Time for a bit of dirty dropbar pre-gravel action with this 54in(?) Stooge Tracker.
Your Name
Stuart Mosley
Bike
Stooge Dirt Ti Tracker
Fork
Sonder Carbon Rigid
Shock
None of that nonsense
Suspension set-up
My aging body
Wheels
650b
Tyres
WTB Sendero 47s , Continental Terra Trail 47s, WTB Horizon 47s – varies depending on ride.
Brakes
SRAM
Drivetrain
SRAM 1X
Cockpit
Thompson Stem, Hope front light, Sonder Flared bars, Quadlock phone bracket
Seatpost
USE Ti
Saddle
Currently WTB
Size and weight
54in [I think he means cm – Benji] I think. No idea on weight.
Why this bike?
Met Andy from Stooge Cycles at a ‘Steel is Real / Ti is Fly’ day in 2019 Forest of Dean. After a spin around the forest and a chat with a few ‘Stoogies’ I was convinced. I wasn’t actually going to buy a bike, was just a look around. But then do you ever go and just look at a puppy?! New wheels are planned as these are the original Sonder Love Mud hoops and have covered 1000s of miles now.
I absolutely love this bike and purchased it new from Stooge, before ‘gravel’ was such a thing! Completed MTB races, bikepacking, trail centres, Ride London, Birmingham Velo. It will never replace my Pace hardtail or my Yeti full sus, but I love it.
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Good to see Andy doing so well with Stooge. Great designs at a fair price.
I just need a bit more bravery and jump in.
Cant fault the bike in anyway and have been tempted with another for sometime. I have only ever seen one other of mine, don’t think that many were made. The regular steel frame are more popular and see occasionally out on the trails and they are great for ripping around on. Definitely worth a look.
I like almost all of that, but I am looking at the bars and brakes and I can’t imagine a scenario where they’d be good. Can you ride comfortably on the hoods? Seems like a halfway point between flats and drops without the benefits of either
I have never really owned a road bike so cant really compare with standard road drops. The hoods I think are not far off standard road bars and then they flare out. The flared out element of the bar I love and find you can really control it when off road as the width makes the bike pretty stable. I have ridden a couple of mountain bike events on this bike (not sure why I didnt use my Mtbs) but was great on the descents, albeit they were more endurance XC events not Enduro or DH.
Not that it bothers me but… yeah. I’m trying to work out the hand position for riding on the hoods on a flared drop bar and it doesn’t feel comfortable!