Modern Clelands

[GrahamJohnWallace]

Re: Re:

if the web is to be believed ....

Although Oval chainrings were invented in the 1890's,

1890 Linley+Biggs joined semicircles, according to the Highpath website:
http://www.highpath.net/highpath/cycles/ovals/03.html

Are there any frames (retro or modern) which are suited to a Cleland type build?

This depends on the wheel size you want to use. There are a variety of frames that have the right steep geometry apart from the high bottom bracket height.
However getting the big tyre/frame mud clearances is usually a problem.

I have built 3 26" wheeled Giant NRS based Clelands, and am currently building a 650b/700c version using an On-One Scandal frame. I guess it depends how Cleland like you want to go? With the right frame, getting the riding position correct is easy. But getting the low maintenance mud protection, gearing, brakes, low pressure tyres etc, requires a lot more work.
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[GrahamJohnWallace]

The only person who has been designing off-road bicycles as long as Geoff Apps is Joe breeze. Here is Geoff's first serious bike design from 1978 and latest creation, the Cleland Landseer.




The Landseer is the culmination of nearly 20years of design evolution. Not for the down hill racing capabilities of the original 'Breezer' bikes, but in order to reliably negotiate the natural landscape of Britain, whatever the weather.

The Landseer is a very different take on how to achieve this, though I have never heard anyone who has ridden it to be less than complimentary about its effectiveness.

It has shed a serious amount of weight when compared to its steel framed predecessor the Cleland TT.
Its wheelbase has been reduced and yet the frame clearances increased with a sub-frame replacing the chainistays. And the geometry has been refined for even better traction from its 2.5" (29er) low-pressure tyres.

It features high centre of gravity that makes Apps bikes so easy to balance and the rearwards weight bias that improves traction whilst allowing the front wheel to float over obstacles. Not to mention the zero offset steering that improves handling and control, and reduces the turning circle to that you would expect of a good 26" wheeled mountain bike.
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[firedfromthecircus]

I noticed recently that Highpath are under new ownership and producing what they call the Pulse Swing Crank.
http://highpath.co.uk/pulse-swing-cranks/

 

[GrahamJohnWallace]

I noticed recently that Highpath are under new ownership and producing what they call the Pulse Swing Crank.
http://highpath.co.uk/pulse-swing-cranks/

Yes, they are now based in Tring, Hertfordshire about four miles from where I live, two and a half miles from the Wendover Bash site and seven miles from where the Clelands were designed and built.

I have attempted to contact them, but for some reason they did not reply.