All the Talbots!

@Ecobeard question for you - is there a reason you didn't go for the wishbone stay, yours looks like a standard two pronged "thingy". Is it because of 120mm rear spacing? Imagine for a moment I know virtually nothing about frame building.

This is also a great chance to clarify that I think your new bike is absolutely lovely and any previous guff you may have received from me was mere jest emanating from place of dark jealousy.

Weight

Lol jk

the wishbone stay

its for grimpeurs

I thought TF wishbone seatstays were v tough and existed outside the confines of weight distribution? For example the website shows a small, bored child being photographed on a non-flexing wishbone stay.

I thought TF wishbone seatstays were v tough and existed outside the confines of weight distribution?

I'm not allowed to have them :'(

That's possibly more to do with the fact that I might crash my bike more than the average Talbot owner

jest emanating from place of dark jealousy

I inhabit this joyous realm, no need to apologise, but please do store away a small mount of residual guilt.

The rear spacing is 130mm because the Royce hub was 130, cheap and fancy. I went for the stays for a few of reasons.

• This is the other half of my track bike, which also has 'normal' seat stays (but is 120mm spaced), so it matches that, sort of.
  
• Weight is and isn't a factor, ( @Colm89 isn't joking at all, the glass house living bastard) I'm 15-16st, depending on lunch, and even though I'm sure a wishbone would have been perfectly adequate, the 'normal' stays are perceived to add stiffness.
  
• Both bikes use tubes that were 'inherited' from Roberts, the seat stays are some of those tubes.
  
• I don't really like the wishbone stays.
  
  

In short, I'm fat, have old fashioned views on bike design and hopefully adds fuel to the fire of your fellow countrymen who troll @coldharbour about his wishbone specific liability insurance.......

Powerfully built, surely? Prosperous. A former rugby player. Farming stock. Unsuited to ballet. Lovely hair.

I don't have the wishbone because I didn't want the wishbone :-)

Perhaps the nicest near-description of me I have ever heard

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Wow. It didn't even occur to me to think about a travel bike when I ordered mine ...

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This is mine!

Mine's easily the best Talbot I've ridden to date, something about the handling that really hits the spot.

Yours was the one that gave me the idea to ask for the breakaway couplings, so thanks!

Looking forward to getting stuck into riding mine once I've picked it up...

It's an absolute banger! Are the brakes hydraulic? How do you de-couple them?

Yes they are, and the short answer is you don't - when I spoke to Matt, he thought it would be manageable just using the slack in the hoses and leaving them joined up.

That is the one part of this that gives me a slight sense of nervousness as I want to see how easy that is in practice!

Can you show a few details of how the frame joins up, the hose is routed etc?

Will do when I actually pick it up - handover time / date is not yet set (I'm hoping I can get my hands on it over the weekend)

How do you de-couple them?

You can get connectormajigs if you need to actually split them.

I reckon it'd be a lot quicker and easier to just un-bolt the rear caliper, leave that complete with the front triangle.

Unless the connectors are dry-break, with no fluid loss/air ingress? That would be cool.

Looking forward to it. It's one of the best looking ones so far. I am curious how mine will turn out. I've insisted on thru axles in the rear and now I wonder what the transition to the wishbones will look like in detail.

@Dammit Yours looks super cool geo wise, but I cannot get on with the paint job, sry.

I love this

Unless the connectors are dry-break, with no fluid loss/air ingress?

That's the idea.

I did think calipers off might be easiest - will see how easy or difficult it is in practice and then work out my usual approach.

Also been wondering whether it's too wasteful to buy a job lot of magic links and then take the chain off for travel - seems a bit wasteful but then the alternative means lots of wrapping of chains in stuff to stop it bouncing around everywhere

I take the chain off, makes everything much easier. Goes in a zip-lock bag.