![]() ![]() The Bassi Bikes Hog’s Back is a steel all-road touring bike designed to be versatile, comfortable, and heavily laden with trusted standards like quick-release skewers and a threaded bottom bracket. *It’s likely that AirLandSea will fit tires up to 2.35″ without fenders. ![]() Every AirLandSea comes equipped with fender mounts, stainless steel PMW ‘rocker’ dropouts, and room for 27.5″ x 2.25″ tires (with 65mm fenders). Other options include internal routing for front and rear dynamo lighting, rear rack mounts, and choice of axle size (QR, 12mm, or 15mm axle). The tapered head tube will accommodate a 1.125″ steerer for the 65mm rake, low-trail, steel touring fork (as shown) or a tapered steerer for a carbon fork. For the 73mm BB, 333fab worked with White Industries to use their M30 spindle in conjuction with R30 crank arms to optimize chainline. The T47 BB works a little better for internal wiring as it allows more clearance. ![]() The T47 is recommended for those interested in rear dynamo lighting or Di2. The AirLandSea is built around a 73mm English threaded bottom bracket with the option for a T47 BB. Each individual size has its own size-specific tubeset with varying tube diameters. There are seven sizes available with progressive geometry to suit riders ranging from 5′-6’5″. This limited edition bike is described as an “all-road/off-road bicycle made to carry you and your stuff over rough tarmac, gravel, dirt roads, and muddy single-track trails typical to the PNW.” With custom graphics by Kyler Martz and a PNW inspired fade paint scheme, the AirLandSea is the only model made by 333fab in stock sizes. The AirLandSea Cascadian Rambler is the brainchild of Maxwell Kullaway, the frame builder behind Seattle-based 333Fab. It also has 12mm thru-axles front and rear. However, it carries over a lot of great features such as rack and fender mounts, and plenty of accessory mounts on the frame and fork. The Hardtack also gets a straight top tube and a slimmed-down fork. The Tanglefoot Hardtack has a similarly long front-end, slack seat tube, off-road-friendly high bottom bracket, and high trail fork. As for geometry, the two have some slightly different numbers, but they aren’t too dissimilar. Also, the Hardtack has clearance for 27.5 x 2.6″ tires in comparison to the Moonshiner, which clears beefier 3.0″ tires. The difference between the two is that the Hardtack is a more stripped down and simplified bike featuring a lighter tubeset that’s optimized for gravel/doubletrack/light singletrack duty, whereas the Moonshiner is a little burlier and meant to tackle the rowdiest of exploits. The Hardtack has a very similar intent and geometry to the brand’s Moonshiner. Here’s more about the criteria we used to select them: ![]() Additionally, we tried to select bikes with the appropriate bottom bracket drop for 650B (close to or less than 70mm), as well as extra bottle mounts and/or rack bosses. There are also a few in the mix that were created to run either 700C or 650B tires. The standard benchmarks we used to select the 650B gravel bikes listed here are that each bike must fit 27.5″ (650B) tires that are 2.1″ (54mm) or wider, and was designed for use with drop bars. If you are interested in dirt-drop 29ers, check out our 29″ Drop-bar Mountain Bikes Gear Index. To lay out the options, here’s our comprehensive list of bikes that fall into this category-650B gravel bikes, specifically. The main criteria are big tires for capability on mixed-terrain and drop handlebars for the added comfort offered through multiple hand positions. At their best, they’re do-it-all, quiver-killing rigs capable of handling singletrack and big gravel rides, yet efficient on pavement as well. The term monstercross came about to define such bikes that filled the gap between cyclocross bikes and a mountain bikes. One of the most prevalent configurations combines drop-bars with big tires. Originally published Jan 2nd, 2019 / Major update: May 21, 2020īikepacking bikes come in all shapes and sizes-everything from plus-tire hardtails to svelte gravel race rigs, and from full-squish to fully rigid steeds. ![]()
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