Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

he likes it, though has apparently rounded off a few of the rather soft OEM bolts. he uses shit tools though so I'm blaming that as much as anything else

Might enrage some bringing this bike back to the front of peoples minds...

But wondering how you find it? keeping thinking of getting one (Will use Rival Hydro) to go along side my OG+ but wondering if it's enough of a difference.

Sorry not sorry

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If it's a track bike on gravel, is it a "travel" bike? In the sane dumb way thats folks say tracklocross, perhaps.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of-lpfsBR8U

Anyone who's had a Mason Bokeh and would care to share their thoughts on it?

It looks good in orange.

Also gotta be careful when inserting the wheel again to accidentally hit the rotor onto the edge of the piston and thus crack it

Agreed, which is one reason I'm looking at it

Bought a lightly used one off @gralegav and swapped Campag for Di2 for my missus. It's yet to be ridden. He might be able to offer an opinion on it. Personally I like Masons - they're clean, neat, Di2 compatible, have the right sized holes and ride nicely.

I liked the Bokeh, particularly with Ekar. Not as comfy as steel, but noticeably lighter. It needs good tyres and I used a 650B setup, as I have stubby legs.

Had this a couple of months now, in the orange flavour. It's great, full stop. Road riding it's more than capable and comes into it's own on gravel, as expected, great fun on grippy 650b...I have gone down the @hippy route of 2x wheelsets too, sames size cassette, same Hunt hub spacing and switch the rotors each time, easy enough with centrelock. In short, get one!

Just about squeezes some Mezcal 27.5/2.1" too, would worry at the rear if it was muddy but in the dry it's fine

^ same as above, mega orange. Mine's a size too big and it's still great. Managed to do Edinburgh to Manchester on it comfortably. Will probably size down, but only because I can, I've managed to make it fit pretty well, but it'll be even more fun in a size down, plus I can run a less emasculating stem. I'd recommend it for sure.

I'd buy another set of rotors. Faster to swap and then you're not (possibly) wearing out the thread on the CL lockring so much. I've very lazy efficient though.

Mezcal 27.5/2.1"

I have one of these that I bought for the Tripster but it didn't fit. What's the front clearance like with one on the Bokeh? How much gap each side.

Actually, the 650B are all gonna end up in Poland and on the Sequoia so I probably don't care but I've typed the question now so..

Fair point, keep them well greased so hopefully ok...and do even have spare rotors, just been to lazy to clean them as were squeaking before!

You can kind of see it in that front on pic, will check this eve as they're currently on the Bombtrack

You can kind of see it in that front on pic

Lies! They could be touching the fork for all my stupid eyeballs can deduce. It's not a big deal, like I said the 650Bs are all going in one place.

Yeah I have a road wheelset and offroad wheelset and same everything including rotors and takes less than a min to swap and I don't even need to reindex or anything. It's the way forward for do it all bikes

Trouble is, do you have the dynamo hub on the 700 or the 650 set? You could be overnight bike packing but you could also be overnight off road riding. Best to have one of each, just in case

Both, obvs.

Actually, I built a 650B with dynamo so I still have the original one from the set I bought off here. I reckon once all the 650Bs are in Polska, I'll tear down the dynamo, sell the bits and build it onto a 700C

Now I want a Mason. Thanks thread

I wouldn't own them if they weren't good. I was also looking at buying their Exposure, but then I got MTBs so figured it was less useful.

I think I'll look for a second hand frameset next year. I'm moving a bit further out of the city later this year so I can see a big tyre drop bar bike being more useful then but I'm not going to make myself have to move more shit between houses than I have to for now.