TomvanHalen's MTB allsorts - drop bars are dead

Chris King made these bearings for me

These invisible bearings?

40Nm indeed.

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That's one way of stopping you from overtorquing it

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Are you @TvH 's personal photographer? How much is he paying you?

Hose is too short. In the bin with it all!

How much is he paying you?

More than he can afford...

An urgent date with birthday curry and beer has paused the build, but only the dropper post left to cable up. Much excite.

HA! Just did the same to one of those half an hour ago. Even at 30nm the wrench was a pain to remove

I have possession of this bike overnight. PM me with with reasonable offers!

going to do peddars way as a forum group bikepacking ride

Peddars Way? Day ride, surely.

Could definitely string it out over 2 days of relaxed riding with many pub stops, especially if you added some of the Norfolk coastal path into the mix.

Re: the build, I’ve never been keen on full sus bikes in general, but that thing looks incredible. Can’t wait to see full build photos.

That looks well naughty!

Could definitely string it out over 2 days of relaxed riding with many pub stops

You make a compelling case.

We certainly will be adding some special extensions, and some pub stops.
TVH knows every hidden pump track in East Anglia!

just get on and buy a bike already

nice valve stem alignment
look forward to seeing this shooting past me tomorrow

If I don't get stuck between two trees with my enormobars

Schwing!

Did you choose to have the triangular shaped piece of the suspension linkage in silver intentionally? To match the cranks etc.

It looks smashing!

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Yup. I asked nicely and took the raw linkage from the test bike and got it clear anodised

That is one good looking bike.