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This will be a thread documenting the build or more of a conversion of my Fatback and my wife's Specialized Helga fatbikes to a 27.5+ platform for bikepacking part of the Baja Divide. I will also put together a gear list for what we pack.
The bikes:
2013 Titanium Fatback 170 QR rear spacing.
fork carbon Lauf heavy 150 thru axle
Becker Bags Frame Bag
Revelate Designs harness and large handlebar bag
Revelate Designs feed bag and Bedrock Bags Tapeats cockpit bags.
Revelate Designs Pika seat bag
MYOG Cuben Fiber gas tank bag
Paul Components Klampers and Love Lever brakes
King Bearings (BB, HS)
Sram XX1 crank with 28T direct mount Wolftooth narrow wide chain ring
Shimano 1x10 XTR shifter, Saint derailleur with one up Radr cage.
12-42 cassette with Wolftooth 42 pieplate
Jones carbon loop, Oury grips
King Cage Stem Cap cage mount Salsa Titanium Nickless Cage
Light and USB charging Sinewave Beacon
Shutter Precision Schmidt SON dynamo hub
Onyx 170mm rear hub
Velocity Duallys 27.5+
Schwalbe Nobby Nic Addix speed grip 3.0 Apex tough skin.
Brooks Professional saddle Ti
Ti Cycles/Paul tall and handsome seat post
Here is how it is sitting now.
Up next in part 2 is my wife's Specialized Helga build.....
here she is this last weekend at around high noon on the coastal refuge in Alaska 5 degrees out in the sunshine
xs Specialized Helga:
Manitou Mastodon 80mm fork
Velocity Duallys 27.5 with 2.8 Schwalbe Nobby Nic Addix
Wolftooth 28 no drop front chainring.
Revelate Designs harness and large pocket.
Revelate Designs feed bag x2
Needed:
Old Man Mt fat bike rear rack. A normal bikepacking seatbag will not clear the rear wheel. I picked up some Revelate Designs Nano-panniers for the rack. Revelate NanoPanniers
1x11 Shimano XT with Sun Race 46 cassette
The bikes:
2013 Titanium Fatback 170 QR rear spacing.
fork carbon Lauf heavy 150 thru axle
Becker Bags Frame Bag
Revelate Designs harness and large handlebar bag
Revelate Designs feed bag and Bedrock Bags Tapeats cockpit bags.
Revelate Designs Pika seat bag
MYOG Cuben Fiber gas tank bag
Paul Components Klampers and Love Lever brakes
King Bearings (BB, HS)
Sram XX1 crank with 28T direct mount Wolftooth narrow wide chain ring
Shimano 1x10 XTR shifter, Saint derailleur with one up Radr cage.
12-42 cassette with Wolftooth 42 pieplate
Jones carbon loop, Oury grips
King Cage Stem Cap cage mount Salsa Titanium Nickless Cage
Light and USB charging Sinewave Beacon
Onyx 170mm rear hub
Velocity Duallys 27.5+
Schwalbe Nobby Nic Addix speed grip 3.0 Apex tough skin.
Brooks Professional saddle Ti
Ti Cycles/Paul tall and handsome seat post
Here is how it is sitting now.
Up next in part 2 is my wife's Specialized Helga build.....
here she is this last weekend at around high noon on the coastal refuge in Alaska 5 degrees out in the sunshine
xs Specialized Helga:
Manitou Mastodon 80mm fork
Velocity Duallys 27.5 with 2.8 Schwalbe Nobby Nic Addix
Wolftooth 28 no drop front chainring.
Revelate Designs harness and large pocket.
Revelate Designs feed bag x2
Needed:
Old Man Mt fat bike rear rack. A normal bikepacking seatbag will not clear the rear wheel. I picked up some Revelate Designs Nano-panniers for the rack. Revelate NanoPanniers
1x11 Shimano XT with Sun Race 46 cassette
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