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  • So I've booked to go to Rourke to be sized up for a new frame in February. This is going to be a slow one as their waiting time is 7 months, so hopefully it'll be ready for next cross season / end of the Summer.

    It'll be a cyclocross frame for racing in the winter, and a commuter and light tourer for the summer. Large clearances are a priority with disc brakes and mudguard and rack mounts. I like a normal, not compact, geometry, straight top tube.

    Type of Tubing
    Reynolds 853 pro team OS. I have to decide if it's worth going to Pro Team Super OS?

    Headtube
    44mm headtube - I'd like to run a tapered fork

    Type of brakes
    Disc, post mount

    Cable Routing for Brakes
    Routing over the top tube. Using full length cable outers (for hydraulic), guides like below

    Cable routing for front derailleur
    Usually I won’t be running a FD, but I’d like the option to use a band on, so there should be cable guides over the tt and a FD wheel on the back of the seat tube, like the image below. This will double up as the usual mudguard mount replacing that would be on the chain stay bridge (that doesn’t exist). It would be run as a friction shifter if I had one, mounted on the handlebars.

    Cable routing for rear derallieur
    Over the top tube with a full length outer.

    What fork?
    Kinesis CX disc if I can have a tapered head tube? If I can’t have a tapered HT then what disc cross forks are available?

    Bottom bracket
    English Threaded 68mm

    Clearances
    Large clearances are a priority and should be as large as priority in order to prevent mud clogging. I do not want a chain stay bridge and the seatstay bridge should be high, curved and away from the tyre.

    Seatpost size
    27.2mm

    Dropouts

    Colour
    Black. plain. I will be commuting on it so it should not stand out.

    Mudguard, bottle and rack mounts
    Yes, 2 sets of bottle mounts, rear rack mounts and mudguard mounts. Bottle mounts to be mounted quite high up on the seat tube and downtube to make them easy to reach. I’d like to be able to clear 35c tyres and mudguards

    Groupset that will be used
    Sram Hydraulic CX1. Probably overkill for what will mostly be a wet weather / commuter, but if I can get it for cheap I will. If not then advice on cable discs?

    So, any advice appreciated and if anyone has had a Rourke built before I'd love to hear your experience and any tips.

  • If I can’t have a tapered HT then what disc cross forks are available?

    For disc? In carbon? Probably very few decent ones. In another year, none. You should still be able to get the Linsky and old Kinesis ones.

    Basically, if you want carbon disc forks you do really need a 44mm or tapered headtube. If you're only ever going to use steel forks it doesn't matter as much.

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