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:eek: I want this on a pair of socks!

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Already have a pair of Stance shark socks but the pic about would be too epic!

 

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Norrefok Warren! You have red vellies???

 

(I had a pair as a lighty)

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From now on you shall be known as Lionel Ritchie

LOL :lol: not the first time I've had that nickname

 

Not sure why the pic inverted tho, it was taken the right way up.

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A bike for Tumbles

baie mnandi!

 

 

 

 

#damnbikehubwontshowtheimagesbecauseitstoohipster

 

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The Tumbleweed is a rugged and adaptable mountain touring bike. It's the very first production bike designed and engineered to run (up to) four inch wide fat bike tires while maintaining the use of standard width mountain bike cranksets and eliminating the need of any proprietary fat bike specific components.

Origins

In January of 2014, a group of friends and I rode fatbikes through Patagonia for six weeks. We had ridden across the Indian Himalayas previously on mountain touring bikes, but this was our first trip with four inch wide monster tires. We loved the ride, the grip, and the ability to float over loose terrain, but after three weeks of riding for 8-10 hours per day, some of us began having nagging pain in our achilles tendons. The wider pedaling stance of a fatbike compared to a 'traditional' mountain bike was a compromise we hadn't thought too much about before this trip, but it became clear that we needed something different. Cass Gilbert and I spent many nights around the campfire on that trip comparing the various bike setups we'd used on trips over the years and fantasizing about what our ultimate mountain touring bike would be able to do. Large volume tires, standard parts you can find even in a remote bike shop in the developing world and a normal pedaling stance were high on this list.

Upon returning home to California I starting working on our idea.  A year and half later in the summer of 2015, after convincing some extremely talented people to help out, we had three prototype Tumbleweeds ready for another six week trip, this time to Mongolia. The tour was a success, and the bikes performed as we had hoped. Another year of development has brought us to the current production model.

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