Bassi Hog's Back

so the easier road-side-repairability for the one-off chance if
failure doesn't seem worth the hold back

This benefit is definitely overstated by cable-disc proponents, no doubt. World tour? I get it. Coffee from Nero? Not so much. That’s a kind and generous offer my friend, let me mull it over and come back to you.

for me, rides are more often rides of opportunity rather than planned

My eBay offer for the dynamo expires at 14:15. Hmmm!

So much to like about this build.

This is going to be so good I can sense it already.
As I used to live just off the Hogsback I should probably get one for myself.

Flattered by the vote of confidence there @Chaley!

Spent the morning in Malmesbury, dropping off the Kinlin rims (£28 each!) and hubs (didn’t bother with the dynamo in the end) to Gary at Wheeler’s Retreat and, as luck would have it, the Riv to a local chap. Really pleased it’s gone to a good home.

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I was wondering why you sold the Riv. Now it makes sense. Here for the ride. Subbed!

Delivery from SJS this morning with chainrings, DT cable stops and a 8sp KMC chain.

Sounds odd but I quite like the BRANDING overload here as it'll hopefully tone down the build a little from looking too curated (he says, with a CK headset and lugged seatpost). The 104/64 duo spiders are becoming hard to come by; I managed to get this one off eBay for something like £32 after quite a bidding frenzy.

The Riv had a 30t 1x and 11-40t cassette which was perfect for last year's South Downs Overnighter (0.75 low, 2.73 high). I did a lil write-up of that experience here.

I doubt I'll ever come across hills steeper than those, so that gearing is now my benchmark and one which I want to replicate on the Bassi, but with some more high-end.

26t/38t with the same 40t cassette provides 0.65 low and 3.45 high which should be the best of both worlds? I surprised myself by winching my way up the Chapman's Pool incline during last year's BITW with a 0.80 (32t 1x and 40t) so a 0.65 should be brill.

Equivalent 1x would be a 38t chainring with a 11-48t cassette. That'd give the same high-end of 3.45 but a low of 0.79 rather than 0.65. Didn't fancy buying even more new bits though and think a 2x really suits a build of this sort.

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I really like a friction shifted wide range double myself.
This setup with two stainless steel rings is the dream

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I am here for 'quiche-gearing' as Mike puts it :) 3.45 high and 0.79 low, very nice.

OK so a neon yellow Allygn Diamond Rack might pair nicely with the Bassi, instead of the Obento, in a 1990 Yeti FRO kinda way. Or it all might be a bit too much with the baby pink headset.

On the Riv, the distance between the front rack and handlebars was huge, like c.30cms, so I had to use a basket setup for overnighters, paired with a saddlebag. The Bassi's headtube is about 17cms and using riser bars, I may get away with a big WW Shazam up front resting on the Allygn/Obento (and either another Shazam out back or a Wayward Riders Louise).

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i trust in your vision for the Allygn, personally, i am blinded by my dislike for that particular vein of euro design language. maybe this will be what i need to grow as a person.

The cranks look great with those rings

Rationalising the purchase as a personal development objective is something I can get behind. Personally, I reckon it’ll help distinguish the Bassi from a “we have a Hulsroy ATB at home” rig, lol.

Ah, thanks — glad I went for black instead of silver in the end. Always tricky going by your mind’s eye…

My knee-jerk reaction is to yuck this rack, but if were from Decathlon and £7 (and designed for one specific single-year-run bikepacking model with a weird hunched back top tube like a squatting dog) everyone would lose their mind, and it would become the subject of a seven-page hacks/mods thread in the spirit of the legendary two-person canoe.

Anyway, I think the rack will look great on the Bassi 🥲

I, for one, just think the allygn rack would look great.

m8000 hydros - https://www.lfgss.com/comments/17104964/

Stirring prose there; had me gripped.

Ordered the rack last night, neon yellow, £150 posted from Seabass. Obento will find a home on the SSUV (Surly School Utility Velo), and the VO canti rack which is currently on said SSUV will migrate to the Overbury's. Kismat!

I hate disc brakes, but I would get Shimano hydros (only exception being Klampers).

I love disc brake talk
For something all terrain
Just get BB7s

(Sorry, the brainworms just wanted to post a BB7 haiku)

Horizontal rain
Deep winter shit from a butt
You need some klampers

the similarities to that decathalon rack cannot be ignored it's true, one can only assume Allygn is somewhat of the demna gvasalia of the bike componentry world with a referance like that.

Found it!

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"front rack"

Dec Athalon, sculpture, date unknown

a bold industrial piece meant to allow a observer to cary their luggage while on the bicycle, a harrowing look at the future we're approaching as climate change beckons, fuel running out as fast as our choice in the finish of our bike parts.

Steel, plastic powder

All the hydro talk is kinda making me wonder whether my really positive experience with Spykes on the old pink 1x1 was just…sentimentality.