[Closed] This Parkwood.....

vertical drop outs only. Boooo!

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Only ever had those stoner so nothing to compare against! Coming from 7 years on a Trek 6500 HT that has done pretty much everything.

Was thinking about Camber Evo or Anthem FS - then idea of a lot more work/less time coming and starting thinking about simplicity of a HT and the value. Actually fancy a race HT too (and tempted by XTC advanced in the sale.) i had my eye on the fireline before.

Wheel size tick

I'd be tempted to raid the coin jar and upgrade to a Fireline.

Im a sucker for the horizontal drop outs/trackends. I ride mainly SS, or with a gear hub, so they work for me.

I think the swapout design was the best idea, but I guess its too expensive to put on all the On-One frames.

Anyway, my O-O wish list is still for a monstercross based on the pompetamine (and with horizontal drop outs)

MSP - Member

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Really is a case of damned if you do, damned if you don't, isn't it?

On-one not perfect, but I think he makes a real effort to help folks on here.

MSP - Member
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This might be a "bit" true MSP, but I would much rather have the likes of Brandt, Si and Loco etc commenting and contributing to the forum as they all ride and love bikes as well as work in the industry, compare this level of engagement in what we do ( ride mountain bikes ) with the likes of specialized Trek Giant etc.

I know which version of the industry I prefer.

I can't believe some of the things written on here at times.

FFS.

Weight - cross

But I guess a Lurcher would be suggested if I wanted to race it....

On One - put off my the regular lists off moans re bikes and customer service

When you think of how many people must use the O-O website, the number of gripes on here seem to be pretty miniscule IMO.

Weight seems to be the only negative.

Except it looks much better with the black fork they have pictures in their Facebook page today

yes black fork i reckon

kryton - bought to muck about on (Lakes, Surrey Hills etc) not race?

what is the weight?

Weight does include a Reverb and 2.4in front tyre, 2.25in rear... Not skinny lightweights.

Not so bad when you see the difference in weight a dropper and tyres actually add.

Is the black fork an option?

Weight does include a Reverb and 2.4in front tyre, 2.25in rear... Not skinny lightweights.

It's listed as having a CM 2.4 on the back on the site. IF it's been weighed with a 2.25, will the 2.4 fit?

I mean properly fit, with a wide rim and some mud clearance, not squeeze in and buzz the stays. Cheers.

The weight isn't bad at all for the sort of bike this is. My Buzzard is a couple of pounds heavier with a reasonably similar build. If you want a race bike, buy something else. (Not aimed at you, OP)

This might be a "bit" true MSP, but I would much rather have the likes of Brandt,

brandt? that's a name I've not heard for years. takes me back to the heady days of rec.bicycles.tech newsgroups. 😉

I mean properly fit, with a wide rim and some mud clearance, not squeeze in and buzz the stays. Cheers.

2.4's fit properly.

Smorgasbord is rear tyre on the spec you can customise, but it is listed as Chunky Monkey on the spec in the table on the page.

I'll get that fixed.

There's one in the Edinburgh shop.

If I had a clear credit card, there is no excuse I can think of not to buy one.

Revs, reverb, Deore and other bits furra grand.

Jayzus.

Looks nice, and will be the closest you'll get to Fireline geometry until they sort production for that out. Any update on this Brant?

I think it is very clever well put together spec. At the c2w limit, with a desirable proper fork and a reverb. I'm tempted and I really don't need another hardtail.

It really looks like a billy bargain - Deore, Reverb and Revelation for less than a grand 🙂

Any demo bike to try it out?

Tempted as I have a bikes worth of bits lying around, frame only deal?

Thought I might be interested in this but it's pretty 'orrible to look at. TBH. A Bit Kona 10 years ago, too chunky.

I ride a Canfield Yelli Screamy, which I think can be regarded as the 'inspiration' for modern trailsy 29er geometry - 68 degrees at 120mm and short chainstays.

It's a real hoot to ride, IMO it's the HT nailed, unless you really want a balls-our racer. It's my go to bike nowadays. re my Yelli, in the context of people looking at the Parkwood: (The Yelli is a US import and through-the-roof expensive compared to the Parkwood).

Weight: no biggie unless you're racing for a podium I think. I don't really notice it, and the fun more than cancels it out.

Dropouts: I've run my Yelli SS with a Surly Singlator, I find it works well. No need for fancy dropouts on the Parkwood if you want to run singlespeed.

Chainstays: Parkwood chainstays look longer. Shorter is better IMO, a few mm makes a difference, but YMMV and I've not ridden a PW.

The PW looks a damn good bet for someone looking for a fun great value HT. Some day, all bikes will be like this. (NB that Cannondale race bike in the news, moving in the same way, short at the back, slack at the front).

Hope that helps someone.

Tempted as I have a bikes worth of bits lying around, frame only deal?

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Brant, any reason why you stopped using the '3 finger' chainstays, chainstay brake bosses and bolt on cable guides on your frames?

3 Finger bridges were Ragley. This design uses a composite (made of parts, not plastic) chainstay bridge area achieving similar.

I like bolt on guides but complaints from some about "too fiddly".

Brant, what A2C fork is it designed arround, I've got some 100mm Marzocchi forks and dunno how far off they'd be from RS 120mm forks. I was going to use a tall external cup to make up the difference, but you've scuppered that plan with an integrated headset.......grrrrrrrrrrrr.

100mm would be OK I'd have thought.
Everything is a similar length at bottom out.

|Direct mount front derailleur thingies sure are ugly.

Bugger... this was looking very promising till imspotted that its 10 x 135... my wheels are 12 x 135. Oh well back to the drawing board. 🙁

Oh god, its £999 now.

I'd be worried it'd replace my Ti 26er which is now officially the "race bike" but it is significantly different so it wouldn't, but if I wanted to go out for a quick ride, I'd be staring at my ASR5 and this an wondering...

😕

Help...

How exciting!! Big box in the porch when I got home 🙂

Sadly it was closely followed by 😡 😕 🙄 🙄

Bearing in mind, up there^

brant - Member
I mean properly fit, with a wide rim and some mud clearance, not squeeze in and buzz the stays. Cheers.

2.4's fit properly.

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That's a 1.5mm thick penny washer pinched between the frame and the tyre. And it's a RR tyre rather than my usual Hans Damf, which is never going to fit.
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So back it goes. It's just irritating though. Why not just be straight about it in the first place?
I'd have bought the Yelli on the classifieds a couple of weeks ago if I'd known this.

Shame, it should be great bike otherwise.

daftvader - Member

Bugger... this was looking very promising till imspotted that its 10 x 135... my wheels are 12 x 135. Oh well back to the drawing board.

It took me almost 3 minutes to make my 10-12 adaptor, and that was doing it right- doing it badly would have taken about 20 seconds. Live dangerously!

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I was just about to post that for all the negative P-X/On-One threads, it's always balanced out with positive threads, like this one, about their new products.

Then bedmaker had to go and ruin things 😥

brant - Member
I mean properly fit, with a wide rim and some mud clearance, not squeeze in and buzz the stays. Cheers.
2.4's fit properly.

Fanbois had better get fanning!

I'm sorry your tyres don't fit.
We had 2.4 Chunky Monkeys in there with room to spare.

Those must be bigger that I imagined possible.

Hey!
I'm no On one slagger, I love their stuff, hence my excitement on seeing the box today when I got in from work. My other bike is a Fatty, and there's an Inbred 29er in the shed too.

I asked a specific question about tyres because I don't use ickle skinny ones - ever.

We had 2.4 Chunky Monkeys in there with room to spare.

The Racing Ralphs fit with room to spare, just not an awful lot of it. 😉 They're just run of the mill 2.4 tyres, not something special and rare from the unimagineably big tyre shop.

Goodness. It took me 4mins to eat my mushrooms on toast.

Can you give me dims of your HD's - outer diameter (you can do a roll out measurement to give that), width at widest point, and distance from Outer to widest point.

I don't have those dimensions.

We do have drawings for our Smorgy's and Chunkies, and use the +5mm tolerance dimensioned Smorgasbords to set things up, plus the +6mm clearance as required in EN 14766 as a minimum.

Our Chunky Monkeys fitted too.

Apologies, and content will be updated.

Send the frame back or change tyres??? Hmmm, sure is a tricky one...