Salsa Vaya, the Resurrection - TvH's touring stuff

Cool.

Yesterday afternoon I dropped the frameset off with August Bicycles, where I was greeted by Gav, who seems a thoroughly nice dude with a very enviable workshop and great taste in death metal.

Have decided to have the rest of the downtube guides removed and extra threaded inserts brazed onto the bottom of the DT for those bolt-on triple housing guides, with a front derailleur cable stop. on the seat tube and cable-tie guides on the chainstay. Will also have some holes drilled and reinforcements brazed on the right fork leg for the dynamo cable. As nice as full internal dynamo routing sounds, I can't think of a way to do it that doesn't involve seatpost shenanigans (or that won't drive me insane).

The SP hub arrived yesterday, so I can get on with wheelbuilding shortly!

I may be being talked into a custom rack

Ooo! Just found this thread!

I can definitely recommend thunder butts too. Ive even been using mine for commuting, mtb trails, gravel, snow, etc. Good mix of speed and grip. Indeed very light, and they are wearing much slower than expected! My 2.1" measures 52mm from knob to knob on a 35mm external rim

thunder butts

precisely

Throwing some more tyre options into the mix. I use Clement MSO in 700 x 50 ( 29x1.9) and find them great. Again....I'm 80/90% b road and then some muck for the other 10%:or so.

52mm from knob to knob

Sounds dangerously close

(to the mudguards)

4130 braze it

stolen from august's gram

stolen from Norwich crack den

I have these on my commuto-cross check (£10 each)

https://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/TYVIRANII/vittoria-randonneur-ii-wired-tyre

And these arrived yesterday (£15 each) and look lovely. Will be used for some slightly gravely canal side touring in France later this year. They are lovely....

https://www.planetx.co.uk/i/q/TYVITREVG/vittoria-revolution-g-graphene-700c-wired-tyre

It's OK everyone, I have already ordered Gravel King SKs. But the tyre chat will be useful for when I decide I don't like them and want to try something else

Might take a break from Gilles Berthoud on this build. Looking at VO Zeppelins in noooooooir. Will I fit 47s under them?

Honjo or nothing

Can we move onto bottle cage and bar tape chat now?

Any takers on a kidney?

Actually I would like to know of a comfy, inexpensive bar tape that doesn't compress over time

http://www.wiggle.co.uk/lifeline-professional-bar-tape-with-perforation/

even more inexpensive than that

@amey will just come here and post Lifeline Pro stuff from Wiggle.

edit: too slow....

@PhilDAS is the new @amey

Give me SRAM Supercork or give me death

I have some H-31 which I would be open to selling

Suitable for 28-35c tyres.

What kind of a thread do you think this is

@Hulsroy