Asininedrivel
caviar connoisseur
This is officially the most impulsive bike project I've ever been involved with.....
Yep, it's a dirt jump bike - Devinci actually calls this a pump track bike but if it looks like a duck (etc.). It's a project that's a bit of a fusion between me being DJ curious for some time and one of my mates wanting one for years, and together we realised that by pooling various bike parts and splitting costs 50/50 we could potentially get something pretty cool for a pretty moderate outlay.
Show us your welds. Detailing and finish is bloody good imo.
Normally I understand the process with DJ bikes (especially when starting out) is to grab something secondhand and chromoly, or something new and chromoly, throw the bare minimum of parts at it and away you go, but my LBS offered this frame at a price too good to refuse for something a bit out of the ordinary (Canadian made alloy frame) and the bits going on it are largely dictated by the old donor bike (my 26" AM hardtail) and other shit we have lying around so this build may not be entirely purist friendly.....
Firstly, not only is it going to have a brake, it's going to have plural brake. This is because it's also going to be used for a lot of street / road dick around riding in inner city Melbourne. Now I don't know how things work in your neck of the woods, but in your average Australian capital city streets and roads often have cars moving around on them, and said cars are often piloted by morons, so having a f/r brake set up was considered a pretty good safety feature. Even more controversially, the forks going on it are a set of Talas 36s (100 / 130 / 160). Presumably the handling will be heinous at the full send setting but it'll be fun to find out.
What else? Oh it's going to have a dropper post. Again because it's what we've got and it might make it a bit more versatile when someone is stupid enough to use it for a Yarra Trails ride. Interestingly the frame clearly has routing for either a) a front derailleur (vomit) or b) a dropper post, so it's probably meant to be. Gearing is going to be 30 / 14 - again because those are the spare cranks available and because I found a 14t cog in a cardboard box that's a legacy from when I was still muppetting with rigid single speeds. No idea whether that's an optimal gear ratio or a bag of poo, but again it'll be fun to find out and at least those sliding drop outs will make setting it up easy:
No 135mm coat hanger hatefulness here, instead Devinci provides a proper axle. Does mean I need to get some adapters for the rear hub though. Speaking of, wheels are 32 spoke Hopes nailed to some Nextie 30mm internals, a combination I have absolute confidence will take any abuse up to and including a howitzer without flinching. Tyres are a DHF 2.3 and an Aggressor 2.3, a combination that's probably a bit of a boat anchor for pump tracks and getting mad air, but again it's what we've got. Tyre pressures will be increased accordingly.
So why isn't it a bike yet? Aforementioned hub adapters are one, a new BB to replace the one that won't play nicely with the cranks is another, but the main thing is getting a crown race / spacer thingy so the (non-tapered) forks can work with the headset. All of those things either aren't far off or just haven't been paid for yet, so fingers crossed this will be ready to express train anyone taking the piss while riding it to Emergency within a fortnight. Watch this space!
Yep, it's a dirt jump bike - Devinci actually calls this a pump track bike but if it looks like a duck (etc.). It's a project that's a bit of a fusion between me being DJ curious for some time and one of my mates wanting one for years, and together we realised that by pooling various bike parts and splitting costs 50/50 we could potentially get something pretty cool for a pretty moderate outlay.
Show us your welds. Detailing and finish is bloody good imo.
Normally I understand the process with DJ bikes (especially when starting out) is to grab something secondhand and chromoly, or something new and chromoly, throw the bare minimum of parts at it and away you go, but my LBS offered this frame at a price too good to refuse for something a bit out of the ordinary (Canadian made alloy frame) and the bits going on it are largely dictated by the old donor bike (my 26" AM hardtail) and other shit we have lying around so this build may not be entirely purist friendly.....
Firstly, not only is it going to have a brake, it's going to have plural brake. This is because it's also going to be used for a lot of street / road dick around riding in inner city Melbourne. Now I don't know how things work in your neck of the woods, but in your average Australian capital city streets and roads often have cars moving around on them, and said cars are often piloted by morons, so having a f/r brake set up was considered a pretty good safety feature. Even more controversially, the forks going on it are a set of Talas 36s (100 / 130 / 160). Presumably the handling will be heinous at the full send setting but it'll be fun to find out.
What else? Oh it's going to have a dropper post. Again because it's what we've got and it might make it a bit more versatile when someone is stupid enough to use it for a Yarra Trails ride. Interestingly the frame clearly has routing for either a) a front derailleur (vomit) or b) a dropper post, so it's probably meant to be. Gearing is going to be 30 / 14 - again because those are the spare cranks available and because I found a 14t cog in a cardboard box that's a legacy from when I was still muppetting with rigid single speeds. No idea whether that's an optimal gear ratio or a bag of poo, but again it'll be fun to find out and at least those sliding drop outs will make setting it up easy:
No 135mm coat hanger hatefulness here, instead Devinci provides a proper axle. Does mean I need to get some adapters for the rear hub though. Speaking of, wheels are 32 spoke Hopes nailed to some Nextie 30mm internals, a combination I have absolute confidence will take any abuse up to and including a howitzer without flinching. Tyres are a DHF 2.3 and an Aggressor 2.3, a combination that's probably a bit of a boat anchor for pump tracks and getting mad air, but again it's what we've got. Tyre pressures will be increased accordingly.
So why isn't it a bike yet? Aforementioned hub adapters are one, a new BB to replace the one that won't play nicely with the cranks is another, but the main thing is getting a crown race / spacer thingy so the (non-tapered) forks can work with the headset. All of those things either aren't far off or just haven't been paid for yet, so fingers crossed this will be ready to express train anyone taking the piss while riding it to Emergency within a fortnight. Watch this space!
