Functional bikes. Not Porn not Anti

This bike kept coming up when I was looking for a local (read: in the same country) builder. In the end I did go with him and I haven't regretted it, it's a fine frame. I hope he's still around, he claimed that my build would be his last.

Ah wicked, I had no idea about the framebuilder, just found it on google images. Let's see yours?

This was from new, almost 5 years ago.
Now with double crank, Tubus Fly rack and SKS fenders.
Still with Paselas.

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Nice

Thanks

My fixed ghetto-travel-functional bike.

What's up with the front straddle cable? look really short!

You're only looking at half of it, it's the same length as the back one.
#anglesinnit

My bad.

Both look very short!

Spotted this the other day.

So here's another question for the functional nerds: If I slacken my head tube angle by about 1 degree, but keep the resulting trail the same, what would the effect on handling be?

I'm thinking about swapping my road bike to a steel fork, for greater tyre capacity. The Thorn Brevet is a similar length to the original with greater offset, and the Soma Champe Elysees fork is about 20mm longer, but with even more offset, both should result in a trail of about 40-44mm.

My inclination is to stick closer to the original to avoid messing with BB height, but I may do a 650b conversion anyway if I like the larger tyres, which would bring it back down a bit.

itll be less than 1 degree different to before

huh?

Toei bikes

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Bike will feel slower to turn but easier to handle off road.

If you have fit a fork with more offset, it should have similar handling.

Calfee Dragonfly Adventure Dual Disc 650b

wow they're ugly. green fork looks interesting, is it steel or carbon?

^^ anti.

It's a Wound Up.

Jan didn't enjoyed that bike much as it turn out, especially the DSP tape.

Good lord those are hideous

Not winning any style points, that's for sure. The one on the top isn't thaaat bad

Ultimate FBNPNA bars

What's with the webbing on the Calfees?
I have no idea what's going on with those bikes, complete anti.

Needs clip ons