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Greetings fellow travellers,
I've recently acquired the beginnings of another interesting steed and wish to share and document this journey also. The big question being, what do I do with it - what direction should I take this build?!
In the stable so far is the Trek (off-road), Schwinn (functionale/comfort), a newish All City Big Block build (street/commute), and the GF's steel all-road - so what is it that I really need?
The obvious thing missing is a dedicated road bike (with gears), but I'm not hugely interested in being the fastest or the lightest. So to me it makes sense to turn this into more of a stripped back tourer with a twist?
I'm thinking drop bars, 1x with a wide 10spd cassette, either with retro dura ace bar end shifter or a r/h sram road shifter and a jtek converter (+ matchy sram l/h ss lever). Some modern, narrow wide chainring with some sexy cranks (middleburn if I can afford) and some 32-38mm slickish tyres, probably with some hammered fenders...
Cool thing about this frameset is that it's littered with braze-ons, even has 3 bottle cage mounts - which to me suggests it probably is a Thorn, albeit one that was restored and rebadged by Argos at some point. Anyone got any ideas about how I can find out a bit more about it, would be cool to know the age and tubing materials?
Thanks y'all!
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