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Should knock a few hundred off purely for the crimes against my eyes. At what point did they think orange hubs and spacers and brown bar tape were a good idea!

I have (and I’m about to sell) one of these but agree with the price estimates of the others despite the potentially nice wheels and saddle.

This made me laugh a lot:

brakes of the future – cantilevers, the whole rim is the brake disc and braking doesn’t actually affect the speed

This. I did not do this and I have regrets. Get as much drop as possible.

Was the price right? No.
Could I resist once I saw it in the flesh? No.
Does Stridsland Journal have a lot to answer for? Yes.

Fun aspects I didn’t realise: stem is one with hidden internal routing, frame has internal routing for rear u-brake.

Less fun: clearance still looks a little tight for 2.3 at the rear. Original gt stem is almost too nice to replace with stumpy stem and higher rise bars.

Limited I believe. A-C?

For expensive, Wilde bike in the US have a carbon fork with utility cage mounts, 398 a-c etc.

https://www.wildebikes.com/products/wayfinder-fork?_pos=1&_sid=cb631fec6&_ss=r

None. New bike time!

More seriously: forks aren’t really made with a straight steerer anymore so you’d likely need to find a lightly used or NOS older fork. Hard to find. Or if you want to get bouncy, get a modern hardtail with modern geometry and specs etc

That’s near identical to what I have in mind.

Price is key. Currently I think it’s overpriced so once I’ve checked it out I’ll negotiate.

Trying to resist buying a GT Tequesta that has come up locally. It’s the early 90s horizontal drop out, non mad paint version but does have the funky GT stem. The idea is to build it up single speed with parts I have to replace a Kona Hahaha that is geared and a little too big for me.

Am I mad? Am I asking this question in the wrong place?

Top photo putting derailleur further back is correct I believe.

My first attempted bleed ended with me blowing the syringe off and spraying hydraulic fluid up the walls and over myself. One good reason to use Shimano…

Ah the joys of brake bleeds. You shouldn’t be feeling much pressure when pushing through from the syringe. I’ve made that mistake before, so just make sure the bleed port is sufficiently open.

Hah thanks. I just need to suck it up and get the second set of rs4 hubs I have laced up and get 4 sets of matching rotors to make life easy.

Given the limited number of spacers for a surly, I’m surprised you went with the 56T!

I spent a long time contemplating the geometry of the Faran, before settling on the 54R with 30mm of spacers, the T versions do add serious stack.

The 1x1 is clearly THE perfect pootle bike. Love it.

Haha thank you. Fingers crossed! I’ll provide an update once I’ve tried it out.

I live in Toronto. The weather does change in big uniform blocks. If the hubs, rotors and cassette were identical (and used to a similar amount) then there should be zero faff swapping.

“Not many bikes feel great on two completely different tyres” is an interesting statement. If the bike is being ridden on different surfaces…why would that not be the case?

Why? I’m having this thought too. Or have had it and I’m implementing. Dry summer: Chonky off road. Wet spring: guards and slicks.

Things I enjoy:

Seeing Hulsroy update on Instagram.

Coming to LFGSS to look at the exact same pictures again a short while later for another endorphin hit.

That kiddo bike is epic.

Why remove canti studs and not just fit cantis?

Fragile, but roll so delightfully nicely, decent enough grip and generally happy. However I did not pay full price so that helps. I’ll be fitting some wider Teravail Rutlands for the summer on this wheelset so it will be interesting to compare.

@Tijs very kind of your sir.

Ended up buying a rack, so that I can happily rock my bigxtop bar bag without klikfix. Wizard work bottle/snack pouch because water freezing is upsetting.

Still do so that I can ride through winter: 700x38c tyres on hunt wheelset with PDW guards.

Fitness low, but still just love how good this bike feels.

There’s Hope Academy that does the kids rental - is that still going?

Step through with clearance for 2.1 is that crust though isn’t it?

Thanks. Annoyingly I’m in Canada and it keeps opening the Canadian website.