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Dexter
Out and about yesterday on this new purply thing :)
I've noticed it looks blue on some older screens but most definitely very purple in real life, and ridiculously shiny. New screens though seem to display it properly (decent phones etc).
I was in Japan last year and did a short get away with bike down to Fukuoka and went by to finalise and order it.
The design brief (a.k.a 'excuse') for this was to have something for long days out in relative comfort, a little more tyre clearance than an older race-ready lugged frame, decent stiffness for a large frame and sharp handling dialed back slightly. So this easily clears 28mm with 9000 brakes old 18mm inner rims and looks like I could get up to 32 with a newer brake. Tubeset a mix of 853, Max and Zona.
Unfortunately this year's Japan trip ended up cancelled due to the whole Covid thing so I had to have it shipped over here instead. Spent the last two weeks staring at the tracking info as it inched its way through customs but finally it arrived Monday and I got it built up pretty quickly.