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i bought it to ride over winter but then realised i don't want to ride my bike over winter - in the summer i can ride my other bikes

great bike, all you need for epping mtb wise, don't let the dentists and bankers at the cake stops fool you

wanna "riv up" the boyfriends ogre :thumbs_up:

if anyone would like to buy my cotic solaris for £650 please send me a dm

size m green 853 (i'm 6' it fits fine, would fit shorter but not taller)
reba(?) 100mm fork (60-70 miles since last service)
sram xo1 carbon crank
11? speed deore drive train 11-52
deore brakes
brandx dropper
no name finishing kit
superstar wheels with vittoria 2.1s on it (tubed)

collection from turnpike lane , pic from last year but has rattier grips and cockpit now , will do a proper listing on the weekend

Is this not just a Surly Karate Monkey with custom bag and paintjob?

you know i can't read bike numbers, they all ride the same

but yes the broarder point - i think it's difficult.

i do think largely people making people frames, either completely bespoke or a style sized to fit is a particularly mundane approach for both the artist and the consumer, additionally, amey is right, most frame makers cannot make a better riding bike than trek; to sound contreversial here, most frame makers can't make anything which looks distinquishable from one either.

i've aways apreciated the approach of say, a consumer spotting a frame maker they like due to their particular style, design language or ethos and working with them to develop a frame which allows them to express those things for a bike one would actually ride. i think the person who left breadwinner recently mentioned this, ira ryan, they just wanted to make bikes for people again, taking in a variety of influences from the persons life and proposing them a frame they think would fit that. to me that seems a reason for a custom bicycle frame.

but as you say this all costs time and money and quickly you get into the world of building boring bikes for boring bankers.

i'm not a business person, im a consumer, but if i would a frame builder with cnc and 3d modelling skills i'd design the frame makers bits and bobs or the consultancy on making them like lugs, yokes and dropouts to larger makers or smaller ones to bring most the money and then have 5 slots a year at a price you're comfortable with for one on one projects with bike clients.

I know the reason i went to ande is because i wanted his design language, the unfinished fillets the patchwork jumper of new, old, repurposed and the fuckit' diy punk vibe to it all. noone else could have made that bike in the frame builders i'd been looking at.

in the hypothetical, if i came to a person like you it would be because i could say "look, i cant ride any faster than 10mph on flat ground, i cant ride up gradients more than 9%, and i'll never ride anything longer than 80k, i want something to ride to and from the forrest and bosh out blue trails while feeling fun" and your brain, i assume would whir and oscilate between headtube angles, tyre sizes, wheel sizes, seat tube angles and stand over and you'd eventuay make something which would look relatively modern and proportionally perfect (something which is rarely achieved). with the added bonus of a low stand over while reaching my stack needs, without needing a tower of steerer

the saddle bag is quite fun

it's attached with 3 voiles, some foam spacers and these saddle hooks i got from fresh tripe

https://freshtripe.co.uk/velo-orange-saddle-loops/

i was skeptical of this method, but luckly it seems quite secure and is much cheaper than the alternatives such as hobo pieces.

ofc the bagman is an option but the person who gave me this bag did so while telling me how he developed ptsd trying to get the wizard works bag to sit neatly in one

thanks pals!

annoying part of owning a crosscheck is every 12 months you can just put different sized tyres and handlebars on it and suddenly it does something entirely different, making justifying a new bike impossible

might ride it this weekend, little pootle round the block it was v pleasent

always love to see a tiny chainring on a "road bike"

incredible - where can i get something like this for someone 183cm

the rider and the bike they ride

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Spent the evening putting new bars, saddle, wheel, tyres and trinkets on the xcheck

Will grab some pictures in the light, let’s just say it looks very fruity even with a horizontal top tube

read about brianna this morning after i'd spent the weekend with trans friends discussing various way our lives were policed and safety threatened, dodging my own transphobic harrassment and witnessing it happen to others. someone on twitter had shared a playlist Brianna had made and the music was the exact same hyper pop electronica i'd listen to when my head was a mess; i was upset that the wolrd wants us dead, it was so visceral i just started bawling, reading further of the bullying she faced and the way it was dismissed by various people in charge of safeguarding her. my heart goes out to her family and friends at this time.

now we can't know the motivations of why this happened at this time, speculation is useless, but we can know a few things are for sure

the reporting on this, a murdered trans girl is dehuminising and vile, especially the language used by papers so often willing to dehumanise tran people day to day. this is not a mistake or due to a single actor or editorial decision, this is a feature of the system which does not recognise trans existance.

secondly, it's important to remember that brianna ghey will not be burried as who she was to so herself and loved ones due to current gender recognition certificate laws. a final fuck you we deliver to trans people who are taken from us and one ALL trans people worry about.

we can improve and set both these things right very easily, but so often the reality and impacts of both these items which dehuminise the little girl at the centre of this tradjedy are presented by our media and politicians as sensationalist and unreasonable. let's see these things for what they really are, and the impact they have in the case at hand, the right for people to be treated respectfuly.

I only ever sell whole bikes now but it’s very likely it gets moved on by the end of summer if trends are to be trusted

@JacqueLucque this is mind boggling cdf lore, @spotter has since told me he had one too.

Is qbp going to leave another forum member witha big dentist bill??!?

Say no more fam

lt was kind enough to let me lowball on this but i didn’t want to do such a thing to sell it on 4 months later

Someone should buy this, great price, rides fantastic

Also @lt left it outside of a bakery in central london for 2 days for it to be left untouched, if that isn’t an endorsement I don’t know what is

Very much looking forward to building those up... Will need to decide on how to build it up now, I'll throw some ideas out soon.

may i suggest some riser bars, front rack and basket, 35c tyres, a hybrid if you will?

the way a gas pipe rim brake frame bends and flexes causing one to worry if it will snap in two with even a moderate load on it, simply cannot be captured by a disc brake bike.

i cleaned the cotic on the weekend (i did not the boyfriend did , stolen valour) and the disc started chirping rolling it back in the shed and i almost listed the bike for sale then and there

disc brakes?!?!?!!?!? i think not!

@Tijs excellent, this is reasuring, thank you

accruing a few parts for the cross check

notably

swept nitto bars
some new blue cables
90mm hope stem
43c gravel kings (will they fit the motos??? who knows!)
going to swap the matching tb14 rimmed wheel i have off the pacer, and probably the free hubs

the freehub swap is because the tb14 wheel has a campag body which is limited to 28t. one is a mono, another is a pro3 so they should swap fine? but if they don't/ i can't be bothered they're both running off friction and it's a marginal loss in gear range.

rim isn't just for aesthetics but it's ever so marginally wider than what i have, still suboptimal for larger tyres but it's "fine".... well at least a 40c was on my old caad which had a tb14

should just make it a bit more comfortable to bimble around on and a bit more "fun" when doing so

but more importantly, should make it look a bit gayer

if it sticks around might get a poweder coat next winter as i really do dislike the colour.

you know i am weak to a deal but i can't have the partner sell the ogre only to replace it with a inbred

ace

support imo, can always buy more bikes, all bikes ride the same etc etc

feel the same about my wanker cross check, rather be doing other things and it's too nice to use functionally/ lock up at the pub and not worry - so will eventually go somewhere

I will need to sell the Hansom frame and fork as I now technically have nine bikes in my small flat

could you possibly store it in one of your legs?