Seems like their policy changed. I can add it to my cart and check out.
I do have a carbon fork coming. If I didn’t I would order this one.
Is there any way for a nobody like me to get a pair of 32 x 2.4" Vittoria Mezcals?
maybe it will help to have some numbers on here: I have used an Aspen - 814mm at riding pressure of 11-12 psi on the nextie unicorn rim. I also have an aspen AT (which is awesome btw!) and the knobs are around 2mm taller and the diameter is correspondingly slightly bigger at 816.5mm also at 12 psi (I guess it squishes a bit on the bike and probably a fair bit more with a rider on board).
whit at meriwether made a sweet ti fork for me using the paragon steerer - it is 450mm a-c 40mm offset and has a curved relief on the steerer bottom. it clears them barely….enough to ride but very sticky mud would be an issue. obviously with some aggressive shaping of the lower section of the steerer you might get under 450mm as a minimum a-c but it won’t be by much.
the bike I ride has an enve boost fork with the offset in the longer configuration and a 68 head angle. it rides very nicely. I think you could make an argument for a slight increase in trail. I like where it is but its set up to use a 12mm stem and looong f-c so the steering feel is counteracted by the length and weight over contact point.
interestingly enve seems listed as 44 or 52mm offset with the flip chip but in feint markings on the chip itself its noted as 44 or 55mm. ill try and measure for clarity.
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Finally ready for a test ride. I dumped too much heat into the headtube/downtube joint distorting the headtube angle to 72 degree instead of 71. It has an almost disappointingly neutral feel, blindfolded I’m not sure I would be able to tell the difference from a 29er. But maybe that’s a good thing?
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on the other end of the scale - 170mm travel -
Bike Check: The 170mm Custom Steel Zoceli Built for Schwalbe’s 32" Tires - Pinkbike
looks like another schwalbe option also…
Is this where we post our 32” builds? This thread seems fitting.
I decided to build mine about two weeks ago for the LA Invitational. I messaged @Daniel_Y to see if I could buy some wheels from him and totally hooked me up. (Thank you, seriously without your help this wouldn’t be a thing today.)
QBP had tires in stock. And I had enough parts to build this thing up in time.
I am 5’7”. I’m considered too short to ride something like this but I wanted to be the judge of that. I went from a 32” skeptic to a 32” evangelist. I love it. The first ride on it was a 50 mile gravel ride in the San Gabriel Mountains in LA. Lots of steep climbing and fast descending on hardly maintained fire roads on 90 degrees of heat. Long enough to enjoy it or hate it by the end of the ride.
Aside from being my first 32” bike, this is also my first TIG welded frame. I have a small pile of frames, some that I’ll finish one day, some that are total garbage, but this is the first one that I considered good enough and finished. If you know anything about me is that I am a Carbon Fiber guy. I’ve been building bikes for about 15 years but till recently I never welded a frame. So spare me your criticism, I’m new to metal and I’m learning.
Anyway here’s my bike:
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Beautiful work. Love the carbon seat tube and is that a handmade seatpost? Curious where you settled on geometry?
The Ti seatpost I bought at a swap meet for like $20. No idea who makes it. The Enve post I had on for the ride kept coming loose. As far as geometry goes, I wanted to keep it the same as my old rigid 29” bike but maybe a bit more extreme. The headtube angle is 66°, seat tube 75° 445 reach, 450 chainstays. I used heavier gauge tubes for the stays because there’s no room for bridges. The seat tube is a bent downtube I had, too big for a seat post but big enough to fit a carbon seat tube inside. I do not own a tube bender as of yet so I’m glad that worked out.
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There are already 510 AC forks available from Trek. Considering that Intend’s dedicated 32" suspension fork has a 550 AC at 100 mm, the ideal AC for the rigid fork would be around 520-530, I guess?
We I got some rides on my 32”. It rides real nice. Riding rigid really kicked my ass. Forks can’t come fast enough. Did a 20 mile ride on it on the 4th. I’m still feeling it.
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Mosaic is producing a dedicated 32" gravel fork with clearance for 32x2.2" (55-686) tires! It has 60mm offset, 445mm A-C, and 15x110 spacing. Those are some good numbers.
Based on the few photos on their website, it may be designed for both partially and fully internal hose routing. I emailed to get confirmation on that. It looks like it’ll be making a big splash at MADE this weekend.
This fork should relieve some design limitations we’ve had to address using suspension corrected MTB forks.
Mosaic intends to make these available to framebuilders.
All around good news. Thanks Mosaic!
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it is also pretty simple and attractive looking - which is good! clearance looks like a conservative 55mm too… hoping it might squee 2.4…
I talked to Mosaic at MADE about this fork, will clear a 2.4" no problem. The fork is tested and certified to the road ISO standard, NOT the mountain bike standard, so they don’t want this fork conflated with a rigid MTB fork and having people hucking to flat on it.
Super stoked to see it, glad to have an option for a racier bike design!
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