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Yeah the Ritchey looks nice (and so does your tart bike).
I don't think I saw it when I was looking for candidate frames, I was still looking for a lower stack so I might have skipped over it?
The plan is to ride the frame I bought for now and save for something more appropriate if it doesn't work out (which would not be too surprising) so I'll remember this one, thanks.I've been looking at the Jack the Rack also, I wanted one actually before but it wouldn't fit on any of my bikes. It would probably be OK on this but I don't need to carry much weight so I'm considering DIYing something like a cross between it and an old school bag support.
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Maybe there's some second-hand current-gen Ritchey Road Logic frames around?
They can fit a 30/32c tyre in depending on the brake callipers and compared to a lot of frames around these days they're not too expensive, and they ride quite nicely too. Paint is pretty bland though unless you stumble across the special edition red-white-and-blue team colours.
Gearing, maybe 105 or Tiagra + a sub-compact crankset (11-34 & 46x30), or a bit spendy, Chorus 12 - 11-34 & 48x11.
I've something similar in Tochigi prefecture for similar roads - a lot of bad backroads particularly after storms, steep climbs and broken tarmac - and for overnight / get-aways by train.
I had the older Ritchey but it lacked tyre clearance, so because I'm a tart I had something built the way I wanted for those roads using that same current gen Ritchey fork, tyre clearance, 3rd bottle cage.
I just use bike-packing bags with it, and have thought about something like the Jack-the-Rack for something heavier up front like going to the pizza shop.
I use the Montbell rinko bag and find it's small enough to easily pack in a saddle bag or smaller frame / bar bag. There's obviously smaller still but quite expensive options out there too to pack lighter.
Sometimes though, you really just need a gravel bike or walk...