Functional bikes. Not Porn not Anti

You have the riding position of someone who loves the work! ;-)

Looks interesting. Selling on the Soma website for $150 (£90). Mosquito sell Soma bikes don't they?

No idea, my LBS have emailed the importer here but hadn't had a response last time I was in. Will check next week and see if they've heard anything.

Speaking of them... they're off lugging themselves around Scotland this week with a DIY World Troller... the Travelling Trolloff!

Has this been in here?

Prototype Longstaff 'ruffstuff' tourer...

The rack anyone?

Specialized prototype thing, don't think it's in production yet

Love that, and the latest Donhou. Orange bikes FTW.

good stem

I think it was a firefly

Beautiful bike, but why use an eccentric bottom bracket rather than sliding drop outs on a custom build?

To avoid re-adjusting brakes and hub gearing so much.

Which replaced by adjusting saddle position and stem length

Luckily the latter are barely noticeably with a long brake hood.

Searching Pompino on google picture search gave me a chubbie.

To avoid re-adjusting brakes and hub gearing so much.

I had considered that, I meant one of those sliding drop-outs where the drop-outs slide in the frame, rather than the hub sliding against the brake caliper. I thought that was the way to do it now, is there any reason not to?

Searching Pompino on google picture search gave me a chubbie

WTF. NSFW.

I thought it was implied with "Chubbie".

Yeah, but I just assumed it was like how people on here get sexually aroused by bicycles....

The difference in crank position shouldn't be noticable with 70cm to the rails, and most of the useful BB movement will be fore/aft anyway.

I guess it comes down to how often you remove your wheels, and how easy you'd like that to be.

Psee's Rychtarski All Road

I guess it comes down to how often you remove your wheels, and how easy you'd like that to be.

how so?
wheel removal is the same with sliding drop outs as with normal + ebb.
Effects on geometry are minuscule and moot in both examples.
I'd guess it comes down to how you want to do your chain tension adjustment.
Or rather; as that's probably quite easy both ways, it must be an aesthetic matter only.

^ surely an EBB will be more dirty and more faff?

Don't you have to reach under the BB and then use the cranks to adjust?

Personally I'd always worry about it slipping too. Even though I'm sure lots of ppl will say they don't, it's just another thing to have to tighten to the correct balance of torque.

When you refit the wheels of a SS bike with EBB, it's just like a geared bike but without the mech getting in the way. Right place first time, then do up QR.

With slot dropouts, you have to hold the wheel back and centred whilst you fasten it.