SOLD - Oat Milk Plus Bullitt

We have come to the realisation that two cargo bikes in our household is one too many, so unfortunately our beloved Milk Plus Bullitt is up for sale. We have had it for several years but it really hasn't been used too much, its always been kept inside and serviced and maintained by my husband who has also hand made a few of the parts on it.

Spec is as follows...

Milk Plus non-electric frame kit with custom 12x100 front dropouts and 142x12 rear dropouts.

Custom stem/steerer tube with integrated Chris King headset bearing cover
Chris King Headset.

Handbuilt wheels, Son 28 12mm through axle front hub, Chris King ISO 12mm through axle rear hub, Halo T2 rims that have been powdercoated black to get rid of the heinous laser etched logos. front wheel is built with Sapim Strong spokes, the rear is built with Sapim Race, black brass nipples, these are wrapped with 1.5" wide Panaracer Pasela tyres, these are the only truly matching 20/26" tyres that we could find with tan walls.

Drivetrain is Ultegra R8000 CX cranks converted to 1x with a 44t narrow/wide TA chainring, custom spacers to ensure the chainring bolt covers align with the crank arms correctly, Ultegra RX rear derailleur, 11-40 SLX M7000 11 speed cassette, SLX chain and an Ultegra flat bar shifter which is one of the I-Spec things that actually mounts to the brake lever.

Brakes are XT M8020 4 piston levers and callipers with 6 bolt SM-RT86 XT ice tech rotors, 203mm front and 180mm rear.

Finishing kit is mostly PRO, Koryak handlebars, LT seatpost and seatclamp. DMR V6 pedals, Fabric Scoop Line Radius saddle, ODI Vans lock-on grips.

Extras are Supernova E3 Triple headlight and E3 taillight with custom mounting bracket, lastly the fenders are Gilles Berthoud, the rear is 26" and the front is a non-production prototype 20" both are mounted with GB stays and custom machined aluminium spacers/brackets with vegan leather washers. There plastic box is also included, there are stainless steel riv-nuts in the mounting rails of the frame, this means that you just bolt into them rather than having to reach under the frame and hold a nut whilst you tighten the bolt. Oh and the lovely people at Larry vs Harry did us some custom graphics to read 'Oat Milk Plus' These can be removed as they are just vinyl decals over the stock logos, we still have the file for them somewhere which can be supplied if you wish to make extra decals yourself. The Spur Cycle bell is not included in the sale.

We have asked for guidance on pricing for this in the cargo bikes thread, but all we got was DMs asking to sell the fenders separately, so looking at past sales of Bullitts with much lower specs and less extras, I'm hoping that £2900 isn't too much. I'm sure you will all let me know if I've overpriced it! haha.

There are a few dinks and scrapes, but nothing major, the forks have just been rattle canned after the dropouts were modified, but unless you are really looking, you can't really notice.

We are based in Norwich, but we can potentially deliver depending on location etc.

Pictures below.

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DANNNNG that is nice. GLWS. I think the price looks right considering the build quality.

Out of interest as I have a Bullitt already with the fugly adjustable stem, where did you get the custom stem/steerer tube with integrated Chris King headset bearing made?

Thanks!

Annoying question alert (sorry) can you measure the overall length please? Wanna see if it will fit in shed.

Thank you

Hey! We are August Bicycles, so it was made in-house! One of those been around a fair while but sod all people seem to know about us framebuilding workshops!

Gavin couldn't live with the fuggo stem!

Total length is 2.5 metres, which gives you a little wiggle room. If you turn the wheel to full lock it takes about 10cm off.

Sounds like excellent value for money!
Postage to Denmark would probably be a pain though - so GLWS!

Duh, of course! explains everything.

I dont blame Gavin, a bit of me dies inside every time I have to look at it on a ride.

Hahaha! Exactly what he said! Plus something about being sick in his mouth…

Sold pending collection today.

I knew Graeme would grab this when I sent him the link. He's a top bloke and you can guarantee the bike will be well used!

When I grow up I'm going to have one of these..

Thank you so much for the reccy! What a nice chap! He was instantly taken by it so we knew it was going to a good home.

Hi,
Nice solution for getting rid of the horrible stock stem situation.

Just for reference if anybody is trying to do the same….
Chris king headset cups are exactly the same top and bottom so there no need to have upside down logos.

The solution I came up with was to get an extra Chris king bearing top cap to put on the bottom of half HS cup, essentially making two top half’s of headset.

Then you just need a new longer steerer tube, long spacer and any stem.
Or a fancy bespoke steerer stem combo if you fancy….

This can be pre tensioned from either the top or bottom.

Whilst that's probably fine on a cargo where the steerer isn't actually the fork so pretty low stress, top cap bolts are only for setting bearing preload before stem bolts are tightened. I wouldn't like to rely on one to hold the whole steerer on.

I think rowan42 means the headset bearing cap or top cover, eg the part that slides down the steerer and fits to the pressed in top cup. Jones Bikes have been doing this on their truss forks for 20 years.

Apologies for the confusion….
Exactly as velosaurus said, I meant the top part of headset that slides over the steerer not the stem top cap.

Don’t worry it’s clamped top and bottom, just like on a Jones truss fork.

It just means you can use a plain piece of steerer tube of any length without having to braze a crown race on to it.

I just find the stock Bullitt steerer setup one of the most frustrating things.
The “easy up” stem is the floppiest thing ever and doesn’t even go high enough.

Now there's a username from the past! Have you been lurking all this time?
Edit: Oops meant to be @Rowan42

Yeah I got that, I just thought you were holding it on with just a top cap on the bottom or something. I don't know what the bottom of the bullit steerer looks like tbf.
As you were

Do you have a picture of this setup?
I've just changed a manky bottom bearing on our bullitt and I'm keen to look into ways to better seal the lower bearing.

Still a bit of a work in progress

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Ha! It’s definitely been a while.
Ye just been lurking this whole time…. Usually don’t have anything useful to say…

That looks really tidy!