
Here is my Aussie xtracycle. It is one of maybe two in Perth, Western Australia. It is bolted to a Giant STP2 - though I have since changed out the forks to some rigid Salsa steel forks, and added a Brooks saddle. A drivetrain upgrade is also in the wings - at the moment am running Acera but it doesn't seem to deal with gear changes very well. I'm looking at going to 9 speed and going to SRAM X9.
464 is another one local to you - in freo with the odd foray north of the river. I run an 8 speed set-up with SRAM (original to the parent bike) - seems to work ok.
ReplyDeleteHey Tom, nice bike! I just added a chain tensioner and it seems to be running better :) I still want to upgrade before I take it on more remote tours. Planning to ride to Adelaide for the Tour Down Under next year!
ReplyDeleteI'm planning on big off-road tour (Continental divide in USA/Canada, then keep going until out of time) starting mid-year.
ReplyDeleteHave done some sections of the Munda-biddi with it as is and it does pretty well. Still slightly nervous that it won't be robust enough, so may get some pre-emptive reinforcing done - or much to my wife's disgust, upgrade to a Big Dummy. Will rag it over lots of off-road stuff in the next few months and see if it holds up.
wow... sounds like fun! Good luck. Hope you don't break it. ;)
ReplyDeleteYour Adelaide trip should be good too - how on-road is it?
ReplyDeleteMy next project is a sea-kayak trailer so I don't have to use the car for that either....
Munda-biddi's interesting at the moment - deep dry pea-gravel's not fun. The Xtracycle is really well balanced though so you just slow the revs until traction is happening. Better than my wife on her duel-suss with trailer.
Trailer for a kayak should be easy with the X - not that I've tried it yet.... but I have a plastic WS Tsunami 145 which I plan on strapping to the kayak trolley, and then using a short bit of pipe as a draw bar with a rope through the middle, tie one end to the kayak toggle and the other end to the X.... I've been thinking about doing this for ages, I should probably try it out on the weekend.
ReplyDeletePerth -> Adelaide, all on road except when getting out of the way of road trains. The X handles so well compared to a regular racks + panniers set up that it's the best choice!
شما با انتخاب سایت شرط بندی شاه بت با یک سایت جامع در عرصه شرط بندی رو به رو می باشید چرا ه این گونه به بهترین شکل ممکن بازی های مختلفی را می توانید تجربه کنید. از پیش بینی های ورزشی گرفته تا بازی انفجار که قدرت اصلی این سایت می باشد. این موضوع به مراتب شرایطی خاص به وجود می آورد که می تواند تاثیر مستقیم در درآمد های شما داشته باشد.
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