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Some say, you can ride a fixed gear on 19c tyres around the Tamsin trail, but it was the perfect place for a shake down. It felt awkward at first but soon got into the rhythm, even started to get a little confident and at one point, attempted to bunny hop a twig but that nearly pulled a muscle in my back.
By comparison, having mostly ridden a rat bike made from gas pipe and an Arkose for the last year, this thing is smooth. Much pleased.
Fit was pretty OK, almost certainly going get some SQlab 30x12 bars and need to tinker with reach and drop to get it a bit lower.
Not subscribing to the church of slam that stem and preferring to use a negative stem to keep plenty of steerer I've made the error of getting a lovely Hope Zero that was offered at trade, an offer not to be refused but it is Zero degrees (duh!) and not much scope to drop the front.
Would welcome the chance to borrow any -10/-20 stems in the 50-70mm range before splashing on anything else.
Oh and it's not that sort of build but ready to ride as pictured (minus rack) this comes in at 11.9kg.