we ended up with about 25 riders when the SF crew and east bay crew met up in Mill Valley, and maybe another ten people showed up via car. But most people headed home in the evening - only 10 of us were committed to camping out in the rain.
Fortunately Alice Eastwood is a very sheltered camp ground. No wind to speak of, just moderately heavy rain all night. I was kind of surprised by the number of people who felt the need to set up their tents under the picnic shelter? My tent did fine out in the elements. Also pretty wild that this was the first time bike camping for two of the people who stuck it out overnight, good for them.
The ride home in the morning was pretty ridiculous. Huge headwinds and driving rain all the way from Mill Valley back across the Golden Gate.
Vincent was happy that i got home safely, although he loudly protested me taking the time to shower and hang up all the wet camping gear to dry before planting myself on the couch
Osssome! What crank is that ? Hang on. Is that a non-clutched rear dangler ? If I ENHANCE your photo it looks like the rear dangler cable is exiting the chain-stay part way along, not at the very end. Is that correct or am I looking at it wrong?
Nothing special, just Rival 11 cranks with some chinesium 3-bolt cnc’d rings (https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805631117902.html). Dangler is rival 10 med length (can’t remember where I got this, it came with short cage), yes the housing does exit about 9/10ths of the chainstay. RD needs more tuning but I can reach all cogs.
Still not used to running sub-1:1 but I like it so far !
Gawdang, I thought all the Sitgmatas had the cable exit coming out the very end. What this means, in your case is that you can run a clutched 2x10 sram MTB dangler as it has the same pull as the 11 speed. So you could shift into a 40 on the back.
i’ve been so tempted to get that chainset(? never thought it was a good term but i don’t love spidering either and it’s not really chainrings) for a while. how is it so far??
Today I did a short WFH ride in my lunch hour. Stopped at the top and called my mum. Lovely day. Went to the beach after work. A seagull stole my cheese…
So far so good but I can’t make a recommendation yet as I’ve barely put miles on it. Seems to shift as well as my SRAM rings though and for the price it can’t be beaten
The other groups I found making these are praxis and rotor at around 5x and 10x the price. Surprised there’s no one else but who can compare with china? These are machined so they’re plenty stiff too
I paid $34. it’s pretty straightforward, there’s item price, then shipping and tax. in this case shipping was free so just tax of ~$3. looks like the price actually went down, if you need the part it’s a steal either way.
