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Nature boy has been on a little diet!

Finally got hold of a Ritchey WCS cross fork at a non crazy price.

Force Cranks, Absolute black ring and ritchey pedals

Small chain ring but its basically being used as an XC bike for the winter and maybe a couple of races!

took the SLR off the other bike aswell.
Seems a shame to loose the silver bits but its riding much better now.

Also for anyone trying to bodge gears on horizontal dropouts, the dartmoor hanger is notched in so you can get a full range of gears!

Knards were on my potential list, fairly similar tread and weight in the 120tpi.
Basically chose the wtb for the tan walls and looks like it may have slightly better mud clearance.

They seem pretty good, it was greasy where I was riding today with it being so dry until the last couple of days and they had no problem keeping me upright.
Did a loop which consisted of road, gravel fire road and rooty single track in the woods. Basically trying to find the worst ground to test them and was really impressed, only halted by a really deep mud patch but my MTB wouldn't have got through either so I can forgive that.
Im running the pressures higher then I want currently until i'm happy they're sealed so they will probably be even better with a few psi less.

First impressions of tires tyres were good! Nice ride in the rain and mud was a good test.

@Cupcakes r2-bike.com German shop.
When I saw the resolutes I thought they were exactly what I was after so emailed hotlines the UK distro who said they were on order but had no idea when they would reach the UK!!
R2 was the first shop that came up on google, said they had stock and took paypal so I thought it was worth a try.
They despatched within a few hours and took 4 days to arrive so i'm happy.

Thanks! Pretty happy how it turned out.

@mk1mark only short! 5'8" This is a 49. I'm normally a 52 but I had a canti nature boy in 52 and it was a stretch! TT seem to be on the long side.

Got some more suitable "all terrain" tyres for the nature boy

and boy did they put up a fight! Poor tyre levers finally destroyed after years of service :(

With a mind to go tubeless shortly I Gorrilla taped the rims, which was lucky as I wrecked my last tube trying to fight the rear tyre on so was forced to stick a valve in and seal it.

42s seem to have ample clearance front and rear, hopefully get some good miles on them this week!

Theres a few over 9" with cs brakes: Mutiny Death Grip, S&M Reynolds, think Fit still make something as well.
Sure someone does a 10" stand over but can't remember who!

Where did you get the Tan Sk's in 42 if you don't mind me asking?
Can't seem to find them any bigger then 32s

It's good fun with the gears on!
Also the mech hanger and shimano skewer are holding up great so far, no slippage and I haven't been taking it easy on it.

Few updates!

Ditched the GX shifter and put rival shifters on, first time using double tap not a huge fan, even less so when this happened on its first decent off road ride!

GX will go back on unless I find spares for the rival.
Excuse the tape, didn't seem to like be taken off and put back on.

A few flats gave me opportunity to take some bad photos! Luckily my bike held in an easier gear.

Even a few mechanicals can't spoil a ride like this though :)

Edit: only just noticed how blurry that photo is, apologies!

Love the colour on the Wethepeople ^

My Cult:

Not ridden nearly as much as it should be anymore unfortunately!

Yeah tracks absolutely fine, now I've seen it though it's bugging me. haha! might pop the crown race off and clean the crown, unlikely but maybe some dirt has worked its way under there.

Anyone got a wonky fork crown? hoping it's just poor QC but had the vigorelli a few years and only recently noticed this.....

Cant see any visible damage on the steerer and haven't had any big crashes i can recall!

Full bike pic for coolness:

Hmm... might grab one of those for piece of mind!

I have been trying my hardest to get the wheel to slip in current set up: bumping curbs, skids and jumps! all the technical tests and so far so good.

yeah same as the one i'm running, looks like it's designed for a 10mm bolt up axle but its got anti turn things built in which overlap the axle on my hub. may switch the skewers for an allen one but so far its holding ok.

@rogan Just a random Shimano one I had lying about the mech hanger is for an Ns dirt jump bike, I started with a Dmr chain tug style one but it wasn't threaded right!
I might opt for the problem solvers tug style one or attack the current with a dremel eventually as this current set up doesn't quite allow me to get into the biggest ring.
However my current thinking is if I need 36-39 somethings not right haha!

@Yemble Think pretty has gone out the window, got a few big off road rides planned and the blackburns are useless! Ill have a look at the lezyne's thanks.

Some pics of the ghetto gears for anyone interested:
ps excuse the mess!

Srampagano Drivetrain! Wrong in so many ways... yet seems to work!
10speed Sram Gx on XT cassette.

Not yet unfortunately, have just built up some new wheels for the mountain bike though which means i have a spare set of 650 rims! however they a 27mm internal so possibly far too wide!

I am in the process of bodging 10 gears on the back for a few rides I want to do so maybe I should go full frankenbike with the dodgy wheels aswell! Ha!

Blackburn cages suck managed to snap one and the other slackens mid ride! Best place to find King cages in the uk? or any other sturdy cage?

Thanks guys

@edmundro @Heldring Yes loctite did cross my mind when I was putting it on but stupidly skipped it. Lesson learnt!

@Jaap Just something I've wanted to try for a while and this frame should take them. Keeps my mind focused on this build for a few months rather then convincing myself another bike is needed! Plus I will keep 700s incase it doesn't work out.

@metriod Thanks, think this one will be kept for a while though!

@edmundro I guess the bolt work its way loose! never found it though so could have snapped the bolt, no damage to the the basket itself though so easily fixed! manage to cable tie out the way to finish the ride.

Finally got around to finishing this up and testing it.

Switched the Velo Orange post for a Thomson
Quick shakedown ride revealed a couple of issues, firstly the spyres were set up terribly and the clement xplor don't like leaves! I found these out simultaneously when I understeered through a bush!!

Sanding the brake pads and some fine tuning of the brakes solved one problem, and dropping the pressures in the tyres seems to have helped.

Got a good ride in this morning in various conditions!

Bit of ice in the mix

And some mud!

Icy chopped up mud and bumps didn't agree with the wald!

Overall love it, great to be back on a nature boy and the 49 is much more comfortable then my old 52.

Now I need to sort the saddle angle, ditch the Keo's for a more off road friendly pedal and build up some 650s for summer!

Any recommendations for decent, light rims? preferably with minimal logos or removable ones?

Cheers! Yeah I'm not normally one for none black parts to be honest but wasn't keen on a full black bike either! Tan walls might break it up enough for black bits.

SS!
may run 2 rear cogs if I can work it out though. Something for road and a spinnier one for off road/lazy days

Slow progress whilst waiting on bits, Really don't like the seat post so will get that changed as soon as I can.

The hacking happened and it fits. Will probably upsize eventually

@rogan Good to hear! Going to wait for spring before I build the 650 wheels, heard the horizons don't like the wet.

@oli_ro It's a cheap eBay job! £40 I think, it's honestly not great quality but it's holding up so far and I think if I replace the top with thicker ply it would be improved a lot.

Well the frame turned up quicker then expected! Not something to complain about but left me lacking a few parts.
Quick mock up with some parts:

Terrible photo but will get some nicer ones when I can get it out.

Ive encountered a problem with the crank/chain ring set up!
Looks good:

But the tab on the back will foul with the small ring.

Is it a really bad idea to grind/ cut of some of that tab to make it work??
Or should I just get a bigger ring?