Small job. Spending the summer learning tig. Just attached a gear hanger to my pompetamine.

Going to braze in a ton more bottle and rack mounts next.

Buy a new fork aswell as some new wheels. In fact I’m about to sell a kinesis DC37 carbon jobby, buy that.

Rad, even if it doesn’t go anywhere it’s great to see people creating their own scene within cycling.

anyone describing their frame with the words “deep custom” deserves a proper hoof in the slats.

I second Andy at Eastside bikes, he knows his stuff and does good quality work.

I’ve had two frames modified, one custom build by him and a number of friens have had custom frames from him too.

Bought and fitted. Need taped up and taken for a proper test ride.

I have an XTR 11 speed shifter for sale. £50 posted. You should go XTR

They’re suspension designers too now?

Did this guy just do a few day long framebuilding course and is trying to sell his first ever frames as a kickstarter? i.e he’s only ever built one frame and is calling himself a framebuilder?

Course was awesome but those climbs were far too tough for my puny legs.

There were a load of photographers on course. Where should I be looking for photos?

I seen that bike and was sorely tempted. Thank god it was too small for me. How is the funky colour changing paint?

I had one. Chicken shit welds and the fork was an inch longer than ordered. an inch? how do you do that?

friend had one and the seat-tube was hilariously squint. We sent Marino a photograph with string attached from headtube to dropout to check straightness. his response? “I don’t have tools to measure that”!!! no string in peru?

They also weigh the earth, straight gauge steel.

There ARE good cheap custom frames out there. Try Mielec from Poland.

Marino are shocking however! Of all the people I know with one I don’t know anyone who got one which is as ordered.

I really like my jones but I’ve always thought his media stuff doesn’t really explain what he’s doing. this included. mumbling mess

Loved time. My first set lasted 5 years of full-time bike-messenger work but I think the materials have changed since then.

I kept snapping the springs on them so I moved back to shimano as I don’t want to be buying a new set of pedals every 6 months.

narrower than 22.2 handlebar ends. Allows grips of the same width to have more rubber in them whlist stil having space for the lock on plastic shenanigans.

You lose a handposition to make the other handpositions better.

Because you get access to the brakes from the full length of the horn. Unlike on the equivalent positions on drops where you can only brake from the hoods.

drjon does it. I’m sure you’ll be fine. Or at least you certainly won’t die.

my experience is that the loop bars work best with no weight through the hands and with a really light handling front end – you get less leverage with them y’see. This is the polar opposite of how a modern front sus bike is designed to be ridden.

How technical your riding is and how useful being able to shift your bodyweight forward and backward during everyday riding is, is probably going to be the deciding factor of how well you get on with them

Voss had to work closely with Fox to provide an X2 shock with almost no rebound and compression damping to optimize its performance

why is no damping seen as a good thing? those icelandic forks were espousing the virtues too. bollocks i say

I think he’s bamming you up.
XACD quoted me approx £350 for one

I loled at the 29″ specific one.

if it’s one of the early ones then what riddoch says is true re:flexy. I gather that was remedied in later versions.

That’s great to hear you got it back.

Crashtest: Apologies – I’m assuming that everyone who is giving the OP setup advice is doing so because they believe drop bars to be inherently superior to flat bars.

I think everyone’s point is that if he set them up differently he might not have the complaints he has about them rather than it being about drop vs. flats.

Two classic road bikes, note the seat to saddle heights. (Mate holding them, blue one is mine)

Note how low on the bars the brake levers are in your photo. On a modern bike the brake levers will be the same height whilst having a lower stem due to bar geometry.

Back in the day it was impossible to get a tight bend in a handlebar. Materials and processes have improved and now most bars use a changing radius with flat ramps, thus stems have lowered whilst the fit has stayed the same.

Good bike-fit has not changed.

Tighten your headset right up, that’ll stop the movement

Me me me!

Is this true? Met him a few years ago. He’s been a fairly inspirational individual to myself. This is really very sad news.

overtightened brake lever.

How many prototypes did alpkit get made?

dunno, but they’re sold out.

I did find it amusing that they were going for £70-80 on ebay while alpkit were stil selling them for £35. I got a set, I couldn’t justify the extra expense for the Jones ones.

Take a dremel to the inside of your seatpost to thin it out. Ever noticed that expensive seatposts are just thinner and hence lighter.

You can lose a load of weight by taking the springs and dampers out from inside your forks.

but wait, back to my earlier question.

Is this different geometry to the normal stooge?

Looks cool. but 27.2 seatpost? blech

What’s the difference in geometry to the normal stooge?

I think the material has some inherent damping. But anyway they also have no maintenance, no tuning required and 5 year warranty. Probably pretty decent for offroad touring.

Nope. The website advertises zero so that you err … don’t lose any energy.

I just read their website. They have zero damping. (!?!?)

A suspension fork designed by people who don’t understand how suspension works. If you want to know what these feel like you should take out all the internals from your normal forks except for the spring. blech

Update:

Found my issue, my VPN has been behaving funny. Keeps routing me through India or Portugal instead of Glasgow. Since I won’t post to there the ebay ad doesn’t show.

Nothing to see here. :)

But with it’s 13.4″ BB Height I pedalstrike like a mo-fo,

that bb height is massive

even on stuff that’s not that gnarly

technique

Been up for 4 days already. It has 1 bid on it so it’s obviously showing for someone.

But won’t come up when I type in on my own computer or the ones at my university either, not until I log in anyway.

cargo bikes are brilliant. though putting 28mm roadie tyres on them somewhat ruins the utility.