Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

English has the front strut attached to a spacer on the steerer by a single bolt.
It looks very poorly engineered IMO.
The load on the bolt is a shearing load.
Curated componentry, EE brakes andcrank, DuraAce, etc.
Ok for instagram but not off road.

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arent truss fork like that though?

It’s not ok for Instagram either

That English is stunning

non-ironic nogravel post, nothing across the desert of wales, not even a grain of sand.

MDCCCXVI x 2. I prefer the blue one

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That English strongly reminds me of those beautiful French Concours de Machines.
Like Victoire and Pech Tregon.

https://pechtregon.tumblr.com/

(can't upload atm unfortunatelly)

The fork you posted is welded.
The English has the load on a single bolt, perpendicular to the bolt.
Not much metal holding that together.

Looks like it is welded to the collar and the collar is just pinched with the bolt like a fastback stay?

"Hi Rob. Do I want disk brakes? Nah, that's a load of bollocks, rim brakes perform better"

"Hello again Rob. Jockey wheels that will save me a whole watt you say? For £700? Fucking sign me up"

If I wanted a bike that people on the internet would talk about, I'd get it built by Rob English

Either that, or get @Dammit to start a current project thread for it

Gravel

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I think @amey did a cyclocross race on one of those

The idea behind all of these curved tubes is the load just flexes these, not all going to the bolt.
Wouldn't expect a bike with slicks getting too rowdy anyways.

I'm not going to analyse the structure of the truss fork but I feel compelled to mention that a load that flexes a tube is still resolved to a reaction at the support of that tube, and that there isn't necessarily anything wrong with loading a bolt in shear (or indeed any other way if it has been engineered correctly).

That’s fairly pricey shipping? Buy it and I’ll hand deliver it for £500

How the fuck does he arrive at that price? £750 quid frame brand new. I wonder if he thinks the gold paint job is actually real gold plating.

It is mad isn't it.

but then again, owning the same frame Amey used to have is worth draining your account.

That kind of ‘build’ always comes with a curatorial fee attached.

Can I pay £3.5k to not have any of Amey's old bikes please

Cringe

It's not £3500 for the build, it's £4500.
Ebay limited his price to 3500, so he's added the extra in shipping.

Including the stand?

Not too sure, free collection from Manchester though.

That is wild. Wonder why eBay limited him to £3500? Nice picture of it next to some #nogravel in the ad though. Not even accepting offers - maybe he doesn’t really want to sell it…?

Edit: didn’t Amey do this - build a bike and ‘let the market decide’ whether he should keep it? I reckon this guy has taken some inspiration.