For this edition of Readers’ Rides, Phill M shares his Stooge Dirtbomb which he sets-up with cod liver oil tablets and swearing.
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By ben_haworth
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You look at it and just smile. I blooming love it.
it's very rare to see a bad stooge build, that's ace.
I must chuck some of my collection of stooge oddities and one offs over to STW for folks to take the piss out of
Quite fancy one of these - to cover a load of bases... rides from the doorstep where I want something more than a gravel bike through to something I can negotiate down off-piste tech as an alternative to my bouncey bike.
There's a few on eBay at the moment - lack of funds is holding me back from the ti fat bike. Not so fussed about the curly forked ones - don't really know why, but they just look wrong to my eyes. The rest of the bike is fine though.
There’s a few on eBay at the moment
Just seen the new Speedbomb frame. Hmmmmmm
Truss forks tend to be on the stooge ti bikes, so you can have a big offset without the fork being a noodle. If you've ever ridden a ti unicrown fork hard...it's a nerve wracking experience seeing about an inch for fore/aft deflection!
It's my fault as it's what we desgined on my original speedball 29+
Sorry n that
The big curved forks with 80mm offset on mk4' looked lush
Killer Klunker indeed! Love it!
They do look tremendous. Possibly an itch that needs scratching at some point
I properly like that bike.
Rigid, no internal cable routing. Thats absolutely perfect!