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I'll split this opener into a couple of posts to try and control my rambling:
Our flat is too small for all my bikes and massive assortment of "it might come in handy one day" stuff, so I'm in the process of clearing out the vast majority. The most difficult part is making myself get down to just two bikes - previously I was allowing myself three, even that was a struggle.
The three were originally plastic Trek rd bike, winter bike and commuter. Then I had to get my mountain bike out of my mates garage so the commuter got stripped down - commuting on wide flat bars is no fun in windy, hilly Edinburgh. Now, the plan is to just have two bikes; I'm keeping the Trek (for now at least) and replacing the mtb, commuter and winter bike with one that can, hopefully, fulfil all three roles.
So, out go this
and
Because It's going to be my commute/pub/around town bike (and I have ambitions to jump on the @Jaap / @russmeyer bandwagon and do some frame modding) it had to be steel. I was searching for something retro with cantis but no-one was willing to post, there was no tyre clearance or they were too small. Then I came across the Kaffenback with swapout droupouts, which would have been ideal, cheap, could get new dropouts machined if I wanted to play around with the geometry and can do canti or V. Only it wasn't cheap, by the time postage was included it went for close to new cost!