Wolverine Owners Club

is that an mtb-ish perspective on frame sizing to save your gonads when it's getting bumpy?

Not a great pic, but they took some at the bike shop, and I share them when they're up. Very happy. Of course after an initial enjoyment period I'll have to put racks and child seat on, but hey!

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Any idea what the front rack is there? I've been looking for a black rack that will fit to those mount points but come up empty so far.

I tried one of these:

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/basil-memories-front-carrier-with-bars/rp-prod82042?gs=1&gclid=CKDJ0Nj3zM4CFfYy0woda7MKZg&gclsrc=aw.ds

But using a pitlock on the front wheel and having MTB flat bars that tapered in width meant it was a no go. Might work for you though? Not the sexiest rack out there, admittedly

Ha, monster cross perils: My Kryptonite mini u lock doesn't reach to lock front wheel to frame.

haulin colin

Things Are Arriving.

But not my Wolverine frame unfortunately, which is still at the mercy of ParcelFarse. Suspect I'm getting hit with a £100+import duty :(

One thing that's arrived is the 42t cassette. Which is a veritable pie-plate, if surprisingly light. Pacenti CL25's are also pretty decent for the money-a bit disappointed how much weight the rotors add to them though when the HY/RD's are already fucking beefy. Discs, eh?

Yeah I think I saw that in my searching. Not quite what I'm after though which is basically a Nitto M18 but in black in order to take some occasional overflow from the low-riders I already have installed.

what size frame is this btw? Looks like you're sticking to a more road/cx fit with the saddle/bar drop and layback post?

Cheers. Not so cheap is it! I might be best off painting an M18.

It's a 60. Saddle and seat post came from my parts bin, and are the things that I am not sure they will stay that way.

Yes, for most of the time with will be more of a commuter/do it all bike. Plan is to get some 2.1s and see what I can do in terms of switcheroo and re-jigging on the fly, if I want to hit some dirt roads. If that's too much of a kerfuffle I will try my hand at building some wheels for a quicker swap. If I want to totally go wild I might check out options in terms of fitting a dropper seatpost.

Since I have 42 front and back I feel that hitting some dirt and gravel would deffo be possible.

That's kind of my plan in the near future - spare set of cheapish wheels with some knobblies on that I can throw on when the need arrises

My wife imposes a fixed limit of 2 bikes. I have my road bike, and then I'll have this one. A third (mtb) is not an option.

How do you find it sizes up to your road bike?

I found the Soma geometry quite hard to get my head around, in terms of top tube I could have gone for a 52, but equally because of stack/reach a 56 would have fit. In the end I got a 54 as it seemed to offer the most flexibility and less risk in terms of toe overlap or standover being an issue. Hoping it's the right choice or I'll be running a fugly teeny mtb stem!

In terms of geometry I sort of trusted Sam from Treadly.
We decided on on a 60 based on my road bike and my (too small at 58cm size) Masi every day CX bike.

To compensate for the longer Frame he recommended Soma Cowbell bars, which are fairly short and have a bit of flare to them too, and I gotta say, he was just really spot on wiith his prediction.

Of course it's early days, I have only ridden it for 20 minutes since it got built up yesterday.
If there's some dialling in to do down the line, i.e. Stem length or whatever, then so be it.

It's a 11-speed cassette. Shifts fine. When backpedaling on the lowest gear, the chain may drop to a next largest sprocket though. Could be a problem when riding technical off-road (which is not going to happen with this bike).

There has also been rumours that the largest sprocket of Sunrace wide range cassettes are prone to bending but I'll worry about that when it happens.

My 56. Off road tyres are 2" race kings, on road are maxis refuse 40s. Both tubeless.

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Looks great. Is that a mess and a half to switch between tubeless tyres, sealant wise, or do you run two wheelsets?

Also, where is the first pic taken?

New Mexico. Isn't too bad to swap, I use a syringe to move the sealant from the old to new tyres. Wtb rims and wtb tape so easy to get the tyres to seat. The refuse tyres are great on gravel / fire roads if you drop the pressure so the race kings will probably be off until winter anyway

Great pic. Do you live in that area? Reminds me of some of South Australia in a way.
I've never used tubeless and am a tad reluctant ... with tubes I know what I am in for.

nice build. which wtb rims are you using?

p.s after years of lurking i made an account just to comment on this post

What rack/basket? Looking for something similar to such for my ILE Porteur bag, and that looks to be a perfect fit.

Moved out here for a while for work, figured I'd build this while I'm here as it would be cheaper than doing it in the UK. Rims are frequency team i23. Wouldn't go back to tubes now, you can see from where the sealant comes out how many punctures it's saved you from. Rack is a nitto m18 with a wald basket that I cut down to half the height. It was ok for light stuff but I use this for commuting and grocery runs mostly so I replaced it with a surly cromoly, rated to 30 kg and is a lot stiffer when the ILE bag is full. The basket is just attached with some heavy duty cable ties

I had a feeling that they were WTB Frequency rims without decals. I've been holding off on buying a pair just in case the decals were baked on

New Fizik Tundra saddle, stem flipped and done a couple of 50k ish rides now. Really happy, on-road ride quality is not far off my road bike, gravel is no problem, and I have been tearing through some fields and stuff as well.

Still pending: throw the 2.1s on and do some proper off road; Mount the yepp back rack that's in the post.

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