Mone - Tour Divide ride with 29+

Johnny Utah

Johnny Utah

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Scoped this out during one of my post coffee session reads in Bike Magazine, since then I cannot get this bike out of my mind.

29+ touring bike, although I am not a huge fan of the dinglespeed or internally geared bottom brackets, I wouldn't mind spending a few days on this thing, especially if I were able to ride back to back centuries.......but that is a goal for the new year.

Wouldn't mind hearing peoples thoughts on this bike (El Continente) or the ideas behind it, especially since it is a slow day.

If I had the kind of money I think he wants, or trusted a brand new frame builder to deliver in a reasonable time I would be all over this.

http://www.monebikes.com/el-continente/occnxo9tnrtl3zdgfenzyjoq4auzfp
 
"its a dirt tourer but I challenge you to find a bike that is more fun on single track"

29+......drop bars....fun on single track.......

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pearl said:
sorry, i dont get it
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Sorry, I just scanned the article so I have a few questions….

Can't you just get a Trek Stache and throw an internal geared hub on it?

Did you just sell a Stache? Not sure how this is different other than not being a custom build.
 
jackx said:
Sorry, I just scanned the article so I have a few questions….

Can't you just get a Trek Stache and throw an internal geared hub on it?

Did you just sell a Stache? Not sure how this is different other than not being a custom build.
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I think it is waaayy different from that, don't get caught on the 29+ tires.
 
Juggernaut said:
Well, since you're looking for more "bathroom reading material" and like the idea of plus bikes.... Here's yet another obscure cycling blog that I follow.... Cuz bikes.

https://theskrumble.wordpress.com/
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You get my poster of the week award, some solid finds. Maybe I am just getting tired of the same old.

Then again, this guy has a different riding regiment than many users on here, I am surprised no one commented on the flat pedals.

His blog is even more interesting, but I do not think it has been active as of late.

But there is something entertaining/inspiring about it. Any I think that bike is one of the better looking bikes I have seen this year, but it is different.
 
i dont see any article, just an about page, which seems like someone wants to be benny ultra romance. bike doesnt seem very exciting or special to me, imo:

loading up a road bike with everything in your apartment like that weirdo has ≠ bikepacking.

TD isnt really a mtb ride, its more like a long gravel ride on a lot of un maintained roads, with a few blips of singletrack and some pavement. the only reason its a "mtb" race is because youre not getting very far on skinny tires, although people have done it on cross bikes, even tandems and unicycles. even if you had 5" tires there are still about 200 miles worth of HAB.

skrumble jacked up his knee on the first day of the route, and switched to flats to make his knee stop yelling at him. plenty of others do the race on flats.

im planning on joining the grand depart of TD this year, and i will be doing it on my ECR with dirt drops that will have a rohloff IGH. right now its just a SS, and i have more fun riding that bike on singletrack than any other bike ive ever owned. im not saying its the most fun bike ever, but it sure as shit isnt boring.
 
I posted a 27.5+ touring rig somewhere that was in Bikepacker Mag. It had regular flat bars and an MTB geo though. Rigid. It was super serial. This might be it, although the pictures I originally saw were from Bikepacker Mag during a test and not at NHBS. The only reason I don't own one is because it's not far off from just riding a fat bike.

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jimvreeland said:
I posted a 27.5+ touring rig somewhere that was in Bikepacker Mag. It had regular flat bars and an MTB geo though. Rigid. It was super serial. This might be it, although the pictures I originally saw were from Bikepacker Mag during a test and not at NHBS. The only reason I don't own one is because it's not far off from just riding a fat bike.

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Hmm....good to hear in the fatty, that does make sense.
 
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