+1 for oneups being the best droppers ive ever used.
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Well jeez what the hell
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And I even use them like you do, pretty much like a chair for every time I stop. And I stop A LOT.
Ive never even had to fiddle with it.
yeah if you think one up droppers are bad, my friend, wait until you try most other dropper posts.
Do the SRAM wireless one use a motor rather than air? Maybe you should try that. $$$$ but maybe would actually work for you.
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The PNW external dropper sure sucks. Fuckin nylon cord is a terrible design.
People are reviewing 32" dropbar bikes and perhaps this is nothing more than being an asshole but I read these reviews and I can’t help but be like “yeah no shit what did you expect with a giant wheel and that geometry”.
This bike has ~110mm of trail and 42mm of flop. That’s terrible geometry for a dropbar bike.
They basically took the worst hacked together dropbar MTB geometry and put it on a bike with significantly larger wheels. The normal 29" Fargo is ~88mm of trail and 30mm of flop. I get the design intent and balancing a lot of design choices but there’s no sense in making the geometry that much more progressive for the larger 32" wheel.
What am I missing here? These designers have to have some mental model of handling right? How could it be that inherently more stable wheelsize needs even more stability?
It can handle singletrack, but quick direction changes take planning. In twisty, awkward sections, it feels a little like driving an 18-wheeler through the jungle. That is not meant as a dealbreaker. It is just the reality of the platform. This is not a short, sharp, trail-focused drop-bar bike. It is a long-distance adventure bike that will maintain momentum when you have the power, but more on that in the ride review.
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I remember being frustrated by trail numbers back in the peak low trail era for bike dorks. Like, low trail actually makes a lot of sense for a gravé, but no manufacturer was doing it.
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Depends on how low. The Coffee Grinder + low trail fork setup I had performed especially poorly on loose punchy gravel descents, tending to snow plow. Put me in the bushes at least once.
Unless I am a moron and missing “mtb low trail” in your comment
That Fargo geo does look very bad with drop bars, but would probably be aight with alt bars as a rigid MTB.
But on that note, I truly don’t understand why more bike companies don’t do the slack head tube + big fork offset thing that Jones, Stooge, and Tanglefoot does. It’s just so right and solves so many problems.
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low trail would make your steering more twitchy so less apt to “plow”.
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I’ll be sure to tell the hill? The bars turn without leaning and if the ground doesn’t care you don’t turn
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They don’t hip steer so they don’t want to set up on a line without handlebar input. So it’s harder to actively control the front end and make it turn once things get hectic.
In loose flat gravel, especially in the spring after the road department refreshed the roads, I found it worked pretty good, especially when the vehicle traffic would make these gravel drifts and you could cross over them easily becaues the front wouldn’t try to turn into the slope and make you tank-slap.
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I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again..
The industry is still big mad they can’t sell the same guy a bike every 1-2 years anymore and this is a lazy attempt to trick him into another bike ahead of schedule
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I’m the target audience and have no desire whatsoever.
Super short little dude at the LBS is getting a {Big bicycle brand} 32" XC bike to test, and he showed me a pic. The handlebars are pushed so far down it’s like it melted in the sun, or it’s a depressed café racer.
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What is plowing?
Yes
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Plus bikes all over again.
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