Skip to content

Search for:

Meriwether Cycles

Handbuilt to help you get lost

About
- Meriwether Cycles
Bars & Shims
Blog
In the Wild
Pricing & Options

cropped-img_3498.jpg

https://meriwethercycles.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/cropped-img_3498.jpg

September 14, 2018

Post navigation

cropped-img_3498.jpg

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Categories

Brazing (18)
Build reports (3)
Finish work (30)
Fixtures and jigs (21)
Forks (25)
Frame Geometry (25)
Influences (5)
Mitering/Coping (38)
Product Reviews (6)
Rants (1)
Riding Bikes (82)
Tools (10)
Uncategorized (118)
Welding (29)

Subscribe!

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 68 other subscribers

Email Address

Instagram

Head on over to Mikesee’s blog for pics and words on his new bike, an update of a classic. Link in bio. (Before photo is 2nd)

Mikesee has some weird ideas but this was his weirdest yet. Take a made-in-the-90’s Slingshot 29er frame and convert it to use a tapered steerer suspension fork, slacken the head tube angle from 71 to 67 deg, shorten the chainstays, and fit 27.5x4” tires. Here’s the result. To get it here I cut out the head tube and BB shell, replaced them with a Paragon 44mm head tube and 83mm BB shell, and cut off the seat and chainstays. It’s now got a 157x12 rear end, 430mm chainstays and a seat tube cutout for tire clearance. It also will fit 29x3’s. I decided to leave the stock straight seat tube since the “puck” assembly is welded on there and it can’t be easily removed without potentially damaging it. The post was already 35mm OD but I shortened it and added a weld-in collar for a short travel 30.9 dropper post. Added a post-mount disc tab of course. The rack was a prototype for another frame that uses the Salsa rack-lock collar to attach the front of the rack to the seat tube. I added longer lower legs and now the Sling-fat has a puffy-stuff rack for a little gear. Believe it or not this is my second Slingshot conversion to a fatbike. If you’ve never heard of Slingshot bikes they started making “mid-suspension” frames in 1982 and some people really dig em!

Rode over to the Lupine superbloom this afternoon, all along the usually submerged shoreline. I guess low water from a dry winter gave these guys a unique opportunity!

Stopping to smell the flowers

Went on an Easter egg hunt, just found these lupines

Russell’s new Meriwether is an updated version of his steel 29er he’s ridden for several years now. This one is Ti and with even shorter chainstays, steeper seat tube angle, and a longer slacker front end to be used with a 120-140mm fork. Using a plate style yoke I was able to get 415mm chainstays with a 29x2.6 and 34t ring using a Boost chainline. Internal cable routing for the dropper and brake. Adjustable dropouts for converting to a Singlespeed or just getting a little longer stays and more tire clearance. This will be a super fun bike for his local North Carolina trail network!

Powered by WordPress.com.