[Closed] Weight gain - nearly there

Nice err, seatpost
*s****s *

and you might want to invest in a longer cable for that front brake.

Can I be the first to suggest you should have bought a frame that fitted you?

Looks dead cool though. How much will you be selling it for?

thats.....awesome!!

fork bottoms out on the tyre?

i really like that! i'm getting more and more fat curious.

any uk bike shops sell fat bikes?

Any Surly dealer can order you in a Pugsley. We've already put out a few frames and full builds.
http://www.thebikechain.co.uk/Surly-Pugsley-Bike-16-201011300214/

Why longer brake cable?

Oh and if you cant' ride a bike that doesn't fit you, you can't ride 😡

RIM TAPE IS GAY

Love it ever since I saw a chap at one of the meridas doing a 50 km on one which a cool looking bike!!!

Nice extra holes drilled in the wrong place on the rear rim. 😉

Looks very very good - spacers in the forks yet and the clearance must be tiny with those rims?

I'm also amazed at how small the frame looks - ready for sand dune big-air radness dude 😉

I think you may end up with some rather odd punctures on that!

Arrrrgh.... My eyes...

Stu some of us ignore the instructions and our girlfriends don't mind.

Anyway in an ideal world it is a little small, but I'm doing the best I can with what I have.

As usual my detractors have taken over with the personal insults.

Stu some of us ignore the instructions and our girlfriends don't mind.

Anyway in an ideal world it is a little small, but I'm doing the best I can with what I have.

Lol.

Anyway in an ideal world it is a little small,

I though snow bikes were meant to have a very low standover height so that if you have to put your feet down in deep power you don't end up with your danglies in your throat.

So what's my prize for pointing out your fail then?

You get a kick in the balls if you spot the other 3 🙄

Anyway you're just jealous cos it's twice as good as yours for half the price 😎

You spent that much!

You get a kick in the balls if you spot the other 3

Saddo logo/valve line-up, presta/schraeder mix, bottom pull f/mech, larger disc on rear, rear tyre wrong way round (arguable that one) ????

heh logo line-ups FTW...discs the same size but nice try. The only other ones are the painted rr tyre & the variously mis-aligned holes in the rims. Drills & wine do not mix.

Thanks for the forks, they are tops. Looking forward to selling them to stu in s few mongths

Have you weighed it yet?

Kitchen looks good Al..

Nice boike to Mr..

Unique, probably.

One question: what might happen if the forks compress enough at speed for the tyre to slam into the crown?

druid I have no scales.

Nick, cheers, you oughtta visit.

cynic-al - Member
druid I have no scales.

Sounds a bit fishy

That lounge carpet still got 2 finger push back?

Sold another pug this week been btw. It's the best selling single model since November. Weird.

I've got the burns to prove it Mark.

And I'm not talking about Pugsley sales figures 😎

I'm surprised at the suspension forks on a bike with car tyres on but I applaude your enthusiasm. And disk brakes too, they look funny on a bike you'll never go faster than 10mph on. SWEET!!! Well done.

Looking forward to selling them to stu in s few mongths

I'd never sink as low as fitting a maveric product to any of my bikes. 🙄

Well that and the fact that there seems little point in a suss fork when the tyres work so well. 😀

BTW how long is a mongth? 😉

It's fine with Mavs though Stu cause it means i can screw Al in a few weeks time when i buy it off him when he gets bored.

8)

He seems to be keeping quiet about the forks/tyre interface issue 🙂

As to what would happen.....full on OTB I would imagine.

fork bottoms out on the tyre?

Not unless it bottoms out on the frame first.

Oof.

what's the advantage of tractor tyres over bicycle tyres ?

Massive cable to the rear mech? A long cage as well, for no reason.

You guys do know you can fit a spacer in the mav fork to limit the travel don't you?

I like it!

You guys do know you can fit a spacer in the mav fork to limit the travel don't you?

spacers only limit it to 3.5inches?
from my the pic - fork crown looks less than that. and with a little bit of fore and aft flex the frame might also as well.

still looks like an interesting bike tho.

singlespeedstu - Member
Well that and the fact that there seems little point in a suss fork when the tyres work so well.

BTW how long is a mongth?

You are kidding right? Unless you have oil in your tyres to damp the return?

A mongth is a month in stu-time 😉

hexhamstu - do try harder, the mech will obviously rotate anticlocwise once the chain is fitted. As for its length, do you know what chainrings I will be fitting? It was just one I had bought cheap in CRC sale, do you think that bike was spec'd to please stw keyboard warriors?

As stu says, the fork travel can be shortened for the fat tyres - thanks for reminding me though, I'd probably have test ridden it before fitting them.

TBC - can you save me 2 till-rolls please?

I wonder if it's the best spec'd fat bike in the UK?

That was a bit of an aggressive reply, you invited me to pick things wrong with it.

and re:the long cage mech, can't imagine you'll need a large ring at the front on this type of bike?

"do you think that bike was spec'd to please stw keyboard warriors?"

spaz tyred bike: check
Drilled rims: check
A niche bike your never going to ride: check

So yes I'm fairly sure you did exactly that.

hexhamstu - Member
you invited me to pick things wrong with it.

Where?

Yes you are right it will be a 22-32-44, glad I got you to think about it though 😀 Like I said, it's a mech, it's new, it works, unlike most of my other ones, so it went on the bike.

Sorry if I upset you, you seem hurt now. I wanted to try a genuinely different bike, something that allows you to ride where you previously couldn't. To me: better that than another 5" stw-std-issue-sled for the drones to slaver over. If you want to criticise me for that because I've pointed out you were talking guff then up to you.

I think its spot on, good on you for the work you've put in. Not my cup of tea, but I applaude anyone trying something different.

Out of interest, where do these clown bikes allow you to ride that a proper bike wouldn't, other than soft sand and soft snow?