Now that is a thing of beauty Farticus 😯

Redline monocog – Norfolk Coast

What bars are those, Farticus?

Still building mine up for winter. Niner Sir 9 (2nd hand – to be resprayed end of the month), singular fork, BB5’s and some velo solo bits. Now just need a wheelset and I’ll be ready to go. Should make a nice winter “hack” bike.

Farticus – can I kindly request, on behalf of my bank balance, that you please cease and desist from posting any more pictures of that frame?

Steel Inbred 29er for sale 18″

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For some reason I cannot see Farticus’ bike. Gutted – sounds like a cracker

best 29r i have ever owned…..and there have been many

present one

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Bloody hell… you’re that old/fat ?

older but 5 stone lighter now weeksy….that was 3 or 4 yrs ago… 😆

Nah… that was taken years ago… 😆

EDIT: Too slow…

Good work fella….

How old do you look now ? 😉

Paceman – Member

Jaymoid, I run my Charge Cooker 29er fully rigid and it’s great for blasting round the woods. Being rigid it keeps you on your toes but also benefits your riding skills no end. I’ve found it’s best run with a big high volume tyre on the front such as a 2.4 Ardent or Chunky Monkey if you need more grip. I’ve also ditched the front mech and chainrings to run it 1×9 which makes for a fantastic winter bike with loads of mud clearance and little maintenance to worry about.

Yeah – I saw your cooker, looks lovely! What fork do you have? I have thought about running 1×10 but the big ring is very handy for the road bit of the commute.

Curtis, Pace and Genesis SS look great. amplebrew’s Jones looks perfect and thanks for that info. Are those custom length ESI grips? Chunky or racer and how did you get hold of them?

jupiter – Member
Curtis, Pace and Genesis SS look great. amplebrew’s Jones looks perfect and thanks for that info. Are those custom length ESI grips? Chunky or racer and how did you get hold of them?

Hi Jupiter, yeah the ESI grips are the custom length Jones version from Charlie

The steerer has been trimmed down now, I ended up loosing all the spacers below the stem and now just have a 5mm above.

PICT3111 by Ample Brew, on Flickr

Genesis Fortitude Race…

Now with orange ESI chunky grips and Hope seatpost clamp as I couldn’t stop the supplied quick release from moving…

Is a homemade frame niche enough? Hasn’t broken yet…… 🙂

16″ chainstays, 69 deg head angle and 72 deg (effective) seat angle. Columbus steel (Zona / cro-mo mix) and fillet brazed. Twin 1/2″ diameter tubes for the chainstays to squeeze between 2.3 tyre and chainring with some mud room (regular 73mm bb shell).

A real shame when I bent the original shorter steel forks.
Still my most ridden bike and morphed into a hill climb bike this week.

Ferrous

Tired by tomlevell, on Flickr

Farticus, tell us more about that Curtis. It’s a real beauty. What model/ options?

Does anyone have any cheap steel recommendations please?

Give Sam at Singular a ring, he sells the Swift rigid one sometimes, for about £60 IIRC. Its almost identical to the Niner steel one at £160. (I’ve had both).

Farticus…that Curtis is bloomin gorgeous.
I’m guessing its just wire-woolled & lacquered…?

Wonder if my SIR.9 would look like that underneath… 🙂

Now running 1×10 SLX clutch/Works thinck/thin ring:

IMG_0452 by oxym0r0n, on Flickr

(The one on the right!) now running Middleburn UNO cranks & carbon lever blades:

Will’s by oxym0r0n, on Flickr

martinh – I really wanted one of those^ but couldn’t get one at the time I bought my Solaris and realised they would be £££!

Ooh, didn’t realise how bad that pic was. Some lovely bikes on here, especially the Curtis and Cromag. That home made fella makes a lot of sense too. Good effort!

Oh, and get a Buzzard OP, you won’t regret it.

Curtis XC9, the original first built, still my bike of choice

and my 2 souls Quarterhorse

There wants to be a bloody good reason, just out of shot, why you have such a handful of brake here – otherwise me an’ thee are gonna fall out! 😉

Quite fancy trying a Genesis High Latitude Alfine….

….and having a piss in the woods….

Some lovely bikes on this thread…

Some meh bikes on this thread…

Some pretty grim bikes on this thread..

Then, there’s the Jones…

😕 😐 🙁 😥

Hello again.

My Curtis XC9 is an unashamed copy if Candodavid’s but with 44mm headtube and fatter seat tube to be more dropper-friendly. Sliders are PMW units but with Curtis’ own frame units to bring the dropouts more “inside” the frame rather than hanging out the back.

Maximised tyre clearance combined with short back end (16.75″) means it’ll only just take a 30t chainring on Middleburn RX8s (which it now has) – SS runs bigger but with a Rohloff spider to give a wider chainline.

Single chainring only – no stops for a front mech.

Other than that, standard Curtis fare of 853 main triangle, 725 stays and highly polished before being clear powdercoated.

Bars are Seven custom jobs, 730mm wide and big bend. Aim is to have some comfort when it goes rigid SS for winter duties … Still getting used to the width of them at the moment.

Binners – go on, you know you want to 😀

My current winter bike

and one i used to have and wish i’d been able to keep the frame

I think someone on here may still have the frame.

@mick_r What bars are those?

*adds Curtis and Chromag to ‘the’ list*

What bars are those OCB?

Honzo

@ slimjim78 …

The Swift has Jones Loop Bars, with a set of ControlTech Terminator plugs fitted to give me a tiny bit more width.

Both the Grypon and Peregrine have On-One Midge bars.

I got this last week:

DSC02144 by South Downs MTB Skills, on Flickr

Nice Jimbo. How did it fair on last nights microadventure?