Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

There is also this avaiable for a cheap price
https://www.chainreactioncycles.com/it/en/ns-bikes-rag-adventure-frameset-2018/rp-prod165977

I think I'm getting to this point.
Hong Fu plus ebb.

15 is MTB standard for years, would be easier to find though.

I understand that, and it makes sense when you're running front suspension and want the front end to be stiffer (oo-er matron), but it's overkill for road/cross. Plus it makes it harder to get a pair of hubs.

But you can easily shim down a 15 to a 12, whereas inverse shims for 12 to 15 seem to be sold out everywhere.

Which is an argument for a 12 and not a 15, now I think of it. Not sure what point I was trying to make?

Novatec come in 15, what more could you want/need?

You'll need proprietary shims for that fork if you want to use 12mm hubs/axles. I don't think octane makes those..

I thought you can just use a sleeve on the front?

https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/hub-spares/halo-thru-axle-adaptor-sleeve-15-to-12-mm/

That's for using a 15mm hub with a 12mm fork. And even that does not always work. Not all forks have room for the wider end caps of a 15mm hub.

That octane has a 15mm fork.

All this chat makes me want to stop bikes.

Ohh that's cheap

If you want a pompetamine replacement mine might be surplus to requirements in the new year (subject to the size you were needing)?

I'm small.
168 cm on a very good day.

From memory its 55.5 top tube c-c.

That will be a bit big....

In case you are still wondering, found this on PX website.
Tempest tyre clearance on V1 38mm, on V2 43mm.
They might have put up the info of the previous version.

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disc brake thread >>>

All this chat makes me want to stop bikes.

If your main intention is to run singlespeed, and not fixed, then surely a singlespeed conversion will be fine on any CX frameset?

Ebb in the arkose is shit and has put me off.

It's not as easy to sort as dropout

Buy @amey ‘s Crockett.

Sold it months ago

Have you ever considered gears?

Was a 54.

@dst I have road gears, cross gears, my pompetamine was nice (in my eyes). It did the commute, the winter plodder, and was baby blue.