Functional bikes. Not Porn not Anti

700x35 tubeless tyre that are light and fast. Any recommendations?

Compass Bon Jon pass, or I am currently using Jack brown green from rivendell which are similar , not tried setting them up tubeless though.

Couple of spots in Manchester over the last few weeks. Dawes in particular is cool I think.

Dawes is very cool!

Dawes seatpost is insane - looks quite a bit longer than the seat tube! But aside from that yeah, nice bike

<3 Dawes !!

the seatpost and saddle there is odd. Lovely bike though.

Looking for a rim brake 700c functional frame for general biking about and carrying some shopping/work clothes.

I'm 5ft10.

Any recommendations?

There's nothing out there like that, try to be less specific.

any Dawes Galaxy of the last 40 years?

I like these. I like how the bb shell moves and inch side to side under my imense 130w powah when buying milk and a strawberry cornetto.

You can find them with 531ST and full shimano DX for under a ton-brilliant functional touring no stress locking it up whatever you like goodness imhop

I’ve noticed today riding slow with my kid alongside- my orange has what I’d call ‘front wheel flop’ at low speed- suddenly flops one side to other even holding bars- quite hard to stop or correct

Is this because the surly fork on there is suspension corrected so longer than the original fork probably was?

Lol. I know it's an open brief...... I'm just struggling for inspiration.

This probably doesn’t tell you much but this is the floppy bike as it is now!

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80s-90s steel, look at your local reseller source.
Around here it's mid level Nishiki, Rockys, Konas, better Schwinns, Velosports...

Really long and high basket also probably contributing.

Gravel king

Garbage rat with mix of mtb and mamachari parts. So functional it’s scary.

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Want. More here; https://theradavist.com/2018/07/skip-town-on-the-speedvagen-gtfo

I’ve noticed today riding slow with my kid alongside- my orange has what I’d call ‘front wheel flop’ at low speed- suddenly flops one side to other even holding bars- quite hard to stop or correct

It's a combination of having a high trail and a front load (even unladen) mean that once it turn very slightly, the weight of the rack increase the turn/flop more, due to the fact it's an MTB frameset with a suspension corrected fork to keep the trail high enough for stability off road.

Solution is basically a shorter fork to steepen the head angle and reduce trail, but seeing how far back your saddle is, you'd need a little more layback to put you in the same position.

Having said that, with the amount of seatpost showing, maybe replace the frameset with an Intec one? if that's 26" wheels, then the Intec M1 Disc.

Doesn't a stiffer wheel help too? Maybe a 36/40 spoker would be a good idea

#myfirstwelds