Sitting at work, bored out of my nut and had a light-bulb moment that bar a set of forks I have all the shit components in my parts bin to build a franken69er-ish stylee pub/hack/play/lets see what this malarky is all about bike.
Pics invited for inspiration purleeese 😀
Just waiting for a higher rise stem to arrive, so my chin’s not resting on the steerer quite as much. Currently used as a commuter, but well be using it for longer touring/bikepacking stuff as well.
Do you have one?
If you don’t, try one, then maybe you’ll see why a lot of folk ride them
Yes they will never be the best looking bike but the ride overrides that looks in my humble opinion
I have had 29ers, but always seem to return to my 69er
Ooo, lots of inspiration here, I keep toying with the idea of 69ering in my Handjob (15.5″ frame), and then converting to SS. May get a Hummingbird fork and go from there.
What front 29er rim would match my DT 5.1? Or any matching 26/29″ rim combos that match each other as I have a DT 240 SS & Hope XC in the parts bin.
I have a 120mm hardtail and was considering fitting some 150mm forks as I have some sitting around.
But after some googling which said the bike would be slacker and less responsive and generally worse to ride in an xc capacity.
And also I would be pushing back the seat tube angle there for putting more strain on the frame.
Which would then snap and I would die.
so did not bother.
So does fitting a 29er wheel on the front not have the same effect.
In answer to Chip: going from 120mm 26er to rigid 69er doesn’t slacken things off – remember the 26er will need 12cm extra space at the front for that travel. 🙂 Take a look at the last three pics and note the gap between the top of front tyre and the headtube.
Incidentally, I’m selling the forks in the last two pics – I now also have a 29er to go with the Hummingbird, so they’re a little surplus. 177mm steerer. I can throw in a suitable front wheel.
Not a franken-bike but a Trek Top Fuel 69er, bit of a crap picture I’m afraid. Bought from the classifieds, powder coated and built up into my favourite bike.
I 69er’d my inbred with a 440mm fork and a 29er wheel.
TBH while it was ok, I never really felt that it was different enough or had any real advantage to be worthwhile for where/how I ride at least and reverted back to vanilla 26″