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hahahaha

I had a first generation chromag samurai. 6'2″ on a large frame, the 71 sta was the only thing I disliked about that bike. currently on a last-generation chromag surface with a 73 sta, no offset seat post and my saddle slammed forward, which is better - but for steep up and down riding, I dream of 75/76*…

ftr I run a Thomson layback post on my road bike, saddle slammed back on a 72* sta frame - apples and oranges

haha, sorry couldn't tell you. i never took the cranks off or looked at it that closely. i would give jeff a call and ask him yourself

thanks mateusz. and you are correct: as covered in the first look article () all jones bikes feature eccentric bb's

do what you like? just maybe leave me out of it

not saying i'm always successful, but i try to be fair

i also try to avoid ad hominem attacks and throwing people i know under the bus in order to "entertain". i read somewhere that "mean people suck" and i think it might be true

go back and read the first look article again -- it's in there. railing against proprietary bits on the Jones plus would have been missing the forest for the trees. jeff has been using proprietary front hubs for years, which I can't begrudge him for given how unique his bikes are. but he's not bloody minded about it, as illustrated by the running change recently made to the newest plus fork, which uses the 150x15mm fat front standard hub

didn't the mb-zip require a proprietary, even unique bb?

and the jones plus i reviewed has a proprietary (even unique )142mm x 15mm front hub

finally, petersen didn't murder bridgestone bikes because of his abhorence of new technologies. he made them what they were because he was willing to try, embrace and push new technologies. his mb's were the first modern, purpose built mountain bikes. everyone designing for offroad at the time was following the schwinn cruiser model, which was nice and stable while ripping fireroads but good for little else. petersen steepened up head and seat tube angles so the bikes pedalled and climbed well - he basically invented the modern xc bike, presaging "norba" geometry that would come to dominate mtb design (for better and worse) for more than a decade. true, he later refused to follow the herd and bridgestone suffered and died as a result - he'd found what for him was ~ the apotheosis of bicycle design, and decided to sit under his own vine and fig tree, and chill; and he's still there… proving you can find serenity w/o an industry-sized dick in your mouth

hi folks, the full review got posted last week, for anyone who subscribed here but missed it

apologies again for the looooong delay

all of jeff's bars have the same dimensions - the only difference between them is whether they have a loop, or none, or some part of it - so from a handling perspective they'll all work identically with a stem of a given length

Oh and mine's a wagon wheeler.

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you're building an adhoc

i am sure if you want to get right into it, a bike with slightly longer chainstays and steeper head tube might be better at flatter and faster terrain then what is in the sea to sky. but i would not trade the reach of a BA for that if my surface.

thank you

seen single track from all over the sea to sky, that mysterious "interior" B.C., a huge swath of the northern USA, and a quick bump to NZ. yet to see a down side to the long low slack short thing.

i've been wondering about this. i've had the opportunity to ride my v1 surface back to back with bikes with more progressive geometry, mine and others, and the short reach and conservative geo are noticeable. i recently moved out east, where the trails are flatter and tighter - while i imagine the new crop of long/low/slack chromags are well suited for local and sea-to-sky riding, i've wondered whether they're less versatile than the last generation, and whether they'd suffer on less aggressive terrain

there were several guys racing flat barred cx at the Squamish provincials, but the purists were like…

https://www.flickr.com/photos/palleus/30912499940/in/album-72157677053382296/

that's how i imagine racing cx always feels

gtrguy nailed it

schwalbe rocket ron is a decent option: light-ish, cheap-ish, aggressive-ish

https://www.bike24.com/p2100867.html

http://nsmb.com/spawn-savage-2-0/

I haven't really looked into it that much, but how is the Surface different from the Primer (besides the Dekerf vs. Truelove welding?)

primer

surface

The builder matters too; Truelove vs. DeKerf.

only in terms of the beauty of the welds, afaict

http://bb.nsmb.com/showthread.php?t=160277

ah, that sucks. great bikes and very progessive designs. is anyone making production bikes in canada anymore?

i just sold my adhoc but i really grew to like that bike. i think i would have kept it for years if i'd stayed in vancouver

Bummer…we love our Xprezos…still hope I can find a couple of linkage rebuild kits.

i found a website that purports to sell them

http://cyclesxprezo.bigcartel.com/product/rebuild-kits

but you can't actually buy anything. anyone know a source?