Thursday, December 11, 2008

goodbye lowracer, hello crankforward

I converted my FWD lowracer to a crankfoward.  It's singlespeed and compact at 38" in wheelbase.  I maintained the folding feature as well.  

I removed 12" of seat/main-frame, narrowed the FWD fork, widened the rear fork, cut off the boom and mounted it into the seat tube position.  Voilla, instant SSCFCFCF (single-speed, carbon fiber, compact, folding, crank-forward) or S2CF3.

I got the seat on sale at Nashbar.  It's 9" wide and very comfortable.  I don't care for the you-better-be-secure-with-your-manhood-pink color.  I'll soon cover it with some black lycra.  Another benefit of this type of seat is that a padded crotch isn't required.  

2 comments:

Neve_r_est said...

lightest crank forward ever.

ACEinAUS said...

When a lowracer is canabalized to make a CF an angel loses it's wings.