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vpCogworks
Reviving this one from the dead. I’ve had this bike for almost 8 years now. I put a whisky canti fork on it (longer than the stock fork) and it had become basically a ssmtb for a while…
Then I built up a Karate Monkey and this setup became redundant. I knew I wanted to build it back up with drops, but needed to start from scratch. The idea was:
super light
lots of carbon
dynamo
mudguards
frame bag
650b
First order of business was to find one of the whisky allroad forks (rake matches stock fork) and ditch the canti fork to preserve the handling with drops.
I searched for a rear hub for about 4 months. I wanted a freehub body rather than freewheel. I found a store on eBay where a former engineer from Tune is making odd spacing Mag 170s. I ordered a 24h rear spaced 120 and 20h Son dynamo. I also ordered some custom hoops from LB in 650 with the groove graphene brake surface. V happy with how they turned out.
Fitted!
16lbs as it sits here
And here is where I am now…mocking up carbon mudguards from Velo Duo
What color frame bag should I get?