{"id":19472,"date":"2025-06-30T21:01:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T20:01:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/keep\/?p=19472"},"modified":"2025-06-30T21:01:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T20:01:20","slug":"salsa-stormchaser-suspension-and-gears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.citrus-lime.com\/keep\/2025\/06\/30\/salsa-stormchaser-suspension-and-gears\/","title":{"rendered":"Salsa Stormchaser &#8211; Suspension and gears!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-originalfontsize=\"12pt\" data-originalcomputedfontsize=\"16\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p><!--more-->Well here\u2019s a thing.<\/p>\n<p>Salsa Stormchaser with gears? And suspension too?<\/p>\n<p>The Stormchaser was conceived as a singlespeed ride to take on the worst of conditions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What if that\u2019s not your bag? Handy then that if you buy a frameset and build it up from there then you get a geared dropout too, sorted! It\u2019s suspension ready too, so drop bar of flat, gears or not it\u2019s got your back. 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