deeeight
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deeeight dariodigiulio's article
Aug 28, 2023 at 11:34
Aug 28, 2023
WTB Develops New 750d Wheel Size
@shakabro: It would be smaller than 32 inch (which is a 2.1 inch tire width on a 686 ISO rim). Simply producing a 1.6 inch width tire for the same existing rim size would achieve a similar diameter to a 29 x 2.4. 750D is a solution in search of a problem.
deeeight dariodigiulio's article
Aug 28, 2023 at 11:32
Aug 28, 2023
WTB Develops New 750d Wheel Size
False equivalency logic. 650B didn't replace 26 inch because it was 38mm larger ISO (it isn't), but because it was an existing established tire/rim size already adopted by folks in the loaded touring/bikepacking communities, and that had historical ties to mountain bike, and because the original "modern" 650B mountain bike tires were approximately 27.5 inches in diameter, it felt neatly in between 26ers and 29ers. It was easy for Kirk Pacenti to have Vuelta USA roll him wider rims in that size and Panaracer to make him tires once he ponied up the money to order 500 of each to do a production run, and that was enough to get a grassroots movement embracing the size again as many disc brake equipped 26ers could be converted for folks, including brand managers to test the size out. Similarly 32 inch unicycle tires have been adopted already by companies wanting to make larger fitting sizes of mountain bikes, and this has also led to an increase in manufacturing for the tire size (686 ISO) and in China today you can buy production 32 inch mountain bikes.
deeeight dariodigiulio's article
Aug 28, 2023 at 11:13
Aug 28, 2023
WTB Develops New 750d Wheel Size
Because why offer better tires for an existing larger size such as 32 or 36 inch, when you can invent a pointless new wheel size to do the same thing. 36ers use a 787 ISO bead number and 32ers use 686 ISO, and in fact you can already buy production 32 inch tire mountain and hybrid bikes in China. There's also 700A at 642 and 700B at 635 which again, in a 40mm width would provide more casing size and air volume than a 700C x 40 would.
deeeight seb-stott's article
Aug 21, 2023 at 20:49
Aug 21, 2023
Review: Hope HB.916 - Better Late Than Never
Yep, cause carbon loves to be impacted together now apparently. Not to mention Maxxis lies about their tire sizes so that very tight 2.5 is likely a Schwalbe 2.35 casing and well, I hope the clearance is better when run with a 27.5 in back. Shame they didn't ACTUALLY provide that information in the frame details. I think, if I were in the market for this price of bike frame, I'd rather just get a Salsa Cassidy Carbon, its $3600USD MSRP, 165mm rear travel, non-idler but also a split-pivot rear end with the main pivot a decent height above the BB center, that will clear 29 x 2.6 or 27.5 x 3.0, uses a flip chip in the shock mount, compatible for 170-180mm forks, 157mm SuperBoost and a 73mm BSA BB shell. Key variable geometry is 432/431mm chainstay length, 63.8/64.1 HA (with 180 fork), 75.7/76.0 SA, 19/15 BB drop. There's even intergrated 3-bolt mount on the downtube, a 2 bolt frame bag mount on the top tube, and a dedicated repair kit space and all the internal routing has sleeved tubes.
https://www.salsacycles.com/bikes/mountain/Cassidy
deeeight edspratt's article
Aug 13, 2023 at 4:23
Aug 13, 2023
Elite XC Results from the Glentress XC World Champs 2023
@Jamminator: ONLY because the UCI instituted a rule from world cups, which isn't actually in the world championship regulations, to move Piddock up from his original 67th starting position to 33rd.
deeeight edspratt's article
Aug 13, 2023 at 4:22
Aug 13, 2023
Elite XC Results from the Glentress XC World Champs 2023
Tom Piddock would NOT have won, nor Nino missed an 11th title if the UCI hadn't made the last minute decision to re-arrange the starting positions to move Piddock, Van Der Pissant and Sagan further up the field than their lack of UCI MTB points would have otherwise positioned them. Piddock SHOULD have started back in 67th spot but the UCI moved him up significantly and Nino should have been in the front row to start.
Selling
Jul 22, 2023 at 17:02
Jul 22, 2023
NOS Eclipse C4 Hero Carbon FS4
$500 CAD* price is firm, buyer pays shipping if not local (and then etransfer or paypal payment only), and cash preferred for locals though I'll accept e-transfer ahead of time for contactless pickup *
- Bought during the Pecco's closeout sales, never built it up though I do have most all the parts to do so, I simply haven't the time or desire to do that anytime soon (I would be willing to sell those additional parts to whomever buys the frame though).
- Carbon main triangle and linkage plates with alloy chain and seat stays
- Horst link 4-bar rear end has 100mm travel driven by a X-Fusion O2 PVA shock with adjustable air pressure, rebound damping adjustment and 4-setting platform compression valve adjustment
- Extra Large 22 inch frame, 56 cm BB center to top of Seat Tube, 62cm effective horizontal TTL
- 42.5cm Chainstay length, 17cm Head Tube length, I don't know the exact as designed angles but measured on my own built up with a straight steerer 120mm travel fork I measured a 69.5 HA & 72 SA
- Frame will clear up to a 26 x 2.7 or 27.5 x 2.35 tire (I am running mine with 27.5x2.25s with a measured BB height of 13.75", so I rarely have pedal strikes)
- Headtube has alloy inserts for 44mm headsets (either ZS44/ZS44 for straight 1 1/8 or ZS44/EC44 for a 1.5 to 1 1/8 taper steerer fork)
- 31.6mm seat post size, 135mm QR dropout spacing, takes a 35mm clamp front derialleur clamp size (or use an E-type front with a compatible BB), and has a 68mm BSA bottom bracket shell
- all external cable guides with three closed type above the top tube for disc brake and both derailleurs (I will include a set of plasticreducers for the disc brake guides)
- single bottle cage mount on the downtube
- frame has a new derailleur hanger fitted
- 2.36 kg frame weight as pictured
