Functional bikes. Not Porn not Anti

Also being a big fan of the rack, after a certain time I got myself a second porteur-only for another bike.
both built by meerglas.org (flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/meerglas/ )

Or the 1" threaded fork. Or the cantis. It's a pretty oxymoronic bike.

This yellow one is unbelievable, I'm really wondering now if I could just have something like this as my one and only bike, getting rid of the road bike.

Probably not, but life would be so simple.

Readers:

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Readers, slack chain is slack.

not sure what to say

Drift skid for days.

Rad dad

That best not be a freewheel there.

Jaysus no.

The seat is for bringing the young lad to creche which is only a few mins from my house, then I leave the seat there and cycle in and out of work. It's surprisingly balanced with him in the seat and a loaded front rack. For the majority of time there's no seat and it's a normal fixed gear bike with guards and a rack. Functional for me but I can see why some people would see it as ridiculous.

Such nice bike it is...

lovely @tnts

I'm back with the finished article. My straggler now dialled and feeling oh so nice...

Really nice build! why did you pick an MTB crankset?

Its what I had. Plus, more options for narrow wide chainrings in the 104 BCD

How can you use STI and mountain derailleur?

That Deore derailleur has the same pull as the road derailleurs i think.

Yup.

SRAM's even easier to deal with in that regard. 10/11spd mechs and shifters are completely interchangeable. 11spd brifter with a 10spd mtn mech? No problem. 10spd trigger with an 11spd road mech? Without a hitch.

Have you looked in to what your max tooth count is with that setup? I'm guessing 42T would be a stretch too far for that mech?

9 Speed Shimano MTB works with 10 speed Road STI on a 10 speed cassette!

I've not worked it out to be honest. I reckon it would handle 42t though. I plan to try it in the near future. I may need to use a Wolf Tooth Road Link to get it to work properly.