I don’t know shit about whether the geo is good or not, but the wolverine looks awesome
any idea on how that front light is mounted on the midfork eyelet?
Traitor Slot, $495 f/f
I can’t be sure, but it looks like a daruma threaded into the eyelet and then the wire mounting bracket is bolted through the eye of the daruma.
Holy shit that’s an ugly frame. It’s like the love child of a 650b all-mountain bike & a Big Dummy
Rode with him last Thursday and that location sucks for the Luxos, really blocks the beam.
[quote=NoahGenda]Traitor Slot, $495 f/f
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the fork is suspension corrected? and the max tire width is 2.1? yeah, fuck that.
Rode with him last Thursday and that location sucks for the Luxos, really blocks the beam.[/quote]
<3 TARCK for the collective nerd knowledge
wonder how that wolverine would ride with 650b fat tyres on there
Aren’t the Nanos in that photo already 700×54c? I don’t know if there’s much wider in 650b-land (I know there’s at least one 650×60b, but that’s it?), so I’d guess it would just accelerate a bit faster, but be an inch closer to the ground for your pedal-striking pleasure.
Goddamnit. That bike looks pretty cool.
Now I kinda want to pick one up for commuting this winter.
Pretty sure I could build it from the parts bin.
I have a straggler, so far been pretty underwhelmed by it. I think my old cross check rode better.
I’m really digging the Wolverine too. That is basically exactly how I have my Karate Monkey set up right now.
The only thing is that once tires reach a certain size for me, I feel like I really need flat bars to take advantage of them. The dividing line is somewhere around 45c. Anything bigger and the drop bars just aren’t as useful for getting rad.
Nice to see the 2.1 nanos in there, which means it’s highly likely that fenders will fit over 42s.
I’ve been feeling the above lately. I’m having difficulty unseeing all the funky parts of the Straggler, particularly in the size that I ride. Thinking hard about replacing it with the Wolverine. Any negatives? Do sliding dropout eventually become a PITD?
why not just save a few more dollars and endpoint?
Endpoint is almost 2x the price, I would be running the steel fork for corn dog storage which is sort of a half measure given the design of that frame really wants a crabon fork.
I wish I knew if/when Mike Varley was going to produce that Black Mountain Disc Monstercross. That thing will be a real humdinger of a bike if he ever gets around to it.
I’ve been riding the wolverine daily for a few moths now and I 100% love it.
Sliders have been rock solid thus far. We’ll see what happens when I push it through a winter. I predict creeking.
[quote=Rusty Piton]I’ve been riding the wolverine daily for a few moths now and I 100% love it.
Sliders have been rock solid thus far. We’ll see what happens when I push it through a winter. I predict creeking.[/quote]
Any toe overlap? My Straggler has tons of it, makes low speed climbing pretty sucky.
It does have some, but not an impossible amount on the 56cm. It has pretty short chainstays so heel strike with panniers can be an issue at least with the tubus fly that I’m using.