Explaining why I’ve got a new frame when the one it supersedes had done me such good service prompts a listing of motivations that singly justify Sarah’s distrust. En mass they were too collectively coherent to ignore. The Twenty2 frame is now likely to see long service in the West Australian desert – getting to places that make the most of it’s attributes, and comfortingly I’ll be able to say ‘hello’ now and then.
This post serves to depict the debut of my new AMPeirce frame. In it’s 4″ ‘fat’ guise. Andy is a friend of many friends, and has proven astute, patient and most importantly an exceedingly fine worker in metal.
This frame, like Sarah’s is designed to take multiple wheelsets – here with 26×4.0″ fat tyresFor the curious, there is comfortable clearance between tyre and chain-stay despite a non-offset rear and standard 73mm BB casingAn experiment with my 82mm rim-based front wheel is likely too tight, though it turns freely with 2-3mm spare either side of an almost new tyrematt-blasted apart from the logoSome solutions to the frame’s multiple guises: derraileur drop-out plates for my planned 1×6 29+ wheelset, and Chariot hitch spacers with stabilising bolts that slot into the drop-out to keep everything secure hauling the trailer on rough off-road (one QR-ready and the other through-axle bored)Sarah and Bryn’s birthday weekend sees us doing a two day Munda Biddi trip south from Collie – rendered minorly unsatisfactory by it’s out-and-back nature. Hut arrival is welcome.The return leg is varied by heading along a ‘challenging’ section that we’d bypassed the evening before. There’s a fair number of cautious momentsQuickly followed by more ridingThe Peirce’s full potential is difficult to judge while hauling the Chariot – I’ve changed very little in the build with all but the crank transferred from the Twenty2
Bryn’s quite happy though – endless diversion to be had with bicycles to explore
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