Off-road / gravel / mud fixed-gear bikes (whisper: tracklocross)

Why would spacers in the dropouts increase the clearance by the BB??

If the effective o.l.d. increases should spread the chainstays slightly, but probably won't be much. Tyre fits, just a bit closer to the chainstays than I'd like, so will see if that helps

What rake / make is the new fork? I found the original too aggy for off-road.

Yeah, I highly doubt the increase of clearance to be significant enough tbh.

And yet, mountain bikers get serious boners for anything boost. Makes no logical sense

... and when you hit the boost chainstays with the back of your shoe.
singular did the rooster with "normal" chainstay length and no boost, still able to fit 29x3.0 rubber...

Boost is everything

It is literally nothing.
As innovation stagnates, solutions to non existent problems start being tooted as new standards.

Thats exactly it. Make up problems to create solutions and new standards. The self inflated market.

we need road boost too!

Big Bike shill!

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Today with my 82' Raleigh Record Ace

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Such a tease... 😁

Here's my steamroller in tracklocross mode

And when that doesn't cut it, here's my other Surly

The Steamroller 100km in to a 140km loop. Neck and knees only slightly regretted the experience

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those steamrollers look slick.

me doing a 100km fixed offroad tour always ends in having bad ripcage for some days...

Took The Pest to work today, via the back roads.

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Wow, thats a rad looking Steamroller.

And @Chaley that is a lovely backroad to work :)

hail the gods of tracklocross

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Does anyone know what the max tyre clearance of the Tokyo Fixed Dart V1 is? Been googling furiously and can't for the life of me find any info on rear clearance :(

Pls more photos. So many unanswered questions - disc brake? Wheelset? Frame?

squid so-ez 56 frame with 8bar steel disc fork, pnw the coast handelbar. wheels with 25mm newman alloy rims, ck hub front, white ind. rear hub with velo solo disc cog.
more pics
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Sadly my Langster frame died last year and I've got a bunch of liked parts without a frame to go on (I sold the fork).

I'm interested in building them all back on to a fixed gear frame with room for comfy tyres, but struggling a bit to find something that fits the bill. Steamrollers are expensive (wouldn't want to leave one outside ever), first thought was I could get a specialized tricross but I have a bias toward steel and all the ones I've seen are alloy (carbon fork fine though).

I use a front brake because I don't have the sick skillz to ride without one.

Second hand On One Pompino? Or the new Mulo?

Cinelli tutto ?