October 30, 2013

It liiiives…

…and just in time for Halloween!

Experimenting with some stuff with a custom-built chainstay assembly. This one is a first attempt – 42cm chainstays? Check. Postmount? Check. 12×142? Not this time, I wanted to use some old scrap dropouts because I’m dumb, so it’s QR. Version 2.0 will be 142×12.

The hard part to deal with visually is the 3/4″ round tubes. They are plenty stiff and strong, but they just look weird mated to the (also 3/4″ in this case) seatstay assembly.

Not for sale yet, please don’t bug me about it for a few more months. Yes, there will be a Stupidmobile FS in 2014…

That is one seriously bald rear tire. Yikes.

Edit: Seriously, nobody is going to mention the amount of seatpost out? Yes, that’s my actual saddle height. And it’s a 20″ seat tube…

I also have been working on actual customer’s bikes, don’t worry. Here’s Cody’s front end getting ready for some chainstays.