Titanium headset spacer

You need some titanium spacers.

That’s interesting, choices is good. Boardman or wait for the Hudski?

That mini-velo bike was lovely, and Charlotte Slaymark’s ice ride route was very inspiring.

I enjoyed it. Some lovely stuff, people and a nice venue. Did Camelchops bag company turn up? I didn’t see them.

Got my tickets, lets hope it’s a good day out.

Will hopefully be going, see if i can convince some others to go as well.

It’s probably the correct bike for certain areas and customers. I love the colour, I’m not throwing myself down mountains anymore and where I live it’s a mix of terrible potholed country roads and gravel paths into the forests. I could always get a rigid fork for it but by all accounts that Ruby fork is pretty good.

My goodness that Klein looks both fantastic and bloody awful. Was it the Klein Adept which was the hybrid bike of the time? In fact didn’t someone race an Adept as a cyclocross bike way back when? Back to the Boardman, maybe the price is ok (Halfords putting me off) especially as a Specialized Diverge Evo was £3000!

I would love to ride something like that. I’m too old and scared to be riding 150mm+ long low and slack bikes to their  full potential.I need a ‘pootling around’ type of bike that can really go off road.

Ride report

https://clelandcycles.wordpress.com/evolution/ Was there not a rumour that Brant in planet X days was going to make something like this? Hub brakes as well.

True, no need for the suspension fork. There is something about that Hudski that ticks a lot of boxes, and probably is the bike more of us should be riding.  Stooge Scrambler comes close, but heavy steel frame and fork. I do notice the weight.

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It’s aluminium not steel. I like the geometry of it. It’s a flatbar bike, not a dropbar bike with flatbars and too short a toptube/reach. I like the look of it and the thinking behind it. Some bikes are a bit like it, but the more you look into it all the others aren’t good enough.

Go full Gary Fisher?

Tazzy, is that a Ti prototype of a Stooge Dirtbomb?

Upgraded On-one Huntsman? Has anyone seen, bought or ridden one?

Would love to see and try out a medium, but unlikey to ever see one. Having seen the prices Whyte are charging for the rather under specced 29er hardtails, the Voodoo would have been amazing value.

I think it’s the same as the aluminium Bizango, so XL is 500mm. I think in this day and age you could drop 30+ mm of all the seat tubes. I looked at the medium and at 460mm thats just too tall. Unless the Carbon pro has a different geo table that is. Would be nice to see the info up on either the Halfords or Voodoo site.

Anyone ordered one? I wonder if the geo chart is accurate?

I would like to see the whole geo chart, but I assume the medium will be an 18inch frame which is just too big for me. With dropper posts being longer now there is no reason to have such long seat tubes. Apart from that, it looks great.

You might be better off watching Blake’s Junction 7.youtube.com/watch?v=gSp2FEy_HYw

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Of course I can wrestle bear. I go now to ride my Triton on the trails outside my dacha.

So, nearly as heavy as a steel full suspension bike but not too heavy. Thanks for all your replies, Stooge or Kona Unit, and what rims?

I’m only skinny so lighter is always better than unnecessarily heavy.

So should be achievable. Good weight for the mk3, I thought that was a very heavy frame?

I would have said Pinnacle Ramin from Evans, but it doesn’t look like they are coming back. Boardman then.

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?

Frozen Gold.

66 degree head angle, 80mm offset biplane fork https://www.instagram.com/p/BrwwQvnl6eG/ 1 1/8 headset.I like it.

So it is a mk4 with revised dirtbomb style geometry. If it could just be a bit lighter, 7lbs for frame only seems a bit porky. Look forward to more news.

What I would like to see is On-One bringing out a back to basic 29er Inbred or Scandal with new geo. Or maybe JamesO can give us a sneak peak of the new Pinnacle Ramins?

I have also been looking for something similar. Kona Unit, Stooge 29er, Surly KM and Genesis Tarn. A rigid 29er/27.5 plus bike. The Stooge seems very heavy, the Genesis Tarn also by all accounts heavy, Kona no frame only and the Surly expensive and has track ends. I liked the look of the Pinnacle Ramin 1 or 3 plus, good geo and good weight, but no frame only deals and now no longer available in my size. I think new Pinnacle range out in November?

Would still love a Jones bike.

So, the frames aren’t as good as the normal frame (not heat treated and heavier) and some of the components are a bit meh, but it would still be really expensive in the UK. Also he really has to heave it onto the bikestand, I wonder how mush it weighs? I still would love one, ridden a couple in Aviemore, but so expensive.