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@Ph1ll1p
I’ve been riding this bike over the last 6 months, including a tour around Devon. It has the following problems:
-Adding a massive ring to the chainstays was a bad idea, the gear cable gets hung-up on it all the time and gives miss shifts
-The rim flex's enough that it scraps on the ring
-There’s way too much flex in the frame to have this bike heavily loaded in the rear. With a topeak explorer rack, tent on the top with two panniers on the sides, it was wiggling all over the place. That on its own doesn’t bother me that much, but I feel its shortening the life of the frame more seriously than I already have.
-I never got around to painting it at all, and the fresh sea air wasn’t kind to the exposed steel. Not too bad, but now requires more effort than a quick sand down and rattle can.
Since having it with flat bars, it was cool to cruise around on, and reasonably comfortable, but I wanted to give it a whirl with drops, so that’s what I did:
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