Not significantly. Different legs but the steerer and crown is where the cost/labor really is anyway.
Are cantis still relevant?
Not on yolo bikes?
For the SS bike I think they are though. Flat bar/V brake still holds as a great (if not the best) option for a fuckaround bike imo.
Mini-v cru checking in.
Actually, I’d love a bike like that. I have been thinking about another single speed, but I’m old, and not in a complete hurry to build another bike.
Pretty indifferent to that idea.
I agree, but it’s not “on trend”
The real nerds that would buy that bike would also be looking at all the awesome rim brake cross frames abandoned by people going to dicks
I’m not really into anything that has any design considerations for single speed/fixed
I really want my single speed shit around bike to cost less than $800 complete.
I wish to disc all the things.
personally unsure about the ss dropout setup but I can understand where you’re coming from with deciding to go that way.
removable canti x mid reach road mounts is a pretty cool idea. what style removable mounts? and if you could squeeze the clearances for teh road calipers and 32s I think that would be rad.
also, I’m curious - did the demand for coffee grinders meet your expectations? endpoint seems like such a good idea. affordable MUSA “adventure road” bikes. I’d love to see you gain some momentum and more support so you could get more of ya bikes out there. with the endpoint “image”, and products, style - it’s seems you’re in a prime position to dip into the salsa/surly adventure mobile market. idk where I’m going with this but I hope I can buy one of you frames someday
should have gotten a booth at nahbs and had a media embargo on red activist. Would have made him so furious you would get double the coverage
My two cents:
Offer a less-turdly version of Surly’s Straggler. Stack/reach more along the lines of a Salsa Vaya/Fargo (aka, team longballs). 650B wheels, disc brakes, no provisions for IGH or SS. Include low-trail and mid-trail forks (and roller bearing HS).
[quote=Endpoint]Let me derail this for a second and get a cold take on things…
Here’s the pitch:
Steel
MUSA
Singlespeed 130 spaced (possibly with Surly steeze dangler hanger)
Clearance for 700x30 or so with mid reach road calipers
Removable canti bosses for 650b and clearance for at least 650bx45
Low trail
$800 frame/fork
Basic concept is either an intelligent version of the mashbro work bike or the elusive “low trail fixed gear 650b porteur”[/quote]
snip is but one man, not a whole market
also 130mm / 650b / smallish clearances / dumb dropouts puts you only a threaded steerer away from being yet another lunatic
removable canti bosses are a stinker if there’s only one set, vestigial disc tabs are MUCH easier to get away with
do those clearances with fenders, totally feasible for 45mm 700c fenders and 58mm 650b fenders at the same bridge height
maybe see if you can find a swapout or sliding dropout system for cheap from a Taipei Cycle Show vendor, there’s a bunch of tridork bikes doing a 130/135 dropout swap for rim/disc
This is a good idea
If you can pull off a Type II construction you can bowl over all the lug-lickers and segmented-salivators
that’s a good brief right there
Was more excited at the prospect of a modern alan cross bike with a lower bb height and the skinny aluminum tubes.
This thread’s got me scratching my goddamn head.
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maybe see if you can find a swapout or sliding dropout system for cheap from a Taipei Cycle Show vendor, there’s a bunch of tridork bikes doing a 130/135 dropout swap for rim/disc[/quote]
You can get the Allotec dropouts (the ones on the Radlawn Ravin, Nova carries them) and they have all the insert variations. Get someone to waterjet cut some 0.1" (essentially 2.5mm) aluminum spacers in that sort of dogbone shape to fit in between the dropout and the insert and you can build the back end to 135 and then it can be set to 130 for nerding with sidepull brakes and your old road hubs.
Vestigial disk mounts would be better than canti nubbins, totally agree on this.