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Yeah - it always annoyed me a bit - One One are so often at the forefront of new ideas and making them affordable - the 29er (inbred) and the Kaffenback's basically one of these gravel bikes everyone wets themselves about now, but they're never quite spot on and the annoying thing is they're not cost issues - you could accept bad paint or ugly welds, but geometry/design ones, which if solved would make some of these bikes total winners.
But they are cheap, cheerful and long-lasting - a colleague is running a 10 year old 26er SS inbred with 650b 2.3 tyres, having ground off a bit of the wishbone and brazed a flat covering plate back on to seal it. He's intending to extend the horizontal dropouts too. Also been powdercoated.
He will have spent 2-3x the original price in the end, but the point is you wouldn't want to experiment on a more expensive frame...
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@Thuekr - cheers. those pictures are awesome, haha!
@niggle - sounds like my issue. thanks for your input.
@user72800 - wow, thanks for taking the time to type out all this great info. The bit you mentioned here: " the headtube was just too short meaning I had tonnes of saddle-bar drop even with 4cm+ of spacers and a flipped up stem. It also had bad toeverlap with 165mm cranks. " is exactly the problem I'm having. See pic:
Stem is a 70 with an obvious rise. Even with that setup there is still a pretty big drop. I could definitely stand to stretch out a bit more but this is just a stem I had spare. I can only assume that if I had gotten a medium, that I would level out a bit and have a more comfortable ride. We share the same size shoe so also interesting to hear about the clearance on the medium.
Again, thanks for all the info, you've helped me decide.