73mm bottom bracket, used 68 to 73 BBSHD. 2 3/4 inches of clearance with small problem. Jumbo Shark Hailong-3 on bottle cage with issues. Straight down tube allows good clearance. Long seatpost for dropper post.
My buddy has been going with me often. His cattle dog is one of the few who can keep up with my husky. Time for his own bike, so I gave him the basics of what to look for and the Uzzi appeared on my porch.
The 2 3/4 inches seems to be the tough thing to find in a craigslist photo so I sent him looking for the virtual pivot point rear suspension which the Uzzi has. However I found one pivot point on the Uzzi has a bolt sticking out a couple of millimeters. I hate shimming the chainline out anyways, but when using the 68-73 motor on a 73 there isn't much thread left for shimming. So I filed down most of the bolt until I got nervous the c-clip might come off and did add a shim to get around what was left. Don't forget to add washers on the other side equal to the shims along with the collar for 73 bottom brackets. (I saw a 73 done with no collar or washers and the bracket just bent. It was a terrible install at every point and yet it still sort of worked.)
The battery does fit on the bottle cage, but upside down and backwards. I feel fine about the upside down part with three velcro straps doing most of the work. However the backwards thing bugs me. I wish I had a rivnut set to make him some new places to bolt it up. He did spend for the 5p battery because every newbie has range anxiety, but the regular shark hailong-1 4p battery would have been enough and lighter.
The frame can take a dropper post, but that is not going to happen. As it is this already costs more than his car, so there will be compromises.
The Uzzi was $600. It is very capable for the money. It is more capable than my more expensive enduro type bike. It has thicker front forks, 2.7 wide downhill tires, spring shocks seem more supple compared to my air shocks, and bigger disc brakes. One would think this is worth the extra 13 pounds it weighs over mine, until you put it on the car, or carry it over a log. Oh crap, I just became a weight weenie.
I have no idea what these came with stock, but this one had a downhill cassette with a 26 tooth low gear. That had to go. (We live at the lake you see way down below in all my pictures. Hill climbing is what we do!) It runs a 30 tooth mighty mini to a 9 speed 11-34 cassette now. I hate the chainline but the sram derailleur is only a medium cage that wouldn't go up to a 42 tooth and it would cost a lot to do what I wanted. As it is that was a hundred bucks he didn't count on, but had to be done. Walmart for a schwinn seat, huffy front bag, and bell helmet. Hey, he looks good, you can see from the picture my wife thinks so.
This is my fourth write up but I haven't written up the other two bikes in the picture, are you interested?
My buddy has been going with me often. His cattle dog is one of the few who can keep up with my husky. Time for his own bike, so I gave him the basics of what to look for and the Uzzi appeared on my porch.
The 2 3/4 inches seems to be the tough thing to find in a craigslist photo so I sent him looking for the virtual pivot point rear suspension which the Uzzi has. However I found one pivot point on the Uzzi has a bolt sticking out a couple of millimeters. I hate shimming the chainline out anyways, but when using the 68-73 motor on a 73 there isn't much thread left for shimming. So I filed down most of the bolt until I got nervous the c-clip might come off and did add a shim to get around what was left. Don't forget to add washers on the other side equal to the shims along with the collar for 73 bottom brackets. (I saw a 73 done with no collar or washers and the bracket just bent. It was a terrible install at every point and yet it still sort of worked.)
The battery does fit on the bottle cage, but upside down and backwards. I feel fine about the upside down part with three velcro straps doing most of the work. However the backwards thing bugs me. I wish I had a rivnut set to make him some new places to bolt it up. He did spend for the 5p battery because every newbie has range anxiety, but the regular shark hailong-1 4p battery would have been enough and lighter.
The frame can take a dropper post, but that is not going to happen. As it is this already costs more than his car, so there will be compromises.
The Uzzi was $600. It is very capable for the money. It is more capable than my more expensive enduro type bike. It has thicker front forks, 2.7 wide downhill tires, spring shocks seem more supple compared to my air shocks, and bigger disc brakes. One would think this is worth the extra 13 pounds it weighs over mine, until you put it on the car, or carry it over a log. Oh crap, I just became a weight weenie.
I have no idea what these came with stock, but this one had a downhill cassette with a 26 tooth low gear. That had to go. (We live at the lake you see way down below in all my pictures. Hill climbing is what we do!) It runs a 30 tooth mighty mini to a 9 speed 11-34 cassette now. I hate the chainline but the sram derailleur is only a medium cage that wouldn't go up to a 42 tooth and it would cost a lot to do what I wanted. As it is that was a hundred bucks he didn't count on, but had to be done. Walmart for a schwinn seat, huffy front bag, and bell helmet. Hey, he looks good, you can see from the picture my wife thinks so.
This is my fourth write up but I haven't written up the other two bikes in the picture, are you interested?
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