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September 14, 2018

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Zach’s Ti 29 Slackpacker™️ was finished over a month ago but I forgot to shoot glamour shots before boxing it up so you’ll have to deal with these mock-up shots. Attempting to ship it today, big progress in workflow at HQ! 🤦‍♂️ It’s a big frame for a strong dude with a lot of bosses to attach bags and bottles including cages on the seatstays. The new side-loading Kingcage is excellent btw. I like this accessible spot for bottles when there is a full framebag. With the Tumbleweed T-rack attached you can fit a bottle and use the triple bosses on the rack to mount thinner things so not to be too wide a load. The frame fit and geometry is based off his current stock frame but tweaked to improve both. It’ll fit up to a 2.6” tire and is built around a 140mm travel fork with 65 deg head angle at 25% sag. It’ll be fun to see Zach on a Meriwether, never thought he’d want a hardtail. He was racing downhill so far back his TBT photos could be sold to collectors as art. He was a ripper during the first bright ano phase of US made bike parts. Hope the new bike takes you on many fun adventures 👊

And the winner is….Chris’ Klunker wins the like contest for 2021. Ryan’s Ti 29er singlespeed got second (and snuck in twice somehow). Not a gravel bike in the mix but my 29x2.2 dirtdrop is there twice. Scott’s Ti 29er in 4th edging out Mike’s Slingshot-plus conversion. Paul’s 29x2.8 and then Terje’s fatbike finish off the top 9. See you all next year! 🍻

I live for winter, whether it’s long backcountry ski tours or fatbike rides scoping out new areas, or combing the two. I just love snow, the more the better. After 60” of new snow fell on top of dirt in a few days last week it went from zero to hero with light density snow we don’t always see here. I went skiing Wednesday with my buddy Tris and we had one of the best opening days I can remember. On Friday I ventured out solo and had some great runs but in very different conditions than just a day earlier. Avy danger decreased to Moderate but the wind and sun had “disappeared” the deep snow of Thursday in short order. The pics show what ensued, and if you’re interested there’s a blog post linked in my profile about it since it’s too many words for here. Suffice to say I’m out of commission for a awhile. I won’t be building bikes until I can walk around the shop safely and bend my right leg enough to sit and weld and not trip over crutches into my lathe. My second surgery is currently scheduled for the 12/30, and they tell me it’ll be two months after that to be weight bearing. If you’re in the queue, expect a big delay and if you don’t want to wait please let me know. Take care and stay safe out there! If you do anything alone in the woods I highly recommend the Garmin inReach since without that SOS call I would have become one with the land at 48 yrs old. I always bring the inReach when skiing or biking, you just never know what can happen. Thanks for all the amazing words of support, it makes a difference in my mental state so thank you! Thanks especially to the guys at Truckee Fire who came to the rescue and the CHP helicopter that gave them a ride and picked me up. It was a pretty neat transition to the ambulance, good thing I don’t have vertigo. Thanks to my amazing wife for the endless support and help I’ll need in getting through this. It’s not going to be an easy job 😘 Thanks to my buddy Tris that not only offered to come find me and bring supplies while waiting for SAR but went to go pick up my abandoned skis and pack the next day! And thanks to everyone at Tahoe Forest Hospital for taking care of me, it was a rough painful few days. 🙏 ❤️

This gravel-cross was built to be light enough to race and comfortable enough to ride for hours in the Sierra foothills and beyond. Seen here with WTB Resolute 700x42’s it’ll fit 45mm tires with wide range GRX 2x11 gearing, ENVE gravel fork, King headset and BB, Ritchey WCS Butano bars with a custom steel stem, and rear rack bosses. Enjoy! #meriwethercycles

Scott’s Ti 29er ready to roll. Dialed fit with new-XC/trail geometry to last awhile. Paragon Rocker dropouts to go from 425 to 438mm CS length with a 2.6” tire and 34t ring capacity. The 120mm MRP Ribbon SL is a great performing fork, under 4lbs too and looks great. DT350/Knight Components Trail wheelset, PNW dropper bars and stem, Shimano 11-speed (cause it’s what he had), and my used White Ind M30 cranks. I have no more bikes to part out without stopping riding myself! #meriwethercycles

Post atmospheric river the Fall here has been pretty nice! Riding bikes a bit more, peepin leaves, working on some new stuff for next year, and I have filled queue. Several frames are hanging in the shop waiting for parts but we’ll get there eventually…thanks for the support and patience!

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