My Talbot

i actually gave it its first bath since may last week and most of the components are back to shiny as new, paint jobs seen better days but i'm absolutely not precious with the bike so not all that surprising!

i'm running 28s on it atm too which have been lovely through the gritty winter

The top pull front mech cabling (my choice, for some strage reason) with the stupid spleen adapter has pissed me off pretty much since day one.

Next change is a 1x chainset/chainring I think,

I also finally got the steel fork (which is actually a brother kepler spare) fitted with the 1/8 to 44mm headtube crown race and cut down to size, front rack fitted and low rider on the christmas list, ready for some spring cmaping

After doing in my ankle and being basically off bike for the another month, i'll be stripping this down and will be heading off to see mr @coldharbour

What's going on?

new rear end for discs and guards..

paint to be decided.

Nice.

You going SRAM 1x hydro?

Nah, cable discs but going 1x

I have totally stripped this down and will be heading off to see mr coldharbour

Seems a bit extreme, just to get a new head badge.

dat headbadge tho

:')

For the benefit of anyone else who forgot what this looked like

Summer soon, some funky bright colours?

Part of me is now sat here saying 'is it really worth it'? Why brain, why

Yeah, just order a new one and keep this as a beater.

Even worse of an idea, dammit BN

Order a new one with discs and use this for cyclocross.

Also not an option

Order a new one for me too.

Back in the day, a canti-to-disc adapter was a thing...

Also not an option

How anti will my bike be if i stick with mini-v forks and disc rear for a few months..?

I never use my rear breaks. So yeah should be cool.

Quite anti

Matt will have to kill you.

You dont HAVE to instagram it

My realisation of how expensive the forks are is what is putting me off..

Are those forks under recall ?

nope