Send it to me and I’ll tape a couple of them on for you.
Looking at replacing it with a Ritchey unit. This 20yr old carbon fork sketches me out a bit.
You’re looking at rivbike.com, aren’t you? Is an intervention needed?
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Had this same thought looking over my 2000 CAAD5 with Slice crabon fork. Found a little crack with my fingernail on a blade, couldn’t tell if it was just clear coat or what…
26" monstercross is real and it’s incredible
So I’ve got a lead on a Steamroller frameset for pretty cheap. Then I saw this picture and it gave me certain… feelings.
Where’s the hive mind on a 650b fixie with big old tires? Should I accept that I don’t need 48mm tires on all my bikes? Or should I go forth and shred another stupid bike?
Are you fucking kidding me
Fat tire 650b porteur fixie is what Tarck is all about
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I thought that was just your thing though?
Edit: you have been telling me to build that bike since I joined tarck a year or so ago.
Edit 2: I do have one of those low trail Soma forks that I could smang on…
I’d jive with disc up front and no brake out back.
Also I’m probably not going to run drops on it.
- After 100 miles of a 200k your legs may object to having to help slacken your speed on a steep ramp (my legs say “fuck no” when I’m only about 30 miles into a 200k, but you’re probably more fit than I am.)
- Drops for lyfe, heathen!
I’ve dithered with fat tire fixies for years, and as much as i like my 26x2’s and gears, for fixed, I don’t think bigger than 38-42 is really all that fun. Something to smooth out the ride, but not so much it gets bouncy. Unless you actually ride it on trails, then go crazy,
Also steamroller will fit 700x40s without brakes, maybe with if they’ve got good clearance, VO Grand Cru is good for that I think.
This is a great point. I certainly wouldn’t be running Hetres or Babby Shoes, I’d be skidding Horizons.
Maybe I’ll build up two wheelsets anyway though?
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Thickslicks are available in 650bx48.
I still really really want to 650b my old gitane track
I’m equally thrilled and horrified at the idea of a 1.9” Thickslick
Just put brakes on it and you do you after that.
so this bike never jived with me when it had drop bars. It just felt weird and the handling was odd. It’s a 90’s MTB geometry with 26" wheels and a fat city cycles fork.
It’s currently being turned into a fat tired SS commuter bike with a front rack and bag. It’s way more fun than it was as an SS MTB riding it all over the city and it’s going to take me to work through winter on all the little trails and paths and through the epic snow.
I feel bad taking this bike off SSCX race duty, but it never was great at that, and it’s actually being ridden more, which I guess is what actually matters.
So far: old man mountain front rack, WALD basket to hold a bag, flat pedals, surly open bar with rise.
currently: brake cables interfere with the rack a bit. I was going to consider wrapping the bar with road bike tape and run the cables like a curby road bar that way I can grab the bar anywhere?
also for a bag: velo orange makes a perfect rolltop bag for the front…
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at one point i took some IS disc adaptors and cut them down so i could use them between the brake and (new, longer) mounting bolt and that let me go wald basket strut straight from the brakes. probably not the most smart thing ever but it worked until i moves on to a crusty fork. brake bolts never loosened on me either.
that looks amazing