This year’s stupid bike was so stupid that a lot of people were having trouble getting their head around it. Gary Fisher, however, did step up and challenged us to the first annual Stupid Bike-Off at Downieville. If he remembers this challenge, that is…
Words can’t describe what Josh, Heyliger and Stevie J did. Pictures can only try.
Many people did comment that “looks like you have too much time on your hands”. that is not true. All of these pictures were taken very close to midnight. On Wednesday night last week. After a long day of work.
Too many beers? sure. Too much passion? ok. But where were you, watching TV at home?

Originally, only one derailler as a chain tensioner was planned

hammerschmidt with jack-shaft

making the mount for the 2nd derailler

CNC shocker head tube badge by Stevie J

integrated fork locker

when you run a fixed gear final drive with varying chainlength, you need to take up slack on both runs of chain. and the bottom run needs a tether to coast properly. figured this out around 1230am

setting the correct sag before the first trial run

And some video of it working on the stand:

stupid bike working on the stand at 1am from santa cruz bikes on Vimeo.