Finally hit the sweet spot with my Sam

[Scot Brooks]

Pardon the instagram quality; cameras are at the office. 

I was messing around with a dry-run setup for the Seattle to Portland ride and I think I've hit my own personal Sam Hillborne nirvana. Of course, this only applies to the 6 day per week Seattle city stuff, but the camping stuff can go on without much fuss. It goes like this:

700x35 Schwalbe Marathon Racer HS366 (hardly any mention of these anywhere, but they're exceptionally good AND on sale from Schwalbe for $19.99 each at the moment). I have the 700x38 Greenguard, but I prefer these. They just feel right.

11-30 cassette, 8 speed. I love the 12-36 Riv standard, but it's now on the "camping" rear wheel (Rhyno Lite 27mm, super gnarly)

SKS Longboards will be back on soon, but I'm just treating myself this week while the weather's nice. 

Salsa Delgado Cross 36h wheels from Jim Thill. Absolutely fantastic skill from Jim of course. The dynohub front wheel gets to hang out in the closet till next winter. 

VO Model 6 saddle. Love it now that it's started to break in. 

Medium shopsack and saddlesack xs is the best combo I've found as an every day set up. The saddlesack large (and big rack) is just too much to mess with as an every day thing. This is better for me. Looks good too. 

Finally, my Sugino crank started life as a triple, transformed into a 36/24 double with a guard, and has now transformed into a 40/24 double with a guard. Now I love it. 

If you've made it this far, thanks for reading my rambles. There's really only one group of people I can share this without feeling nerdy (and who will actually know what I'm going on about). 

[rcnute]

You want nerdy? Here's my STP bike (I think):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/30684316@N08/6828676862/in/photostream/

Ryan

On May 7, 4:04 pm, Scot Brooks <scothinck...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Pardon the instagram quality; cameras are at the office.<http://imgur.com/GFvrj>

[Scot Brooks]

Ryan, that is AWESOME. Can I test ride it if I see you?

[James Warren]

It's really cool. But it needs another tube for triangulation. : )

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[Mike]

Scott, your bike looks great. I love the paint. I take it that's a
60cm?

I've been wanting to try that same crank set-up for sometime. I've
also wanted to try out a 46/30 set-up, no guard and single ring
chainring bolts.

I'm pretty sure that later in the year I'll be on the lookout for a
SH.

Post more pictures of it in the wild to the Flickr group if you can.

--mike

[Scot Brooks]

Good eye, Mike; it is a 60cm, which I completely forgot to mention. I'm really jealous at the jaw-droppingly beautiful paint jobs I see on here, so I'm glad my little cream colored headtube can still get some attention. 

I think a 46/30 would be awesome, especially since you could make it as versatile as you like with cassette choice. I was thinking about putting together a 46/36 with my leftover rings, sort of a mini-roadie-double. My mangled knuckle is telling me to stop messing around with taking cranks apart though, so that will have to wait till another day. I'm also a complete novice when it comes to getting creative with cranks, so I'll probably have some questions for you when the time comes. 

[Minh]

Scott,

Thanks for posting about the marathon racers on sale, it took some digging on their site to find them but i did.  i was thinking about supremes, but i'll give the racers a go at this price, if i don't like em on the sam i can find another bike for them! 

ps.  great looking sam yourself!

[Scot Brooks]

Let me know how you like them, Minh. I have maybe 60 miles on mine so far and I'm really loving them. Possible Jack Brown competitor but I couldn't say myself.

[RoadieRyan]

Ryan

All those dudes on Madones will be shaking their heads sadly as you
pass them on your nifty Mecier on the way to Longview on day 2 of
STP ;-)