Saturday Stocking Stuffer: Sweet Steel Road Fork SOLD

Sold.

Random Tuesday Announcements and for-sale

-If you are the owner of the rusted-out cracked Wily frame that has been in my garage for several months now, please get in touch about the repair or I'm recycling it.

-Frame prices will go to $1700 (for new orders, those on the list are locked in) starting Jan. 1. Without getting too far into it, I'm getting asked for more and more exotic dropouts/curves/weirdness and prices have to rise to cover it all.

-Mike wants to sell this headbadge he had Jen Greene make:

Interested? I'm sure he'll give you a deal. Email me and I'll put you in touch.

Kevin's low-Q fatbike complete!

Read more on the geometry here if you're interested.

Obligatory garage-door shot. A brown one, nice change of pace!

150x15 rigid fork for easy Bluto-swapping. That sounds sort of awful if you don't know it's a bike part...

With bags

With an 83mm shell/62mm chainline, here's your max tire/chain clearance, folks

And so it begins

Ready

Olympic Park trails

Wheel size quiz!!

How big are they?

Hint: Jan is pretty tall.

On the east side on a mission trying to find Mr. Warren G?

Don't cut that steerer!

Before and after

Doh!

Much better

No before here, but here's Andrew's soft-tail after front suspension with his new WW fork

And now for something completely different...

I am pretty sure Gal had a warmer ride than I did, since I don't think 1000 year old olive trees see a lot of 7 degree days. 29+ and couplers means adventure anywhere you want to go!

First tracks, bro.

Not hard to get when it's 9 degrees out there. Ullr, we'd like some actual snow to go with the cold, please.

This is at ~7500 feet behind our house. Amazing singletrack with or without snow.

Kevin's Low-Q fatbike EDIT: added frame geometry discussion

This was a cool project. Kevin did a bunch of the hard work figuring out chainline and researching appropriate cranks, and we kicked around ideas a bunch and ended up with something I think will be really fun: a fatbike without a ridiculously wide pedaling stance/Q factor.

Now, the tradeoff here is that a 4" tire on a ~80mm rim is about the limit for tire clearance, but that's ok if the alternative is horrible knee pain and no fun on your fatbike. 4" tires are damn fun, kids, even if the cool guys all have 5" ones now and look like babies waddling with full diapers on their ICTs.

I kid, I kid. Few pictures, geometry update in a minute.

Hello, Bean

Now, geometry:
-69 degree head tube angle, 45mm offset fork, and around 90mm of trail
-695mm front center
-310mm BB height (obviously depends on tire/inflation, though)
-435mm chainstay length
-83mm BB shell for happy knees and low Q
-170mm rear spacing
-150x15 spaced/Bluto swappable 480mm rigid fork.
-About 115mm of tire clearance at 345mm from the rear axle - this means basically any 3.8/4" tire will fit on 65-80mm rims. Bigger tires (or rims) are probably a no-go, though. 29+ and (more logically for BB height reasons) 27.5" will both fit with gobs of room.

Lots of bending. Damn, the only straight tube is the head tube...and fork blades, I guess.

They broke Box o' Rocks?!?

Maybe JJ just isn't used to full squish!

Obligatory uncut steerer. Do any WW owners ever cut theirs?

Photos from William

He finally saw the light and took off his bar ends!

RS-1, baby!

Tasty looking berms down under!

Hardtails with droppers still look weird to me for some reason. But they look darn fun, too...

Obligatory 'Roo