Soma Wolverine build

I make mine wear a helmet in the trailer, especially my eldest (Will) as his head is pretty much level w the rollover bar

Trailer is good btw geoff :slight_smile: Have taken him up to kindy a couple of times, and will make it a weekly thing once I start the new WFH job

Aye, I’ve seen two separate roll-overs with kids in trailers - both were fairly ugly and not hilarious. Kids without helmets in bike trailers should be illegal or something

I think it is here in the ACT.

Had an #ohshit moment today.

Front brake needs new pads, so can’t use it, brake actuator arm hits the cable clamp bolt before the pads clamp onto the disc enough to be effective, had planned on buying new pads in the afternoon when I could get out to a bike shop. And the rear works fine.

This morning I went out with Maaike to get a haircut and grab some Mothers Day stuff.

When we got home the rear brakes went pop and stopped working while rolling down the front path to the house while Maaike was in the trailer behind me.

Managed to stop the bike before it went to shit. Unclipped, foot dragged, hand rail grabbed.

Found out afterwards what happened when I went to adjust the brakes and found this.

Found the missing bit of brake pad out on the path.

Fun times.

Replacement pads were sourced this arvo (as previously planned) and now both front and rear brakes work.

Can’t wit til next month and I can pick up some M8000 XT’s.

Warranty claim in for the SON delux with the manufacturer. Checked it out today and no longer producing any power, no barring, no spark across the terminals and no output measured on the multimeter.

It was originally purchased on 20APR2015 from bike24.com.
Delivered 04MAY2015.
Wheel built 07JUN2015.
Wheel used from 25SEP2015.

6600kms in total.

Ruh-roh: https://www.instagram.com/p/BUjt16IFbrc/

Time for a recall, I reckon

Yeah, it doesn’t look great for soma.

Doesn’t that guy break bikes all the time?

Yeah.

I think I’ve found a ā€œget me byā€ wheel until I get my dyno hub back and front wheel rebuilt.

Purchase today, delivered today, can then take the kids out on the weekend and do daycare dropoffs by bike when I’m on #daddydaycare starting next week.

What do you need? I have a pair of disc wheels hanging up waiting for me to get around to setting up tubeless you can borrow until CX time comes around again

15mm front & 12mm rear though, have 160mm discs on

Need QR front, all good, thanks for the offer Jez, have dropped the cash on the one linked, should have it at home today.

Monday’s funtimes OTB left the Wolverine looking like this.

Today I did a bit of running around and put the new fork on.

Need to clip the rear brake hose back down to the top tube at the first clip. Lost the plastic clip somewhere between the OTB and today. Could be in the back of the car.

When putting everything back together today I realised the rack bolt that had come loose was a M6 and I don’t have any spares, which means I must have reused the nut a couple of times. Possible explanation as to why the nut came loose.

I hope you exorcised the bike before you hopped back on it!

Word is a Wolverine 1.2 might be in the works?

""We are just about sold out of Wolverines. The next batch is due, optimistically, late August, but probably not until early September. These Wolverines will be the Wolverine 1.2; having a reinforcement bridge between the seat and chain stays as well as reinforced chain stays. The rare incidences of dropout problems will be eliminated with the 1.2. Hope you can wait for them!

-Soma Fabrications"

This is 3rd hand info at best so take from it what you will

Wouldn’t it be 1.3?

ā€œRareā€

It means it only broke if you rode it.

Did lol.

1.0 The original one that was reviewed/written about, had split dropouts - lasted about 5 seconds and didn’t make it to the market as it wasn’t strong enough to be approved by Gates to run their belt drive.
1.1 Brought to market with a split seat stay and has ā€œCarbon Drive TM Compatibleā€ sticker on the NDS chainstay. What I had and have.
1.2 added in matte black as a paint option, I’m not aware of any build changes in this iteration.
1.3 the new rumour build.

This reminded me to put on a toestrap from my bars to my front rack.