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New gorilla monsoon is HAWT!

Did QBP not get the DBAD memo?

One jam jar with handle of your parents tears.

Want!
Reminds me of one of my favourite builds evarr!

Is that yours? Loving the silver wheels and the massive tyres!

I wish. It belongs to a guy on the Something Awful forums.

Is it just me or....those regular dropbars on those fat tire bikes doesn't make sense. It rides like sh*t when going offroad or rough gravel.

Why still mostly these bars instead of Loop's or some other altbars?

I had a Spacehorse with 2.0 tires and this thing was a curse to ride till I put Surly Moloko's on it and fell in love all over :-)

Is it just me or....those regular dropbars on those fat tire bikes doesn't make sense. It rides like sh*t when going offroad or rough gravel.

Just you.

As long the geometry work with the bigger tyres, can't see why not, better than running 33mm tyres.

Don’t think that’s his point. More than when proper off road enough to warrant huge tyres, wouldn’t flat bars or risers of some sort make more sense

This seems the best place to ask. Looking for reccomendations for a front rack for a bike with 26" wheels. Has eyelets on the forks and canti mounts. Looking to spend as little as possible. Just want something that will carry a sleeping bag/tent /some shopping/ plenty of lager.

wouldn’t flat bars or risers of some sort make more sense.

I would argue that a better suited drop bar would be more idea, such as a wider Salsa Cowbell, or even the Cowchipper.

He does have a point of running massive tyres yet still resort to standard narrow drop bar.

Horses for courses.

Otherwise everyone would be running drops on everything. I personally can't stand most types of drops and find them quite shit for anything that requires really rapid direction changes and get pretty exhausting on techy singletrack.

..... which is why drops get used on bikes for open, non-technical roads/trails. Like those pictured.

Look at the tyres. They’re slicks. It’s just a road bike without pinch flats and with moar cush.

That's my point..which I'm not sure I made clear to counter what ed said.

Any any rate, tyres seem to be G-Ones in extra large flavour. Very capable even on the technical stuff.
Crust also build a lot of fantastically OTT bikes.
I'm just being a pedant in pointing out that there seems to be a lot of 'gnar' bikes with plus tyres and drops, which is what I think Dutchy was critical of.

@spotter thanks for pointing out the gorilla monsoon, it looks ace. Gives me another reference for geometry for my upcoming build.

The ~£16ish SJS cantilever rack is well-rated.

But do you want it to take a sleeping bag, tent, shopping and lager at the same time (in which case I doubt it's sturdy enough)? Or are they just examples of the sort of things you want on it?

It has nothing to do with geo it't the wide tires that ask for more leverage than a narrow drop imo.

What about a wald basket? Good for functional daily use and apparently ‘basketpacking’ is Now a thing

Which. if the frame is designed for drop and big tyres, isn't a problem.

It's not like an MTB with a super slack 69 degrees head tube where putting narrow drop bar on will worsen the handling.

Just examples, not all at once! Will have a think about whether a rack or a basket would be more useful.

Both! SJS rack with Wald basket on top

Yeah, I agree with @TomvanHalen. Rack with a basket on top is a nice versatile setup.

Wald basket fittings are much better/sturdier than they once were.