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My cyclocross bike started life as a Giant Cross City RX 0 flat bar .. 105 5700 10 speed, Tektro mini V brakes, I didn’t keep any photo’s as I always planned on changing stuff anyway. But it looked something like this .. thankfully mine had some better Mavic Aksium wheels.
I read a lot of conflicting things about geometries and stuff, this one essentially has slack road geometry which seemed appropriate for a CX/gravel bike, and I haven’t had any issues with bottom bracket height. I put a set of FSA Wing Pro bars on it and a pair of 105 5700 road shifters and changed it to a zero offset seat post and to be honest it’s fine, feels very much like an endurance road geometry.
I hate the look of V brakes, and it HAD to have canti’s, so I stuck some Tektro 720’s on it and a seatpost clamp hanger and headset spacer hanger to make it all work. It’s pretty good .. not amazing braking power but works okay for me so far. In the future I would like to put the bits on a proper cyclocross frame, like a CAAD X.
If anyone’s interested in this mash up I’ll get some better pictures.
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