Readers’ Rides: Phill M’s Stooge Dirtbomb

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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Readers’ Rides: Phill M’s Stooge Dirtbomb

Lovely that is. I want to own a Stooge some day.

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