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Like the look of this. I've cobbled together something similar but on next to no budget. Used an old mountain bike frame and stuck with the fatty fork. It's a 2001 Caad 3 frame, so think the headangle is around 72 degrees, which is fairly steep and old school. Means it handles pretty well on the road , while the headshock helps with the bumps off it. Its not particularly #tukt and the wheelbase is on the long side, but it fits 2.0 tyres with ease and is still surprisingly light.
I want to upgrade the fork, as mine doesn't have lockout and is just coil sprung, so not very tune-able. Don't want to spend much cash though as this could turn into a money pit...trying to snipe ebay for bargains. Long term ideal would be lockout airsprung fork that works, spyre disk brakes and Sram 1x10 road shifters. Might happen.