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weird how they listed through axels as a negative but in the review left no comment on why it was bad

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at risk of being a "get this totally different thing person", might be worth considering an alloy cx bike? especially if weight is a concern, along with longer rides day rides?

most take 35-40c, easily built sub 10kg, big tyres make them more than compliant, can be had for next to nothing because they're terribly unfashionable. love a good steel gravel bike, but between all the ones i've ridden none were light/ exciting for a mixed surface day ride, often found my alloy caadx done that a bit better.

this has descended into lever fetish posting, i can't endorse

v boomer response

does anyone have a spreadsheet knocked up for all of the 26" project bikes atm?,

struggling to keep track and would help a lot

would also accept a pdf

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pleasant break from the zipp/enve /sram promotional material often seen here

please, i try to keep my political beliefs out of this

yeah B)

Why do road bikes not get a frame bag for the aero advantage, makes you think

Bike looks good, love a bowmans

Cycling is so uncool my days

i assume it was just a misspelling of the popular slang term "phat" from hip-hop slang, implying "great, excellent," 1992, originating perhaps in the late 1980s and meaning at first "sexiness in a middle aged mountain biker." The word itself is a variant of fat in one of its slang senses, with the kind of off-beat spelling which would catch one out

this is deeply cerebral, thank you for posting such pertinent content to give us all pause for thought.

may we now reflect on our own mechanism or mechanisms (M+1), so it may be

@BareNecessities let's not mix our our exclusionary ad hominin's with our accepted and encouraged derision of the electrical bicycle!

i also think this is time to admit i still worry about getting up some hills in a 40/34 😳with all the fashionable baggage and dangle [redacted] which are to be attached

can see some discourse circulating regarding two major themes, let's check in on what the cultural critics have to say

on the paint:

conceptually the drip is the death of ego and individualist ideas of fate, it's a way of telling the world that they have given up the idealisation of complete control.

They can spend months choosing the right design, building their perfect object, that they can construct whatever beautiful dream their heart and mind can imagine, use their skilled and practiced hands to bring it into reality for all too see. yet the final look and presentation of it all is on fate.

we can chose the colour of the drip, maybe where it goes, but our final branding by it is out of our hands, in the hands of the the very foundational forces which surround us. inevitably, our life is not so different from the paint dripping down the frame, our fate is set by that which comes before us and that which resides over us.

on the mis match fork

Historically mismatched forks stem from the world of hobbyists and have subcultural and countercultural values, as well as being a form of social capital for an owner.

an OTP bike will come perfect, pristine and often colour matched (disregarding the race to the bottom bike pricing for carbon forked steel frames by Taiwan boutique designers from America and Europe), bikes designed for the mass market, for the average person who generally as our society demands to succeed, are conventional, polite and inoffensively positioned

a bike with a mismatch fork signals something else entirely however, a bike which has been hobbled together, or drawn from separate sources. be it at the point of design as they bought all the parts individually and built with their own hands or be it because they used them till destruction and had to find a suitable replacement. the bike itself is not a singular object, for every part has its own value and must be addressed individually on a case by case basis.

while the average buyer may see this bike on the street and not bat an eye (and if they do it is in disgust), the owner does not care, for what the owner seeks is the rubber necking of someone else on a mismatched fork. like a call from a penguin lost on the ice, seeking its own kind who will notice the hours of graft and care they placed to construct something many buy off the peg to better success.

which leads us to the ironic design of setting out to construct this for a bespoke bike, for it's one thing to do this from existing objects, but to construct this as an object in and of itself? at the point of design conception? does this make the work that of a poser, or an coy in joke at the hands of the designer, this will be for the audience to decide no doubt.

this is not the garden, it's still in scotland atm

@stelfox it was not, although would look nice, i think i wanted the black to avoid it looking like "a custom bike TM"

taking the vegan agenda on the road? can do can do

edit: new page, some more candid shots which were also supplied

honestly since i've seen you can put a 35 on a caad13 tyre manufacturers should just stop making anything below 30

mv better be patenting the "sprout fork" trademark before some zany trust fund backed Californian comes swooping in

@tb they'll never let me back into E1 if they think i'm a hippy, are you saying i should repaint it?!??!

@MisterMikkel i have actually been looking for various objects i can bolt onto the fork which are not bags so you're not far off

can tell this thread has poisoned me as my first response was

"oh i get it because its only got like what, 40mm tyres? p much a road bike as the zeitgeist demands 2" or death"

but i assume you actually meant

"this is the bke i ride when i just want to go for a cycle"

the clear work around here is having a compartmentalised bag over both sections, a top slimmer, bag for crisps, nuts and skittles, a bottom, larger bag for a 12 pack.

small camping stool on the fork mounts

mv himself!

it's spray paint for the base, the drip is tinned paint

montanna matte plum with montanna red glitter over the top, paired with a good 2 layer primer has done an excellent job, very well done by him!

over the moon,

i think it's perfect for the sort of riding i enjoy, at least at this point in my life.

it has been really great to have a builder who has a similar enthusiasm for bike design which is a little less conventional and deeply within the realm of "well why not?"

a good end to the bank holiday,

"a weird cx bike someone reinforced and stuck a big BMX fork on"

"clunker CAAD"

"going to subway and asking for everything"

"mr frame builder, could you be so kind to fuck my shit up"

"home simpson designs a bike"

thank you again @M_V

riding this you'll now actually look like a proper deliveroo rider instead of being on that silly fixie

absolutely awful gravel out at swinely in the MOD land

I was cutting through some bushes on what looked like a lightly trodden foot trail to feel crusty and happened to stumble on a couple of teenagers in full BDU's and some of the governments finest rifle replicas, they were not impressed but I was having a joyful time.