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  • Stooge Speedball (new bike)
  • bonesetter
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    Ooohh I say

    Check out the pics – Vapour 50 rims i45’s, all XT (doesn’t Shimano just get better and better), Salsa Moto flat bar (at the mo), WTB Ranger 29×3
    Stooge Speedball
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    stooge speedball

    cokie
    Full Member

    Thing of beauty! I really like that. Nice build (apart from the silver headset & bars 😉 ).
    I’d get some Stooge moto bars on it and a black headset.
    Can’t wait to get my Mk4.

    legometeorology
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    Man that thing looks sweet. I’m really 29+ curious…

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    bonesetter
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    Thing is, that HS is a Jones double topper, and I think only comes in silver…

    As for bars, I do have a Stooge Moto bar, and will try them. Thought we would go for flats to start with

    Cheers

    weeksy
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    I don’t get it… at all…. but it’s beautifully put together and looks fantasitc…

    I’d hate to ride it though.

    PJay
    Free Member

    Swift blue?

    cokie
    Full Member

    Thing is, that HS is a Jones double topper, and I think only comes in silver…

    As for bars, I do have a Stooge Moto bar, and will try them. Thought we would go for flats to start with

    Ah, I forgot that truss forks require some odd headset configurations.
    Bars are such a personal thing anyway. I always felt comfier with bigger backsweep on my Stooge.

    I don’t get it… at all…. but it’s beautifully put together and looks fantasitc…

    I’d hate to ride it though.

    You don’t have to get it, but it works. You’re welcome to try my Mk4 when it arrives. It’ll be built up very similarly but with the Junker bar (820 wide, 20 degree sweep 😀 ). They work well on our local trails.

    Clink
    Full Member

    I’m just building up a purple one with bi-plane fork. Also gone for XT. Can’t wait 🙂

    rOcKeTdOg
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    Taz’s Ti one is better 😉

    ton
    Full Member

    would love one. but as with the jones plus. the xl is not XL enough.
    when you are heavy and tall a short seat tube don’t work. the risk of ripping the thing apart is too great.

    bonesetter
    Free Member

    ^ You need a custom build Ton – a Waltworks maybe?

    faustus
    Full Member

    I’m sorely tempted by a bi-plane frameset of these, even though i can’t really afford it. But also tempted by a Mk4…and a singular swift if they make a new one in 29+, as whispers suggest.

    ajantom
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    I was/am sorely tempted by one.
    But I just love my Krampus too much, it’d feel like a betrayal of an old friend 😊

    fudge9202
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    Lovely bike had looked at these over the last few months but think I’m plumbing for the new Swift in the summer

    singlespeedstu
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    You trying to lasso a sheep with those hoses? 😜
    Oh and stand your pot back up.

    bonesetter
    Free Member

    Stu – lol, yeah, they’re much better now I’ve changed the bars for Stooge’s Moto Risers

    Those Salsa ones weren’t working

    PJay
    Free Member

    @Bonesetter, that does look lovely but I noticed that you’ve got a Jones Plus frame and truss fork in the classifieds; did you just fancy a change or are they very different frames & forks?

    bonesetter
    Free Member

    Pjay – I’ve actually got 2 JJ Plus’s now – one in the classifieds, and a slightly different one which is my ride

    This Stooge I’ve built for my mate – good to try them back to back though

    Clink
    Full Member

    Here’s mine – just waiting for new wheels.

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    fd3chris
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    I’m interested in the Mk4 but am unsure just how different it will be to my rigid Tarn running 29+ front 2.6 rear. Anyone have any idea? It would be used mainly at Llandegla.

    bigblackshed
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    bonesetter
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    Haven’t ridden the Tarn, but from what I know of it, it is a very different geometry bike (very long front). Stooge will be more neutral, upright, ‘in the bike’ riding position, easier to pop the front etc. One may say more raggable?

    Andy Stooge works in Llandegla bike centre – you could try one 🙂

    fd3chris
    Free Member

    Thanks Bonesetter 👍

    bonesetter
    Free Member

    Stooge Moto Bars stylee

    Pot still turned over

    Stooge Speedball moto bars

    sefton
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    What’s the thinking with the double toptube ? Flex? Is it welded to the seattube at all? Or just at the headtube?

    singlespeedstu
    Full Member

    That for Jim then?
    I’m going to sneak into your garden and stand that pot back up for you next time I come past.😎

    bonesetter
    Free Member

    That for Jim then?
    I’m going to sneak into your garden and stand that pot back up for you next time I come past.😎

    I’d be very glad if you would – I’d buy you and Mrs S a glass in the House

    funkmasterp
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    Looks much better with the Moto bars

    TiRed
    Full Member

    I was going to ask the same thing. That ladder configuration must be stiff – it’s a classic design for mixte frames after all, so why not join them to the seat tube and remove the top tube?

    Lovely bike though.

    Not mine – Retrotec/Inglis

    First twin top tube 2003 Retrotec

    fudge9202
    Free Member

    Have to agree the Moto bars much better imho 😀

    badgerbater
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    Lovely looking bike! As someone else remarked, is the seat tube attached to or independent from the seat stays? Cannot tell from the photos.

    jupiter
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    Lovely looking bike (both of them, i do like the purple/grape colour). Is it too big a frame for someone only 5’9” tall? I think the top picture with flat bars would be my perfect build. I would love to have the Speedball and the MK4. How do you set up the front truss fork? Is it a normal headset and then use spacers, or some sort of special headset like a jones?

    whitestone
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    My wife (5’2″) has a Mk1 Stooge and it’s fine for her.

    I had a quick ride on the Mk3 (or was it the Mk4?) at the Lakes Bike Festival last September, a very stable feeling bike.

    jonestown
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    Andy here from Stooge, very nice build. Re the top tube questions, the twin tubes are connected to the sea tube via the small cross brace at the rear. The idea behind the third tube is that it allows a certain amount of flex. On the ti frames its very noticeable, less so on the steel, but if you put your hand between the top and third tubes and sit on the saddle you’ll feel the flex crushing your fingers slightly.

    Clink
    Full Member

    Pics of Taz’s ti and steel Speedballs:

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    spectabilis
    Free Member

    Built one of these myself a couple of weeks ago, similar Vapour/Dually+Motos but SS; it fookin hoons!
    I’ll get some pics up after I give it a wash and swap out the old parts bin 3/32″ drive train for a shiny 1/8th.

    bonesetter
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    Mat – you’re not getting much better at posting pics on here. We want to see more Speedballs

    bonesetter
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    @Jupiter the truss fork assembly is tricky. The headset is 2 top cups. You then offer up the fork to the head tube and slide through a steerer tube while holding all headset bits and any spacers in place

    Takes me about an hour of faffing, including pressing in the cups

    Clink
    Full Member

    Mat – you’re not getting much better at posting pics on here. We want to see more Speedballs

    When I did it on my laptop last night both pics worked; not sure why the second one isn’t showing now????

    bonesetter
    Free Member

    ^ I can’t see either of them

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