TBH I have a pair of Microshift thumbies sitting around but every time I think about gearing the Pugsley, I think about how fast the grade changes on my local MTB trails and I just think about trying to trim the friction mid-stroke while dodging a root and it gives me anxiety.
If I am gonna gear the Pugs i’d probably be happier with a Sram trigger shifter that can dump two gears at a time, or just stay SS and use body language to climb.
aren’t those indexed?
edit: not saying trigger shifter isn’t a better idea because of course it is, but using trim as the excuse is not a good excuse.
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[quote=Sneaky Viking]aren’t those indexed?
edit: not saying trigger shifter isn’t a better idea because of course it is, but using trim as the excuse is not a good excuse.[/quote]
the ones I have are. I love them.
I’m late to the party but those Blackburn front racks are an absolute nightmare. Abandon any hope of installing one and having everything line up correctly.
I had the rear one that you sold me for about 6 months before I got rid of it. It was OK, but just OK.
little shit for mud clearance coz bigger tires in rear, but that’s probably fun.
Our boy max, posting bikes with setback posts.
Max, this is up your alley.
I dont think this is jackass, and it probably works alright.
I was a lil shocked to see my dude Rich’s work on Prolly.
The guy is a cool northern Arizona weirdo who claims each bike is an experiment, carrying on some of that joe murray flavor from back in the day.
Saw and adored. The guy who rides this bike also seems super cool, I followed him on the gram and his posts are always interesting. And he shows up in a ton of other people’s bike reportage.
rack fork situation looks awesome and used appropriately
fork could have more offset, and there’s some fancier bending in the rack could allow bigger stabler minipanniers, but it’s so in the right direction
I’ve been ruminating on a design like that with much smaller tubing in the fork and a floating brake caliper, could distribute the load to the crown with a heavy gauge spoke
i feel like that rack design could easily unevenly load the steerer bearings depending on how accurately the thing was brazed. this could be fixed with a pivoting instead of rigid connection at the steerer
kind of like a Jones fork with a built in rack on the front. Cool idea
Oh my god
This rack solves the problem I was having with the Nature Boy in the “Bike Plans You’ll Never Do” thread…
First thing I thought of.
Same. Pretty cool!
I’m way into more high front panniers for dirt touring, but on that bike I’m just not sure about running it all the way to the steerer. It seems to be more copying the truss form than actual function. Though maybe the bagman on the back is influencing my suspicions.
u rite, any bike with a bagman just above the tire is a major red flag
if your bike would easily take a standard lightweight rack and you spend way more on a heavy weak wobbly stainless rod, fuck your trendwhoring
[quote=JUGE FREDD]
if your bike would easily take a standard lightweight rack and you spend way more on a heavy weak wobbly stainless rod, fuck your trendwhoring[/quote]
Especially when your Art Deco front rack has enough tubing and joinery invested in it to make something for the rear.
[quote=JUGE FREDD]
I’ve been ruminating on a design like that with much smaller tubing in the fork and a floating brake caliper, could distribute the load to the crown with a heavy gauge spoke[/quote]
Is the caliper in front of the rear leg?
