Functional bikes. Not Porn not Anti

Posted this a while back, someone assembled a 650b Pacer conversion...

Surly Pacer 650b with Soma fork by ilmari hyvönen, on Flickr

Now looks like this!

Surly Pacer 650b with Soma fork (cantilever studs retrofitted to both) by ilmari hyvönen, on Flickr

^ tdf yellow, nice.

Don't s'pose you found that stem you mentioned you might have?

SUPER into this!

I'd like to know if the new racks will have hardware for mounting to a fork with just a hole in the crown

Pretty easy to take one of the adjustable stainless rods and make a bend in it so that the flat portion meets the hole in your fork.
Whether that would be adequate for loads would be another question.

Yes! It's 120mm, 25 degrees if that works or you want to borrow to test...

That'd be ace ta, is it 31.8 clamp?

Yep!

Do you guys have any suggestions for a relatively affordable (ideally sub €100) front rack that can carry a box of around 40x40x30cm?

Pretty low weight box + contents, for a track/geared bike without any bosses to mount it on (so mount it on the axle and probably the handlebars or otherwise using the brakehole of the fork).

I would love something like a CETMA 5 rail, but at the moment a little (too) expensive. I've looked at the Pelago and some others, but they're not quite on the money.

Any suggestions welcome!

Cool will give you a shout around pickup, what days/times are best for you?

My geared up, street sleeping, functional beaterlicious Pompetadonkey, in roll-over-everything mode

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that is awesome.

@vaultbrad @withered_preacher, the stays looks tubular in the photos so not so easy to bend as if they were solid bar.

Guess you could bend them at the end where they are crimped flat.

Either way, I'd be using both of them, bolted one in front of the other through the central hole. Might not give much stability though.

Adding mounts at the top of the fork like the Surly ones shouldn't be too difficult.

Thought of this. Concern for is that the stays are tubular, not solid which might result in folding at that great a bend. Could be an unfounded concern. It would be nice to mount this more than just my pugsley.

I see, regardless you could find an alternative (Tubus or flat stainless) which would work.

Daytime I'm around Oxford Road all week, evenings - tonight/Thursday/Friday

A couple of new Soma tyres look interesting.

http://somafab.blogspot.co.uk/2015/10/introducing-two-new-soma-tires.html

Nice, seen any prices/distributors mentioned? Made by Panaracer like Compass et al. so guessing similar ballpark figure.

Edit: They're online in the Soma store - http://store.somafab.com/ro.html

Decent prices if you convert directly - but may end up still with customs on top.

Try Mosquito bikes, London, they deal with Soma.

Problem is, a lots of Soma stuff are hard to get.

SBC Cycles can get in Soma stuff.

Man, you guys really went to town posting my bikes :)
Sadly I haven't got the time to browse LFGSS that frequently anymore so stuff goes by me.

To answer some questions:
Mudguards on the 'Dale are infact from Biltema. Just a pair of generic plastic guards. I always have them in stock at home just because I like to chop them up for a custom fit. They cost less than a tenner a pair so no biggie. Rear fender is extended with a piece of front fender, front fender is a shortened rear fender. Didn't want to have it flopping about at the front so added a pair of struts that attach to the front lowriders.

Talking of lowriders, yes, the right one is slightly lower than the left one. The Cross-Check fork doesn't have midfork mounts so it's just p-clamped to the legs. Slipped a few times on this summers grand tour (2400km around the Gulf of Bothnia Stockholm-Turku) and just couldn't be bothered to bushmechanic them parallell.

I've posted the minicargo on here before, you can find some more pictures in my Flickr.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mankkis/albums/72157635648087934
Just and old Swedish 90's mtb that me and my friend welded a new front end on. Definitely not a CyclePro production model :D
Rocked it with pretty skinny tyres at first (2.0" in the rear, 35x451mm in the front) but I was rolling on the rims all the time. So we moved the front canti studs lower so I could use a smaller diameter wheel and then I crammed in some bigger rubber. Rolling on 2.3" in the rear and a massive 2.4" in the front now. Good fun that bike.
Also welded a rear hitch for the odd occasion one might need one.

The 'Dale is definitely a better tourer than the BJ. Bob was flexing all over the place and wobbled instantly at speeds over 20km/h. Power transfer was seriously lacking. The 'Dale is a superb frame, I actually got it for free from a friend. The ride is incredibly smooth especially with that skinny Surly fork but still stiff so it feels confident.
The Bob has found it's place as my rain bike in this setup. Same extended fenders ;)

Bob was flexing all over the place and wobbled instantly at speeds over 20km/h.

That's old British touring bike for you.

Same extended fenders.

And I like skinny tyres.