Has anyone done this? How do you figure out your reach? Thinking the addition of the drop bar would mean you would need to size down your frame size? Considering slapping some drop bars on a Chisel or something similar. Wonder how something like that with Race King 2.2s front and rear would compare …

With some creativity, you can get a 44 on an epic HT

Keegan Swenson’s Drop Bar Santa Cruz https://www.pinkbike.com/news/bike-check-keegan-swensons-drop-bar-santa-cruz-highball-2024-leadville-100.html

[brown note first pic] Same pic I put up on Paceline recently. Steel with a yoke and 68mm bb.

[image] Full report: Bike Check: SC-3

Awesome! Feels like I time warped back to the early 90’s when custom steel was everywhere. I love that aesthetic.

I’ve used mine for cyclocross. I liked it. I wrote about it on another thread: [image] Is a MTB tire the fastest and best tire for Gravel racing? Equipment I realise that this thread is about gravel racing, but perhaps people following this thread may be interested in so…

For those two 2023 races that I did with the drop bar MTB, I had a rigid fork installed. Those courses weren’t bumpy, so I don’t think suspension would have helped for those particular races. Another CX course that I race on though has a fast bumpy downhill section, and when I used my hardtail MTB…

Technical regulation that grabbed my eye, from a local MTB race over the weekend. The race has about 20 miles of pavement or gravel, and 35 miles of singletrack. I’ve done it a couple times on a dropbar hardtail and couple times on a regular hardtail with flat bars. If it rains the course changes to…

Did you ever run this with flat bars? And if so, what was the stem length you used before swapping out to drops?

I never ran this bike with flat bars, as I bought it solely to build it up with drop bars, and as such, sized down to a medium… I’d need something like a 120mm stem to run flat bars on it(100mm x -20d on my Large Epic Evo).

Drop Bar MTB Geo

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I’ve used mine for cyclocross. I liked it.
I wrote about it on another thread:

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Drop Bar MTB Geo

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