I just bought one of those for low trail dithering. I wasn’t stoked on the 3 pack mounts but the only other option available currently is the beefy 15mm TA low trail wolverine fork. The lugged wolverine low trail fork with no zits seems to be discontinued.
Yeah I bought one over the weekend too, my aesthetic complaints evaporated in the face of 50% off.
I’m curious to see how this fork compares to the V1, from what I can tell there have been three variants of this specific fork. I have the V1, the V2 had an updated crown and legs but no 3-pack and this one is V3. The V1 is the most flexible disc fork I’ve ever used, some increased stiffness would be nice.
What’s interesting is I had the lugged Wolverine low-trail fork too and it was the same weight but less flexible. Maybe heavier legs and lighter crown? Or paint not as heavy as chrome (or vice versa)?
I’m a little late to this but Tomii is an ATX dude and I’ll never forget that he made this BOLO post for one of his customers who bought a very twee and expensive bike then… leaned it on the wall outside the door of a record store in east Austin. An unhoused fella walked off with it within 30 seconds. Always felt like a perfect little 2020s Austin vignette for some reason
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WTH: I ordered some interesting pottery tools from some website and it turns out the stuff is shipping from fuckin Turkey. I’m never gonna see that shit.
i think this is the wrong thread but i do wish you the best in your quest for exotic pottery tools.
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See if Eric Adam’s can help you
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they listed that too, also for $10k
that sellers page is chock full of custom bikes priced at full msrp. may they never sell even one of them.
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the stumpjumper!
it was a bold move to make an already ugly bike look worse.
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Would
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That’s an ugly bike, but as a fan of dropbar MTBs it’s nice to see another model. Although I wonder if these bikes are making an impact? It follows closely the Pivot Les SL, and from earlier in 2025 the Ridley Ignite, and Lee Cougan Super Gravel, both of which disappeared into a black hole immediately.
I ride this style of bike all the time, and I’m right in the nexus of people who would be riding these bikes but I’ve only ever seen a handful going back several years. Perhaps the dropbar MTB is still early but it seems to me there is not currently a large enough customer base to support much more or perhaps much more than a small niche with constant model turnover. This feels almost like a way for different parts of the industry to clear out inventory just to get it somewhere else even if it doesn’t sell.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone at the content-production level praise these sorts of bikes for their ability or riding style. They’re different and a lot of fun, mostly treated as something of a joke by professional pundits. They are also almost totally pointless for general riding. If I didn’t live contiguous to 8 miles of MTBs trails I would ride mine barely a dozen times a year, if that.
Many people own very expensive MTBs they don’t ride much more than that; but the justification for a slightly worse handling somewhat strangely assembled bike wears thin for most I think. Here in North Georgia we have access to a half dozen events that are American style XCM - variable ratio but generally half-singletrack and half-gravel - perfect events for these bikes. Of the thousands of people who have done these events over the past decade+ I’d estimate maybe 25-30 people have ever used a dropbar MTB.
I think of how gravel bikes went from struggling for industry identity for many years and then suddenly every other person in my area was riding one. Perhaps dropbar MTBs are struggling the same way but it doesn’t seem like it, right now at least.
The bikes need a better name, for starters.
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It’d be a great bike for where I live. We have city, suburbs, good mtb trails, and rail trails all on top of each other. A bike like this would be a riot for that mix.
But for any of them on their own? Meh.
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Same. All the trails are minutes from our house. I would ride that but right now its mostly my OPEN UP with 2.0 x 6-fiddies and Beacons. Its more fun without suspension anyway.
Idk I just did a big long easy singletrack ride on a Black Mountain MCD. It was really fun. The lack of front suspension made it fun. Any tech requiring front suspension made the drops absolutely miserably too low.
Seems like any handlebar height that allows shredding exclude aero benefits of drops.
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36 degrees of flare is not very aero for sure.
ok but all other conversation aside: highseating this thing without a dropper on any terrain that makes that susp fork worthwhile? absolutely miserable.
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So much for the ugly gravel bike
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That makes sense from a safety perspective. That’s why most orgs restrict the use of barends or extensions.
I’m assuming they had some crashes this last year after bars got tangled.