MAJs gay bikes [she’s in her fitness era]

Yes. Just yes.

ultimately let down that this isn't a CAAD10 with a disc brake front fork and rim brake 25mm limited rear. the true essence of "adventure bike"

Hulsroy X Maj: the collaboration we all wanted but none of us had the imagination to think possible

I, for one, am hungry for the results

I am hype

Allowing for better, more consistent braking power

lol, like that sketchiness isn’t a huge part of the fun.

[yeah yeah, future me regretting this as I sit with two broken wrists in Whips Cross Hospital, I know, I knoooow]

adult sized Pine Cone Hunter.

This is the news I needed.

headtube angle being appropriate for an off road bike

ftfy

the 2000's school of mountain bike design

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pine cone hunter

this is gonna stick...

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Looks fun!

Is it actually going to be that blue, and if so, what are Hulsroy's thoughts on this?

hulsroy wants a blue bike with silver components and i am relatively hands off about it all although i am looking accross the room like someones mother would look over the top of their news paper

saying stuff like

"oh yeah? and who's paying for that?"

only to go back to my crossword and mutter "muggins here"

i think the only things i've insisted on so far is this pink headset i have yet to knock out a frame, and trying to say stuff like "what if we used parts i already own :)"

only for hullsy' to reply "mmm yess...but what if we found some nice deore xt"

my reaction as you can imagine is what many "buyers (TM)" feel, the feeling of scope creep where a nice frame made by a friend on the forum turns into a nice frame with nice wheels, to a nice rolling frame getting nice parts.

i think i draw the line at groupsets above 10speed tho, much like the mother who accepts they're going to the toy store but they're only going to buy a small lego set.

parents amongst us know how that ends

He does have irritatingly good taste though, so you're probably leaving these matters in safe hands :-)

Really excited for this meeting of minds; forum titans coming together to produce excellence.

Just don't let him near the oil slick headset spacers

Really excited for this meeting of minds; forum titans coming together to produce excellence

That's awfully kind of you, but I've not contributed anything yet

he does, it's an interesting match up tbqh.

with the homer me and M_V had a very, very similar shared vision and direction for the project which lead to us, i felt, egging each other on to take it to the real fringes of the project brief. it lead to a wonderful process i enjoyed greatly with a project i don't think anyone else could have put out.

with hulsroy, the thing which attracted me, other than his talents, was that i feel we tempre each other in a way which pushes something that neither of us would have approached if it wasn't for us doing it together. there is a shared understanding of what each other want and why they want it, but a friendly back and forth to sense check it.

take this bike for example, if you had told hulsroy he'd be excited about building a 26'' mtb with a 90mm stem and 2000's geo he'd have said yes, but it will be 27.5, longer front centre and a little slacker. if you would have told me that i was building a artisinal gravel bike with discs and through axels i'd have laughed at you.

yet....here it is!

i think the originalproposal was:

from my side in terms of what i want is:

a homer, or a marge realy

same concept as the homer (chuckable short wheel base clunker/mtb/bmx/cross bike/hybrid) but stripped back a bit and smaller wheels (diameter wise, not width), also the ability to run a dropper

further than this? i have absalutely 0 requests, none, nada, do not care what that looks like, put disc brakes on it for all i care, do not mind one bit. i'm mainly asking you as you build bikes i always like the look of but would never pick out for myself, that and you seem to have an absalute exacting eye for detail.

i think the juxteposition of the two bikes would be hilarious, exemplifying 2 schools of thought around bike making i apreciate most.

i do like the idea of buying frames from different people i apreciate and admire on the forum, we get so wrapped up in the "great frame builders of yester yore on some website soewhere" we forget that most of those builders are more so revered because they were culturally important to people at any given time, they helped shaped a persons riding. but to me? that's people on this forum, not some random in america who built cross bikes one time.

i think that's the great thing about choosing a custom frame and a builder, to me, someone i like to think isn't the typical "custom frame customer" (maybe this is my hubris talking), is doing it when you see something in the builder that you like, admire or want to see more of.

i do not understand those who commission bikes to have ultimate control over the details, where is the charm? why not hire a fabricator and a cad person to hammer it out, call yourself a project manager.

the fun is letting the builder have their way with it, tailored to you.

hulsroy has really embraced this and it has been a delight so far.

That's awfully kind of you, but I've not contributed anything yet

I assumed you would be involved in the actual test phase? putting it through the rigours of a full badger shakedown?

I will, if allowed, ride it a couple of times past the tea hut

That still has less toe overlap than the Homer

out with the quick release and rim brakes, in with the thru axel and disc brakes.

We've strayed away from the cutting edge of boost and TA, instead relying on standard spacing an IS mounts

have I read this too fast or is does this not compute?

are you boldly proposing copy makes 0 sense and is just churned out?

Both

I guess this is in the copy, but will it have gears?

I believe @Maj is considering a Pinion with belt drive