So after close to a year of riding the 1st prototype 29er…
I’ve gathered sufficient feedback to feel confident to put that to good use in a second revised version. Revisions include a slightly tightened head angle, lower bottom bracket height, longer tt to increase the cockpit just a bit, shorter chainstays, custom formed chainstays with room to spare for 2.5 tires, more stand over (approximately 2 more inches..), shortened the seattube length by an inch, headtube grew by about .125″ and bottom bracket is now 73mm. New drops allow you to run single/gear setup. To achieve the16.75″ chainstay length, (yes 16.75 with 29″ with 29″ wheels and a 2.5″ tire..) the seat tube needed a radius. A few trial and error methods, a lot of feedback from very generous builders from all over the globe, and I got what I was after. Stoked.
Can’t wait to fit the seat stays and put all the jewelry on-this should be a unique ride for sure. This is pretty much the look I was after with the first one, but time and tooling did not permit. Side note: Another thing that’s been in Ted’s shop have been a bunch of motorcycles. I recently learned that Ted was quite the accomplished flat track racer at one time. But a good friend of his races vintage motorcycles and he stores them every so often at Ted’s shop. I finally remembered my camera to take a shot or two of them. Unfortunately only 2 of the 4 were present this past friday, but my favorite was still there.
This little honda is pretty damned cool for its lack of size..
29er V2
I’ve gathered sufficient feedback to feel confident to put that to good use in a second revised version. Revisions include a slightly tightened head angle, lower bottom bracket height, longer tt to increase the cockpit just a bit, shorter chainstays, custom formed chainstays with room to spare for 2.5 tires, more stand over (approximately 2 more inches..), shortened the seattube length by an inch, headtube grew by about .125″ and bottom bracket is now 73mm. New drops allow you to run single/gear setup. To achieve the16.75″ chainstay length, (yes 16.75 with 29″ with 29″ wheels and a 2.5″ tire..) the seat tube needed a radius. A few trial and error methods, a lot of feedback from very generous builders from all over the globe, and I got what I was after. Stoked.
Can’t wait to fit the seat stays and put all the jewelry on-this should be a unique ride for sure.
This is pretty much the look I was after with the first one, but time and tooling did not permit. Side note: Another thing that’s been in Ted’s shop have been a bunch of motorcycles. I recently learned that Ted was quite the accomplished flat track racer at one time. But a good friend of his races vintage motorcycles and he stores them every so often at Ted’s shop. I finally remembered my camera to take a shot or two of them. Unfortunately only 2 of the 4 were present this past friday, but my favorite was still there.
This little honda is pretty damned cool for its lack of size..