Don’t know how many people on this site will really appreciate this but I am pretty stoked on one of our new bikes here at VooDoo. It’s called Nakisi which means sacred medicine in Voodoo religion. The bike is an all purpose rigid unit that takes fat 29’er tires and whatever bars you feel like. I put an original set of WTB drops on mine with our high rise stem. Then I decided to put my Pugsley fork and front wheel on it to see how that rode. Then I went out and rode a new section of AZT here in Flag that I had not been on. Answer: had a friggin’ blast! Now I don’t like it better than my Canzo 29 but it sure does make me want to ride it again and again! Take a look:
Little Jar, I saw the “bike polo single-speed” on your list. I have heard of that shit happenin, but can’t say that I’ve seen it in my small burg of Flagstaff. Somebody did send me a link to a Milwaukee Bicycle Company and I was impressed by the array of specialty bike parts. Maybe we’ll get something going here because it seems like it would be a good time.
I’ll be picking up my new Milwaukee Bicycle 29er ss tomorrow. Can’t wait! Lovingly made in Wisconsin by the good people at Waterford.
@hellbelly There is a bike polo advertised in the events section on the back of the Daily Sun each Monday. they play on the hill near the NAU observatory on San Fran St.
That’s just my dream sheet. I have *only* four bikes and two of them are not built all the way so if I had a garage and 8 bikes, that’s the list.
However, more realistically, I’d probably have 3 road bikes to every one mountain, and a tandem. Sommer – GOOD ON YA – Waterford makes GREAT bikes, I went through there and met Richard Scwhinn. I haaj to frame building shops. Gunnar is the affordable Waterford, by the way.
I really don’t get the Peugot fetish… really, they are not great frames. Other bike brands hipsters seem to cling to are also companies that make something else. Panasonic is a good one. I also saw a Kawasaki bike and it wasn’t high end but since it was rare… therefore cool. They dig all the French bikes, for France is a country of hip-ness.
Rockin the drops on the MTB bike like Johnny Tomac did back in the last 80’s.
+ 1 LJ,
Ugh, Peugots are the bane of bike shops everywhere. french threads, stamped rear drop outs and tubes so heavy you swear you can still see the pipe threads at the joints.
“Just make it rideable” is the call of the college age kids who pull up in a convertible BMW and yet can’t afford 140 for an actual fixed wheel so they just thread one on a freewheel r. wheel.
whoa… bad memories…
BTW, thanks Gnome for outlining the process waaaay back on #6
@Michael, I’ve never noticed it in the Daily Sun. I thought the events section was just for quilting workshops & senior activities. THX, now I know. It seems right up a drunkcyclist’s alley, wonder why we have’nt seen more posts on it.
who loves to parrttY? PUGZ. getn both tyres xtra fat and some big ol bars ain;t gonna hurtCha bigbabies with there 1.9’s CowboyUPcupCake
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Hellbelly, I’m never out there for the bike polo. Never was into it. Dunno. Just not my thing as much as a bar stool was. I think Latham and the collegiate cyclists hit it up from time to time. Prebus was really into it for a while. What is that, like ten years gone now? Yea.
But then there was The Pineapple. He was into it.
Gnome, As no stranger to the barstool, It sounded fun until I realized that Michael said it was on a hill…by the time I get up it, the action would be down it.
What a bunch of assholes. It’s a fucking bicycle. Good enough for me.
@Arrogant Bastard
Relax.
DC is like a locker room. No matter what you bring it will be busted on.
All good.
VJ can ride what ever he wants.
But picking on his ass is part and parcel.
Make sure you don’t swing through Minneapolis with that thing, monster-cross bike season is nov-april. I’d take you down and strap that bike to the hood.
hah…leif2, this is leif1
i kindly ask you to post as another name or as leif2?
just make something up
i could give you several ideas…i like making up nick names
Still want to know who makes that stem. I have a 94 stumpjumper that needs that stem so I can throw on my Gary bars. I think that bike is pretty damn cool. I have plenty of dirt roads in my Wisco backwoods that that bike would rock on.
jesus fuckin christ….is drunk cyclist the family guy of web?
ummh and…surly’s suck 1 2 of my nuts
Ha! I don’t see why I should change my name. Maybe you could use your last initial (as long as it isn’t ‘j’, cause that’s mine) with your name?
I think I’ve been posting longer than you (at least I can’t remember anyone posting with the name leif before I did) but you clearly post more than me (I post once every few months). Or we could just go with it as is and add to the general confusion that is dc.
damn…little leif has 12 nuts and surly is sucking all of them?
that’s part of the weird shit that happens when you have 12 little nuts
new name….surly squirrel
i just thought i’d say: what a lovely build, I bet YOU will have much FUN on YOUR bike.
PS: I’d be willing to conjecture that your bar position may just get the Grant Peterson Seal of Approval.
BSS @ 67, that stem is made by Voodoo. I think they’re available in a couple of weeks.
dang cool.