stupid mid 2000's cross bike gets converted

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[@BradWadeNL]

I thought I was going to hate this, as the Rawnstercross had a pretty sweet build. In the end, I loved it. We evolve and so do our bikes. That frame has a soul and bucket loads of nostalgia.

[@markthorrowgood3266]

Hey Brad, hope you're well. I was way into it as well, those Easton forks look awesome. Do you still have the Trek? MY AWOL's long gone but I have a couple of other bikes right now.

[@ZER0value]

I’m glad you’re still making videos, I’ve been out of the loop bike wise for a good few years now and it’s cool to see you still here in the space doing your thing bud

[@Spindatt]

Always something to chip away at

[@Yagorkin]

I liked the Rawnstercross assembly video series a lot. Including the re-polishing.

[@johnhutch1100]

Babe, wake up! New Spindatt just dropped!

[@bebopman5]

4:57, channeled the spirit of the Macho Man, lol. I like the new build. I wish you could've kept the blue tires on there, but I fully understand why you didn't. It would've clashed with the fork, and they were too nice for a commuter compared to the tan walls with the beefier tread.

[@Spindatt]

Can you dig it!

[@bebopman5]

@@Spindatt Oooooooo, Yeeeaahhhhhh

[@DontWorryImAPilot]

I have a Swobo Sanchez fixed gear from 2009-ish that's been neglected. I'm somewhere between "I don't want to change it" and "there's no way in hell I'd change it" and "I don't ride it much the way it is right now so I should change it and see if that motivates me to ride it more." You might have inspired me, my man! Currently it's got some (nearly) flat bars. Maybe I'll hunt down some drops. I think it's probably a good idea to just refresh all the bearings on it...but that sounds like a pain in the ass! New, shorter cranks would be sick. New saddle would be sick. New stem would be sick. It's practically a new bike at that point! We'll see what happens. I don't get enough bike time the way it is so I'm going to be hard pressed to dig through pages of google to find a bottom bracket for it when I could instead be ripping' some twisty singletrack on the mtb. Winter approaches. Maybe that'll be the bike thing to get me through the cold. I appreciate your uploads and your outlook on bike/life. Thanks for all that!

[@Spindatt]

Nothing can rejuvenate the use of a bike quite like changing it completely

[@Teavolk]

Need to see a monster tracklocross.

[@MashiroMartinez]

Very nice Casio watches! The A158 and F91-W!

[@Spindatt]

You noticed the switch!

[@roamingwolfpack]

So glad the Rawnstercross is back in rotation!

[@Spindatt]

Let’s break some stuff!

[@cneubert28]

One day drop bars will come back.

[@Spindatt]

Nothing is off the table

[@MikeyTiger37]

Making me feel guilty for not using my single speed to commute 😅 Nice job, and nice to have a chill video to start the day.

[@Spindatt]

LOL I mean, he’s not a daily driver! Just in the mix

[@nxross]

Awesome bike! Would love to see a Tinker Tuesday using a ISCG-05 BB adapter and ISCG-05 mounted chain tensioner with a pulley wheel... Seems like it'd be another clean setup for all the vertical dropouts out there

[@Spindatt]

Sounds like an expensive experiment haha

[@simeng4227]

Old school video! Love it!

[@KonradSpringer]

Damn, the bike that inspired me to build and tinker with my bikes. Glad to see it in use again. Kinda hate the fork tho lol

[@jacobatherton8339]

Yep ya made ol rawnster too nice n pretty to ride daily. Glad you went back to basics with the singlespeed setup

[@Zzyyxx22]

My main commuter is a 42x18 Singlecross.

[@Spindatt]

That’s a good gear

[@cotecj77]

Half link in the chain and a narrow-wide chainring? I was led to believe that won't work. Does it? Is it because it's a 1/8" BMX chain? In any case, glad to have you back posting regularly!

