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@togas
Hi, as there is more and more touring bikes in forum i will introduce mine.
This bike had many different roles and styles and changed mainly over the time. Perhaps will change again soon.
At first then i bought it i only knew it was a Reynolds 453 frame with cantilevers and both rack mounts.
As i needed it for commuting it soon get some parts that made it really robust single speed commuter.
Only few parts still left from first build its Campy record headset and some unknown seatpost.
then it was made to be sscx
and again to commuter mode. I started to hear and feel some sounds from frame, it looked like bottom bracket has his life ended. After looking all the bike i saw long crack around heat tube and downtube lug. hmm sad news.
The crack was welded, but i wasn't feeling quite optimistic about it. btw most of frame was already sanded for repainting. I started to think is it worth it. Maybe it could break again soon. so i just put few layers of lacquer and started to ride.
I wanted to explore my country more and road bike wasn't the best choice. Gudereit time has come and it reborn again.
I was really happy to put front rack and make durable setup.
it went with this
and sometimes i used it for bikepacking like for Prague-Berlin trip