Reader’s Rig: Cooper’s Landyachtz 1146 Custom

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This week’s Reader’s Rig comes from Cooper in British Columbia, who shares the custom drop-bar Landyachtz 1146 Ti he uses for everything from trail rides to bikepacking trips to daycare drop-offs. Learn more about Cooper and his one-of-a-kind bike here…

Words and photos by Cooper Quinn

I’m Cooper. Originally hailing from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, I’ve been in British Columbia for two decades and in North Vancouver for most of that time. I moved here ostensibly to attend university, but I chose this location based on its proximity to ski areas and bike trails; I’m a mountain biker at heart who built a gravel bike to commute on in 2018 and got hooked.

I occasionally write for NSMB.com and enjoy riding pretty much all bikes, from road to downhill bikes. I’m a geologist working in carbon mineralization—finding deposits of minerals to help companies that remove CO2 from the atmosphere.

I first met the Landyachtz crew when I was getting a Reform saddle, started riding with them, and then eventually got myself into the queue for a custom build in the Vancouver shop. My previous bike (a Bjorn SS) had progressive geo, especially for the time, but we pushed things a bit farther on this build in a few areas: 69-degree HTA, 450mm chainstay. The geo was more or less designed and built around the stem from WZRD; I had it on my last bike, and we needed a starting point for fit, so why not there? The bike has 412mm of reach.

Frame: Landyachtz 1146 Custom Ti
Fork: Landyachtz carbon
Rims: We Are One Revive or Easton EC90 ALX
Hubs: I9 1/1
Tires: 38mm Pathfinder Pro all the way up to 50mm Maxxis Ravagers
Handlebars: Easton EC90 AX, 42cm
Headset: Chris King
Crankset: SRAM Force D2 Powermeter, 172.5, 40T
Pedals: HT M2T
Cassette: SRAM Rival
Derailleur(s): SRAM Force E1
Brakes: SRAM Force
Shifter(s): SRAM Force E1
Saddle: Reform Seymour
Seatpost: RockShox XPLR, 50mm drop
Stem: WZRD Custom, 55mm
Frame bags: Apidura 12L Expedition Frame Pack
Rear bags: Tailfin Aeropack, 2x 16L Panniers
Accessory bags: Tailfin Fork Packs, Specialized/Fjalraven fuel tank bag
Computer: Hammerhead Karoo
Trailer: Tout Terrain Singletrailer
Other accessories: Lezyne Lite Drive 1000XL, Prevelo Zulu One, four year old, so many snacks

This was the second UDH bike Landyachtz built (It would have been done nearly a year earlier, but I was insistent on this), and it took a while to find a supplier with the dropout style we wanted as it was early days for UDH at the time. I gave their anodizer Kait free reign to do whatever they wanted (as long as it included the Wyoming bucking horse and rider), thinking my bike would come back wild, but I’m more stoked on the subdued, timeless look that came out. There’s no such thing as a forever bike, but I can’t imagine why I’d ever swap this thing out; there’s nothing on the frame I’d change.

There’s no “one build” here, the bike is constantly changing. I have three different wheelsets for it because it gets used for everything from urban commuter duties to daycare drop-offs to bikepacking and, most commonly, near-North Vancouver exploration, which is a mix of bad roads and stupid connectors.

You can keep up with Cooper on Instagram.

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