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guys, what would you do if you had a vintage mtb with super twitchy handling, put a wider bar? shorter stem? what?
i also cant have full extension of the legs with 20cm seatpost showing, gota get a 26.8 with a bit more cm
its for this bike:
https://lfgss.microcosm.app/api/v1/files/75c5ce72703f50a8b8fdd5e91ebbfc097ef9b253.jpeg

what would you do if you had a vintage mtb with super twitchy handling

I'd ask myself why I was doing this to myself

If I wanted, say for example, to prolong the agony, I'd consider a longer stem and some swept back wide bars with a bit of rise on them to calm the steering down a bit.

hahah :) i ask myself this constantly! (i need a more stable/sturdy bike to install a kids chair and i dont know if racing bike with drops is the best thing, thats why the mtb)
i will try to change the handlebars to start! :) thx!

Frame looks tiny, how tall are you?

i am 1,78cm, but since it was a free bike i wanted to try to make it work :)
found that bbb makes a seatpost 26.8, 40cm! tha should do it...right?

I just bought a 50cm seatpost (25.4, mind) for the bmx to upset @PhilDAS - turning it into a shopper monster. Don’t let the haters get you down! You go gurl! (etc)!

But really, seatposts are easy to find on the auction site up to 450, but you’ll still feel cramped up with the short TT. Definitely get a bit longer stem and wider bars.

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You absolute sociopath

There’ll be £ in it for you eventually (gluing metal). You or someone else willing to help me achieve one of these things like on the internets. If the concept works for me with a botched setup, I’ll eventually want a donky-esque cargo solution.

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This is to my interests. Why do you want a mini cargo bike over something normal size with a bigger platform?

vintage mtb ...handling

Replace the Flexstem for a start...

A mix of novelty, storage space, and lower maximum necessary capacity.

Currently riding a bmx has been more enjoyable and more versatile than road, but less than mtb. I was hauling a trailer with mtb but would like to avoid that due to added bulk and trailer related frustrations.

I was hoping to eventually have a real eco cargo setup for getting to and from street markets or fairs, to carry the bags and setup to sell my wares, but that’s still a long way off. More useful is a small bike that I can haul more than I can carry on my back but less that I’d get a lift in a car.

Means I can store it easily in the shed, and still carry ‘heavy’ loads of material or hardware that I acquire from the various scrap places in Swindon. So far the rear rack on the bmx has given me just enough capacity. I think that two pizza rack sized spaces with suitable structural integrity will be more than enough for my uses.

What about a crust type fork. If you ran cable brake you could even swap back and forth between cargo fork and normal fork with just an unclip of the cable at the lever and a tighten of the stem.

If you already have a mtb, the only extra you'd need to store is a fork and wheel rather than the whole bmx cargo thing

it actually does not flex that much! is more like the handling input is too fast, so i am guessing the wider bar will help (like what other guys said)

Did consider it if I came across a suitable mtb cheap.

I have the couple road bikes but sentimental/bad condition to sell, and the bmx’s, but no suitable mtb since that Marin died. The Giant Acid is only good for bombing about, wouldn’t cargo fork it. By the time I’ve paid out for a good mtb and crust forks I’m on my way to any other cargo solution anyway.

Does anyone know which length 73mm UN55 bb I need to run a 1x setup on a Tune Bigfoot crank?

Does anyone know of notebook personalisation?
I'd like an A5 notebook, lined, bound, with a photo printed on the inside cover....
Loads of wire bound things with pictures on the outside.

Do you even funkypigeon.com?

this bike:
https://lfgss.microcosm.app/api/v1/files/75­c5ce72703f50a8b8fdd5e91ebbfc097ef9b253.j­peg

Love that frame / fork!

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What about a crust type fork.

Looks shit.

Cool, thanks for sharing.

No.
I looked briefly at work and all I saw was wire bound.

Loads of wire bound things with pictures on the outside.

I misread that as a requirement.