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@Oddo
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Basically my gravel bike in all its iterations (here shortened to 5 states). I love this bike. It has taken me through some very scenic parts of southern England, through deserts and forests and over mountains of California, the North Island of New Zealand and various parts of the Netherlands, Belgium, France and Germany.
2017 Original build. Wanted to go touring with some friends and needed a bike. Bought a frame off eBay, Surly Straggler forks and botched together a 1x9 drivetrain with a £5 Deore rear derailleur and a bar end shifter. As a 23c fixie boy, 35mm cx tyres seemed massive. Also my first disc brake bike ever.
2018 Wanted to know what the fuzz is about with 650b wheels. Got some ghetto tubeless MTB wheels off eBay for £35 and squeezed in some used WTB 650b x 47 Horizons. Loved it! Also upgraded to STIs for a botch 1x10 drivetrain. I replaced the SRAM cranks with Shimano MTB cranks because I was destroying bottom brackets non stop on my creaking SRAM cranks. That's when I found out GXP and Hollowtech aren't exactly the same...
2018 Time for touring again. Got my hands on some wide (wider than 42cm compact) flared gravel bars, proper SRAM Rival 1x11 brifters and derailleur, new 650b wheels with 42mm tyres and mudguards.
2019 Following the trends and more upgrades. Knobbly 650b tan wall tyres, the only carbon fork with everything mounts in existence that would fit this frame, matching rival cranks and a third botched bottle cage below the downtube.
2020 Current state. Some upgrades to drop some weight. Lighter cranks and stem. Back to 700c with 40mm tyres. Less botched third bottle cage. Hybrid / mechanically actuated hydraulic disc brakes. for better performance but easier disassembly for travelling.
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