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@Mikenetic
I've been popping up in the new project thread for a while now, as and when I build a frame. To date they've been for me and family.
That changed a little while back, when a friend approached me to build him a bike for use on bad roads, cyclocross jaunts, and he wants to ride Roubaix next year. It's my first commercial commission, which I'm excited about, and has also been a spur for me to go ahead and book a slot exhibiting at Bespoked in 2016.
The build is in progress now. Columbus Zona tubing with Paragon Machine works disc dropouts, tapered CF fork. It'll work with CX or fat road tyres, and have mounting for mudguards too. Groupset is SRAM Force 1 hydraulic a 1x11 setup. So rather than being a 'pure' CX bike this is in that expanding niche of bikes built to cover a range of riding styles.
I'd like to take you through some of the thinking I've applied and techniques I've used during the design and build.
Here's the design sketch from BikeCAD.
And the frame parts laid out and ready to go.
Cheers!