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• 650b Croix De Fer - Congratulations, it's an apple.

  in Current Projects • 8 years, 11 months

  

  Thanks for taking the time answering my questions! Parts list looks good.

  In case you're interested about tubeless, I ones googled and found this:
  "Jan Heine, Editor, Bicycle Quarterly says:
  February 22, 2014 at 6:25 pm
  We’ve had no problems running the “standard” version tubeless. The “extralight” casing is more porous, so it can take a little more patience to seal. I have several friends who have run the Grand Bois Extra Léger tires tubeless…"

  https://janheine.wordpress.com/2014/02/22/introducing-the-full-line-of-compass-tires/

• 650b Croix De Fer - Congratulations, it's an apple.

  in Current Projects • 8 years, 12 months

  

  Lovely bike and lovely pics! much jealous. Now that your bike seems quite finished would you be kind and share a full parts list? Not to forget close up shots! Was your light the usb one? if so where and how did you route and mount the switch? and how do you attach the pump? heh so many questions since this is pretty much how I would and plan to build mine for the spring.

  oh one more thing: how do you like the compass tyres? flats? or do you run tubeless?

• My Genesis Croix de Fer

  in Current Projects • 9 years

  

  Why you ditched the 650B idea?

• 650b Croix De Fer - Congratulations, it's an apple.

  in Current Projects • 9 years

  

  MTB pedals you mean flats or MTB clipless?

  So you're saying go for it? You're right I can always fine tune and buy a custom fork later.

  Thanks for your input!

• 650b Croix De Fer - Congratulations, it's an apple.

  in Current Projects • 9 years

  

  This I understand. What I was saying with the older model you could shorten the trail by installing the 7mm more rake Thorn fork. Doing the same only adds 2mm more rake to the 2016 model. Don't know if this is something you could actually feel and worth the price of a new fork.

  I'm also in belief that although smaller tyres give less trail and so more nimble, at the same time the idea of running smaller tyres is having room for wider tyres (650B 42mm) that in contrary make the bike less nimble, so all in all we end up where we started (700C 32mm), nimble wise. So with a front load I wont be getting that magical nimble rando steering we are searching for.

• 650b Croix De Fer - Congratulations, it's an apple.

  in Current Projects • 9 years

  

  First post, Hi. And sorry for digging up an old thread..

  Still liking the bike after some time on it?

  I plan building a 650B CDF, but the 2016 model has some changes from previous years, so need some advice:

  Half a degree slacker HA is corresponded with a 5mm more rake fork (now 50mm, previous was 45). Thorn fork is 52mm, so no big advantage from swapping the forks, right? Any other reason for doing so? Hows the handling now with yours? If you can imagine it'd be a any slower, would it kill the fun?

  Also the BB drop is now 73, 2015 was 70, 2014 was 65. Which year model was yours? Any thoughts on the BB lovering issue? Have any idea how much did it drop with your setup and have you had to time your pedal strokes for that reason while cornering/riding trails?

  Any advice from OP or anyone else much appreciated!