The bike is excellent.
I ride super-duper old school New England trails- they're incredibly tight, awkward, technical, and typically low-speed (relatively, I suppose...). The Waltworks was an exercise is (finally) building something I've wanted for a long, long time: a spiritual successor to a Cannondale Beast of the East (and it's brethren) but re-envisioned for now. So: super short chain stays, fat tires, 140mm fork, longish reach, tall stack, tall bottom bracket, but will a slackish head tube angle.
I've been riding it for about a year, now- and I'm still adapting to it. It hasn't been a jump-on-and-rip sort of thing, as it's a pretty drastic change from the sort of bikes I've been riding for the last 30 years or so. But we're getting used to dancing together, and we get a little more fluid each time I take it out. A lot of people would, I think, look at this bike's geo and think it's stupid and backwards, but it's really built for the specific riding I like to do. I don't have berms to shred or "flow trails" or any of that. I have granite, awkward, tight, and slow- so if you think of this bike more like a trials bike you can pedal sitting down, maybe it starts to make more sense?
Jan. 11, 2022, 4:16 a.m. - nothingfuture
The bike is excellent. I ride super-duper old school New England trails- they're incredibly tight, awkward, technical, and typically low-speed (relatively, I suppose...). The Waltworks was an exercise is (finally) building something I've wanted for a long, long time: a spiritual successor to a Cannondale Beast of the East (and it's brethren) but re-envisioned for now. So: super short chain stays, fat tires, 140mm fork, longish reach, tall stack, tall bottom bracket, but will a slackish head tube angle. I've been riding it for about a year, now- and I'm still adapting to it. It hasn't been a jump-on-and-rip sort of thing, as it's a pretty drastic change from the sort of bikes I've been riding for the last 30 years or so. But we're getting used to dancing together, and we get a little more fluid each time I take it out. A lot of people would, I think, look at this bike's geo and think it's stupid and backwards, but it's really built for the specific riding I like to do. I don't have berms to shred or "flow trails" or any of that. I have granite, awkward, tight, and slow- so if you think of this bike more like a trials bike you can pedal sitting down, maybe it starts to make more sense?