Why can’t this bike be easy to build.
I wonder if a wolf tooth goat link will get the dangler low enough to use.
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Well I was able to swap a mid cage dangler and an 11-34 cassette to make it rideable. I’m gonna get a wolf tooth goat link to try but that may wait till spring. I used a 10 speed dynasys dangler with an 11s shifter, I remember someone here saying they are compatible and I can confirm it does.
Gotta work on the fender clearance and mount the dyno lights too but it’s a functional bike. Need to find a good front bracket that plays well with the surly rack. The rear just needs a bunch of time spent routing the wire. I’m gonna try to run as much of it as I can with heat shrink against the rear brake hose and do the rest internal or hidden for the fork, rack, and rear fender.
I misplaced my TRP barbs and olives so I have very large loops of hose behind the front basket and under the rear platform. These brakes are directly off the bullitt but just swapped front and rear hoses/calipers.
The KS post doesn’t work well with the angle of the brooks rails and I need to nose it up a bit more but it’s at the limit of its adjustment, I hope I can easily file the slot longer to get it where I want it.
It is so much different to ride than the bullitt, very unstable having two kids move around so high up behind me compared to so low and in front of me. It feels exactly like riding a tandem from the captain position but a little less prone to understeer. Everything about this bike is gonna take a lot of getting used to.
Here’s the worst picture I’ve ever taken of any of my bikes, in my basement at 6am after staying at the shop all night to get this thing done and then spending 2 hours fighting brand new seized hardware.
This bike is so visually heavy and black, I’ve added some color but I really need to do something with these bags. And animal cage in the back.
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Looks awesome! How do the kids like it?
Holy cow that stem. Do the big dummies come in multiple sizes?
They don’t like looking at my back, they’d much rather be up front seeing what’s going on.
Dummies come in a full size range, nothing comes with a long enough head tube to get me in an upright seating position with a 82cm saddle height to the bb.
I see a lot of kids riding facing backward on longtails.
Yesterday I saw a kid standing on the deck of a Yuba like a surfboard as her dad rolled up to the school. She jumped off before he came to a stop and hit the ground running. It was awesome.
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it’s like the kinder friendlier version of the station wagon jump seat
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My kids have done this a lot. It’s a really great way to get drivers to give you a wide berth.
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My oldest does that to face her little sister instead of forwards
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The bracket for our Yepp seat is theoretically bi-directional but I’ve always thought it would be more horrifying to have cars flying at you at 35mph than it would be to stare at my ass for 45 minutes. I do very much believe a toddler staring at them would get drivers’ attention though!
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We’ve only got two rides in on it and we’re all figuring out how to get comfortable on the new bike. Right now my 6yo sits in the back with their legs crossed and my 9yo sits up front with their face against my back and their hands on my belly to keep them warm. I’m gonna suggest to them facing backwards and see what they think of the idea, I know they would rather look at what’s around us instead of staring at my back.
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If they face each other would they play nice or wind up punching each other in the face?
That might be fun if they have the right kind of temperament/relationship.
Probably both.
Pretty cool trailer for the price. I just found this on AliExpress: $458.32 | VEVOR Bike Cargo Trailer 70 lbs Load Capacity Heavy-Duty Bicycle Wagon Cart Compact Storage and Quick Release Structure 20" Wheels
https://a.aliexpress.com/_mOETjf9
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Looks cool, that load capacity seems lower than I expect but probably good enough for most people. Only mentioning because I think about a trailer for keg hauling every once in a while lol
I’ve got a lot of work to do unfucking this thing
Pretty much every part of it needs maintenance or repair. Not the batteries or motor thankfully.
First order of business: note there I am working on attaching the Supernova light to the front of it. The owner had somehow destroyed the original IQX or whatever and I am about to splice this into the snipped cables at the front. He replaced the fork recently (because he broke the original) and this one doesn’t have a crown mount hole, so I need to figure out how to mount this light. Luckily just connecting the bare wires actually allowed me to control the light from the Bosch computer at the handlebars (though the rear secula did not turn on, lol).
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