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they are awkward to fit tbh - they kind of sit either at an upright angle but good reach/ transition, or flat-ish and halfway round the drops

dm'd :)

As per usual, I've misplaced a tiny important thing.

Does anyone have a single one of these going spare?

I sorely regret selling one of these pre-lockdown

They're 29x2.2''... Reckon it'd clear some 2.35'' Mezcals though.

Bar end shifter came off the kona, it's just a microshift one. The shifting is great tbh, way more positive than any brifters I've used. Just prone to catching on things a bit.

shifting is a 10sp microshift with an 11sp xt mech, 10sp deore cassette... So that I could run a 46t with the bar end shifter & not have to spend like 100 quid on a cassette when I built it

Honestly just feels so good to be able to ride regularly again without too many niggly injuries

Yea I think you're right, its kind of just whatever I could salvage from the kona atm.

Long term I think probs silver stem + chainring and no guards once the dawes galaxy comes to life. And Hylexes. Oh and a @Tijmen framebag

It's fine for now, can't really justify aesthetic costs atm when functionally it's p spot on for me. Such a better bike than the Sutra imo

current pipey mode

Good road+/gravel adjacent bike imo

https://www.lfgss.com/microcosms/550/

they're going in the bin

First 'issue' is that it seems to be the only dawes galaxy in recorded history without a drilled fork crown. Where am I going to put a basket/rack for my weekly pootle to the bakery?? I panicked. So I drilled a hole in it

next project - having recently started commuting again pretty regularly and having a couple of close shaves, as well as one episode of 'binning it' on the best bike, I can for probably the first time in my life justify having a commuter/lock up bike.

All the usual caveats - lockable, unlovable, looks a bit rubbish, 700c, guards, but still enjoyable enough to be essentially the bike I'll probably end up riding the most.

That'll be a dawes galaxy then

This one is, I believe, a retrobike-user-baiting late 90's/early 00's example from their heyday, ie the time they ill-advisedly moved production to the fort factory in the czech republic, resplendent in a sort of credit-crunch-anticipating black and blue finish

Who knew this was actually the perfect bike to commute from south east to central

everyone who's binned it these last few days has to ride a fat bike until, say, mid-may at the very least

And full 661 pads

Hope you're doing alright!

Also hit the deck hard yesterday, happened so quickly. Patmos Rd, camberwell ish.
Managed to land on the wrist that I broke when I got hit by a car last year, which is now.... sore. ffs.

it's wild how accustomed i've gotten to longish n' slackish geo

oven pride them?

I believe - although it's obviously highly possible I'm wrong - that the idea was first attributed to Jan Gehl, the Danish architect and urban planner. Certainly it's one of the first ideas I came across in architecture school, and at it's core is the idea that we should be designing and making spaces that are accessible, sustainable, that we want to spend time in, and that most of the stuff we need is within x number of minutes travel.

https://www.archdaily.com/801431/jan-gehl-5-rules-for-designing-great-cities

https://www.pps.org/article/jgehl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_x5Hor2MP8

Price drops on Thomson, Carradice, dynamo hub etc

it appears to be a mk1 frame with a mk2 carbon fork :)

I might be wrong but I'm guessing the surly geo on the website is the latest one - is this more accurate? (genuine question not a sarky comment) https://geometrygeeks.bike/bike/surly-big-dummy-2017/

You have a DM :)

Dmr v8s

£5

Thomson 27.2 x 410 Post

A few little rubs in the ano but otherwise clean

£35

A selection of bottle cages

£2 each or a fiver for the lot