On One Pompino owners...

Fuck me, read your post wrong. Post it here when you find what you are looking for.

HAH! Cheers all the same fella. Biggest offset I've found is some Ritcheys with 48mm, but they cost twice what I paid for the frameset and are therefore a ridiculous proposition, even if they were in budget.

Hadn't thought to look for Chinese Crabon though, so will get stuck in.

carbon low trail fork?
what a hipster.

Life aficionado <3

I just wanna ride my biek, mang.

Forgot to reply to you! I could live with similar, have done on other bikes. Imagine the end of the mudguard stay hitting your toe, roughly where the white bit on your trainer ends :/

It's fine for commuting, but took the mudguards off and went riding mtb trails in the woods and it was a right fuck on. You're probably right re: suitability there, though.

I have a question regarding the Pomp's Matt Raw finish - how does it fare with wet conditions?

I'm wondering about long term - a bike to ride and leave locked outside in rainy weather. From personal experience I learned that clear coated bare steel tends to rust pretty quickly.

It won't be as durable on the long term.

@Mheldring I was expecting that to be the case but was hoping to hear something different I guess, cheers for the reply!

Will be keeping a close eye on how the raw finish holds up. Guy at LBS has his doubts. Currently using a lot of muc off finish and protect spray.
If the worst happens already planned a re spray in bright orange !

Been reading through this thread a lot lately, the temptation is definitely there. Some very dump questions to follow: which disc forks would suit a build like this? and can you mount a rear disc to the 2014 model?

You could get any CX disc fork, I believe and someone on here has indeed converted this to have a rear disc. Voila!

@Hulsroy added some custom-made dropouts and respaced the rear a tad.

Build thread

That's so nice! Which forks are those?

Specialized Sirrus Alu

(Pro tip: read the build thread)

Noted.

I'm a sarcastic bastard at times

Some changes to suit a bit of cx fun.

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you mean mount a rear disc brake via some adapter/hack to pompino? Why not get a pompetamine?

They don't seem to sell them anymore... =/

....just bought the last pompino in small, what are the widest tires you can fit with mudguards?

Depends on the tyres and the mudguards (and gearing too)

(Without guards I've managed a 35 in one brand, and had another brands 32 not fit)

45mm mudguard, and 32mm tyres (latter depend as @Khornight2's rightly said).

I got 35mm Pasela's on mine with guards.

I thought I'd ask on here before I bought a new set, does anyone have a set of pompino forks (or similar) they'd like to get rid of? For a ropey winter commuter build.

...decided not to fit guards (already have other bikes for that), so will try 35mm tyres. thanks guys!