NSMB - 2023 - Hardtails Leaning Against Stuff Thread

Posted by: boomforeal

Getting torn down next week to build a squishy bike so here she is for posterity

My Doctahawk met the same fate for now at least.

Posted by: mrbrett

Posted by: boomforeal

Getting torn down next week to build a squishy bike so here she is for posterity

My Doctahawk met the same fate for now at least.

As the Swedes say you're "swearing in the church" right now, the Hardtail Gods will be very unpleased ;)

So I had a wolftooth geoshift -2 installed in my og rootdown. 

Game changer.  Min maxing. No negatives for me.

Posted by: tashi

Posted by: boomforeal

Getting torn down next week to build a squishy bike so here she is for posterity

Dang, that thing cuts a sweet profile. Want.

Shwing

The trails around here are finally starting to dry out, so I'm taking the Stooge out for some more Stoogin'. Turned a downed tree into a feature with a few minutes' work, and found out that I need a bash guard if I'm going to be doing dumb stuff on this bike.

I confess I am tempted to swap her over to flat bars. Not that I feel the drops are holding me back, but that it would rip even harder on flats. I think it would be about $200 - shifter, brake levers, bars, grips, maybe a new stem.

Posted by: TristanC

The trails around here are finally starting to dry out, so I'm taking the Stooge out for some more Stoogin'. Turned a downed tree into a feature with a few minutes' work, and found out that I need a bash guard if I'm going to be doing dumb stuff on this bike.

I confess I am tempted to swap her over to flat bars. Not that I feel the drops are holding me back, but that it would rip even harder on flats. I think it would be about $200 - shifter, brake levers, bars, grips, maybe a new stem.

The flat bar thing sounds good.  Putting drops on my Krampus makes it feel like a new bike therefore it's going to be same going the other way.

PS that looks like a lovely bit of trail.

that is a sweet bit of trail

Posted by: velocipedestrian

Got enough spares for a SS rigid experiment? It's traditional by now.

Well, it does have sliders. But the bb is pretty low; I’d need a rigid fork with a ~540mm a2c

Posted by: boomforeal

Posted by: velocipedestrian

Got enough spares for a SS rigid experiment? It's traditional by now.

Well, it does have sliders. But the bb is pretty low; I’d need a rigid fork with a ~540mm a2c

Or shorter cranks?

Posted by: velocipedestrian

Posted by: boomforeal

Posted by: velocipedestrian

Got enough spares for a SS rigid experiment? It's traditional by now.

Well, it does have sliders. But the bb is pretty low; I’d need a rigid fork with a ~540mm a2c

Or shorter cranks?

I've looked into this a bit, Waltworks seems like the only option I've found. Gets expensive quick and makes more sense to find a used fox 36/lyrik/etc. instead.

Using a 510/500 a2c rigid fork on the honzo has the more unfortunate effect of steepening the seat angle into close to unrideable territory on anything except straight up and down.

Posted by: Flatted-again

Posted by: velocipedestrian

Posted by: boomforeal

Posted by: velocipedestrian

Got enough spares for a SS rigid experiment? It's traditional by now.

Well, it does have sliders. But the bb is pretty low; I’d need a rigid fork with a ~540mm a2c

Or shorter cranks?

I've looked into this a bit, Waltworks seems like the only option I've found. Gets expensive quick and makes more sense to find a used fox 36/lyrik/etc. instead.

Using a 510/500 a2c rigid fork on the honzo has the more unfortunate effect of steepening the seat angle into close to unrideable territory on anything except straight up and down.

Here's an extra 10mm:

https://www.wolftoothcomponents.com/products/wolf-tooth-lower-headset-cup-extender-zs-zero-stack

Posted by: Tremeer023

Posted by: Flatted-again

Posted by: velocipedestrian

Posted by: boomforeal

Posted by: velocipedestrian

Got enough spares for a SS rigid experiment? It's traditional by now.

Well, it does have sliders. But the bb is pretty low; I’d need a rigid fork with a ~540mm a2c

Or shorter cranks?

I've looked into this a bit, Waltworks seems like the only option I've found. Gets expensive quick and makes more sense to find a used fox 36/lyrik/etc. instead.

Using a 510/500 a2c rigid fork on the honzo has the more unfortunate effect of steepening the seat angle into close to unrideable territory on anything except straight up and down.

Here's an extra 10mm:

https://www.wolftoothcomponents.com/products/wolf-tooth-lower-headset-cup-extender-zs-zero-stack

Stack four of those and a whisky LT fork and boom! 540 a2c!

Posted by: Flatted-again

Stack four of those and a whisky LT fork and boom! 540 a2c!

Or 7 of these! https://canecreek.com/product/6mm-52-40mm-alloy-crown-race-baa1078k/

Posted by: Tremeer023

Posted by: Flatted-again

I've looked into this a bit, Waltworks seems like the only option I've found. Gets expensive quick and makes more sense to find a used fox 36/lyrik/etc. instead.

Using a 510/500 a2c rigid fork on the honzo has the more unfortunate effect of steepening the seat angle into close to unrideable territory on anything except straight up and down.

Here's an extra 10mm:

https://www.wolftoothcomponents.com/products/wolf-tooth-lower-headset-cup-extender-zs-zero-stack

This will get you all the way!

Extended Crown Race - MTB Tools

I've got 25 mm on top of my Bird fork and it'd work great on the RSD fork as well.

Just back from a Cumberland trip that was _very_ kid focused.  So much more to see there.

Squamish is dry.  Valleycliffe is running incredibly well.