Hello, I’m back to talk about… Bikes!

In the last couple weeks I’ve put a couple upgrades into the titanium fatbike, which for keyword purposes is a Motobecane Titanium Sturgis Bullet, although I’ve started just calling it the “blasphemy bike.”

The rear rack has been on it for a couple months now. It was a Christmas present. It works, although the sizing is… odd. You can kind of see in the photos how it has to be angled downwards. However, because of the fit I retain full use of the dropper post, which is great. It’s also strong and well built. So, the rack gets 4.5 out of 5 stars, just subtracting half a star for fit awkwardness.

Next up is the Jones H-Bar. I decided to try these bars since I’d never felt completely comfortable on this bike. I have positive but not completely glowing feelings so far. My biggest issue so far is just the difficulty of mounting both the brakes (which clamp) and shifters (which have the older slide-on tension ring) in a comfortable way. The brakes can go inside the loop but not the shifters, and it makes for a hand position where I can’t really control both at once. I’m planning as some point to upgrade this bike to a 1x11 or 12 and then the shifter will mount onto the brake clasp, so that will be better.

Other than that I like the bars. Lots of mounting things real estate, the long bars give nice torque, and they are generally just as, if not more, comfortable than the previous bars.

I haven’t had a chance to ride them on the trail (it’s been too wet), and that will be the real test of how I like them.

So far I give them a 4 out of 5. Good and nice, but not super dramatically better.