What about the ride? A friend's just starting out as a framebuilder and I've been tempted to ask her to build me a towpath tourer/rough-stuffer along these lines.
Next bike will be an upgraded version of this basically, but with the same esthetic/style.
This was basically my goal for the Kepler (90s aesthetic with 700c and 1x) but been mainly riding my genesis cos disc brakes are so much better for commuting/ in the wet. (I live at the top of a big hill)
Looks very nice. I wonder how this kinda bike rides vs modern cro-mo turing/all around bike.