[@Spindatt]

This is correct

[@kipcc3918]

I just had an inkling of a feeling that this might happen, I’ve been seeing my Rawnstercross-esque Ti Bike going back as a flat bar bike, and honestly I might just do it. 😂 Love how Rawnstercross doesn’t have a final form yet. 😅

[@Spindatt]

He’ll never be “finished” haha

[@YoungDoug13]

You hurt my heart. RawnsterX was perfect.

[@Spindatt]

Never got ridden though haha

[@YoungDoug13]

@@Spindatt that's fair

[@EriebyCycle]

YES!!! While the blue tire build was very aesthetically pleasing, what you wound up with has that working bike beauty that I dearly love. I loved this episode. Also - riding in work boots sucks. Leave them b*tches at work if you can. (Like you didn’t already know that.)

[@Spindatt]

I keep thinking about leaving my boots on site, but can see me getting burned by a night of rain soaking the scaffold haha

[@kenny_kaos]

You got a construction job? Judging by your boots?

[@Spindatt]

I did

[@zackharlow6839]

made some old heads happy with a rawnstercross vid

[@Spindatt]

Flat bar all the bikes

[@edbrowne8106]

Love it. Inspired to tinker

[@Spindatt]

Must turn bolts

[@mellissanash7517]

I get the build, but not sure why the fork swap was done. I remember the video where you swapped the fork on this bike to lessen toe overlap; so, what's the deal here?

[@mikedevereaux5869]

Quick release wheel is my guess! Edit: the orginal fork is quick release also. 🤦‍♂ Second guess is brake posts for v brakes instead of the canti brakes (would require mini v's i believe).

[@Spindatt]

There’s no rhyme or reason, just a change. The Easton is also cheaper and less likely to break my heart if it gets broken while sitting on the job site

[@addvurtbikes]

Love it!

[@lask2057]

Looks so good, big fan

[@Spindatt]

🙏🙏

[@maritimerigsofficial8233]

Original fork had a nice shape

[@Spindatt]

Yeah but it’s too fancy to have parked at a job site

[@mitmon_8538]

Noice, SS hybrid lessgo!!! Awe man, it would be fascinating how much weight difference there was between the 2 builds. It had to lose a couple pounds at least, right?

[@Spindatt]

It’s definitely a lot lighter, and so clean with the bars just having brake levers

[@mitmon_8538]

@@Spindatt I keep thinking about building up a single speed, but I'm not sure my old man knees can take the hills like they did 15 years and 30ish pounds lighter ago.

[@robnygren923]

So I like both versions …………😃

[@GeekonaBike]

How about sticking a fixed wheel on it for the commute to see which you prefer?

[@Spindatt]

Possible

[@AverageBensCycling]

Any interest in selling that whisky fork and shipping it across Canada?

[@Spindatt]

No I’ll definitely use it on something some day

[@AverageBensCycling]

@@Spindatt haha fair enough. They're impossible to get now 😔. I don't know if whisky will do another run of them. I'm tempted to just buy the no.9 CX fork and convert the front brake to a disc brake. (Paul klamper front, Paul minimoto rear)

[@MrEdleman]

I thought half links DID NOT work on narrow wides.

[@Spindatt]

1/8 chain on 3/32 teeth

[@KOutOfMyYard]

Slick and sexy! The bike man .. the bike

[@Spindatt]

😉

[@MrTown3r]

Me who deliberately build his own bike after the old Rawn: 👁️👄👁️

[@Spindatt]

Time to tinker

[@glennpettersson9002]

I've just finished set up gears on my bike. Single speed is looking pretty cool 🫤

[@Spindatt]

Hahaha don’t let me influence your decisions

[@garethhelliwell9736]

I'm sorry to say, but the before was so much better.

[@Spindatt]

🤷‍♂️ I never rode it like that, so in that regard it was awful

[@opiestanborough4774]

hipster skinny jeans, check. hipster boots, check. hipster man bun, doh! puts on hipster hat to cover up space X launch pad! Touchdown area sean from space. procedes to build hipster one speed, one! i guess you cant miss a gear! ( chain falls off ) keep trying. puts on onsy after warming it in dryer

[@Spindatt]

I don’t understand what you mean, can you elaborate?