44two's bikes

Awesome work. Brazing looks top notch!

One of my favourite bikes on the forum, stem looks sweet

Thanks all 😊 Pic for new page. (brazing is courtesy of Lord Cycles btw in case any doubt)

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such a cool bike

So So Rad!!!! White with pick looks great.

After about a year of neglect, sorted some dynamo lights and mudflaps for the fixie, for peak commuter status. Built wheel with nexus hub that I got on here got on here with the lights and exal lx17 rim, sapim race spokes. After a bit of self made nightmare, came out pretty good!

Still need to trim rear mudflap as is a bit wide and adjust mudguard around seatpost. All the bits are random colours as it was whatever was on a deal and hopefully deters theft. So yeah not pretty but I am pretty stoked and hopefully gets me riding this again!

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What's the seatpost on your (incredible) cargo bike - something titanium?

No it's an old zoom seatpost, the logo has just rubbed off. Pretty sure they are cromo but must be slightly different alloy or special coated as color is different from most cromo stuff and doesn't seem to rust, or atleast is much more resistant to it

Ah nice, one of these I guess then, 'titanium finish'
https://sprockets.uk.com/zoom-rounded-alloy-seatpost-28-6mm-titanium-finish/

Yeah that's it! Was v lucky and found mine for £5 from Julian house bike workshop parts bin. That's a good find though, pretty good price for new

Been a while since any updates here! Had some surgery beginning of October which meant no bike riding for a bit. So took the opportunity to a frame swap I'd been considering for a while as the kona was out of its usual daily action and the tyres were on their last legs, while I had the wider pair for the trek ready to go that wouldn't fit in the kona, so managed to convince myself this made more sense than just buying new tyres...

Partway through I was questioning why I'm wasting my hard earned peas on building the same bike I just took apart. But actually has made a big difference and despite mostly being the same parts the trek seems to ride nicer and fit me better than the kona did. And as with my other bikes adding dynamo lighting is always a game changer.

Current forks are basic ones that were cheap on fb marketplace which work for now though pretty heavy replacing the ds2 suspension forks it came with. Hoping to eventually upgrade to something nicer/light. Maybe segmented fork or so p2's etc.

Not the best photos but just put new cassette and chain on so thought better take a couple before gets all covered in grime!

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I like the Trek, but this popping up has just reminded me how good your cargo bike with custom fork is - still going strong I hope?

Yeah still going strong! This was last week picking up the woofers from friends house

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