I’ll get my first ride on mine on Friday, should be able to let you know on Saturday!

Coming in the summer…

Full disclosure, I may have had something to do with making it.

Airplane, Withnail & I, Galaxy Quest also good.

A song from the 1920’s goes:
She shot her saucy sister in a fish sauce shop
In a fish sauce shop, in a fish sauce shop,
She saw her slow sipping soapy sherbet
With a sly man, who’s name was Herbert,
But perhaps she was sharing someone’s cheap sheep chop
So she surely shot her sister in a fish sauce shop.

Or something like that. My granny new lots of them.

My experience as a larger boned gent would suggest that the post will be fine, but you need to take care of your saddle rails. I snapped the rails on two saddles, and bent them on a third, but that was when I was about 115kg nekid.

I use a TiGr lock, it’s covered in marks where people have tried to cut though it and none of them have so far. It’s also light and easy to carry on the bike. Not cheap though.
https://tigrlock.com

Edit: I have the extra thick bow lock. Heard the thinner ones aren’t as strong.

Thanks everyone

Ok, so probably worth getting my forks a proper service, rather than busting out for new pikes. Thanks for the money saving advice.

My Dt Swiss single shot XMM have enough room for a 27.5 FBN 3.25 on a dually rim with loads of room. I’ve actually ridden them with a 29er 3.0 dirt wizard on a rabbit hole, no rubbing, but a bit close for comfort.

Like much of the first world, I’m overweight.

Has anyone ridden the hardtail geometron? I had a 29er/650b hardcore soft tail (it’s a tad bike niche), it was custom built for me, but it’s much too short for me now (I had a serious spinal issue when I had it built, so it’s got rather an upright position).

That being said, The 650b 29er combo really work for me so I’d like to give it a try in another bike, I just don’t think I need as much travel as these monsters have.

There was a company called FMF that used to make v-brakes for BMXs that have enough vertical adjustment in the pads for brakes mounted on standard mounts for 26″ wheels to reach 700c rim brake surfaces. I can’t seem to find them anymore, but I have them on a 26″-650b conversion I did and they work great.

Paul Components still do something similar, but they are not cheap.

Confused, I own all of them, but never though I was middle class. Then I do also own half of Galloway…

I had one ages ago, loved it. Although it was a flat bar with magura rim hydros. Stupidly used it as a commuter and one night it got knicked.

I’ve gone the opposite way and put some 650b wheels and 40c tyres on my 26″ bike to use as a commuter and it’s been fantastic. You don’t even have to have disk brakes, there are certain v-brakes that have enough reach.

I have a 2014 650b Nicolai Helius with a 29er wheel up front and I love it, but then I also own a Jones and a 69er and am clearly not to be trusted.

I’ve got a Siren Bicycles softail, its geometry is like a slack short chainstayed 29er hardtail and it is brilliant. I’ve got a fused vertebrae and find full suspension too much of a faff, so it’s perfect.

November 16th I thought I had flu.
After 3 days went to the doctor as I was getting married in 10 days.
Turns out I had spinal infection.
Missed my stag do.
Was better for the wedding.
Then wife and I spent our first week of marriage in bed…

With flu with our 9 month old son.

FMF and Paul Components both make v- brakes that have enough adjustment in the height of the pads to be able to reach 700c rims from 26″ brake mounts.

TLR – I’m about 6’3″ and it’s the largest model they make. Still getting the set up totally sorted, I think I might get a post with more layback, as that Pro is a bit weird.

Never had the standard tyres/wheels so can’t comment. The Stans/hetre cypres combo I have is pretty nice.

Ooooh, a tripster love in…. Can I play:

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Thanks! That would have been a schoolboy error. Any other fat forks out there as short as the Jones unicrown that aren’t so expensive?

Hummmm, I think an on one fatty fork and a proper fat wheel might be best.

They are sandy trails, with occasional meter long sections of deeper sand, rather than trying to ride on the actual beach.

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I think it’s pretty, although admittedly I’ve only just built it and if disks are as bad as the neighsayers say, it’ll be the ugliest bike I own. :-)

Posted before, I guess it’s broken, not warn…

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I worked with an actress who didn’t know how to ride a bike, play a violin and had never played scrabble. Was a bit of a surprise given that the script called for her to do all three.

Wow, I’m surprised it made it our of the packaging without crumbling in my hands ;-)

I’m 191cms, I have one of the very first Merlin Jones and use a Thomson layback post and a 90mm stem with a loop bar.

My sister and I can still do the whole thing in sync from when we were 14.

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ODgnF0eYQTs

I have had then on my Jones, all my fillings are still in place and they’re pretty marvellous.

I love mine, although I run it as a b9er now or whatever you might call it.

First we had suspension stems, then suspension seatposts and then dropper seatposts. I reckon it’s only time before someone does a dropper stem.

I haven’t ridden Pyga yet and I guess I might as well come clean (open myself up to ridicule) the plan is to run this frame with a 120mm 29er up front and a 650b in the rear.

Idiotic? Possibly, but I’ve been doing it on a softtail and been loving it, now I just feel like something with a little more squish in the rear.

Hi Slackalice, I take it you like the Pyga?

Thank you both, those look like fun. Now, how to get hold of a test ride…

Expensive and only available via the states, but I like my TiGr lock. No idea if it is actually any safer/stronger, but I think the oddness off it might put off a number of would-bees.

I ordered the veloflexs from planet-x without realising how thin they were, but now they are on the bike and I’m riding them, I don’t notice how thin they are, they ride beautifully.

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Dexter Fletcher queue jumped me at Waitrose, unfortunately for him he barged between me and my girlfriend and (as he’s about 5 foot tall), we just talked over his head until he asked if we’d like to stand next to each other.

Then aged 4 I was a page at the wedding o a very minor royal, I got up to the top of the aisle and thought “sod this, I’m off”, tried to sprint out of there and got chased by Princes Anne and the then queen mum.