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True, and I had made it work okay, but a very specific touring frame that I've been looking for for years has come up locally, so rather than trying to adapt this frame beyond its original scope I've decided to put it to one side for now. Basically, I can only afford to build up one or the other (having burnt all my money buying a house), and comfy touring is more my bag for the time being.
I'll start a new thread for the new build, as it's gonna be a long one, and will revisit this in due course if my circumstances change.
trigs
So the update is that this is back down to a frame and fork again - beautiful thing, and rides like the wind, but I'm just not in a place to be riding anything fast and uncomfy right now. Will revisit it in the future so not going to do anything silly like getting rid, but this is on a long pause basically