Spooky Bikes

[suspectdevice]

[fvracer72]

Tanx.

[bertiewhang]

Hey Mickey, loads of cool stuff on your tumblr lately, care to share a bit more
about the bike with all of the gussets? The red see through finish on Angie's bike
is pretty sweet too, some more details on that would be appreciated!!
Still lovin' the Skeletor.

Cheers pal.

[suspectdevice]

Hey Mickey, loads of cool stuff on your tumblr lately, care to share a bit more
about the bike with all of the gussets? The red see through finish on Angie's bike
is pretty sweet too, some more details on that would be appreciated!!
Still lovin' the Skeletor.

Cheers pal.

Frank took those pictures of angie's bike while I was already out of town.
He doesn't bother to check to see if pictures are actually in focus, but here's another fuzzy one.




5" fork steel 650b hardtail for enduro racing in the UK. It has and oversized seatube and cable routing for a dropper post.

Frank and I have a mutual customer in the UK(who is nice enough to buy the race bikes for his team from us), and this is a christmas bonus for the female DH racer he sponsors.
She's the fastest woman in the UK that isn't on a full-bore World Cup team and Lee wanted to surprise her with a pretty sweet gift.

It has a platinum headbadge(!) and a really swell custom Frank Wadelton decal set.


The bike with all of the metal up front is one of them trendy 29" wheel dealios for a 6" fork with a short chainstay(16.7 iirc) etc.





Full 1.5" headtube, custom horizontal sliding dropouts, bent seatube with machined seat collar, formed square stays with iscg bb for Hammerschmidt mounting.

[sonny]

Full 1.5" headtube, custom horizontal sliding dropouts, bent seatube with machined seat collar, formed square stays with iscg bb for Hammerschmidt mounting.

whoa!

[bertiewhang]

Much awesomeness Mickey.
Cheers.

[suspectdevice]

I've been hunting around for a chrome shop recently for a bmx project:

These guys said the have some experience with bicycles...

[suspectdevice]

Decided I needed to stop being depressed and start riding bikes more...


Then I remembered that there is a pretty sweet set of ramps next door...

[nmhaigarack]

This is by far the best, most useful, insightful, honest, passionate discussion I have ever read on a bicycling-related messageboard. Thanks for being real in your writing, thanks for making nice things, thanks for carrying the torch.

[suspectdevice]

This is by far the best, most useful, insightful, honest, passionate discussion I have ever read on a bicycling-related messageboard. Thanks for being real in your writing, thanks for making nice things, thanks for carrying the torch.

Thanks for the words Nick. If it wasn't for people like Bruce being so vocal about the SOPWAMTOS cause in the '90s I wouldn't be here.

or here:

[Eastcoaster]

BUMP for Spooky being faster than your Mom..... ;-)

[suspectdevice]

How much do you love bicycles?


Chris wants to build BMX bikes.

[fvracer72]

Mickey,

I was bangin' around the web and came across some chatter about Skeletors...... the guy claimed he test rode your personal rig and that you had a fairly long stem on it (something over 120 I think). Is this a personal thing, or is this a common set up on skeletors/havocstaffs?

[suspectdevice]

Interesting question:

Road bikes handle best with the longest stems and narrowest bars the customer can logically use.
It makes for a bike that is more stable at speed, more comfortable sprinting and has more even weight distribution between the wheels. I don't like low bottom brackets, so the front end doesn't weight itself- you need the rider out there for optimal stability.


My general rules for nominally "normal" sized bikes that are raced in endurance events:

road bike- 120-140mm (nominally 130), narrow-ass bars
cx race bike- 110mm stem, widest bars you can handle
XC race/trail bike- 110mm stem(700-740mm bars)


how it usually works out:

XC race bikes and road bikes will have the same saddle tip to handlebar reach, CX bikes will be ~2cm shorter(to accommodate wider bars and a hood-specific riding position). All the bikes will have the same "turn-in feel" at the bars and wrists will move through a familiar feeling arc in space while you turn the bars.




for a vibe-
pictures of some of my personal bikes stacked outside getting spring tunes





A trained eye would immediately pick up the fact that all of these bikes are ridden by the same person.

[fvracer72]

Thanx.....I'm getting back into it after being away for a while and I've been getting myself caught up on the differences from when I was riding in the early 90's. I use to ride a 56, right now I'm on a litespeed that measures out at 55.5 with a 110 stem....... I'm crit racing again so I'm leaning towards a smaller spooky with a longer stem for exactly the reasons you stated

[suspectdevice]

pivot:
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[suspectdevice]

#happynessmachine

[fvracer72]

What size seatpost does the Havocstaff use?.......I have one on the way and would like to have the new post waiting for its arrival

[Jason Musgrave]

I need that bike!

[Matthew Strongin]

What size seatpost does the Havocstaff use?.......I have one on the way and would like to have the new post waiting for its arrival

31.6 if I remember correctly.