New & Interesting Bike Campenaerts

Jacobell · January 12, 2021, 4:13pm

I read this as a 150pk of vice grips and just clamping those to cables as cable ends. I was really impressed and confused until the coffee kicked in.

johnasavoia · January 12, 2021, 4:21pm

Idk if it’s still a thing but wheelie dudes used to always have a vise grip on one of the rear axle nuts, no clue if it was fashion or function, but I saw it a ton in like 2016

Jacobell · January 12, 2021, 4:27pm

I love seeing them in place of seatpost collars or when they’re kept on already stripped axle nuts.

cousinmosquito · January 12, 2021, 10:25pm

I can remember my uncle driving his jet-boat with vice-grips, BITD.
He was a hooligan. Still is.

JUGE_FREDD · January 18, 2021, 12:53am

Rigid 110mm boost forks in a couple colors with 60mm offset and rack mounts

Jacobell · January 18, 2021, 2:10am

Boost is an interesting choice

EndpointBraden · January 18, 2021, 2:27am

I love how weird Thorn is. So tempted to try selling them.

JUGE_FREDD · January 18, 2021, 2:37am

I think they went straight from “v-brake posts on the back of the fork” to this?

johnasavoia · January 18, 2021, 2:25pm

I was so close to buying a low trail backwards v-brake biplane fork from them years back for a 26 dead ender (which ended up getting chopped up into my cargo bike) but it was forever out of stock, glad they’re still weird.

viggen · January 18, 2021, 4:13pm

They did it, the absolute madlads <3

karl_dandleton · January 18, 2021, 5:06pm

is this new or did i never notice it?

you can flip the brake mounts for different wheel sizes. incredible

LASER_BEIGE · January 18, 2021, 5:11pm

This feels like kind of not very safe

iwillbe · January 18, 2021, 5:36pm

patented cantilever launcher

karl_dandleton · January 18, 2021, 5:40pm

i mean, two m5 bolts can hold a lot in tension

more than one m6 that’s holding your brake on, i’d reckon

Crustradamus · January 18, 2021, 7:38pm

I want to make a bike around this fork

plutarck · January 19, 2021, 2:02am

looks new to me.

canti_lover · January 19, 2021, 4:09am

Ehh better put the bosses on the back of the legs to be safe tho

Thorne, probably

plutarck · January 19, 2021, 4:43am

They really missed the chance to go high at the front and low at the back

viggen · January 21, 2021, 12:03am

Only really interesting for us still in deadender 1" threaded fork land, but this thing looks really legit! @JUGE_FREDD can probably chime in and roast if needed. For a small scale thing some aussie bloke sells for 199 prison island dollhairs I’m impressed compared to everything else in the conversion game.

plutarck · January 21, 2021, 12:24am

are they actually available again? I thought they popped up on amazon and then disappeared pretty swiftly afterwards…