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Pretty sure it's not what Cy had in mind for the RoadRat, but it makes a pretty decent off road mud plugger. Front end feels a little high, but it's perfectly rideable. 36/18, super tacky minion on the front, 1.8 medusa on the back, 26" carbon rigids.
I fear no mud 🙂
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i like that
NOT a frankenbike 😛
Frankenish 🙂
My frankenbike: Wanted FS version of my Yelli screamy 29er. ie short chainstays, 67* HA
£200 Ebay Cannonade Prophet frame, 650B rear, 29er up front, 140mm travel all round. BB was to high @ 15.5" so I sent frame off and a frame repairer welded another BB underneath, now sits at 14". I swap the same forks and wheel to and fro from my Yelli back onto this in less than 10 mins. Very happy with result.
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Kudos wobbem! i like it!!
.. and, here`s my 29er Heckler,
I posted it on the Santa Cruz forum over on MTBR...
[url= http://forums.mtbr.com/santa-cruz/heckler-26-now-29er-894136.html ]Heckler 26,... now 29er! 🙂 [/url]
.........see what you make of their comments!! lol 🙂
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😯
Love the OP's conversion.
The other two .... 😕
Heckler 26,... now 29er!.........see what you make of their comments!! lol
I agree with them 😯
That Santa Cruz is horrific. How can you even leave the house with it - the shame!
There was this guy that befriended us when I lived in Milton Keynes, many moons ago.
He drove a customised Mini van, he had hand painted it in red matt emulsion, including the wheel hubs and had "glued" the cat's eyes he's pinched from the middle of the road into the gutter along the roof line.
He'd taken a hacksaw to the steering wheel to make it sort of like the one from night rider.
We had to hide and not answer the door until he went away.
Not sure what has reminded me of this.
It's the mudguard that makes it.
A couple of weeks on and I've dropped the 36 up front for a 33 and it's much less of a chore to drag up hills. I've also swapped the front tyre for something less draggy and stuck on some wider, lower bars and a shorter stem.
Given the continuing crap weather this has been my go to bike for the last few weeks and I'm actually starting to enjoy riding it 🙂
Question - I seem to be losing chain tension quite often, I'm using the chain tug that Cotic supplied and some allen key skewers but it's still slipping. Can I use a different chain tug? Any other suggestions?
Pffft.
Call those frankenbikes?