Miguel's fat-tired fopmobile

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ive got 700km on this bike right now. i figure that’s enough for a review

here’s the specs:
colombus spirit
73ht / 73.5st / ~42 chainstays / 65mm bb drop
fork ~396ac/47mm rake, 130mm stem
saddle height is 785, now has a dropper
basically a 56/57 frame.

still Metrea 2x11 46/34-11/32, wheels are 30mm wide nextie with horizons with tubes - yes, i know, should be tubeless but i didnt put the tires on them blah blah excuses. they’re pretty much around 30-35lbs pressure

i ride the local gravel road a lot on this bike and it’s fun in a straight line but turning or swerving and the bike feels high - like im sitting ON it rather than IN it - and i dont trust it not to wash out on a corner, though this could be the way the tires are set up (?) im planning on trying a different set of wheels/tires soon. i love accelerating on the bike and it rolls over the small rocks really easily. gravel descents are FINE but i would really like the front end to handle a little differently.

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Best photo of mig’s bike to date.

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Trail is a little low and BB is a little high ATMO

If you’re using 650b x 42 or bigger you can have a 68-75mm BB drop like a 700c race bike… same overall wheel diameter

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Totally agree. Originally I wanted to use 42mm tires but ???

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It’s good that he used that placeholder. You never know when we’re going to run out of photo spots on the website.

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i posted a photo of my bike last week and nobody commented
so
you know

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[quote=NOVELTYNAME]i posted a photo of my bike last week and nobody commented
so
you know[/quote]

So we’ve reached the point where it isn’t clear whether its the posting or the withholding of mig’s bike pictures that is the punishment