Big Fun
Made for the Big Days Out™, a hardcore hardtail ready for pushing limits, honing skills, and generally being silly on a bike in the woods. The Big Fun serves up a solid platform for all the MTBing you’d rather be doing!
Wheelies are the best trick ever, no debate.The Big Fun may not guarantee sick wheelies, but it’s definitely a step in the right direction.
Call it a hardcore hardtail, or maybe an enduro hardtail even. Call it a big trail bike, or the perfect weekend warrior rig… all we know is that the Big Fun is the perfect hardtail rig for big pedals and big trails.
We call the Big Fun an “agressive trail” bike, not because it’s aggressive like, its mean or anything, but because this bike just keeps coming back for more. We ride the Big Fun on our local trails, but also on the sometimes mind-boggling technical Czech trails behind Dresden, but also in Sweden or Italy at the big-kid bike parks of Europe. This is our take on the trifecta known simply as “LLS”. Long. Low. Slack. We built this model around a proven geometry that’s ready to take on any trail you can throw at it, and then some. Build your bike with a 140mm fork for a solid trail rig, or mount a 160mm fork and push yourself to the limit. Big hardtails like this are truly so much fun!
The Big Fun borrows a ton of tech from our still-top-secret full suspension trail-duro bike, like a huge ZS44/ZS56 headtube, and custom drawn tubing for all the durability with none of the trail chatter.
All of this, built by hand in Saxony!
Trail Ready Geometry
Big trails, little trails. Tall trails, short trails. We here at Sour love all trails… except hiking trails, those aren’t for bikes, but rather, hikes.
The Big Fun has big geometry, all of the float, none of the bloat. With its mega-oversized headtube, long-low-slack “LLS” geometry, and patented hardtail rear end, the Big Fun is kind of just down for whatever type of trail riding you want to do!
We made the Big Fun enduro-ish ready because we knew there would be a few of you out there who would take this bike on a few enduro stages, but drop the travel down to 140mm and leave the downhill casing tires at home, and you have a well rounded big-ger trail bike geared up for long days in the mountains. With it supremely efficient pedaling platform, long alpine days are really no trouble at all!
Gussets, Post-mount, External Cables, and a Yoke
We made the Big Fun for long days, big days, small jumps, and huge ones too. All this equates to a bike that’s probably going to need some service more often that not. Mountain biking is hard no your equipement, so thankfully the Big Fun isn’t hard on your mechanic!
External cabling might not be the most fashionable thing in the world, but it does mean you can replace any and all cabling without tearing apart a headset with 20 moving parts! In fact, the only service that requires you to tear apart your headset is, well, a headset service. Magic!
Additionally, we’ve got this frame all gussetted up, yoke’d out, and double butted, so really the only thing you should be worried about breaking is a spoke… and maybe your wrist… but as magic as the Big Fun is, we can’t help you on that one!
Geometry
Specification
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All Sour Bicycles frames are made by hand, one-by-one, in our own facility in Saxony, just outside of Dresden. We use custom tubing designed and drawn for our frames, it’s a multi-butted heat-treated CrMo steel that’s ready to stand the test of time. All our steel is produced from a partially recycled product in Germany and drawn by one of the worlds leading production facilities in Taiwan, the beating heart of the worlds bicycle production.
Our dropouts are designed in-house in Dresden and have a replaceable derailleur hanger.
The seat clamp is designed in-house and is integrated into the frame. Should it ever fail, the frame can be professionally modified to use a traditional clamp, if repair of the original clamp is not possible. We have never seen one fail.
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• Headtube: ZS44/ZS56 tapered headtube
• Bottom bracket: 73mm BSA
• Rear spacing: 148x12mm Boost thru axle
• Seatpost: 31.6 mm (dropper post ready)
• Brake standard: IS2000 (ISO, more info here)
• Fork travel: 140 – 160mm travel
• Wheel Size: 29″
• Tire size: up to 29×2.6”
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• Two water bottle mounts
• External cable routing on the downtube for easy service
• Stealth dropper post routing
• 31.6mm seatpost diameter for maximum dropper compatibility
• Maximum chainring size: 38t round or 36t oval
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Fork Options
• Marzzochi Z1 150mm, black
• Fox 36, 29″, 150mm, Grip, 3 POS-ADJ, 44mm Offset, black
Dropper Posts:
• Bike Yoke Revive 31.6mm 125/160/185mm
Lever:
• Bike Yoke Triggy, 22.2mm
Fork Options
• Marzzochi Bomber Z1
— Stout and proven 36mm chassis
— GRIP damper, 44m Offset
— More information here (link to fork blog post)
• Fox 36
— FIT GRIP damper and FLOAT air spring
— Floating Axle, 44mm Offset
Dropper Options
• Bike Yoke Revive, 31.6mm
— Available in 125/160/185/214mm
— Available in any color, as long as it’s black
Dropper Lever:
• Bike Yoke Triggy
— Left hand for 1x drivetrain, 22.2mm
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Below are the frame and fork weights for each size of the Big Fun.
These weights include powder coating, but please remember that your chosen powder coat may be heavier than the average coating we use. Fades, gradients, and metallic colors can weigh more than single solid color. If you are interested in the final weight, please get in touch. Weights are averaged over three frames per size. We apply an inside wax coating before shipping the frame to your door which will add additional weight.• Big Fun S = 2760g +/- 100g
• Big Fun M = 2810g +/- 100g
• Big Fun L = 2870g +/- 100g
• Big Fun XL = 2970g +/- 100g
*All weights averaged with 3 frames per size (±50g frame, ±20g fork)
Included with your frame
Included with your Big Fun frame or frameset are all the grommets and small parts to run any cabling you wish and a derailleur hanger. You get a rear thru-axle, and if you’re ordering a frameset, you get a front axle with your fork as well. Headsets are only included if you add one to your order.