LINUS
Waiting for the Great Pumpkin
I’m starting with that as a motto as this may work wonderfully, or be a full John DeLorean / final product.
A bit of backstory:
— Had some super frustrating family health issues that between C19 & Seattle essentially shut down to incoming I-5 traffic as the CHAZ/CHOP thing was tossed on top - I could neither see, visit, even talk on the phone - with family who was in a major medical moment.
—Totally powerless, totally frustrated—
—So—
In order not to either go really mentally wrong & dark, or make a choice to drink to escape (can happen easily) - I came up with what will ensue.
Enjoy my nuttiness - I’m a thick skin so while we start in bikes, say what you like - I am crazy, but not mentally fragile
All that BS / pretext handled, the road so far:
An aluminum frame Santa Cruz Nomad G4 frame:
Pic skips ahead a little, as it already is wearing a 2.8 Minion tire (27.5+) - and a 230/65 Fox DHX2 shock with a custom lower link (still raw AL).
A (literal) - metric eff-ton of work with calipers, trigonometry, and to be honest - some faith between me & the guy I bought the used frame from he wasn’t snowing me on RR triangle width esp as to trying to stuff a full 28.25” OD, Plus - width tire with a few MM to spare.
What you’re seeing in 1 pic is easily 30+ hrs of communication, design/copy, and mentally escape of what I was in.
The link was the big work as I made it / learned / pushed what I’m trying to master (Fusion 360 / CNC work). It took alot of time & kept me busy as it allows the shock to fit & increase travel a little.
So far, that’s the bulk of the project & updates will be slow as I want to keep this tail-heavy & not run a dual crown fork - so I’m like the masses waiting for a Fox 29’er / 180mm travel single-crown.
Also - my RR brake is backordered until ???
Overall, I’m gathering used parts & my goal is a 27.5+ bike that is a mini-V10 (Santa Cruz’ full DH bike) - call it a “V8”.
It’ll be a 1x11/12, will get prob 35mm rims so I can swap from Plus down to 2.5’s in dry dirt, etc.
As parts slowly creep in, I’ll update.
::: PS/edit -I’ll tag @jembourbe -he saw my comment/what I choose to do with my frustration & said ‘pics or didn’t happen / make a thread’ - so blame him
A bit of backstory:
— Had some super frustrating family health issues that between C19 & Seattle essentially shut down to incoming I-5 traffic as the CHAZ/CHOP thing was tossed on top - I could neither see, visit, even talk on the phone - with family who was in a major medical moment.
—Totally powerless, totally frustrated—
—So—
In order not to either go really mentally wrong & dark, or make a choice to drink to escape (can happen easily) - I came up with what will ensue.
Enjoy my nuttiness - I’m a thick skin so while we start in bikes, say what you like - I am crazy, but not mentally fragile
All that BS / pretext handled, the road so far:
An aluminum frame Santa Cruz Nomad G4 frame:
Pic skips ahead a little, as it already is wearing a 2.8 Minion tire (27.5+) - and a 230/65 Fox DHX2 shock with a custom lower link (still raw AL).
A (literal) - metric eff-ton of work with calipers, trigonometry, and to be honest - some faith between me & the guy I bought the used frame from he wasn’t snowing me on RR triangle width esp as to trying to stuff a full 28.25” OD, Plus - width tire with a few MM to spare.
What you’re seeing in 1 pic is easily 30+ hrs of communication, design/copy, and mentally escape of what I was in.
The link was the big work as I made it / learned / pushed what I’m trying to master (Fusion 360 / CNC work). It took alot of time & kept me busy as it allows the shock to fit & increase travel a little.
So far, that’s the bulk of the project & updates will be slow as I want to keep this tail-heavy & not run a dual crown fork - so I’m like the masses waiting for a Fox 29’er / 180mm travel single-crown.
Also - my RR brake is backordered until ???
Overall, I’m gathering used parts & my goal is a 27.5+ bike that is a mini-V10 (Santa Cruz’ full DH bike) - call it a “V8”.
It’ll be a 1x11/12, will get prob 35mm rims so I can swap from Plus down to 2.5’s in dry dirt, etc.
As parts slowly creep in, I’ll update.
::: PS/edit -I’ll tag @jembourbe -he saw my comment/what I choose to do with my frustration & said ‘pics or didn’t happen / make a thread’ - so blame him
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