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

amazing! dibs if you sell.

Aha brilliant. My first appearance in spotted I think. Anyway, very cool bike. Enjoy!

Readers. Needs rack and guards.

Thinking metro porter, but guards could be trickier coz of the rear stay.

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Before I forget, you say the speed kings are good... I'm looking at the 700c version. How do you rate them for road, gravel and mud?

I've got the 26x 2.2 which is a going to be quite a different beast to the 700x35c.

In 26 inch flavour there isn't really anything else out there that's in the same league - really light, wide, pretty much a slick in the middle, but with a small tread that does offer some grip when its loose. Then some really low profile nobbles on the side to give some confidence in the corners.

Not sure how this translates into the 35c offering and there is a lot more choice for light, supple slickish gravel/cross tyres. They are probably still pretty good though.

I have them in 29x2 on my cross-check and loving them so far. Not been in mud but have handled commutes and thrashing in the woods just fine. Supple, nice tyres.

Haven't done that many miles yet though.

Here’s my current project, just need some racking, guards and some tyres!

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BTW I’ve got a Muddy Fox Courier Comp for sale in classifieds.

probably a repost but still...

Its super rowdy that

What bike is that?

it's a JK Frameworks. Their Flickr thread is here https://www.flickr.com/photos/114725340@N03/

Ready for 10 days in the French Alps.

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Do you have any tricks to setting up bar-ends?
I have some ergon grips with bar ends incoming and I'm unsure how to fit them in a meaningful way - yours look almost horisontal?

Fit them to feel. You'll know when they're right, as they wont feel wrong.

Both bar end and grip postioning are very personal - I'd start with Ergon's own instructions and adjust from there.

As @skinny says: they're n the right position when it feels comfortable when riding.

Fortitude MX 3sp:

Cooker B+

Also as a 29er 3sp:

GreenPuss:

I used to have mine like that. On my Brompton (mini stubbie bar ends) they actually are horizontal. But thats a much shorter lower bike. So you're much more over the bars.

Are these your bikes?

What gearing is the 3 speed? Also which hub?

I've fitted a few Sturmey Archer 3 speed hubs to peoples' fixed/single speed bikes and most found the gear jumps too extreme and ended up not really using it.

Fortitude and Cooker used to be mine, still have the GreenPuss.

The hub was the SRK-3, could not kill it on the rocks or stairs, only serviced it once during three years and never missed a beat. Perfect if the Alfine is too much heft and ratio and the SS is too spinny. Can't quite remember the gearing, I guess it was 34-18 on the Fortitude and 32-18 on the Cookie...

Thanks for the bar end feedback all!

Hub adapters arrived, test fit...

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