There are many decisions that need to be made for my upcoming custom 650b project. I have researched, asked builders tons of questions and been looking at various geometry specs. In the end I need to ride a 650b wheel bike often. Which is very hard as I can’t go demo one [...]

Monstercross, that category of bike that isn’t quite a 29″er, and isn’t really legal for “true” cross racing in most sanctioned circles. The category of big wheeled bikes that blurs the lines between road and mountain bike. If you are not familiar with “monster cross” type bikes, here is a loose definition of the breed.
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Here is the finished build of the OS Bikes Blackbuck that Twenty Nine Inches will be testing soon. ( As soon as our trails clear up!) I thought I would post up these images so that everyone could see just what we’ve got to work with here.

The build itself went without incident. The frame [...]

From what I gathered across the Bare Knuckle blog there is a very sweet 650b ZR Cycles floating around that was built late last summer.

The build looks solid – Shimano XTR drive train, Hope headset and hubs, Rock Shox Reba fork, slick Avid Black Box levers and BB7 disc brakes. Heavy Mettle tubes [...]

As I am in the works of creating my own custom 650b I’ve been searching out those builds and frames that have already gone down the path. Looking at the angles, fitting, what forks people have used and loved or hated. I’m learning a lot from google, blogs, custom builder gallery’s and [...]