[Closed] Embarassing On One Ti 29

Ragley?

I was going to say Ragley but it wont be any good with the forks you have for the build.

Me mainstream.
Is this 29er frame?

Carbon 29er?

Nothing else seems to take a 29er tapered fork.

Want to use the bike for touring and the lifetime warrenty appeals. On One warrent the the carbon frame for two whole years!

Ventana had tapered forks on a mod list for all their bikes this year. Don't think they do Ti though.

Just to waste an hour or two I tried the Crane Creek headset finder website to fit an 1 1/8th headset.
At this point patience would appear to be virtue!

Doesn't the Singular Pegasus now have a tapered headtube as an option?

ask them for a tapered head tube: http://vannicholas.com/24/Zion_29/bike.aspx

Lose out on the option of swap-outs though. Bit screwed really. Sell/return/swap the forks and headset?

This seems boutique and expensive. That Singular is the price of a Lynskey

Well you did say "Lets not forget cost!" 😀 I'd have a Pegasus over a Van Nic anyday. Bollocks to the cost.

The Zion 29 would make me happy for the next twenty . Might be bye bye forks time. This would lose me severals on the forks.

Buy a steel frame, get a tapered head tube welded on by Argos? Sell in August.

13 posts before the real feel got here.

So me and my tapered Fox forks are forked then?

Is there not a Cannondale 29er hardtail? You could find that frame, and get a reducer headset.

first rule of a custom build, start with the frame 🙁

get a niner they are designed for tapered forks

Get a new csu off loco for your forks, they'll fit anything then and probably cost less than the hit of selling them on
Then take your pick of frames,

I'll px my Reba Team maxles if you want 😉

I think the new salsa might be coming with tapered headtube. If I were you I'd either wait or get O-O carbon. Or get a Canfield Yelli Screamy or Chumba HX2 from Si at Progressive.

Lynskey have big headtubes this year!

It's not ti but a yeti big top has a tapered headtube.
Other options are find mire cash for lynskey or wait. Like someone said, first rule of bike building is start with a frame.

giant?

giant?

I have a shiny new unridden 2011 Giant XTC 29ER as an insurance replacement.Hence the forks.
I want to hang all the bits off a Ti frame with a lifetime warrenty and have at least one bike that I just ride and not change,repair, spend more time cleaning and maintaining than actually sat on.
Is this an unrealistic dream!

[url] http://salsacycles.com/bikes/el_mariachi_ti_complete_2011/el_mariachi_ti_frame_build/ [/url]

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Forks will fit 😀

Not sure if it's lifetime warranty though..

And this is gorgeous!
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(ss only though) - but at last a Salsa frame with [i]slightly[/i] shorter length chainstays

What's the point of a lifetime warranty? Long warrant's a con seeing as if you use it as intended it will show up any manufacturing defects pretty quickly, so if you snapped it in 10 years time you're just as reliant on the manufacturers goodwill as if it had the standard 1 year warranty. And 99% of people have probably sold their bikes on after ~5 years anyway so the manufacturer is relying on a combination of

"if it's going to fail it'll fail in a year"
"they'll sell it in ~5 years so we only have to budget for that"

These are good suggestions.
I refuse to ostracize or align myself with them that don't do gears.
Bald and fat is a sub group I already populate. Bald fat and SS is just too boutique!!!!!!!!!!

The Salsa ti frames do have a lifetime warranty.

All other Salsa frames have a 2 year warranty.

GB

Basil - Member
...Bald fat and SS is just too boutique...

Oddly enough you don't see any fat single speeders...

Oddly enough you don't see any fat single speeders...

ssstu has broke the mold then............... 😉

Oddly enough you don't see any fat single speeders

so me, Ton and the guy who did really well on the Rollapolusa at SSUK09 etc were imaginary then?

ton - Member

ssstu has broke the mold then...............

Literally, I'd have thought 😉

ton - Member
'Oddly enough you don't see any fat single speeders...'
ssstu has broke the mold then.....

I have never met him, but often the uncognescenti mistake the long range fuel tanks of single speeders for adipose tissue...

Not available frame only - i know I tried

I found a good deal on the xtc2 not long ago, one could have bought it, parted and sold everything but the frame, kind of a hassle though.

The 2011 Lynskey Ridgeline has got to be a contender. 44mm headtube will accept tapered fork with the correct headset and if you get the SL version it has slider dropouts. And lifetime warranty for not too much money.

Clink - Member
And this is gorgeous!

(ss only though) - but at last a Salsa frame with slightly shorter length chainstays

IT's got a mech hanger.

often the uncognescenti mistake the long range fuel tanks of single speeders for adipose tissue...

I may have to adapt/adopt that for a t-shirt.

"What's the point of a lifetime warranty?"
I'm not sure, the shop I bought my frame from said its lifetime was probably up inside of 3 years old when the rocker link snapped. yet, the shock/brain have a 5 year warranty? Specialized replaced the rockers anyway so a non issue, for now ..