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@853Superfly
About to strip bike down.
Brakes and chainset are moving over to a Steamroller, i will try the Dolan fork on the Roller as well.
I totally get why the Pre Cursa is popular, the FXE is more everyday useable with 2xcage mounts and rack mounts.
Rack mounting was solid with only 3 points of contact, no issues with only a few kilos of work day bag lashed to the rack.
Being a bit older i watched the early Alu frames come through with round profile tubes, then Klein's with multi profile tubing at heavy cost, to Hydro forming etc etc.
The amount of work on the tubes for a cheap frame is unreal.
Headtube, intergrated headset and machined.
Toptube is sort of Oval.
Downtube is heavily profiled.
Seat tube, plain boring round profile.
Why switch back to steel ?
I know steel, i like steel, and the chance of a new frame £150 below RRP and i had the money.....
I would have another FXE though, my flirtation with Alu has been most pleasant :)