Race Face Aeffect 165mm cranks and 30T chainring from the parts bin.

ZTTO cassette is crazy light and shifts amazingly.

Weight has gone up by 200g due to the heavier (but shorter) 165mm cranks. BB is still super low though so I might even look into 155mm cranks if I want to keep the mullet setup (will have to see how these go with the extra 5mm clearance).

If ya ain’t fallin’, ya ain’t tryin’?!

First time out there on a mullet setup yesterday morning and first time tackling this janky segment at Loftus on the hardtail. Definitely got more pedal strikes (might put on my shorter 165mm cranks), but damn the mullet setup is so much more fun on the flowy stuff, and quite confidence inspiring on the techy stuff too (climbing up tech was fine!).

The mullet setup got the total weight down to 12.08kg’s and I had been contemplating grabbing the anemic lightweight stem off of my Amflow, and at the same time, stealing the carbon OneUp bars off the Amfow too which would get the bike into the high 11kg’s, but man I’ve got to stop tinkering, and just ride more.

IE: If I had the carbon bars and the weenie stem on for today’s ride, the fall I had would have damaged them much more than the light scratches on my Renthal bars, brake lever and stem.

All in all just super happy with the setup. The fit feels good, the Fox fork is amazing, I could go lower for my weight, but 17psi front and 20psi back tubeless feels right, the mullet setup definitely feels slower on the firetrails but the fun factor everywhere else is worth it. I did have one huge front tyre washout, but it was a loose off camber corner, so I’ll stick with the Schwalbe Hans Damf front for now before considering something wider/grippier (the Maxxis Dissector rear was solid).

Had a meeting with Guido of Revolve Recycling today. They’re working on a new web site and wanted to use some of my existing photos for it, but I just wanted to let them know that I’d be more than keen to shoot more content for them for the love what they do, as well as the love of bikes!

Angry Bees!