Outlander 14
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This was the first bike that I built with an adjustable boom,
and a chro-moly main tube. It was built mainly to use up a glut of parts that I had and
for use as a demo at the shop I worked at the time. I had also meant for the bike to be
sold off. The design was meant to be an easy to ride USS SWB bike, to that ends the seat
angle was 60 degrees and the BB was lower than the seat. Using a 16 x 1.5" front
wheel easily allowed the BB to be lower.
The stem was a conventional MTB unit facing backwards, the
handlebar was a regular flat MTB alloy bar. The shifters were Gripshift, the front brake
were cantilevers mounted on the back of the fork. The rear brake was an Odyssey Pitbull
roller cam brake. Braze-ons for a set of lowrider racks were put on the seat stays, and a
single water bottle atachment was placed on the left side of the seat support tube. Both
rims were alloy and both hubs were nutted. The bike was the lightest full size bike that I
had built at 29 pounds. The rear triangle was taken from a Trek 330 frame. Originally
designed to take a 700c wheel, the bike was equipped with a 26" MTB wheel. The bike
was completed in the fall of 1997.
In the summer of 1998 I sold the bike along with my Linear
LWB to Gosse VanOosten of London Ontario. Gosse has put many miles on the bike since then,
he has even toured in Quebec and Holland on it. Outlander 14 was the first of several
bikes in this style that I eventually went on to build for other people.
