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Hopeful PM about the frame bag...
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Shelved this idea. It’s crazy. Going to sell and buy him something more suitable with the proceeds. If anyone is selling a Luath 24 that they don’t mind posting I’d be interested to know more.
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Hm, I didn’t know that about the steerer. I whacked a spare stem on just to get an idea of the sort of reach he’d need and it seemed fine - will measure though just to be sure.
This project is the result of him needing to step up to 24” wheels but not settling on mtb or going for one of the road islabikes. He was previously on islabikes but then had a Merida 20” mtb most recently. I’ve suggested that rather than another modern mtb which will be great at flying down mountains (1% of its use) and so-so for family rides (great fat tyres which are exhausting on road/path and straight bars which aren’t great for longer distances) and school commuting (lack of mudguards), we keep his brother’s mtb for the occasional proper mountain ride and kit out the Beinn as a sensible but slightly-less-rubbish-than-it-was bike for everything else. Not the sort of bike the market seems to offer, at least at secondhand prices.
Definitely needs new pedals, I agree! Just weighing up relative cost vs likely benefit. Thanks for your tips.
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My youngest is moving up a bike size and after some thought we're going to keep his brother's old Islabike Beinn 24 rather than buy and sell — but sort out some manky bits and improve the bike in the process.
I'm looking for:
- 24" wheelset to replace the knackered Islabikes one — for rim brakes
- 24" tyres, something smooth-ish and light like Maxxis Torch; ideally similar width (1.75 / 47mm)
- 8spd trigger shifter
- V brakes — something better than no-name / tektro basics that came with the bike
- 50mm 31.8 stem
- potentially also a junior crankset (140mm cranks) — one of the junior BMX ones perhaps. Something that'd allow fitting regular chainrings rather than the bolt-on proprietary Islabikes (rubbish) one. I have a 104BCD ring which would fit so that size would work and seems to be the BMX standard.
Looking at that list I wonder if it's a bit crazy as there's no much left of the original bike! But if I can find things at reasonable enough prices and make it a bit better in the process it'd work well. And we might try out spray.bike to really pimp it too.
If nothing shows up I'll maybe reconsider but if you have anything lying around from kids' or BMX builds that you think would do the job, I'd love to hear more...
All would need posting as I'm in Newcastle.
- 24" wheelset to replace the knackered Islabikes one — for rim brakes
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Hi, do you / would you do a rack pack for a narrow rack - a nitto, not sure model but similar to an m18? I’m after something that would sit on it and secure at base and via the tombstone but that doesn’t droop over the sides - so something with, er, a stiff bottom.
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Thanks @mattyc — sorry for delayed response; I didn't get the usual notification that there had been a reply for some reason. @retrodicorsa has one so am happy to go with that and save you the search!
Third time this has been on sale by the same seller, and the title matches a current eBay listing (which curiously pictures an orange wolverine, not a fog cutter). Hm, what’s going on?