Wait what are the tire clearances like? Hella tight?
Absolutely.
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Yes, with a dropper post.
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You can choose how fast you want to wreck your knees!
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Not terrible! I used 28mm tires when I was living in Chicago due to the nature of the streets there. Smooths out the potholes and frost heave a little.
Needs hella sick tight clearance bro
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Thirties Tuck Thineā¢
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Iām honestly curious what it would feel like to ride a fixed gear with modern bike parts (30mm tubeless tires, boost saddle, KeO pedalsā¦).
Iām not more than like $300 curious though, so weāll see if this thing happens.
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I have a fixie with 38s and tubeless tires and a front disk brake and it rules. Do it.
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Iām seriously thinking of building something like this with dumb lightweight parts.
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Can someone explain to meā¦if a bike is quantified as having greater lateral stiffness at the dropouts and headtube but less vertical stiffness at the dropouts is this a good thing or bad or meaning free without additional data?
Well first off, itās 1mmer marketing bullshit. Second, yes, ālaterally stiff but vertically compliantā is generally what you want.
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Greater than what?
Iād love it if manufacturers had to be honest about whether their claimed compliance improvement was a bigger deal than taking a couple psi out of your tires
Laterally stiff x vertically compliant is the standard marketing line, and is the opposite of reality, bike frames are all much more vertically stiff than laterally
If youāre sprinting or carrying cargo you might want relatively more lateral stiffness, less if youāre doing more endurance riding. A frame that is too laterally stiff can feel ādeadā even if you donāt believe in planing
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I believe in planing.
I want to believe.jpg but instead of a UFO, itās a stack of undersized tubes.
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The crown race on my Giant AR 1 is loose (integrated headset, carbon fork). The headset has been creaking when I climb, which Iām guessing is the result (or the cause) of the crown race being loose. Any idea if I can shim it?
pop it open and clean it, see how the bearings feel?
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Itās already popped! Bearings feel pretty smooth. But the crown race was so loose that when I pulled the steerer out of the frame, it stayed in the headtube.
maybe time to press the crown race back onto the fork again, or time to get a new crown race and press that onto the fork
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