Spotter's Current Project Collation

So back story to this build - A few years ago, my father said he wanted a new bike, his brief was:

• a town bike
  
• up right position
  
• low maintance
  
• Not too heavy
  
  

So I built him this:

(this was pre fit so it looks a bit extreme)

He really liked it, and it got him back into cycling again. Now he cycles with a group of his chums, the go out on runs to their various local café, have a snack and come back - I call them the flying bullingdons'.

Over the last year or so they have started going a bit further and started going mildy off road - canal paths, foresty trails etc. Which my dad likes, but he struggles with only having 30c tyres. So he's started to use the bike I built up to leave at my parents house:

Turns out he really likes the bigger tyres, however the reach is long and when you have arthritis in your hands, espcially your thumbs, rim brakes and friction shifters are not great:

So, I thought "I'm going to build him something better as a suprise" and, I had just sold my old Scott to @lmananimal - it was always a wee bit small for me but it would be perfect for my dad, so I bought it back:

First step, paint. My team Danish design consultants came up with the idea of picking a colour based on his first car, in this case a Morris Traveller in coffee brown. So, I went for matte RAL 8025:

I also got a spare stayer gaspipe stem I had done in gloss black

and some cable guides added so I can easily use hydralic brakes without adaptors