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Beautiful bike. Great use of the three different materials where they make sense. 

The big problem is...it has curious to dig deeper into a gearbox. Maybe I'll give a go at building my next frame gearbox compatible. Make a cradle like Trinity that can swap out to run gearbox or traditional drivetrain.

They said it was an problematic process. See Ian's comments in the Riza thread, local anodizing and coatings always seem to be problematic. More than a few framebuilders and component makers have expressed frustration with having relatively small batch stuff coated to high standards.

RC - 450mm

WB - 1290mm

Reach - 475mm

I forgot to take measurements off the old frame before cannibalizing it for a few needed parts, but it's shorter HT, shorter RC, but about the same WB with longer reach. Awkward to measure now as I pulled the shock and links out of it as I needed the bolts.

https://ep1.pinkbike.org/p5pb23648075/p5pb23648075.jpg

Rear center is 450mm

Wheelbase is 1290mm

Reach is 475mm

The bike I've just finished building is 150mm headtube. Allows me to run a slammed stem with the Hunter Smooth Move low rise bar and happy I went taller ht on this build. A few months back I started adding some spacers under the stem on my 130mm headtube bike and felt a bit more balanced.

I emailed them asking if they would do the nickel plated ones again and they said no. :( sad face.

After what seemed like endless summer sun we've now returned to "Dave" season.

You heard it here first folks, WAO is working on hover tech for bikes. Every trail is a smooth blue trail when your bike literally floats over every root and rock. Smooth.

Hey Drew, can you give some more information on those new wheels? :)

The Totem had this. 

https://ep1.pinkbike.org/p4pb1998671/p4pb1998671.jpg

I've not ridden the SQ bars so can't compare. Once on a deep sharp fork bottom out I did really feel the Hunter flex, I can't say I've ever noticed a bar flex as much on a bottom out. This was a pretty abrupt bottom out on a short steep rock roll, after riding I had a "wow those bars flexed a lot on that" moment. But for everything else so far soo good.

I run the og Soma Dream bars on my Kona Ute E-cargo bike. Comfy for round town cruising. Too much sweep for me to ride technical terrain. 

There is also the Dream Lowdown bar now. 20 backsweep and just 25mm rise. I'd like to build a flat bar gravel bike around these. More sweep than my Hunter's but less sweep than my Dream's. 

https://www.somafab.com/archives/product/dream-lowdown-riser-bar 

Posted by: Hepcat

That is rad. Nice work. 👊

Kinda thinking the long headtube is the future.

Long headtubes, slightly higher bb's, and longer chainstays will be the new "longer, slacker, lower".

Posted by: xy9ine

rad build. what's the reach? i like the idea of longer rear center & higher stack. i'm thinking there's progress to be made in that general direction - ease up on reach a bit & move upwards to achieve a similar hand/foot distance, & focus on balancing weight distribution between wheels so you can drive with a centered position (rather than have to shift weight front & back to compensate for a long front / short rear bias).

Reach is about 475mm. This frame started life pre-covid and I need to dig back in the CAD file history log to see what it was at when I actually cut tubes for the front triangle, but memory is 475. The frame before this was about 480 and a lower headtube so effectively longer. At first riding this one with the taller headtube and shorter reach the bike feels shorter, but I am settling into it. It's a touch longer in wb but the shorter/higher cockpit makes it feel shorter.

Finished a new frame project a couple weeks back. A few rides on it now and it's feeling good. Still some shock and fork twiddling to do before it is fully dialed in.

35lbs 7oz as. 154mm rear travel, 160mm front. 

1290mm wheelbase with 455 chainstays

150mm headtube gets the bar up high

Yes I like my bars rolled forward, some say they look funny. Meh, fit over fashion. The upsweep feels good with a 15 degree backsweep bar.

Agree it's lame low hanging fruit bs. 

They need to spend more time walking and riding themselves to see just how crappy most drivers are at rolling stops and running down pedestrians when making a right. 9 out of 10 drivers roll blind way into an intersection blocking the sidewalk before they even consider looking to see if someone was standing at the corner waiting to cross. 

I've come to think that we should install cameras at every corner and let AI and the computers enforce the rules. Divers might change their ways when they start getting 20-30 tickets a week for their crappy habits.

Posted by: switch

Posted by: earleb

Someone passed me on an ebike on No Quarter yesterday, do I need to post in here even if it doesn't bother me? What are the current rules?

Was it a jabroni using the bikes battery to power their speaker too?

Don't know....maybe...probably? I had my own headphones in and the music cranked.

Posted by: bmv88

Out for a night ride last night on Fromme and saw 3 dudes on those Cake ebikes ripping around.....super fast, throttle only. 

Are these things legal on the trails?

Slide into Julian Coffey's DM's. 

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cjm6DFguwxy/

I didn't actually ready your post before I made my mocking post, sorry.

Someone passed me on an ebike on No Quarter yesterday, do I need to post in here even if it doesn't bother me? What are the current rules?

I could live with 125mm on everything but the most ridiculous steeps.  

I would also take a three position post over infinite.  Up, 1.5 inches down and full drop. I like that 1.5 inch drop for stuff I don't find too technical but want some drop.

O e thing I don't want is the post fully slammed in the frame where I have no ability to drop the post down for racing. On long stages like Whistler Top of the World to the Village I would drop my post in the frame so that my full up position was 1.5 inches down from my full climbing height. This way I could put it up for a climb but if I didn't get it down before a tech section I wasn't at full climb high posting.