650B Elephant National Forest Explorer

The NFE finally have an awesome rack, 100% level with no shim whatsoever, Colin did a great job.

Oddly enough it actually improved the handling due to stiffen the blade reducing the twist force of the disc rotor.

Still comfortable to ride as the rack is nowhere near the low end of the blade.

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Who's Collin?

Haulin' Colin, he fabricated the rack.

Ed you've pro evo 2 hubs?
You can get 11sp freehub.

Haulin Colin rack looks great.

Depends on if he has the 40t pro evo, the earlier hubs can't have the freehub body changed.

Hey @edscoble is that Colin's standard porter rack or was it custom for the NFE?

I'm seriously jelly of that rack

When I spoke to hope I think they said any pro 2 evo can. Eds wheels are pretty new so he should be able too.

http://www.hopetech.com/11-speed-compatibility/

@edscoble

It's a nice rack, Ed, but I just can't imagine it adding much rigidity to the fork when mounted with those stays in that position.

I have a similar fork and have noticed the braking flex to occur in the bends and at the crown, leaving the straight sections of the legs pretty straight. My prospect is adding a rack mounted by the dropouts, but to really make a difference it would have to attach somewhere near the bars as well to create sort of a modular version of the jones/black cat truss forks.

However, you feel what you feel and that's what counts.

Nice link.

Thanks for the correction.

Who wants my place in 2nd batch?

I already put the 11 speed freehubs on it, I was giving @dancing james an option to run the hydraulic shifter without spending too much money on a new hubs on top.

RS685 should be released from Madison by today.

@drøn the fork still have flex but it was noticeably less than before (usually noticable when braking under cornering), previously I had a Tubus low rider that stiffen it up a lots more

Budget option?

Really? This is lfgss my friend, it's all about spending more than we can afford on things we don't actually need.

Annoying link, it means I need a new rear hub.

@amey pm incoming

https://vimeo.com/124349433

Put back the TRP Hylex on, loved the Shimano hydraulic but could not get on with the hood shape at all sadly.

Change to a single narrow/wide 42t chainring, work best in cities, and once SRAM released the 11-36 cassette, that'll be going on it.

Need black mudguard stay and pedals.

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How's the Haulin' Colin working out? Looks like a Bigxtop bag? You'll need to get the pump barrel anodized black too at this rate...!

It comes in black. Just got a NOS one myself.

You mad bro?

I'd have bought it off you 4 weeks ago

bar-hood transition looks great!

Did you put the chainring in place of the outer or inner ring ? (can't really figure it out on the photo)

Outer, there was no room on the inner due to the extra wide chainstay.

Worked surprisingly well considering the chainline isn't bang on the middle of the cassette (yet still held on on the biggest sprocket).

That would have been my second question (knowing if it worked OK in outer position).
I assume the BB is 68mm wide, right ?