The Star Trek Economy and the _Art_ of Engineering
As an art project, largely to prove all the things I've been told about cycling are more often than not empty opinions (more on that stuff later) I'm deliberately engineering a classic 90s mountain bike into a modern "flyable" touring bike cum 1 "all terrain" bike. The frame is "too small" for me, at 40cm (16") but this is fixable with a riser bar, a long seatpost and shortish cranks. It has cantilever brake bosses but no disk bosses and, while I could use V brakes, I want disks, for a modern build. It's a "pre-slack" frame design, a "roadie" with fat tubing and smaller wheels. This is being fixed with a new fork, which also "fixes" the front disk brake mount and is also "lightly suspension corrected," which should also slightly slacken the the steering geometry a little to match modern ATB standards. The absent rear disk is fixed by that gadget in the screenshot up there ☝ and the "Star T...