Functional bikes. Not Porn not Anti

Ta!

56mm tyres and 65mm (flat) mudguards:

More of this 20mm clearance chat please, have just bought new tyres for my Day One and went 28c rather than 32c so I'm gonna have some big gaps bang on trend clearance.

I think it's about the distance, rather than size difference, between the mudguards and tyre. To be fair, as along as they're spaced evenly away from the tyre, it should look okay.

Heine was only talking groad tho

20mm is for actual riding. 10mm max for Instagram. Can't have it all.

The front is currently pretty tight so it should be fine, the rear is probably going to need sorting though.

I can add spacers at the chainstay bridge and the seat stay clip has some room for movement but doing both of those will effectively reduce the diamter of the arc the mudguard takes and my seatstay bracket is drilled and bolted so no way to slide that round...

This

Here's more of what Heine thinks about fenders

Clearance (required). Some riders manage to squeeze a fender into a 5
mm gap between tire and frame, but ideally, you should have about 30
mm between the tire and the bridges/fork crown. 20 mm (above) is
workable, but if you have much less then you are running into safety
risks.

Though presumably that's with his preferred Honjo aluminium guards, which don't have breakaway clips?

Yeah god forbid he ever mention anything in the context of a product he doesn't sell.

If anyone is after a Rivendell in the UK this is a good opportunity to get one, Soma San Marcos 59cm which was designed by Grant Petersen

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Soma-San-Marcos-59cm-Steel-Bike-Frame-With-Tange-Infinity-Forks/253353520863?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649

They build up like this, if thats your vibe

TBF I don't think Heine's advocacy is because it's the stuff he sells; I do genuinely reckon he's so much of an enthusiast for this stuff that he'll sing its superiority at every possible occasion. Does sometimes get a bit wearing, though he's usually fairly interesting.

That is definitely my vibe!
Really don’t need more bikes though.

Need that fork. Is it an old orange mtb?

Look custom to me

Thanks. It's holding up pretty well on the tour too. Have had a few issues with the front rack, mainly shearing the bolt in the fork leg, on a long, rough descent (we've been riding 90%+ gravel in the mountains of southern Spain, waiting in algeciras currently for the wind to drop, so we can get a ferry to ceuta. Hopefully tomorrow), so have had to remount it from the top fork-end braze-on. Also the front mudguard stay failed due to fatigue, from the vibration, so is patched up with cable ties for now. Planning on fabricating a new rack mounting solution and some steel mudguard stays if I can find a workshop in Morocco.

@dangeek although it looks heavy, it's actually surprisingly light-feeling to ride. I think the carbon rims and tubeless tyres make a big difference there. It weighs somewhere around 10.5kg with racks etc. However it's at about 40kg right now... this picture was taken on the first day, riding away from the airport.

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That's almost too good.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BeAf3NtlWAD/

Christ campag hydro is insanely ugly. As if theyve gone out of their way to make uglier shifters than 105 hydro

Not too dissimilar from the sram hydro on the bike above it. Both a bit meh.

Theyre both tall sure but the sram hydro stuff looks built for purpose. Campag stuff always looks so messy imo