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Great riding and trails.
Eric has the Truss fork and is 6’1.
Eric's bike
Dan has the unicrown fork and around 5’11″.
It looks like a great time.
This is the titanium bike I’m currently riding. It’s one of the framesets I’ve had made for me. I’m trying out the new XTR Trail hydraulic brakes. The front wheel is a Jones 135-F hub paired with the 72mm front rim and Surly’s Big Fat Larry tire. The rear wheel has a 48mm wide double wall rim with holes that I have as a sample for testing. The bike is set up with 18 gears for now.
And, in other news, two recent customers have been in touch to tell me how they are finding their Jones bikes. They seem quite pleased…
Mary now has her bike (a steel Spaceframe and truss fork) home with her in LA… “It is a truly amazing bicycle and I really appreciate all the ideas and engineering that went into the frame.”
John bought a Ti spaceframe and fork. He is now riding it over in Scotland… “I just want to say you’ve created something quite spectacular with the spaceframe, truss fork and loopbars. Sublime in fact. My expectations were sky high (and wildly inaccurate) but the bike that you boxed up and set to me a few months back has completely blown my mind.”
My trip to Eurobike…
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- waiting to unload
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- Bike still in travel case
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- unpack the bike
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- shopping bike
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- Farmers market
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- supermarkt
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- fahrradweg
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- pizza!
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- waiting for the ferry
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- Friedrichshafen
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- ferry ride back
I hope to go again next year.
The new Big Fat Larry 4.5″ tire fits with room to spare in the truss and the fat unicrown fork.
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- Good clearance all around.
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- It is fatter!
I’ve been busy here with building up bikes, wheels and rolling chassis along with frame sets and wrapping bars. I have not added to the blog as I want to take care of the bikes that need building first. Most of my rides have been test rides for newly built bikes to be shipped or picked up.
I signed up for the SSWC in Ireland a while ago and I was able to get just enough bikes finished in time so I went.
I had a great time! It is a beautiful place and it’s great to ride with everyone there. The trails were fun.
After my time in Ireland I went to Germany for Eurobike for my first time. More on that soon.
Steve Worland’s test of the steel diamond frame is now out, over in the UK, in the Summer 2011 issue of What Mountain Bike. I can’t reproduce the article here, that wouldn’t be right, but I can suggest you see if you can get hold of a copy (and I’ll ask the publishers about extracts in the future) because it’s well worth reading. “Jeff Jones has effectively reinvented rigid mountain bikes” is clearly the stand-out statement but Steve’s discussion of the bike and how it rides is such that it’s more than an attention grabbing headline (and it’s not used as a headline in the magazine). He suggests one of the Jones frame and fork combinations “should be tried by every enthusiastic mountain biker”.
“This is definitely a bike you need to ride to appreciate.
“The harder you ride it the more it will impress”
I’m really pleased Steve likes the bike, and has written such a considered review. Well worth reading.
I rode up the mountain Saturday evening, spent the night and rode back the next morning.
Camp.
I can see California from here.
I sent this bike out to DirtRag a few months ago. Justin has been riding it and has written his first impressions.
Ok, catching up with myself here and I’ve had the first of the geometry details graphics sorted. There will soon be more to explain some of the thoughts, details and machinations that make my bikes what they are. This one, the titanium spaceframeset has been added to the production framesets page on my website, but it’s here too for you blog readers…
