Monster, Monsteur, Monstour , 26/29+ and Expedition and Adventure bikes

I kinda envy gorilla geometry people haha

Someone coined the term mixtercross or something along those lines for big-tyre gravel-sort-of-stuff mixte bikes, can anyone remember which thread/etc.?

Sell me your karate monkey frameset and solve the problem? 😀

Are you super tall, Tallboy? I can send some pics if you like? and frame dimensions

Could you send me them too, on the lookout for something to go adventuring on

Yeh I am relatively tall 6foot4

https://flic.kr/p/27rzFnp

https://flic.kr/p/KawSFi

Hope the pics work, sorry they are crap but you get some idea of the frame size, this is set up for me at 6'3" so perfect for a monster crosser not so good for rocky tech on dartmoor

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Pressurised frame allows you to inflate two plus tyres from the air stored in your top and down tube.

And a bolt on shit shovel.

https://m.pinkbike.com/news/eurobike-2018-an-air-pressurized-frame-for-an-adventure-bike.html

Wut

Changed the bars and stem to some cheap Planet X flared drops and an 80mm stem with 17 degree rise.... oh, and wrapped over with some black tressortex cloth tape! I'm really liking this bike!

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lol.

Drop bar suspension gravel bike... You're way ahead of the curve, @stedlocks.

Totally down for that turd flinger!

Yeah....I just need a big beard and a shed load of tattoos and then it's most of the niche boxes ticked!

I wanted to make something like this but using the suspension as a sort of pump. And to use it to drive an airhorn and make espresso as well as inflating tyres. Unfortunately I am inept as an engineer

Don't you do like...space math and shit?!?!

Sort of, but that's all theoretical maths and programming and stuff. I can do a little bit of electronics, and I guess anyone on here is going to be pretty decent as a bike mechanic, but aside from applied maths at undergrad and GCSE Design and Technology I don't really know anything aside from what I read on the internet. Certainly I don't have the skills to work with high-pressure air shit, it'd probably explode in my face, literally

Edit: then again, "if you can fix a bike, you can fix a stealth bomber and invent a suspension powered air horn"

Are there any practical benefits to this? Surely anyone riding an adventure bike is going to be carrying a pump anyway?

If you’d made a espresso machine using suspension fork I’d recommend you for a Noble Price.

Using pressurized air in the tubes to inflate tires on an adventure bike seems just silly to me.

Like that little shovel tho.

Provides a large reservoir of pressure for seating tubeless tyres, like an Airshot.

Yep. Not sure how often you muller your tyre sufficiently to unseat it while still being able to seal so you can stay tubeless.

Also want to really avoid getting any shit on your shovel if you're gonna keep it right under your nose. Probably better mounting on the down tube near the bb to also act as a bit of a bash guard.

I just think it's cool when people experiment and push the boundaries a bit, doing new things. This bike has all sorts and it only takes one idea to stick.

Not sure how often you muller your tyre sufficiently to unseat it while still being able to seal so you can stay tubeless.

Seems to be aimed at the kind of folk who are out of range of bike shops for weeks/months at a temperature, and carry sewing kits to patch up their tyre sidewalls.
Totally agree on the shovel placement point. Imagine getting used to scoffing jellybeans straight from your top tube bag, then absent mindedly reaching down...

You both realise it’s for digging the ground, not some odd cleaning/sexual ritual, right?
I mean mud is dirty and all but you ain’t gonna be actually shovelling shit unless you have terrible aim/ dig a hole too small.