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@Brameses
I love all my bikes but they are all "not quite right" so this thread will be a cascade of small changes that leave me in bike heaven.
1st up is the fixed gear: Just before I moved to Berlin in April I had a lucky escape from a potentially bad accident. As I was cycling my IRO through islington, I turned off down St Johns street and my handlebars snapped. I went down like a sack of shit and luckily the car behind was switched on enough to avoid me completely stacking in the middle of a clear street. After a few strongly worded letters the bar manufacturer in question agreed that since my bike was written off, they would give me a surly steamroller as a replacement.
All good. Except I didn't really like the surly. Riding it fixed as a tarck bike was not doing it for me so I did what anyone would do in my situation and went to a framebuilder. I have had some canti mounts brazed on which was the first step in the creation of a fat tyred, fixed gear, 'light adventure' bike for shitty roads/paths around Berlin.
Next step will be cantis - or mini vs. Not quite sure yet but I do prefer the look of cantis and tbh have never had any problems with their stopping power.
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