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edscoble
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In a proper dilemma over what to do with my FBNPNA daily ride. I was planning on doing up my Saracen mountain bike, it has been robbed of parts, and I've slowly aquired 10 speed gears, bar end shifters, a new lamp, new V-brakes and levers to build it back up again with drop bars. Was also going to get the rear spaced to 135mm and braze-ons added under the downtube for a fuel bottle for heavy touring with the girlfriend.
But then I found out the fork was bent. Not seriously, and I think it's always been like that, as it's always self-steered with hands off the bars, but it never bothered me. I found some lovely pacenti crowned forks from a guy on retrobike, which would look lovely and fit. But with the price of the frame mods and respray I'm almost up to the price of a new LHT frame (which was kind of always the plan).
But then if I'm spending 350+ on getting that bike up and running, and with the money I could make from selling the frame and a nice pair of 26" touring wheels, I'm a long way towards the price of a Genesis Vagabond, which if I'm serious about offroad touring this summer, looks ace.
but then I see something like this, which sets me back to the start again:
tl;dr probs buying a Vagabond