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That is one elegant fork. Lovely build.

<3

Perfection

This bike makes my heart sing!

Nice bike and a nice handlebar bag, apparently made by https://www.instagram.com/cbrennbags/
How is it attached, there doesn't seem to be any straps or a decaleur on the bar and the bag doesn't look like it has any kind of a frame in it, is the thick cotton stiff enough on it's own and how does the elastic cord at the bottom work with the rack? @JacqueLucque that's your bike, right?

Hello! Yes, that is indeed my bike (you can read about it here).

The bag is made of thick duck canvas with a U-shaped plastic stiffener inside. This slots into two pockets at the front and rear of the bag.

Two elastic loops are fitted to the bottom of the bag. These loop around the cross strut of the rack and then loop around the tombstone. The heavy leather strap then slots onto the tombstone.

For light loads on the road (and, to be honest, even off-road), this is more than stable enough. It sometimes wiggles side-to-side, but it's never in danger of ejecting itself.

If I want to stabilize it further, I can lash the back of the bag to my handlebars (I use leather straps from an old Carradice bag). With that, it's absolutely rock-solid.

You can see more of Cory's amazing here: https://www.bikeradar.com/features/brazin-show-2023

The Shimano Alfine dynamo is geared at 280% to drive the THREE Busch und Müller IQ-X lights. Thanks to the gear ratios, the lights shine at full power with approx. 720 lumens even at walking speed. Additional remote control on the handlebars.

Source

This is mad. Do you have a source for this?

Love that rando bike^

While on the subject of dead sexy stainless steel mudguards. Which options does one have for long ones larger than 60mm width? Honjos? any others? Stainless only but don't mind flutes or hammered funky ones...

EDIT: 700c

Bonkers indeed. I added the source.

Which options does one have for long ones larger than 60mm width? Honjos? any others?

Tbf Honjos are all you need!

Do Velo Orange make wider ones? Might do.

$$$

Velo Orange is only 63mm so not really that much bigger. But maybe I just need to keep tyres around 50mm and get the GB mudguards

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Yes fair. Always thought though a good set of mudguards that'll last is a better use of money than expensive shoes, helmets etc for a bike.

A person of your talents can surely make some banging metal fenders?

I am thinking about it. Done the hardware and stays but the guards themselves are tricky on a budget I reckon. But yes good components are always worth the money

Sounds good, thanks. I've made a randonneur bag with stiffeners and pockets on all sides, velcro on the bottom, straps to the bars and a pocket for the tombstone and I've been thinking about making another more minimalistis one so it's interesting to see other solutions.

Honjo makes some big expensive ones for Sim Works https://www.sim.works/collections/fenders-simworks-by-honjo

I think the GB 60mm are actually a bit wider than stated but haven't measured. I have installed a set of those on a bike with 2.1" Mezcals.

I am going to go for the GB 60mm and keep smaller tyres. They are fine for their use anyways. Thank you

What a great bike. I love it.

I made a list of all the ones I could find https://www.lfgss.com/comments/17293021/

I'm having front shifting issues on my functional Raleigh Record Ace and this seems like where I'm most likely to get the niche knowledge I'm in need of.

It's a friction downtube shifter, a Campag Athena (or something like that) road double mech and the chainrings are 30/46t which I think is pushing the capacity of the deraileur.

Issue is that it wants to over shift going from the small to large chainring pushing the chain right over the large ring and off on the outside. It's not a limit screw issue, 1/8th more of a turn and it won't shift up at all. The mech is obviously designed for larger rings and the curve of it doesn't follow the curve of the rings I'm using very well at all, not sure if that'll have much to do with it or not?

I don't mind buying a new mech, someone suggested when I was posting about it before that I should get a 105v mech with a built in barrel adjuster but I don't see any front mechs of any age with built in barrel adjusters?

I'm actually half tempted to just go 1x on it, the rear mech has a clutch so should run fine.

I would try and find one of these

https://www.microshift.com/models/fd-t492b/

(Edited, linked the wrong one)

I guess I've made this slightly less practical by taking the rear rack off, but I'm drawn to the smooth line of the rear mudguard. (the mudguards on this are totally silent!)

Also, I managed to get the dynamo functioning perfectly, and it's pretty cool to see that it has an oldschool yellow tinted front lens.

Can anyone advise which type of front rack bag would work for this? the light is clearly in the way - perhaps a rando bag with a light cut-out could be found on ebay.

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I'd say something like a Super C audax would fit nicely on there, and behind the light.

So that's more of a mtb derailleur right?

That'll be better for the range coverage and also the shape looks like it'd be ,much more fitted around my chainrings.