Tumbleweed Bikes Proclaims the Sunliner Flat Bar Mountain Touring Bike

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. This can be a absolutely inflexible, flat bar, mountain touring bike. Tumbleweed says the Sunliner “matches into their ethos as an off-road touring bike constructed with top of the range supplies”.

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.

The Sunliner happened as a method to provide 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.

The Sunliner will be run with fashionable 1x mountain drivetrains, together with quite a lot of totally different tire and rim mixtures. It has a snug upright using place and a ton of mounts for racks and baggage.

Extra Than a Stargazer/Prospector Mash-up

The Sunliner is constructed utilizing a novel 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 could possibly 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 customary 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 obtainable both immediately from Tumbleweed Bicycles or their retailers.

Body Specs

• Sizes: Small – Medium – Giant – Further Giant
• 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: Enhance 148mm x 12mm via axle (included)
• Seat Submit 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 underneath 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: Enhance 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 Commonplace Spec

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