Mike sent me a Clown Shoe wheelset with one tire to use for my drawings and to check spacing. Luckily by the time i got around to his place in the queue the actual tire had come out and it was much smaller than the prototype: 5.1″ wide and 31.5″ diameter. How in hell am i going to fit those tires?! But as Mike said to me, “You may not have his level of experience,or the access to tools, parts, or capital that he’s had at Moots or Eriksen, but you give a shit and that’s just as important in creating quality.” I’ll take that as a compliment. How in the world was I going to match the building prowess of Brad Bingham ( com/2014/02/eriksen-husky-titanium-fatbike/), the builder of his Snoots and Eriksen Titanium fatbikes with flawless fabrication and welds, not to mention sealed internal liquid gas chambers.? I’m just not of the same caliber at this point in my framebuilding career. ( ) and basically having the most kick-ass fatbikes on the planet built for him. Mike is known for his extensive experience with fatbikes The tires were a LOT bigger than the next biggest tire – Surly Bud and Lou – so a completely new frame design was needed. Without having the tire in hand i set about following the mtbr thread ( ×5-004.html) that had as detailed specs as one could hope for at the time. The prototypes were 32″ in diameter and ~5.6″ wide on a 100mm rim. Snowshoe 2XL tires that were showcased at the Taipei bike show back in March. Mike came to me with a desire to build a bike around the soon to be released Vee Rubber ![]() The first one has been requested and being wintertime it’s a good fit. My old website had some blog posts on it that i’ll be transferring here week by week. But, if you are going to lace up a Rohloff you can go with 36H spoke wheels and all is good for us Clyde’s.From the archives, this time 4 years ago. The curved down tube isn’t great for mid-drive conversion ground clearance either. The negatives of this bike for conversions for me (100% Clyde) are the 28H spoke wheels and 299lb weigh limit. That makes the EXPENSIVE Rohloff a natural for BBS# conversions. A Rohloff and Gates Carbon Drive on this new offering from Trek would be sweet! Note: The Rohloff rear hub has a very wide chain line (IIRC about 54mm). I believe it is only a matter of time before some manages to install a Rohloff 12mm thru-axle hub on the Trek 148mm stranglehold rear drops. In addition it can accept a belt drive Gates 39T carbon drive CDX front belt ring a feature it shares with the Trek Stache playful short chain stay ripper hard tail. That may make it easier to fir larger deep offset sprockets.The raised rear chain stay gives easy access chain removal without having to break the chain. Debt free under the sun is the only way to live. A purchase like this is simply one months non-existent anymore house payment here in SoCal. Love my 2013 Niner Jet 9 full suspension XC bike, although it is a very different animal than this. I'd like it better under $2K, but sometimes you have to pay up for a bike that doesn't need anything other than sweep handlebars to float my boat. ![]() I initially made the huge jump in quality and price to a Santa Cruz Hightower after my first eMTB used to get myself back in shape, but it really didn't ascend nice enough for my ability level down hill it was the bomb! This 29+ full-hard is just what I wanted at that time, but wasn't available. If this was available years prior I might never have gone back to electric assist after my initial physical therapy eMTB recovery purchase. I've learned to appreciate a well purpose built and well equipped pedal bike. IMHO this is serious competition with the Surly ECR for my next pedal (and possibly electric conversion) bike money.So many bikes. IMHO this is serious competition with the Surly ECR for my next pedal (and possibly electric conversion) bike money. People are already putting Jones Loop H-Bars on them for more upright comfort and multiple hand positions. You can run a Gates Carbon Drive to a Rohloff or other IGH without having to mess with a frame break to get the belt on. I like the raised right chain stay on the Stache and this bike. Might not be suitable for BBS#'s, but freewheel crank electric applications may work. I think it's a winner!Īppears to have a Press Fit (PF) bottom bracket though. Now for 2018 they have produced the Trek 1120 Adventure 29+ full-hard aluminum framed, carbon forked and fully racked off-road adventure touring bike. Next they eliminated the full-hard Stache and put suspension forks on all of them, so my interest faded. I wish Trek would have built the new 1120 two years ago when I really wanted a Stache 5 full-hard, but couldn't find a 21.5" XL.
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