Functional bikes. Not Porn not Anti

Depends on what you're riding. I do most of my touring on road, and my personal preference is for something under 40mm - above this and it feels sluggish when you're pushing it for days on end. Did my last tour on 35s, will probably do my next tour on the same.

Unless you're riding a bit of dirt, there's not much need for it.

Yeah, I'm still a bit torn about this - current bike has 35mm hyper voyager tyres, which are great, but are on the edge clearance-wise for my current frame (esp. as they come up slightly large on my current rims). But as a big lad I wonder if slightly bigger would be even better for day rides and bridleway-bashing.

Most modern centre pull calipers don't require special bosses, they come in direct mount (special bosses), allen key (like most other calipers) or nut n bolt (like calipers from when I were a lad).

Yeah, but AIUI you get much less flex if direct-mounted? I could possibly be tempted by something like the Compass centrepulls, but at £200 per brake my rational brain tells me they'd have to be significantly better than cantis.

Frank lamp-guard

True, but if you're having a custom frame then the mounts could be added from the off, Dia Compe do a nice one, for less then Compass/Rene Herse, and the Paul ones are reportedly quite stiff/beefy, but quite spendy.

Nice. Always wanted to try the SRAM-to-Rohloff shift setup.

Seems to be, not a man of big emotions but gave me a hug and said thanks.

i'm kinda sick of tinkering with bikes......again......might get back to riding. this is for a friend.

this one is special because my name is on it LOOOO L :D

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My friend lost out on that, was an excellent value at under £800 I believe.

Not superfunctional as this thing doesn't clear fenders unless I size down the rubber to 28mm but as this is one of my fav threads on the forum and I made a rack for it and it hasn't rained for a month so I don't even need any fenders I think I'll get away with it.

Beautiful either way

Nice job, is the rack for a bar bag support, or ?

Nope, just something to strap my lunchbox on :)
But I actually dug out my old Carradice Handlebar Bag and it fits perfect. I've removed the Klickfix stuff and made a bungee cord attachment so it fits a rack like so.

Yeah, multi-use win!

Made this for my sis in law. Got some black VO mudguards for it come fall

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Dialed as always, excellent.

Ta

Beautiful!

not a huge fan of the paint job but great bike overall 👍

handsome af

I can't bear looking at them champagne marins since mine got stealed but this is a banger ! great job

Saw this casually parked outside the bank, unlocked.
I think this fits the topic line of this thread.

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