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Lovely! I particularly like the front end.

I'd leave it as is personally.

Lovely bike.

Also been toying with replacing this with a bridge club, vintage is cool but so are discs...

Do as I did and meet in the middle, 90s frame with 650b and discs

I particularly like the front end.

Can someone please point me in the direction of a certain bicycle, I've seen it come up time to time on these pages...

It's a classic steel cyclocross frameset with cantilever brakes being used for bikepacking/touring - I'm sure it had a seatpack, frame bag, and little bar bag.

No frame bag but close to your description

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Even if it's not that one he's thinking of, thanks for posting it, lovely bicycle.

Exactly what I was thinking. That's lovely indeed; and now I want to build something similar.

Such a nice bike, reminds me a bit of my old Parkpre.

Should've known, had to be Blue Lug build.

Living dangerously with that seatpost.

Yes, the supertype is the weak (literally) point on this bike.

@mk1mark
Another steel with canti and bikepacking gears.

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Yes to that one.

I had the same query a few months back
https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/172374/?offset=20550#comment14522628
I wrote a script which downloaded every image from this thread (I'm crap, so I ended up with the files for every avatar in here too) and trawled through and found the bike I was looking for. Same one?
https://www.lfgss.com/comments/14527774/

Well done. I think it might be the one.

This one also fit that cat

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Inspired by these bikes I was looking pretty hard for an old cx frame for a pal. The results were pretty disappointing, the clearance is so tight usually

Also older CX bikes are likely to have a high BB , which is not something you'd want on a touring bike.

If there is anything the above bikes have taught us it is that is doesn't really matter. Ride what you've got.

Fantastic, this is the exact bike I was thinking of.

It looks fantastic, thanks for digging!

exactly this

This. Couldn't agree more

They all look great.

I've just cobbled this together - but may have a traditional steel frameset on the way.

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No need to change the bike. Looks really nice. Early 2000s hotness. Just get some rad bickepacking bags instead of the rack