every now and again I read Andrew’s blog MeatEngines and I liked his Min-Max style articles on NSMBbut to be honest there’s only so much bike news I can take.
velocipede salon has some cool stories on handbuilt/home made bikes, but again, there’s really only so much I can take in. I watch...
And that’s why I come to ride monkey. Grumpy fucks who hate the industry normally give honest advice. Is it good, balanced advice? I’ll leave question that for another day.
I know it’s rhetorical, but…
I read Pinkbike, vital, and the radavist most days. The main differences to me is dumbed down to:
Pinkbike - the industry is great, look at all this great stuff, everything new is amazing. Isn’t the newest genre great?
vital - the industry’s kinda messed up, but...
the idea that you can ride a decade old bike isn’t really what Pinkbike is about. Maybe if part 3 details how to retro fit headset cable routing?
did you send them part 1 to post? Or did they find it organically?
“kids bike” covers all sorts of ages, Woom bikes have a great range. Cleary seems to be ok.
I just salvaged a specialized hot rock from a neighbors recycling pile and it’s a beast. It’s going to hang in the rafters for a while until my kids are big enough to ride it.
I remember seeing a picture of your various slalom set ups, tyres and wheel options back in the spooky days and just thinking you had it made.
I hope those things still get ridden from time to time
a few small tweaks like lever rotation, saddle position etc but it’s perfect so far.
I’ll replace a few things as they crap out but no immediate upgrades needed.
Well in a turn of events a completely unused, prime condition 2017 size L chameleon went up on craigslist this morning. Last year where they were 650b only I think.
so it’s a kind offer but after a week of back and forth and analysing budgets I bit the bullet and am now the proud owner of a...
I need a bike and don’t want to spend a fortune on it. I’ve owned several mountain bikes over the years. But money gets tighter, bikes get more expensive and time available to go play on expensive toys gets harder to find.
I was merely looking to find a bike that’d bring a little spark of...
For anyone wondering whether I grabbed it or not I decided the XL was just too big and it wouldn’t do what I’m hoping.
I will be keeping my eyes peeled on the classifieds and who knows what heap of junk I’ll land on.
I loved that small chameleon for general tom foolery, jumps, hops, hacking about downhill- But riding with the seat post at full extension and the seat slammed back on its rails made uphill and flats a chore.
I think for $200 this XL is a steal - but ideally it’d be a size smaller...
I get it, but what is there to repair on a single speed with v brakes? If the fork packs in I’d replace it with a cheap rigid (or try source an old pace rigid fork)
I had the same model year as the green one - but never got the rear disk mount. A HS33 on the back ensured that the wheel was either stopped or moving with little in between.
I also “upgraded” to a Marz drop off, which pushed the bb to the point that cornering was a gamble.
so many bad spec...
I used to ride a 1999 model Santa Cruz chameleon, it was my first “real mountain bike”. I loved it.
I rode the small size because all the cool guys rode tiny bikes, there’s an xl on Craigslist right now and I’m getting a very dumb itch that I want to scratch.
the 24” top tube and 20” seat...
Test riders say that after the spinal cord damage, hand numbness wasn’t an issue! Certain participants will experience further weight reductions due to loss of teeth and blood! Win win
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