From Bitter’s first beginnings, their retro-modern Unhealthy Granny mountain bike klunker had been a favourite of MTB challenge builds. A inflexible metal singlespeed mountain bike with an additional reinforcing tube within the entrance triangle. It’s a blast to journey, however a tough promote vs. a correct path hardtail. Laborious to justify retaining of their common line-up, too. So, Bitter determined to go restricted version. Extremely-limited. Simply 10 bikes can be made and go on sale at present!
Bitter Unhealthy Granny steel-everything restricted version MTB klunker
Yeah, Bitter determined to go all in on constructing their klunker mountain bike into one thing distinctive. The result’s this extremely restricted version Unhealthy Granny with a rusty metal patina, an identical custom-made Brainfart metal handlebar with built-in dropper distant, and matching tubular metal Cyber cranks with an ActoFive chainring. All {custom} bits made in Dresden, Germany.
Brainfart Industries powers the entire thing – a sort of hare-brained growth facet of Bitter’s frame-brazer Flori. It is a man who brazes all of the {custom} particulars for Bitter bikes for a dwelling, and in his spare time made an extra-wide built-in 3-piece gravel cockpit by chopping a dropbar in half and clamping the scraps again collectively in a metal stem+mid-section bar combo.
Actually {custom} bits
The Unhealthy Granny body & fork themselves are already the definition of rad. However Bitter wished to make it even cooler for this Uncooked restricted version. So that you get the identical {custom} metal 22.2mm handlebars that Flori constructed for himself.
That Brainfart Industries CrMo Handlebar includes a dropper publish distant lever immediately brazed-on. The bars get 6° of upsweep and 16° of backsweep. And they’re size-specific 820mm vast for S/M, 820mm for M/L, and 840mm for L/XL.
Bitter says, “We will’t promise that each bar could be a little bit totally different and each distant with a distinct form. Who is aware of!”
On high of that, the Unhealthy Granny features a uncooked set of Cyber Cycles metal Cyber Cranks, like we shared from Bespoked. You decide from 160, 165, or 170mm lengthy crank arms and likewise get a direct mount 32T chainring machined from aluminum by ActoFive, simply across the nook from Bitter in Dresden.
Tech particulars
Bitter welds the Unhealthy Granny and its inflexible fork are fully in Germany. And there’s no hiding the work, right here. Thus, constructed from custom-drawn & partially recycled multi-butted heat-treated chomoly metal tubing. It includes a 44mm headtube for tapered or straight steerers. There’s an eccentric backside bracket shell for a threaded 73mm BB to run singlespeed or geared with an non-compulsory derailleur hanger out again.
And a cut up within the keep if you’d like a belt drive.
The body is Enhance, with IS disc brake tabs, and an built-in clamp holding the 31.6mm seatpost in place. Cable routing is in fact exterior, however with stealth routing for a dropper publish because the {custom} bar integrates a metal dropper distant.
To make clear, the unicrown Unhealthy Granny Metal fork includes a tapered steerer, a 15x110mm thru-axle, and IS disc brake tabs, plus 4 eyelets per fork leg. Fork size is 470mm (100mm suspension corrected), with 50mm offset.
Max tire clearance is 27.5 x 2.4″ or 29 x 2.3″.
Bitter x Brainfart x Cyber Unhealthy Granny Uncooked LTD – ultra-limited availability
Bitter solely handle to persuade Flori to construct ten of those cockpits and ten of those frames. So, Bitter will make simply 10 of the steel-everything Bitter x Brainfart x Cyber Unhealthy Granny fashionable klunkers. Accessible solely in a “uncooked and rusty the whole lot” end with an individually numbered plate on the toptube. They do get a wax framesaver coating inside, and include a bottle of blended linseed oil to guard the surface.
“The body, fork, cranks, and even handlebars are fully uncooked metal, they may rust. None of those elements will ever been offered as uncooked once more.”
They go on sale direct from Bitter at present at 17:00 CET… which is basically now.
Pricing is 2420€ for the frameset (body, fork, cranks, handlebar), together with worldwide transport.
Pre-order one now in 1 of three inventory sizes (S/M-L/XL), and so they’ll fabricate it over the winter so that you can construct up into your personal {custom} dream klunker. The pre-order window is max 2 weeks (or till the sellout in minutes), with frameset deliveries 90 days later.
Be the good child on the block with the raddest commuter bike and retro path shredder. Snap one up earlier than they disappear.
