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+1 for positive rise stems

I was contemplating a 0 degree one but no choice on this one. Tech doc says 3cm spacers max.

any more pictures of this? I am considering that same fork for my faran

looks very good from this picture

It rides nicely. So far it dealt with anything I could throw at it. The weight diff coming from the unicrown steel fork is very noticeable, but also the comfort. Less hand fatigue for sure. Cargo cages also work on it, although I only carried light stuff, about 1200g per side.

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Nice - any front pictures? And did you need a new lower headset cup, or the bearing adapter? Interesting that you notice it’s more comfortable

I didn't change the headset at all, only cleaned and regreased it. There is a slight gap, so was going to investigate whether different lower cup could fix that ...

For now just keeping it clean.

Re comfort: Keep in mind that the previous fork was straight legged.

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So I sold my cargo bike. Wolverine steps in to fill the gap. Took off power Meter, put on flat pedals, back to unicrown fork and added a pizza rack.

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Still looks rad as fuck

I don't know if I'll ever do anything rad on it ever again. Bit rattled by the off I had 13 weeks ago. Only just getting back on the bike now that the shoulder has healed enough.

As the owner of a permanently wonky and disfigured shoulder, I feel your pain

Lovely Wolverine build here:

https://www.instagram.com/p/C0iI1RdS9IJ/?igshid=ODhhZWM5NmIwOQ==

Sadly just snapped my Soma Double Cross Disc. It's had a fairly light life, but is 10 years old now. This is my favourite bike.

I'm planning to replace it with a v4 Wolverine. But, I'd really like to run some 700x50mm Gravelkings in it. Max clearance is listed as 45mm – anyone had any luck?

Or, what else is there these days with similar upright classic Wolverine geometry, nice small diameter tubing, and big clearance under £1k? I'm also 195cm and Soma are one of few offering 62 frames with big headtubes. Others on my list are a Fairlight Faran 61... but I've not seem one with big swoopy Magic Moth bars and a basket. Might be sacrilege.

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That's 45 with mudguard. You should be fine. I ran 2.1s at some point on 29 but stopped that because the sliding dropout had to go all the way back. This was on V2 mind

That tube looks rusted AF, doesn't it?

Funny all of this. I'm getting parts together for an alt bar conversion, given that I rarely do gravel anymore and this is my town runner.

It does, yeah. There used to be a band on front derailleur around there, but I’ve not seen any rust externally. Will investigate.

I suspect also the frame was fairly light tubing, and recall Soma Wolverine frames of this era were also snapping.

I had to drill a drain hole in the BB shell and pour some rust converter down the seat tube at some point. Also had a bit of rust forming where the seat stay splits for a belt drive. Sanded back and sprayed with a can of matte black.

The paint bubbling just below the crack on yours looks telling tbh. I probably would have peeled that back as soon as I spotted it

I also think it might have rusted from the inside out, now I look I don’t think there’s a drain hole and the inner seat tube has been rusty. Newer Soma frames are ED coated.

I can see now the bottom of the seat tube is full of mud and dirt which is wet and seems to have caused it to rust from the inside out. I think this is down to no drain holes but it’s had a Thomson seat post (no holes) on it all its life though so I’m not sure where it’s got in… I can only think of the brake bridge.

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Wow, that is an impressive amount of crud :O

Bloody hell!!

Enough for a beauty treatment

Somewhat related, this came up in my reddit today:
https://www.reddit.com/r/bikewrench/comments/1hc9r02/custom_indyfab_frame_cracks_and_if_and_shop_claim/

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So this is a known issue with both Indy Fab and Fat City. The rust due to IF using blind tubing.
There is no weep hole between the seat tube and the BB shell. We drilled holes thru the BB shell into the
seat tube in my old shop for this reason.

Indy Fab instructs owners to remove the seat post every few months to air out the seat tube, and
doing the same after every time it rains.

Fascinating if this is the cause. I'm going to remove the BB and investigate. No way would I have 'aired out the seat tube'.

Or the weep hole got blocked by the bag of potting mix that's inside that frame of yours