Awesome frame and very good value build

On One Scandal 29er

I am 10 stone 9 lbs and I run NN Tubless Ready snakeskins at 20fr 22rr as I do have some hardpack sections and a surfaced long climb to the trail head but have run them at 12fr 14rr

Grip at those really low pressures was epic but they were a little squirmy (snakes skin sidewalls help to offset it as will your UST ones)

My Mountain Unicycle with a Hans Dampf with all my weight on one wheel lives at 18psi (tubed) and lots of twisting and side loading and has never had an issue.

You have no tube so crank the pressure down until you don’t like how they squirm about

Scandal v2 and MTFU? lol

Nobby nic snakeskin

They seal amazingly well tough grippy light enough and roll well for the tread height

The scandal v2 has a steep headangle so an extra 20mm of fork height will just slacken things by 1 degree which will make it about 71 degrees so still steeper than most frames so it will be fine I am sure.

I keep thinking about doing it to mine

Oh and file the captive nuts on the dropouts down by 1mm as they are too long so the swapout dropout can’t be tightened enough so can creak.

Raw defo

I have a black 26er which is nice but the raw 29er is much nicer especially with white forks. The finish is like brushed stainless steel.

I have red hope everything formula rx brakes reba rlts and she is a pretty thing

Black needs a lighter accent colour like gold which is what I did on my 26er (excuse the pedals they are on for my Mrs to use it)

Last weekend My bike came back with that lovely white/grey covering of dust and no bike washing required.

The terrain is so changeable, the main double track sections with all the flint tend to hold up well wit the water training off, but the valleys with the muddy over chalk pools the water and turns to crap

The south downs way is made up of a lot of flint that rip up tyres if you are unlucky, I ride Hands Dampfs on my Mountain Uni and Nobby Nic Snake skin 2.25 on my XC bike which I find gripier but with a bit less volume than the Hans, it is also noticeably faster being a lot lighter which will help you on the hills

There is a lot of sticky mud in the lowland/dips of the SDW which can relay pack up on your tyre so the wider Hand maybe a bit of an issue depending on how the trail dries out (not holding out much hope for summer this year lol) and your frame clearance

The downs is all hills how difficult you class them is subjective to your fitness, I have been riding them for 22 years (god I sound old) and my normal weekend ride will be 40+ miles on my Single speed and I actively seek out the hills now. The biggest issue will be the weather, too wet and some areas bog out and make riding a drag and too slippy to ride up some hills and the hills / valleys channel the wind so a calm day can be very windy riding the ridge of the hills, if this is against you on the day it will feel like you are doing 300 miles.

SO practice putting in the miles, put on some lighter (but armoured sidewalls) tyres NN SS 2.25s for example and eat lots of Jelly Babies :)

This was what I had yeasterday on the Downs

My customer WaltWorks 36ers cuts through the mud (Near Devils Dyke when it was not very wet)

Scandal scandal scandal :)

I need no excuse to post pics ;)

29er is awesome

26er is good too but I prefer my 29er infinitely more

On One have a good selection of stems and some good bargains, I like their Ultralight cnc’d one

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Was still getting creaking which was gettin worse, took the swappouts off and could see there eas enough room for dirt and water to get into the interface.

The captive nuts have almost 2mm at the end with no thread so I took a file to them and removed 1.5mm of their length so as not to mess with the threaded section.

Cleaned and put a bit of grease on the mating faces of the frame and swapout and then did them up, I could instantly feel the bolts tighten up loads better as they didn’t hit a hard stop just got hard to torque, also the captive nut didn’t spin as they got tighter as they were actually being pulled tight into the swapout seat.

A 10 minute job to sort the issue once and for all

I have the superstar headset as well, how did you find it fitted? My bottom cup was nice and tight but the top cup I can pull out with my my hand, I have measured them with a digital vernier and the headset cup seems to be spot on but the scandal headtube looks to be a not quite small enough.

Makes no real odds once it is all bolted up but a bit of a shame.

mmm nice

Never a bad looking Scandal, and don’t get me started on cost, silly money for such an awesome frame

I have a black 26er with gold bits and a Raw 29er v2 with red bits so your looks like their love-child :p

Did you go for a Superstar headset?

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Lets post a picture of my scandal *looks at feisty post* maybe not. That scandal looks soo nice.

Ah go on no such thing as a bad looking Scandal

Even my “ugly” Scandal 26er looks ok ;)

Here you go I dirtied it up so as not to look as pretty, note the jammed front wheel due to a horese churned up trail

On One Scandal V2 29er

Photos don’t do the raw finish justice (or the red hope parts)

He will be fine, I did it many moons ago after not riding for 2+ years with no training along with two non-riding friends (again no training) we all finished without issue. If he runs he will be fine, slightly different muscles but he has the cardio training for it

I would say to get a mtb with some slicks he then has a more flexible ride for future use, get looking on ebay or this here for sale section for a good deal. If he is only using it for this one ride I am sure a mate or work colleague has a loaner bike he can borrow?

Eating 3 meals a day is a relatively new social construct for most of mans more modern history we tended to have one large meal a day.

I don’t eat Breakfast or Lunch and just drink water throughout the day and then a larger fully home cooked main meal, if I am riding I will eat some porridge or something in the morning and carb load late the night before (and eat gels, jelly babies during the ride).

People at work have questioned my lack of meals but when you point out that the 2k/2.5k kcal recommended daily intake is for an active lifestyle and we work in an office sitting down all day and drive to work etc we are over consuming at that level, at my work the level of obesity is terrifying (more so with the women who don’t tend to have sporty hobbies as a rule)

Like wise when I used to body build I used to eat 4k calories a day and had 7% body fat.

Eat what you need to fuel your body/exercise regiem and maintain a constant healthy bodyweight

Small world another 29er scandal v2 rider in Worthing / shoreham area

I also had creaking issues when cranking hard standing up, I also found the bolts were topping out on the t-nut, the bolts are not threaded up to the bolt head so swapping these for some steel chainring bolts allowed them to tighten properly, I used the original longer t-nut so can’t see there will be any issue. So no more creaks yay

There must be V2 specific dropouts being sold now as I had no issue with frame interfearance, my only issue was paying almost £30 for SS dropouts to replace the normal ones I never wanted, let us choose dammit or provide both like the V1

My baby

My 36″ unicycle hums along like a massive flywheel and feels effortless to keep going but it lacks gears (not gone for a geared hub) off road it is even better over the bumps.

Bikes with 36″ wheels exist but they are more for fun, a wheel that big is heavy and not very nimble as it wants to run straight so having a lighter geared wheel is far more efficient than going bigger which has far more drawbacks