a normie and just go buy a 650b dropper post townie bike with hydros
that’s pretty neat
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As it turns out, a completely different bike company with roots in Marin county brought Grants ATB dream to the people (by way of Indonesia and not Japan).
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wife has a larkspur (thanks Braden) and it’s a rad bike, can confirm.
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Has anyone resurfaced / sanded down the brake track on a rim? My current one has some grooves and pits and the braking’s gone to shit.
Wondering if there’s a possibility I can eke some more life out of my Archetypes rather than buying new and re-lacing.
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juice not worth the squeeze
new wheel day
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Oh hey same story here! It’s an impressively versatile bike; M has mostly taken it on XC trails and has enjoyed it for that just as much as cruising around the neighborhood
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Do you nerds care if I quote your praise of the larkspur on the Outpost blog?
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“It’s a rad bike”-
-Master_Stabby
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