Monster, Monsteur, Monstour , 26/29+ and Expedition and Adventure bikes

Less rad than Kona ^ but I'm enjoying very much right now.

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Rad. What mudguards are you using?

Gilles Berthoud 60mm

Joining the club properly this week- my gringo is getting surly troll forks and a surly front rack so I can carry a baby seat and work bags at the same time.
I Will need to sort some sort of nice luggage for the rack top and some front panniers. Also slightly bigger tyres as 1.5 conti gatorskins are no use- the baby gets shaken to bits! probably kojaks

hot!!!

My piece of crap.

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Nice !!

Does look really crap. Give you a fiver for it? Must be a chore even having it

Ha. It's an old photo really, taken like a year ago. Nowadays, it's looking super ratty and has a mishmash of parts that really not go along together.

But yeah, I was being ironic. It's my first real bike ever, so I enjoy riding the crap out of her... Actually, I'm looking to rebuild it as we speak.

Kuwaharas represent

They made pretty awesome frames back then. Mine is robust as hell!

expecting delivery of a pine mountain 1 this week!

Here it is! size XL and weighs around 15.1kg stock. Weight doesnt bother me much as i am planning to strap a load of stuff and a baby seat to it. Felt really nippy for its size when I just took it for a spin. Glad to see it came shipped with the kenda tyres, I was expecting schwalbe nobby nic's and would have swapped them straight away (too nobbly). Props to Charlie as ever!

Ace - weirdly I've spent the last week looking at these for an adventure/baby transporting bike! Currently weighing up an On One Inbred or the Marin Pine Mountain 1. Would love to know how you get on with it. Are you going rear rack and seat for the baby? Looks like an awesome bike for the money, and so versatile with all the eyelets.

yep thats the plan for the baby seat and then something like blackburn outpost/surly rack on the front to carry other stuff. Eyelets all over the place for frame bags and fenders, although not sure what fenders are out there for 27.5+

@edscoble was running 700x60 fenders over 650bx48 or 50something tyres and it looked ok... thinking I'll do the same for my new bike

Problem is, a 3.0 plus size tyre is 70mm wide...not many mudguards can wrap around that. Probably need to be some kind of bodge where you cut the mudguard in half and rivet in some extra girth using flexy plastic...I've seen some "how to's" online for fatbikerz...

Didn't see it was plus... oops!

DIY seems to be the way to go then... https://gypsybytrade.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/diy-fatbike-fenders/

60mm tyres on 65mm rims?! I don't know much about fat tyres but that thing looks ridiculous!

Gilles Berthoud mudguards have a pretty flat profile in 60mm. They might not cover the whole tyre, but most of the water gets chucked off the middle and they should match the curvature okay. And being stainless they'd be a good platform to modify

I've been looking at the pine mountain. It's so cool!

I was torn between the pine mountain and trek stache 5 back in October...I would have gone for the marin, but the delays in shipping made me go trek.....and once you go trek, you get a new be(I)k!
Love the marin though!

trek is like 4kg lighter I think

How are you getting on with the Pine Mountain?

I don't even know how or where to MTB but this looks like so much fun...getting tempted!

It's awesome, I am surprised how fast it is and feels like it can roll over anything. Only thing I've noticed is that it feels like it loses momentum quickly when you stop pedalling but I think the front pad might be rubbing so could be that. It's wasted in London tbh, looking forward to taking it through Swedish forests later this year.