Oak Cycles 853 road project

Beautiful bike! I am very envious. need me some custom steel in my life.

Last weekend I ended up riding down a mud road so the frame was caked in mud by the time I got home. I gave it a clean and took some pictures of it today. Here's the current set up.

still so good .. loving the colour matched speedplays ;)

Apart from Bottle Cages Of Shame.

Are the bars the same? If so how come you switched the stem?

It's a lovely balanced looking bike.

The bars are Deda RHM 02, I had ergonova's on there originally but swapped them out a little while ago. The Enve stem that was on there I think looked a little too fat for the steel tubes. I've still got it but may sell it if I decide to keep this Deda one on.

Think I would prefer stem with decals removes.

I was thinking about removing the line underneath the word Deda

Is this still around?

Serious dredge

If by around you mean sat in my garage attached to a turbo trainer then yeah

Yeah idk why but I was thinking about it and wondered what it was up to.

Still one of my favourite forum bikes.

Thanks. It has different wheels now. I converted the Easton ones to tubeless, rode them for a year or so, went to Spain to cycle up and down mountains. After a couple of days they'd started doing like a vibration honk when braking which got worse and worse. I didn't want to fuck with them because the tubeless setup is fickle. Back in the UK I took the tyres off and realised the inside of the rims had cracked really badly around the valve hole. A few more days of braking from 80kmph down mountains and they would probably have disintegrated on me and I'd become the real Lynchman.

sat in my garage attached to a turbo trainer

How’s 23mm working out for you?

Very comfy, no potholes in the garage.

Lol

#bringbackrep