Push tuned Fox DHX
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Choosing a Chainring
Wheels are an area where you don’t want to skimp on a downhill bike if you want them to last. You can opt for a cheaper setup (Sun SingleTrack’s to Hope Pro II’s) if you’re looking for a setup that will last pretty good but is easy to replace should you mess them up.
For the Blindside we went for a UST option with Mavic 823′s and used Industry 9 Hub and spoke combo to finish it off. I9 can lace up to any rim of your choosing, so you’re not held to any specific rim choice. You can get a plethora of custom colors as well to make your ride a bit more special. This wheelset is absolutely stunning and performs just as well as it looks. 120pt engagement is essentially instantaneous (3 degree) and is very easy to service. If Mavic 823′s are your choice can lace up their hubs to any rim out there!
A good trellis
Using a Mavic 823 rim is one of the most solid options available in a downhill wheelset. They’ve proven themselves year after year and are essentially defacto when it comes to UST+Tubeless+DH. The wheelset weighs in at just over 2300g, but you don’t have to run a DH, or even XC tube in this wheelset. This saves a good bit of weight where it matters
Choosing a Bicycle Chainring
I chose these cranks for a few reasons. They’re real light, pretty stiff, and I’ve never had any problems with banging cranks or pedals too much to ever bend/break a set of Shimano cranks. I chose 165mm for some additional ground clearance as well. These cranks don’t have pedal inserts or washers so a really strong hit on them might spell stripped pedal threads. Shimano also makes a Hone double crankset that does have the pedal washers & inserts for not much weight gain (~30g) if you’re looking for a little more security. The cranks were polished for a little unique look.
Road Touring Bicycle
Theresa Scholz then rode a 17lb Petite in , a 6-day, 70-100 mile a day affair - and her first major event by bike.
Just recently, I was asked to demo a canary-yellow in a Time Trial at in Philly, and at the. Now, having not ridden drop bars for 15 years, I was a little hesitant. But now I am hooked - so much so, I would consider touring the paved and semi-paved world on this little dynamo and hitching a ride when the mud got thick. The bike is incredibly fast, and feels extremely stable standing and peddling - once I got use to the feeling of these bars compared to the H-bars on my
The Bike Friday road bikes are what really separate a BF from most other folding bikes - the bike is solid, sprightly, and feels just like my very nice (for its time) Viscount Sebring road bike from when I was 13 - an aluminium wonder with column shifters that cost an exorbitant $A175 almost 20 years ago (my brother's Peugeot wa $75). But the Pro fits me a whole lot better.
The 451 feel even faster than my 406's with the Stelvio Kevlar 1 1/8" tires I've been raving about forever - so the moral to the story is, if you want to go fast, first and foremost, get a 451-wheel Bike Friday. That is, one of the models.
Because we were in a hurry I did not get time to get the stem sized right - this bike normally come with the Bike Friday - we simply found one that was about right and painted it for the events. Having ridden it 60 miles back from Sutherlin to Eugene I probably need a slightly shorter stem made. Of course, getting the stem right is all part of the fitting program offered with every custom Bike Friday!
This demo model is also the first one to be fitted with Shimano's new Capreo 9-tooth cogs, that the BF Parakeet chirped about - which means little wheeled bikes can now have ALL the gears of the big wheeled bikes without needing to use the big front chainrings. See the photo gallery (link below).
What makes the Pocket Rocket Pro a Petite?
- It is constructed of thinner, lighter tubing - It has a smaller 1 1/8" headset compared the normal 1 1/4" headset - lighter wheel set options - that is, lighter rims and spokes. - Several women-specific components are available, like shorter cranks (165 down to 140 mm, as opposed to the normal 170-175 mm), special inserts to make brake levers more accessible to smaller hands, special smaller-scale drop bars, and so on.
Read more about the
Road Touring Bicycle
See a of me tooling about with the new Pro Petite!
MORE AND MORE women (and compact men) are discovering the of road, touring and recreational bikes specifically designed for the smaller American woman.
We all know the Bike Friday was built as a performance folding bike / collapsible bike / travel bike - whatever you care to name it, but the small wheels make it, by definition, the perfect bike for the scaled-down rider.
The Petites started with a small prototype for Kelsy, the 13-year old daughter of BF evangelist Jeff Linder.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
The Vintage Bicycle
Here's an interesting project that takes little money, isn't too hard to do and actually has a practical side, it's a Huffy bicycle found at a flea market, a couple of vintage looking pieces found on eBay, a new Honda 50cc engine and a few other modifications to make it look like an early grey Harley Davidson.
According to the builder it gets about 120 mpg and cruises at a comfortable 25 to 30 mph with a top speed approaching 40 mph.
Looks like a cool project to get the kids involved in a little "hands on" activity or something to get your own hands into the building process. Neat
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