Crust Evasion

[John C]

Does anyone have the Crust Evasion? What's the ride like? 

Considering this for my next build. Can't really see a reason not to but, I do wish I could gauge the fit prior to ordering a frame. 

[Ben Van Dyke]

I've owned the Evasion for about six months and am having a lot of fun with it. Like any bike, I think your enjoyment of it will depend a lot on how you use it. I use the Evasion for commuting, bikepacking, long mixed-surface weekend rides and miscellaneous utility riding. It works great for all these things, it's a stout bike that's built to carry a load comfortably over rough terrain. I currently run two different wheelsets, 26" with 2.8 in wide tires for difficult off-road riding and 650b with the WTB 47c tires for everything else. Drivetrain is a 1x10 pieced together from stuff I had lying around with wide Nitto dirt drop handlebars up front.

With drop bars the fit is relaxed, the reach is fairly short and the head tube is quite long. I'm 5'8" on a medium frame and have no issues with fit. The ability to run 26+ tires drew me to the bike and they do not disappoint, with those I can easily clear sandy washouts, carelessly pick any line through a rock garden, or pop right over a curb. Then when it it's time for business the Evasion handles the pavement just fine with a wheel swap and a bag filled with your lunch and laptop strapped to a rack. It doesn't bat an eye at loading up your bag with groceries on the way home or taking a little singletrack detour while you're out running errands. If you're looking for a versatile, capable all-rounder, the Crust definitely deserves consideration. 

Ben

Los Angeles, CA

[adam leibow]

Damn @ben I just bought a Crust Evasion frame+fork and I have a 650b wheelset with WTB Horizons, as well as 26+ with 2.8's. Can't wait to try both these setups. 

On Wednesday, October 18, 2017 at 4:24:40 PM UTC-7, John C wrote:

[Mark Bulgier]

When I saw the subject line I thought "Nice, a thread on avoiding riding on Cryptobiotic Crusts  in the desert"!  Someone here knows that they can take a hundred years or more to grow a few millimeters, so you should never walk on or ride a bike through them.

Imagine how disappointed I was to learn it's just a brand name of a damn bike.  

☺

-Mark

[Ray Varella]

Plus one here on the cryptobiotic soil Mark. 

Fascinating living desert organism. I spent several hours gingerly walking around them and looking closely at their structure. 

Fossilized dinosaur footprints are another feature of the desert Southwest. 

Tread lightly,

Ray

Vallejo CA

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[satanas]

Maybe someone should suggest Cryptobiotic for their next model name - or an alias for Bene. ;-)

[Philip Kim]

i learn something new everyday.

john, i know gravel & grind might have a couple of frames. They have some built up so can give you accurate measurements. I test rode their floor model a few months back, it had a 1x drivetrain with sram shifters and i believe 2.8 or 3.0 ranger tires (26") only got to ride it around the pavement around their shop unloaded. some of quick thoughts i remember while riding it:

even though it looked like a monster truck it rode very nice. it accelerated very well with those giant tires, and it was very cushy ride. I thought it would be more relaxed like a traditional touring bike, but it wanted me to push it more and be more aggressive, while still maintaining a pretty relaxed position. remember i rode it unloaded, so those characteristics could very well change with load.

small test ride, but all in all, if you want a rigid bikepacking bike, i would definitely recommend. the ability to fit 26x3 tires on a rigid with disc brakes is awesome. i've come very close to buying it a few times and probably will in the near future.

[William Lindsay]

When I was a small boy, I tried to make my mom cut the crusts from my PB&J sandwiches.  She wasn't having that.  So, we compromised, and I had her cut the sandwich into quarters so I could easily eat the sandwich inside->out, leaving the crust.  I was a master at Crust Evasion.  

Bill 'I don't always eat bread, but when I do, I eat the crusts' Lindsay

El Cerrito, CA

[Joel Niemi]

Almost 4 decades ago I boarded with some friends while working a summer range management/wildland firefighting job.
<Bicycle content: rode my bike over to the "fire yard" to start work every day>
Dad and the under-6-year-old boys also didn't eat the corners (they'd learned from watching him).
I suggested cutting the bred on diagonals.  The crust corners "vanish".  All of the sandwiches were consumed after that.
Joel Niemi - now in Snohomish, Washington, but then in Burns, Oregon

[Jesse]

Although I wish the fork had more rake, the DFL/Evasion ticks about every other box for me. I've seriously considered buying a frameset.

Does anyone know the tubing diameter on these? A lot of folks have commented on their relative liveliness, but I only weigh ~125 lbs and wouldn't carry more than 30.

[Jesse]

On Thursday, October 26, 2017 at 4:41:09 PM UTC-4, Jesse wrote:

Although I wish the fork had more rake, the DFL/Evasion ticks about every other box for me. I've seriously considered buying a frameset.

Does anyone know the tubing diameter on these? A lot of folks have commented on their relative liveliness, but I only weigh ~125 lbs and wouldn't carry more than 30.

Oops, I meant tubing thickness/butting profile. I'm sure it's OS.