As a further evolution of my bike preferences, I've decided to build up a dedicated single-speed bike. My Devil frameset would work well for this but I want to use 26" wheels. My 83-84 MTB has the right dropouts but it's just not that much fun to ride. I think my mid-life crisis is revolving around bicycles instead of sports cars and I want a bike to recreate my childhood riding.
I've set my sights on some vintage MTB framesets with the forward-facing dropouts. Right now the leader is the early 90's Rockhoppers. From what I can find, they are all cro-mo, have the shorter chainstays I like, have reasonable top-tube lengths and have the all-important dropouts. I'd love to pick up a sporty geometry Stumpjumper with the really good tubing but right now I don't want to spend the time it would take to find one. Plus, I'm not even sure the Stumpjumper with the geometry and dropouts I want even exists. My biggest question is going to be tires. I'm currently running a set of 55mm Big Apples but one is defective and by the time I figured out it was the tire and not the wheel, the window for returning it had passed. I'm thinking 2.0 Kojaks, the largest Racer or the Compass 44mm tires will be what I will go with. This will literally be a bike that probably never leaves the neighborhood. We have a very large greenbelt with concrete sidewalk paths throughout. If I pick the right time of day (or if weather is questionable) there are virtually no pedestrians and the sight-lines are so long that it's easy to completely avoid them all-together if there are any out. There isn't a single straight stretch of sidewalk in this whole network so it's a perfect twisty-curvy path to blast down on nimble 26" wheels. I'll keep my Devil as my geared bike but I suspect my SS will get the bulk of my riding once I've got one. On Monday, March 24, 2014 5:34:38 AM UTC-5, Chris Lampe 2 wrote: > > I've cabled up one bike and it was such a tedious and frustrating event > that I now just take it to an LBS and let them do it. Hopefully I'll get > the bike back today or tomorrow. > > > On Sunday, March 23, 2014 10:05:20 PM UTC-5, jpp wrote: >> >> Hopefully someday your tastes evolve into putting shifter/brake cables >> and a chain on a bike, but to each their own!!! Only kidding.... >> >> On Sunday, March 23, 2014 9:55:09 PM UTC-4, Chris Lampe 2 wrote: >>> >>> My bike preferences continue to evolove and I've recently been riding >>> and 83-84 MTB, one of those bikes with 48cm chainstays and a wheelbase of >>> 1120mm. HUGE bike and I'm really enjoying it!! I liked the short >>> chainstays of the Troll and Karate Monkey but I also like the long stays of >>> this old MTB. Riding this bike has really reignited my interest in the >>> Bombadil and the Hunqapillar so I'm looking forward to hearing more about >>> this "proto-hunq" that was unveiled yesterday. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
