Hi,
Thought I’d share my first build and paint. Mullet hardtail, with paragon dropouts to switch between wheel sizes. Rides surprisingly well for my first design, guess all those n+1 buys over the years have taught me a thing or two on geo…although 75mm bb drop is taking a bit of recalibration.
Headtube paint needs a bit of a tidy up though…need to get better at masking?
That looks Great! what head angle and seat angle did you build? and how much travel is the fork? I feel like 75mm is a lot of drop, but my last hardtail had 150mm travel and 55mm drop.
Cheers, it’s a 140m and 65 degrees at sag (20%, a little less than I normally run on a full sus), seat angle is 76. Yeah, definitely have to be quite mindful going over small rollovers/ rocks with the chainring at low speeds (chained out the cranks to 30T with a bash guard). But on very steep terrain that we have where I live (southern norway) its pretty remarkable how composed its for so little travel…you can just lean on the front and I feel the smaller wheel really helps it turn. Until the repetitive root chatter destroys my aging knees :).
Not tested on with a 29er rear with a proper tire on the steeper trails yet…might remove some of the chatter.
