Are you still thinking about the @Craftworks? I had an email chat with them too recently.I have mixed feelings about the 5010.
Are you still thinking about the @Craftworks? I had an email chat with them too recently.I have mixed feelings about the 5010.
I would love one for my more supple dually (great supple suspension action for descending, but efficient like a short-travel trail bike heading up), but (TBC) I'm not sure the sizing I need is going to happen.Are you still thinking about the @Craftworks? I had an email chat with them too recently.
Sounds like you need a scout..........I would disassemble the dually but keep the frame and fork initially, and use a lot of the other components to build the HT. Technically I have enough parts to have both up and running but brakes/wheels/drivetrain/etc I'd want to put on the HT.
I have mixed feelings about the 5010. Where it shines it shines like no other. Berms and rollers are its forte, much like a dual-slalom bike but for a lot of other riding (rocks, jumps, techy climbs) I don't gel that well with the VPP leverage curve (but is definitely still a pretty amazing bike!). It has some distinct advantages and disadvantages but I think something with a simple progressive leverage curve would suit me best, and I'd just have to suck it up when it came to pedalling uphill.
But that's also why the hardtail has a lot of appeal at the moment. Efficient climbing, but still very trailworthy with fun handling and "pumpability" on the bits of the descents I enjoy anyway. There's a just a blissful simplicity to it (aside from all the bouncing and skating about, lol). So a hardtail to probably replace the 5010, then a more supple and linear feeling dually for the more choppy trails if I feel the need in the future...
Steel also has a much larger elastic deformation zone than aluminium, whereas ally needs stiffer tubig because if it flexed as much as steel it’d crack much sooner.Also the reason steel is said to be more compliant is that it is much stronger than aluminium so can be made with strong but thinner double or triple butted wall tubing and smaller external diameter tubing.
This takes skill otherwise the bike is stiff and heavy.
Aluminium is used in big thick tubing for strength but thats not as heavy but very stiff.
Its just physics not magic.
No I haven't, but I really like the sound of it. I live next door to the Isaacs Pines downhill tracks (can basically see them from my bedroom window), but not all that confident going down them on the Ibis. So something that I can pedal to the top without losing interest is very appealing, plus the Thredbo to Jindabyne trail that'll be finished soon is something I'd like to ride too,Have you had a chance to ride one?
The Scout's actual seat angle is way too slack, HA is a degree slacker than I want, and I'm looking to change to slightly longer chainstays for a little more high-speed stability and suppleness. Would be a fun bike, but not enough difference from the 5010.Sounds like you need a scout..........
Keep the 5010 and buy this? https://www.commencal-store.com.au/Mobile/meta-ht-am-essential-650b-shiny-gun-metal-2018-c2x23864564
The one I linked is 650B?The Scout's actual seat angle is way too slack, HA is a degree slacker than I want, and I'm looking to change to slightly longer chainstays for a little more high-speed stability and suppleness. Would be a fun bike, but not enough difference from the 5010.
And the Commencal, a 29er? - What happened to you man?
I can help with that...Sounds like you need a scout..........