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Yes, it is Ti Cycles. It was one of my favorite fat bikes of the show. The bike was built for a customer with rear suspension, titanium, painted black, and of course the new carbon lefty from Cannondale. He fabricated adapters to mount the lefty with it's OE clamps intact. I tried to get a photo but it's not very helpful. Great bike though. There was another bike even more intriguing from REEB. Mid fat with a 18 speed Pinion gear box. That thing was very cool! Speaking with Dave Levy (founder/president) at the Ti Cycles booth he mentioned there were only 2 in the country at the moment and they are waiting on parts to put together a bike with it. I have no idea what it would be like to ride but it is extremely interesting.Post #1, 3rd pic, carbon Lefty! That's a first in fat bike fabrication, so I'd really like more info on how he pulled that one off. Looks like its TiCycles from Portland, but some help would be great.
I dunno, there was one done in the midwest on a lefty with cast mounts last year, that was even less elegant than that one. this one is kinda genius. Not pretty, but I appreciate his ingenuity. I'm still waiting for someone to machine the clamps off altogether and fit a Mendon-style clamp.That's a real ugly abortion on the installation of that Lefty in the first picture. Why didn't he just use the correct clamps from MCS? I wouldn't have shown that to any one!
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Thats right the new carbon Lefty has fixed clamps. Oh well that's why the abortion? Worst thing I have seen done to a bike in a long time.
Lefty SuperMaxI dunno, there was one done in the midwest on a lefty with cast mounts last year, that was even less elegant than that one. this one is kinda genius. Not pretty, but I appreciate his ingenuity. I'm still waiting for someone to machine the clamps off altogether and fit a Mendon-style clamp.
Frankenstine was an engineering marvel too but he sure was ugly!I dunno, there was one done in the midwest on a lefty with cast mounts last year, that was even less elegant than that one. this one is kinda genius. Not pretty, but I appreciate his ingenuity. I'm still waiting for someone to machine the clamps off altogether and fit a Mendon-style clamp.
That's being done...I dunno, there was one done in the midwest on a lefty with cast mounts last year, that was even less elegant than that one. this one is kinda genius. Not pretty, but I appreciate his ingenuity. I'm still waiting for someone to machine the clamps off altogether and fit a Mendon-style clamp.
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Yes, it is Ti Cycles. It was one of my favorite fat bikes of the show. The bike was built for a customer with rear suspension, titanium, painted black, and of course the new carbon lefty from Cannondale. He fabricated adapters to mount the lefty with it's OE clamps intact. I tried to get a photo but it's not very helpful. Great bike though. There was another bike even more intriguing from REEB. Mid fat with a 18 speed Pinion gear box. That thing was very cool! Speaking with Dave Levy (founder/president) at the Ti Cycles booth he mentioned there were only 2 in the country at the moment and they are waiting on parts to put together a bike with it. I have no idea what it would be like to ride but it is extremely interesting.
I don't follow your logic. Either it's OK to increase the distance from the headset steerer axis to the Lefty axis or it is not. One is not more warranty voidable than the other.Yes, it is easy enough to machine down the stock clamps and make new ones ala the nice part that Mendon Cycle Smith makes for older Leftys... but such an approach is not a practical, rider-oriented solution to the issue. Not only does it require several hours of work in a machine shop for each individual fork, it will obviously alter the fork in a way that is not compatible with the original design and completely void any warranty or technical support from Cannondale.