650b conversions, some new bikes, all nonsense

So, I made it! I went on my trip, which ended up being 10 days in the Dolomites. I can highly recommend, it's an insanely beautiful place- almost unfair how beautiful it is.

The Brother preformed fantastically, it's a brilliant bike. That being said, for the route we did, I'm not sure I could ethically recommend riding rigid. I'm not a great mountain biker, but I've been doing it for a decent while, and while I didn't crash, it was bloody hard work getting down hill. Mostly the fist sized boulders on 20% slopes.

But don't let me put you off, it's an amazing place. Plus don't take camping gear, rifugios are €30-50 a night and come with dinner and breakfast, plus you get a bed, shower and campari spritz'.

On a very positive note, my rack survived! Well it kinda did. It was fine for the trip and took a nasty knock on the way home which has bent it out of shape, but that's okay. It was a prototype. I'm thinking about knocking up a fixture to make them "in mass" if anyone is ever interested.

Now that the trip is over, it's back to regular programming- I recently got two tube sets from ceeway with the intention of knocking up a frame to replace the beater roadie and a cool town bike for my partner. When we used to live in Aus, I bought her a Tokyo bike with my first paycheck from my first design job and she loved it so much it's carefully stored at her mother's in fear of it ever coming to London and being stolen, so I figured I would make something similar to that but with actually tyres clearance, not the amusing 28 max it currently takes.

Edit: before the question is asked, the frame bag wasn't made for this bike, it was a last minute lend from a smaller friend, but it worked fine.

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