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So, I've being using the Ti Pickenflick CX bike as a everyday bike and as a tourer for almost 2 years and I love to pieces, it's not heavy, it's stable and it's lively. The problem is that it's quite impractical, there are no eyelets for mudguard and no eyelets for racks (front or rear). My solution so far was fitting a quite large handlebar (44cm) so I could fit a rucksack at the handlebar when I travelled and commit deeply to bikepacking and carry a backpack when I'm in the city.
Last year I was involved in an accident where I t boned a car @ 40 km/h, it was quite nasty resulting in a broken clavicule (second time now), and I didn't send the fork for inspection and is being bugging me ever since, so I finally decided to purchase a new fork so I could buy some piece of mind and also I could fit everything I needed to make my steed more practical.
The plan:
Here's the bike @ my trip through Italy last year
Here's how I use everyday