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

What is that, like a 10mm stem?? Sur(e)ly that just rides horribly?

Yea it's a crust thing. Bet it rides fine, plenty of leverage with those wide drops and puts the bars where they need to be

Crazy polished stainless dirt tourer being built by Aherne at the moment.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bd3ygzZBUgs/

Mucky

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Rad. What are the bars? Did it require fettling to get the MTB shifter on them? How much did it cost to get the rack fittings put on the fork? Is it 1" ahead? Have you tried narrower tyres (there's some 1.35" on Wiggle)?

Very clever seatpack thingy: https://www.cyclingabout.com/saddlebag-sway-stabilizer-bikepacking-bags/

That’s like Minoura double cage thingy but with the mounting holes facing outwards.

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Bars; On-one midge.
Shifter; fettled front derailleur clamp
Fork eyelets; ~£30
Tyres; I haven't put anything below 2.15" on because #monsteur . To be honest ... I find any MTB with good clearances just looks daft with anything under 2" of rubber. Also, with the right tyre the difference between 1.5 and 2" (pending pressure) won't feel much slower but the ride will be improved. Usually this bike has 2.15" Maxxis DTH which feel both good on road but also pretty positive on looser surfacing (dust / grit / gravel).

And it stops your seatpack swaying as a bonus! I might get one, my MTB only has one bottle cage. I have to take a Platypus sort of thing if I want to drink water (which as a definitely real, definitely human organism I often do). Delivery is £6 though so might wait and get one of my friends to buy one too.

Ah, that's clever with the derailleur clamp, sadly won't work for my 25.8mm bars. But I'll bodge something together.

I find any MTB with good clearances just looks daft with anything under 2" of rubber.

What about this? Granted it's been converted to 700c so not quite the same on the clearance front. But it looks sweet.

it's been converted to 700c

This.

Gross:

That bike has more problems than just the tyres!

But maybe you're right... so I wonder if I can bodge a 650b rim brake wheel and CX rim into a 26" frame? Just need 12.5mm vertical wiggle room in the calipers. Might see if I can borrow a wheel and try it.

Or maybe just stop whinging and get some MTB tyres.

Still one of my favourites, such a rad bike

My ride in all its NDS glory - currently doing a mini tour of Tasmania.

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Nice, what is it?

Excellent, can we see a drive side?

@Spotter - It’s packed up for a jeep journey to an island at the moment, i’ll try and snap it once it’s good and dusty.

@abr - Waltly brand Chinese ti, sadly not my design, I have the awesome @pit to thank for that. It’s apparently based on the geo of a Litespeed T5g tweaked to accommodate 29er tires. Rides like a dream up and down the steepest roads Tas has to offer so far.

It's a Walty? Wow looks amazing! Can we also see more close ups of the welds etc? And do you mind me asking how much it was please?

Fuck yes. this is inspiring!

Sweeeet, segmented for looks boss. Tasmania is on the dream cycling destination list for me. Enjoy!

More pics plz. Elegantly proportional

Love what you've done with it! Hope it rides as good as it looks.

Was all packed up to go bikepacking overnight and then abruptly decided it's way too icy. :(

Packed all my stuff in a rucksack and going walking instead though so I guess that's alright

Cool story bro.

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Lovely set up, but those 'guards would clag to fuck round my way.