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Yeah definitely! We could do coffee & ride? We went the other week on a Wednesday and I limped around on the surly so keen to give it a go on this

Mind if I tag along? Need to ride the krampus and decide if I should keep it. You can laugh at me being fat but stubborn. Will organise a Prestwich or Littleborough ride in exchange.

Under absolutely no circumstances can you tag along

Seems fair. Wanna buy a large Krampus?

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@atk daisy reckons you should come after all

coffee & ride

Daytime ^ this, evening maybe

ride & beer

?

Are either of you doing the DnB ride tomorrow?

Prestwich or Littleborough

If I could tag along to one of these maybe please?

I think I liked the before better tbh, looks more chill. Is that Stooge Moto bars?

Either works for me! I won't be at the dnb ride

I liked it too but until I can commit to longer rides on it this suits my local ~1hr long stuff way better. Part of it is figuring out what I want the bike to be (read: what will actually get me out riding it).
Stooge Moto yep! Courtesy of @Maj

Either works for me! I won't be at the dnb ride

Same.

Prestwich used to be a regular evening thing for me and would finish at The New Oxford. Lot further to ride home after now, will have to be quite restrained given the selection.

Maybe next weekend if coffee the preference?

good rebuild. very handy for local tours without the gnarly stuff.

Works for me!

Ace I bumped into Ned at DnB he'd be up for coffee meet too so sounds like it could happen.

Took this out for a little tester ride last night along the Mersey and around the surrounding trails, really loved it. There's a chance the big difference was in the gearing and that everything else was marginal but it's nice to have fast tyres when it's hard and dry out. The bar-ends are always fun to get into a tuck on.
The drivetrain makes a hefty clang every now and then? I reckon either the chainline is off or the 15t I liberated from a cassette is a bit knackered. I've got lots of spacers from the cassette to try and tune the chainline at least.
Was surprised by how fast it handles, it's very nimble and almost twitchy. I imagine it's a world away from how super slack HT might feel. Got home and had to actively suppress pondering longer forks.
Anyway:

Don't change anything looks great.

I'm thinking 32:16 and 28:20 for dinglespeed on this - any thoughts?

Are you thinking of a gear for round here and a gear for a day in the peaks or a pair of gears to do that in one go (if that makes sense?)?

28:20 seems kinda low. I know a couple of people who went down that route when they were training for ridiculous long distance/loaded stuff, their thinking was it would be easier on the knees over several days/they'd make up the time in other ways. In the end they both ended up doing their things with gears 🙄.

I don't think I ever went below 30x21 on my karate monkey, but I was younger, stronger, had less commitments, could easily catch the train out into the hills for a fiver and it was pretty much downhill all the way home.

Edit: I might still have a bunch of spare cogs and chainrings if you want to try a few things out before making purchases.

I'll be going 30x21 on my Krampus with 2.6in tyres. Ran 32x21 in the past with 2.8s which was too steep for the trails around me.

Conversely I found 32x14 to be spot on for flat, tame stuff (couldn't get up Middleton Top though!)

Good data, thank you! The intention is to have 1 gear for local (flat, muddy) and getting out to the Peak District (Dark Lane & Middlewood Way) and another for bimbling about in and on the hills when I get to them..

2.2 32:15 = 61.53" (currently fitted - 'gravel bike')
2.4 32:16 = 58.58"
2.4 28:20 = 41"

2.4 30:21 = 41.88" (atk km - guessed tyre size)

2.6 30:21 = 42.45" (Po krampus)
2.8 32:21 = 45.73" (Po too steep)

From this it looks like the numbers are in the right ballpark? From what I've found out touring on the surly, when I'm up on the tops on singletrack etc I just bimble about in a v low gear, hence the 28:20

Otherwise gonna put the MTB tyres back on and try the alpkit loop bars for a bit more long-day comfort

@atk got anything in 64bcd 4 bolt? I was going to use a dismantled cassette for the rear cog but if you have any of those i'd be interested too!

I guess 28:20 just sounds a lot lower than it actually is!

Will have a look in the cellar this evening.

Edit: good guess on tyre size too

Found several 74 BCD rings, but nothing in 64 I'm afraid. Think I have given away all my spare cogs too. Sorry!