MacRetro chat and rides thread

[Jamiedyer]

1x1

Great to see the Surly love
Great looking Cross Check.
Still sorting the build for my Spank rims on the 1x1 but have managed to fit my 29'er wheels last night.
Just need a new chain and a front post adapter for the Avid BB's and I'm good to go.
Love this machine, its pretty versatile and its singlespeed, life doesnt get any better

Well.......maybe a Pugsley fork and large marge rims
Jamie

 

[firedfromthecircus]

Cool Jamie.
Have you ridden the 1x1 as a 29er before? Awesome versatility from the surly guys. That was why I ended up going for the cross check over some of the other options I was looking at.
As for ss. I love my Karate Monkey and it's perfect for most of the riding I do around here, but I'm a long way from your level of hardcore single speeding! I would have struggled on the National with gears, let alone ss.
Much respect for flying the flag.

 

[Jamiedyer]

Struggle

Hi mate
I haven't ridden it as a 29'er yet, hopefully the next couple of days.
As for the national, I did struggle a bit especially at the start but that was more due to me not having ridden mtb for a month than the bikes shortcomings.
My 1x1 is about all I ride off road now and it just mixes things up a bit for fun being able to put fat 26's or skinny 29'ers on it.
I did see a set of gold midge bars on the for sale thread, that might be fun
I do have a Long Haul Trucker as well and have just seen that for next year the Pugsley comes in a 14'' size as well
Theres a google group for LHT and CC owners but the MTBR Surly section has a lot of CC's on it.
I think your CC is the best colour they have done, a lot nicer than the darker blue of my LHT.
Theres a few Surly's creeping into the macretro camp, long may it continue

Jamie

 

[Jamiedyer]

29'er

Hi FFTC
It would be cool to compare it to your KM, maybe swap over for a ride someday, you can tell me how it compares to a dedicated 29'er.

Jamie

 

[kaiser]

Jamie thats looking awesome A set of midges would be cool. I nearly got myself a Crosscheck, I'd outed one on ebay watch thinking a 52 would be too small. Once I checked though it seems it would fit perfect, somehow missed the auction end though. I'm really taken by the crosser, its a great out the door bike for me. I'd recommend trying some big tyres and go monstercross, loads of fun

 

[Jamiedyer]

Cheers

The tyres are 2.1 Maxxis ignitors and there is not much clearance for going too much bigger.
I thought a set of midges and I have myself a SS crosser, brilliant
Is there anything this 1x1 cannot do?........................change gears

Jamie

 

[firedfromthecircus]

Re: 29'er

Hi FFTC
It would be cool to compare it to your KM, maybe swap over for a ride someday, you can tell me how it compares to a dedicated 29'er.

Jamie

That would be cool Jamie, though there might be a size issue given that my monkey is a 20"!

The cross check is my only 'road' bike now since I sold my Giant, so it's getting mudguards and rack fitted. I will probably fit some faster rolling tyres and can't see it hitting anything rougher than the odd farm track. No monster crossing for me, but I like that fact that I can if I want to.

I've seen one fitted with Schwalbe Fat Franks and it looks pretty good IMHO.

 

[kaiser]

I've switched to schwalbe land cruisers for the 3 peaks, they seem to be the tyre of choice. Anyway even though they are only 35mm they have coped with a lot more than I would ever have gave them credit for. Top tyre.

 

[kaiser]

Couldn't help myself.... all these new bikes....I've ordered an On One Scandal 29er

 

[zigzag]

Couldn't help myself.... all these new bikes....I've ordered an On One Scandal 29er

Superb. Looking forward to seeing that and hearing what you think. I keep coming back to them - would use the Mary as a donor.