SSMTBs

miss your explosif! :(

GF has decided SS is fine for her various commutes, so I'm planning something in between her two current SS options:

1. Pompino, On-One Mary bars, Avid V-brakes, 35mm CX tyres, toe-overlap.
   
2. Chinese carbon 29er, Fox 32 Fit4 forks, BB30-Eccentric adapter, Easton Monkeylite DH risers (uncut), Continental MountainKing 2.2 on Velocity Cliffhanger rims.
   
   

She's using Alpkit saddlebags but wants something with decent space for a framebag and ideally bosses under the downtube for a tool pod to avoid rummaging.

Best option we've seen so far is a Genesis High Lattitude. Size 17.5, same as her Caribou, but the next size up might be better since she'll fit bars with less wiggle than the Caribou's stock bars.

Projects+1.

My new fave tyre

is's probably pretty bad but i'm almost excited to wear out my very posh schwalbes so i can replace them with some tan wall Ikons

The WheelsMfg BB30-24mm EBB in GF's SSMTB didn't survive a week in Swanage including Dorset Gravel Dash a month ago. NDS bearing rough, DS bearing won't even move.

WheelsMfg offers a 1 year warranty on the standard Enduro MRA2437LLB 24x37x7mm angular contact bearings. Think I bought this EBB 14 months ago. Ffs.

Best price for a pair of MRA2437 seems to be £25.50. The stainless steel SMRA2437 are about £42 a pair. Are they worth it? May also need to invest in a bearing puller, as the hole in the body of the EBB seems to be about 24.5mm, so not enough bearing available to drift out.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BkpkuQbBD2g/

That thing just does my head in. No brakes (except coaster hub), no gears, no cables. And then slap a remote controlled seatpost on it....

no gears

*checks thread name *

*checks forum name *

Did some mad stuff on it though.

It's totally okay that it's singlespeed.

I even understand the need to go completely cable-less. I like a clean bike with nothing on it.

But why first remove all of the cables everywhere, and go to the lenghts of machining a custom aluminum heatsink for the coasterhub, when you then go and slap a remote controlled dropper post on.

that's just... just... wrong.

But why first remove all of the cables everywhere,

Kinda assumes removal of cables was the end goal. Components could be chosen for their individual merit and the only component chosen that requires a cable was the post.

I can see the issue though. Dropper implies (and why not just go for a Vyron and do away with cables) the bike will be hitting some kinda beefy stuff.

But just a coaster to slow you down...hmm..

We all mostly ride bikes that compromise on their ability to do something because they are not the most technically advanced.

The bike in question could be made more suitable for riding technical terrain by fitting any of the following,

A front brake
2 hand brakes
A front suspension fork
24speed wireless electronic shifting gears
A dropper post with a remote.

I am 110% positive the ironies of the only cable on the bike being for something as extraneous as a dropper post and of having as modern a convenience as a dropper post on a bike with no gears, no suspension and a coaster brake is not lost upon the owner/builder.

I actually like the bike, and the owner has gone to some pretty wild places with it.
All I'm highlighting is the contradictions of it, which a lot of people simply will not comprehend.
You do, because you tinker and make a lot of crazy shit. Others will just see it as a pointless exercise in self congratulation.

Point taken.

I’m sure there’s been a build with a non-remote dropper too.

I guess he maybe enjoys that it’ll make people think that. I used to love seeing people trying to compute cantis plus Thomson dropper on my 1x1.

Wireless electronic dropper is the solution

I know my good man! let's ignore the next stalky comment and say that your instagram brings me joy on a tinkery/mechanical/howdoesthiswork level shall we?

@frankenbike Vyron

@Chak ooh someone PM me an Instagram link (or post it publicly), I love a bit of tinkering

No worries if people would rather keep it private

Cheers.

@M_V

I am 110% positive the ironies of the only cable on the bike being for something as extraneous as a dropper post and of having as modern a convenience as a dropper post on a bike with no gears, no suspension and a coaster brake is not lost upon the owner/builder.

This. I was just highlighting the irony. Or so I thought.

I’m sure there’s been a build with a non-remote dropper too.

There has been. It's equally mental. I like monebikes' aesthetic.

I've ditched the gears all together now! I've been running the Steamroller (fixed) as my roadie/commuter for 2 years now and now a 1x1 replaces my old Macho Man as my 'fun' bike, hoping to do some long-ish off road sportives on it later in the summer, and some CX racing in the depths of winter, because why not!

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