Experimenting with some stuff with a custom-built chainstay assembly. This one is a first attempt - 42cm chainstays? Check. Postmount? Check. 12x142? Not this time, I wanted to use some old scrap dropouts because I'm dumb, so it's QR. Version 2.0 will be 142x12.
The hard part to deal with visually is the 3/4" round tubes. They are plenty stiff and strong, but they just look weird mated to the (also 3/4" in this case) seatstay assembly.
Not for sale yet, please don't bug me about it for a few more months. Yes, there will be a Stupidmobile FS in 2014...
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| That is one seriously bald rear tire. Yikes. |
Edit: Seriously, nobody is going to mention the amount of seatpost out? Yes, that's my actual saddle height. And it's a 20" seat tube...
I also have been working on actual customer's bikes, don't worry. Here's Cody's front end getting ready for some chainstays.
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Epic cables!
Yep, didn't cut them yet... looks pretty boss that way, I think. Maybe I'll leave 'em. And put some bar ends on, too, just to upset people even more!
Damn, that tire looks just about as bald as the one my wife had been riding around on
Stupidmobile™... before Specialized takes it.
wv: dumerio
That's not bald. That's a light weight race tire!
Not to say that your seatpost is freakishly long or something, but I'm impressed that there's enough straight seat tube to reach the minimum insertion of that post!
Bryan
Sick!
I need to suck it up and build a bike with a "real" suspension design.
I was definitely going to comment on the seatpost before I read the edit. Ridiculously long.
Is that seat height not normal then?
Any updates on this walt?
Rob -
Updates are: I have 200 miles or something on the ghetto prototype and it's still great. I am working on a through-axle version that I *might* have time to work on in the next week or two. More info as things happen.
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