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Tumbleweed Bikes Publicizes the Sunliner Flat Bar Mountain Touring Bike


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Idaho’s Tumbleweed Bicycle Firm gives best-in-class bicycles and bike bits specifically made for bikepacking and mountain bike touring. This week, they add one other steed to the road, introducing the Sunliner. It is a absolutely inflexible, flat bar, mountain touring bike. Tumbleweed says the Sunliner “matches into their ethos as an off-road touring bike constructed with high-quality supplies”.

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(Images / Tumbleweed Bicycles)

Daniel Molloy, Tumbleweed Bicycle’s founder, is not any stranger to providing iconic, succesful, and purpose-built bikepacking bikes. Bikes just like the award-winning Stargazer and the stout and trusted Prospector have been ridden hundreds of miles throughout many continents. The brand new Sunline sits proper in between these fashions.

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Sunliner in Rhubarb
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Sunliner in British racing Inexperienced

The Sunliner took place as a option to supply the shoppers who wished a Prospector with a derailleur spec, and a Stargazer with a flat bar. The Sunliner seems to be a flexible, and all-around touring bike. And if ridden unloaded, it seems like a terrific all-terrain bike.

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The Sunliner will be run with trendy 1x mountain drivetrains, together with quite a lot of completely different tire and rim mixtures. It has a snug upright driving place and a ton of mounts for racks and luggage.

Extra Than a Stargazer/Prospector Mash-up

The Sunliner is constructed utilizing a singular tubeset that’s lighter than the Prospector, inflexible particular, and optimized for conventional enhance drivetrains. When in comparison with the Stargazer, the Sunliner’s body tubing is optimized for the longer prime tubes wanted for flat bar geometry. It will probably match 29×3.0 tires and nonetheless run a 38-tooth chainring, so tire clearance is nice.

When designing the chainstays for the Sunliner, they had been made to present nice tire clearance whereas additionally eliminating heel strikes if panniers are in use. M6 mounting factors are used throughout for added energy mounting racks and securing gear.

Sunliner Retail and Body Specs

Retail: $1400 (frameset)
Retail: $3775 (full with normal spec *see beneath*)

The Sunliner is offered as a whole bike, constructed to your specs, or as a frameset. It is available in two colours, British Racing Inexperienced and Rhubarb. They’re out there both immediately from Tumbleweed Bicycles or their retailers.

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Frameset

Body Specs

  • Sizes: Small – Medium – Massive – Additional Massive
  • Tubing: Warmth-treated, size-specific Cromoly tubing. Outsized triple and quad butted important triangle with built-in gussets
  • Colours: Forest Inexperienced or Rhubarb (darkish pink). Each with gold Tumbleweed graphics 
  • Tire Clearance:  Optimized for 29×2.6”, clearance for as much as 29 x 3 (Examined with WTB Ranger tire on 40mm inside rim width)
  • Head Tube Diameter: 44mm I.D. for ZS44 higher, EC44 decrease cups
  • Backside Bracket: 73mm BSA threaded
  • Spacing: Increase 148mm x 12mm via axle (included)
  • Seat Put up Diameter: 31.6
  • Seat Collar Diameter: 35mm (included)
  • Dropper routing: Exterior routing on the down tube with internally routed seat tube
  • Driveline: 1x drivetrain particular. Not designed to accommodate a entrance derailleur
  • Chainring Clearance – 38 tooth max
  • Brake Compatibility – 180mm or 160mm IS mount, entrance and rear with exterior cable routing
  • Cage/Bottle mounts – 2 bolt/H2O mounts on seat tube (all sizes), one 3 pack on prime of down tube (small solely 2 bolt/H20 ), one 3 pack mount beneath down tube (all sizes)
  • Rack (6mm decrease mount) and Fender & seat keep mounts (5mm)

Fork Specs

  • Tire Clearance – 29 x 3 (Examined with WTB Ranger tire on 40mm inside rim width)
  • Spacing: Increase mountain – 110x15mm via axle (included)
  • 3 pack mounts angled rearward
  • Low rider mounts
  • Higher fork crown rack mounting factors
  • Middle gap on the fork crown
  • Generator wiring port on the decrease proper leg
  • Rack & Fender mounts
  • Identical fork specs as Stargazer – 440mm Axle to Crown with 55mm offset

Sunliner Geometry

Sunliner Geometry Small Medium Massive Additional Massive
Efficient Prime Tube Size 600mm 620mm 640mm 660mm
Seat Tube Size 380mm 430mm 480mm 545mm
Head Tube Angle 69 69 69 69
Seat Tube Angle 73° 73° 73° 73°
Backside Bracket Drop* 65mm 65mm 65mm 65mm
Chainstay Size* 456mm 456mm 456mm 456mm
Head Tube Size 130mm 150mm 175mm 210mm
Fork Size 440mm 440mm 440mm 440mm
Wheelbase 1131mm 1153mm 1175mm 1197mm
Fork Offset 55mm 55mm 55mm 55mm
Beneficial Rider Top 5’2″-5’7″ 5’6″-5’10” 5’10”-6’2″ 6’1″-6’7″
Beneficial Rider Saddle Top 63-68cm 67-73cm 74-81cm 80-88cm

Sunliner Customary Spec

Half Description (Components topic to alter primarily based on availability)
Body Sunliner British Racing Inexperienced/Rhubarb S/M/L/XL
Fork Metal Unicrown 110mm Via Axle Unicrown
Headset Cane Creek 40 ZS higher, EC decrease, 30mm Crown Race
Crankset RaceFace Aeffect Black, alloy
Chainring RaceFace Aeffect, metal 32t, black alloy
Backside Bracket RaceFace BSA Threaded
Entrance Hub DT Swiss 350 Black, 110mm Via Axle 32 gap
Rear Hub DT Swiss 350 Black, 148x12mm 32 gap, XD Freehub
Cassette GX Eagle, Lunar 10-52t
Shifter SRAM GX Eagle black
Rear Derailleur GX Eagle, Lunar black
Rims RaceFace ARC30 29 x i30mm
Spokes Sapim Race Black 2.0/1.8 w/Brass nipples
Brake Levers Avid FR5 Black, alloy
Brake Calipers Avid BB7 Black
Cables and Housing Jagwire Professional Compressionless Stainless Cables, Black Housing
Disc Brake Rotor Adaptor Promax Black aluminum
Brake Rotors SRAM Centerline 180mm entrance and rear
Tires Maxxis Rekon Race 29 x 2.4 EXO 3C TR
Chain SRAM GX Eagle silver
Grips SQLabs 710 black
Stem Zoom Black 31.8mm 4 bolt
Handlebar Tumbleweed Persuader Black 20 or 30 diploma
Seatpost PNW Loam dropper and set off Black, journey size primarily based on saddle top, body dimension
Saddle WTB Pure Black, Metal Rails
Tubeless Components Tubeless Sealant, Valves and Tape
Headset Spacers Black, Aluminum

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