In The Beginning: Genesis Owners

Did anyone try some knobbly 650b tires on their (newer model) Day One? Is it mud worthy to put on 47mm or even wider?

Well, I decided to dip my toe into the MTB side of things again, god knows when I'll get time to ride it but the local woods are only a couple of minutes away & there's enough there to keep me occupied for an hour or so, so it'll give me an option once the weather properly turns. Has been looked after so generally in decent nick but up close has plenty of scratches / rub, "patina" I think they call it, or "what colour will I powder coat his thing?" as it'll end up being known...

Small frame so forks are set to a rather unfashionable 80mm, I'll give them a quick service & change the travel spacers to give 100/120mm which will as a bonus will give me a slightly more fashionable head angle too - original tyres were pretty done so fired a cheap set of 2.35" numbers on there for a bit of added squish, pretty pleased with it so far but I can already see me changing the bar/stem/post & powder coating the frame, thus defeating the purpose of buying a cheap hack MTB but hey ho...

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thread is a bit dead ! here's my newly finished forum sourced commuter with gravel shoes

really tidy! that's deffo my favourite colourway for the cdf

Saw this in the flesh yesterday. It's a beaut.

I like that alot.

And no better way to christen a rack than to courier shiny chainrings

Cheers, i have to admit i had to take off the tanwalls to make it a bit more lockable in town. But they are coming back on for weekend offroading

annoying to have to do shit like that because of unsavoury types...

on the plus side, the tanwalls will stay tan longer! mine are really grubby from commuting.

Prob old news, has everyone with the single speed samox chainset had their recall notice / free replacement.
Gold CDF is really nice, was thinking of getting a Brixton and adding drops myself.

Rack on those forks? Going against design and winging it?

Bought on here from @frankohara, i can't remember the provenance
The struts were pre-bent of you refer to the mid fork legs

Yeah, those mounts are designed for guards / lights not any type of rack was my point?

No they are rack mounts, the forks have mudguard mounts as well nearr the axle

Not what genesis have written..

They are quite sturdy, the ones by the dropouts are the ones that fail.

Just a heads up, the Genesis day one has had a recall. The chainset need to be replaced. My LBS has handled this for me.

https://www.genesisbikes.co.uk/story/genesis-day-one-chainset-voluntary-recall

i was riding an equilibrium before and the eyelets were on the inside of the blade and definitly not as strongly built as these. Visually there is nothing that separates these forks from more rack-dedicated carbon forks. not to say they will never de-bond, but if they do, well.... i'll just get new forks.
Also with the rack being on the lighter end, i am not planning on carrying heavy loads daily

And a new face

Palm

https://youtu.be/FVIX6pSxBV0

not happy with his shorts over the top of the lycra tbf.

Don't think he'd get em underneath, not comfortably anyway. If only bike builds were that easy, I'd have had brake fluid all over the rug, and tyre sealant dripping everywhere.
Fictional anyway, not a mug of tea to be seen, not a proper bike build.

And it only bloody took 15 minutes!!!

Originally built by @togas I believe. Good to see it finally getting used. Great bike! Secretly wish my equilibrium had that colour!