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Yeah they're remarkably similar. Camino has bottle cage bosses under the downtube, looks like straight steerer rather than tapered (although I don't know), and I'm pretty sure the London Road doesn't take a front rack. Camino is about 300g lighter too. London Road takes 31.6mm seatpost whereas Camino takes 27.2mm. And the PX is half the price of the Camino at the moment.
Also I think the new Camino paintjobs are immeasurably improved over the old ones:
Probably can't go wrong with either of these or the Arkose to be honest
frankenbike-
looks like straight steerer rather than tapered
No it's a 1 1/8" to 1 1/2" steerer and it takes an external/zerostack headset like a Chris King i7. That (the external headset) would be the selling point for me over the London Road or Arkose.
There's a reason why touring bikes are steel
These are all aluminium and loads of dedicated touring bikes are aluminium.
Jaap
bikes are almost the same looked at the side by side.