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I do love a Standert.

https://witslingers.com/fabrics/

I do have a fabrics overview! The menu with the link just gets hidden underneath the lead time banner.

The pack on the last page shows the structured belt with pockets, without pockets is the same except for no pockets, the 25mm webbing belt means just a strip of webbing with a buckle in the middle, it'll clip onto loops on the bag and be detachable. A reference photo for that will follow once I get home in 2 weeks and finally get around to @cheekysnaker 's backpack. Which will be a roll-top out of a gorgeous Halley Stevensons twill fabric.

How many TikTok followers do you have?

https://witslingers.com/product/backpack/

The product page needs some tidying and more recent pictures, but it has most of the info.

28 liters! My own bag of the same size pictured with a Huls bottle.

Looks like an unfashionable 175mm to me.

Another backpack! Off to a dormant LFGSS user in Manchester. It will hopefully be photographed becomingly in Nepal next month.

riding gravel bridleways with 2.6" tyres while everyone else talks about the virtues of being under biked

This is enlightenment.

These tyres are so loose and floppy

More tape is the answer to basically all tubeless trouble.

It's not the damning Sam's worried about, it's approval. For those with a degree in a creative field, the only thing that isolates them from the nagging question of whether their father was right and if they should have gone for a degree that would get them a job is staunch belief in their non-conformism. The validation of those one looks down upon is worse than the worst criticism.

Or maybe I'm just projecting.

So good, might be my current favourite forum bike.

Some slight overshoot on the shorter cranks plans, but if 170 was better than 175, surely 165 is even better? To be continued.

Fantastic, I was feeling the need for a 40+ cubic inch bottle in my life.

Yes, looking forward to these! 750ml size this time?

This was a lot of fun, fit needs some work though.

I enjoyed catching up on this thread!

My set-up for a very off-road heavy Grande Traversée du Jura . First time with panniers, surprisingly good but they do invite bringing more stuff than necessary. I could have done away with the fork cages and strapped one of those dry bags on top of the rack instead, but I didn't like that visually.

Taking this compliment! <3

The most important part in preparing for a new drop bar bike is riding my current drop bar bike a bit more. I've exclusively ridden the Huls lately, partly because I cba to get the other one back into shape, but mostly because it's simply that good.

When designing the white bike, I feel like I may have gone a bit overboard on the short reach, so I want to try this with a longer stem. First order of business was getting it up and running though. I cranked the pads in to eek out the last bit of life. And I retaped the rims and fitted the set of UD Cavas I got for pennies a while ago. Holds air overnight and the brakes feel decent, so it's a go.

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@Hulsroy says I should care about 2.5mm. I'll keep my eyes open for 170s, but noughties cranks in that length are like chicken dentures.

And another development is that I'm going hiking in november, which obviously means a new a backpack. Thinking is a framed 60 liter pack as I'll need to bring 6 days worth of food (looking forward to a week of macadamia nuts and instant noodles). I have a vague mood board and I'll start making some drawings in september.

I don't think this will be a commercial venture as there are so many brands who focus on this entirely. And the EDC focused backpacks aren't even really commercially viable yet, but I've stopped saying never. At any rate I'll be learning a lot about backpack construction and I'm sure things will filter back into the smaller backpacks and even bike bags.

Plans for the bike are slowly taking shape, it'll be similar in vibe to @Pish 's "ATB" but for 700c, clearance probably in the 33 with guards 38 without guards region. SON front hub with their self connecting dropout hopefully, 46x30-11x34 with 105 Di2. Slightly less aggressive position than my current drop bar bike and more mounts for racks.

I have half a mind to turn that one into an ever so fashionable (well behind the trend by the time it happens though) riser bar gravel bike. Or just keep it as is, as I'm not really taking any of the parts.

Those who remember the crank woes of a couple pages back will be glad to see this 𝕝 𝕠 𝕧 𝕖 𝕝 𝕪 𝕓 𝕚 𝕥 𝕠 𝕗 𝕜 𝕚 𝕥. These are for the upcoming rando / all-road / gravel bike, I'll be replacing the chain rings for BikingGreen 46/30s. And shipping them over to Denmark for a strip and reano in a nice tone.

I thought I had bought a pair of 170s but they're actually 172.5, not yet sure how much I care. Quite hard to find 170mm and 110BCD, maybe I'll find 170mm 130BCDs, swap around the spiders and move on the other set.

Vegasts with 46/30 direct mount rings would have been more sensible, but these look better to me.

so decided to hit the road for the final 40k

Enlightened imo, that last pic looks grim. Rest of it sounds and looks great!

Too true. Good to pile the pressure on @Hulsroy for double bag supports too. Plus I'll be able to run more made in Denmark cages on my made in Denmark bike

It wouldn't be unfair to call me a full kit twat for the matchy matchy bag set-up. But fast isn't really on the cards, so that's good news for the Radavist dream.

I'm currently debating staying with the rigid fork or switching back to the SID for next year's tour. I'd aim for mostly double track riding, to get away from cars but ride surfaces that allow for decent progress. But as Komoot is doing my routing there will be some hairy bits, which makes the SID appealing. The benefit of rigid is that I can mount a bag support, which I really liked on the Ore Mountains trip.

But in all honesty, it's mostly that that one Radavist picture has lived in my head rent free for the past 5 years, and I'd really like to live that life.

Some Komoot Trailviews that give an idea of the riding I hope I'll be doing: