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Bloody love that.

Ah man I have no idea.

I suspect there will be a pivot point at the drop outs of the bike and the smaller rear tyre points too, to allow for free movement.

Göran Kropp, the Man Who Rode His Bike From Sweden to Climb Everest

https://www.adventure-journal.com/2019/09/historical-badass-goran-kropp-the-man-who-rode-to-everest/

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A high mount for that style of trailer makes more sense to me than axle.

Kropp sounds like he was an amazing person. All those accomplishments and adventures before 35.

https://www.lafraisecycles.com/remistrailer

All that engineering when they could've just gone with a high mount : )

Great rig but, talk to me about the bars as I genuinely find them very intriguing . What location do you put your hands in the most ?

I may be mistaken (and I often am) but it looks to me like the weight of the load on the trailer will essentially be held up by just a top cap and bolt.
I must be missing something

https://web.stanford.edu/~dru/moustache.html

This shows some of the possible hand positions. I don’t have the dummy levers on the innermost bend. I hold the swept part with my hands parallel for general cruising, in the beginning of the ‘hooks’ for more spirited riding, in the forward hooks position for braking(feels similar to flat bars in this position), and hands on the hoods for a more aero position or just to switch it up.

These aren’t my bars, but set up similarly with bar end shifters and similar lever position.

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I suspect the top of the trailer steerer has a crown race of sorts (or at least a machined step to act as a fixed spacer), and the top cap is just to hold the dyanamo charger thingy on

https://www.lafraisecycles.com/remistrailer

You'd have to have some mental fortitude to ride it

I don't really see the point of a 17t granny gear. If you have a normal 22t inner ring combined with a 36t cassette you already have to spin quickly to maintain some speed... I can only imagine that with the 17t you will just fall over

I did look at all of those photos but it's not really any clearer though I think you're probably right on the hard stop at the top.

Thanks for sharing, what a story. Like Svein Tuft before becoming a pro but turned up to 11!

For context on Svein Tuft: https://www.velonews.com/news/road/qa-parsing-truth-from-fiction-in-svein-tufts-legendary-hobo-adventures/ and https://lifeinthepeloton.com/2019/07/31/svein-tuft-sveinos-journey/

Hey @edscoble, was curious about this. I bought a Stronglight triple for my partners bike, 48/38/28, and took off the 48 (touring in the Pyrenees). She kept having the chain drop between the inner and middle chain rings when changing down and get stuck, I assumed that the distance between the two would be too narrow to allow this to happen but apparently not. Any ideas to fix it? Could always shim out the middle ring a bit I guess.

Interesting! Just listened to the podcast, thanks!

If you still have the old triple front derailleur; change it to a double as if you lower the triple derailleur to the middle chainring instead of big, there’s now enough gap for the chain to jump off.

Saw one of those yesterday.
Has it all, titanium, pinion, motor, stupid name.

The bike does in no way concoct images of falcons. Also can't really understand the utilitarian thinking behind combo of pinion and hub motor (or maybe any motor).

Wonder what the double SON is for. More lumens!

Moar expensive better bike?

@si_mon628 once met a very old guy on an audax. He had 2 crazy lamps, one for near one for far, as his eyesight was very bad at night, but he still did 400 and 600 almost weekly.

I'm selling my Cotic if anyone is after a functional flat bar commuter type thing.

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This is lovely! What’s the frame? Surly forks?

It’s @jambon ‘s Croix De Fer with a Disc Trucker fork.

One of the best bikes of the forum:

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/295886/