Yeah, I checked out what Steve/HTParty/Binary have cooked up. I love that they’ve split the sizing up by adding a M-L and I think every company should. As you note I’m also a fan of slack HTA hardtails with shorter forks. Maybe I’m being persnickety here but 65* @ 120mm static is becoming pretty standard. The Chameleon, for example, is an all around every-person production rig and is ~ there.
I can get behind the short stays for many places I’ve ridden. I get they’re more ‘fun’ in the right terrain too. Cool that they’re size specific. For small batch frames with a preorder deposit it would be neat to have some degree of choose your own adventure. Can’t be that big a deal to mount the 440 stays on a large. Like you say - rooty jank.
Regardless of the rear-centre, it would be right off my radar, no matter where I lived, for two reasons. The first is the STA, which is too steep for me. Obviously that’s personal preference/physiology.
The second is the T47 BB. Kill that shit with fire. Version 1, and the newer & narrower Trek-47 variety - whichever they’re using. Mountain Bicycles are going to be in a better place when everything is back to BSA standard threaded bottom brackets. We’re getting there, however slowly.
Dec. 29, 2021, 11:20 p.m. - Andrew Major
Yeah, I checked out what Steve/HTParty/Binary have cooked up. I love that they’ve split the sizing up by adding a M-L and I think every company should. As you note I’m also a fan of slack HTA hardtails with shorter forks. Maybe I’m being persnickety here but 65* @ 120mm static is becoming pretty standard. The Chameleon, for example, is an all around every-person production rig and is ~ there. I can get behind the short stays for many places I’ve ridden. I get they’re more ‘fun’ in the right terrain too. Cool that they’re size specific. For small batch frames with a preorder deposit it would be neat to have some degree of choose your own adventure. Can’t be that big a deal to mount the 440 stays on a large. Like you say - rooty jank. Regardless of the rear-centre, it would be right off my radar, no matter where I lived, for two reasons. The first is the STA, which is too steep for me. Obviously that’s personal preference/physiology. The second is the T47 BB. Kill that shit with fire. Version 1, and the newer & narrower Trek-47 variety - whichever they’re using. Mountain Bicycles are going to be in a better place when everything is back to BSA standard threaded bottom brackets. We’re getting there, however slowly.