Functional bikes. Not Porn not Anti

Disc brake converted cinercone?

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ID on the bars?

Amazing, that looks so much better!

In my quest to not buy a new bike or frame, I've lowered the bars by 2cm, and moved my Zeitgeist onto the Bagman for the #aerogainz.

Does seem a bit more nimble now, very pleasing.

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Great build

I've actually got three of your cages on order from stayer 👌

Exciting! Thanks for that.

What are your current cages? And are they "dropped" compared to regular cages?

Pair of Arundel Looney Bins and a PDW otter one.

The looney buns are on their lower setting.
Cool cages, but I don't really use the functionality of them.

Cool.
Hopefully that means mine will fit. They are dropped compared to the standard King cage eg.

My favs, planet x og v2.

Thanks, look like a nice amount of back sweep without going full alt bar.

this is the future. as we rapidly approach peak 90's MTB I predict early 2000's alloy MTB's and hybrids will become the next zeitgeist for people making rad bikes on the cheap

Here's a functional claud butler spotted in Melbourne

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it's insane, the level of sheer basic competency that can be nabbed for peanuts atm

Brentor on the edge of Dartmoor, lovely walk with the bike.

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Extremely tasteful.

I'm kind of wanting to build some sort of fbnpna bike but not sure what. I'd also kind of like a rigid SSMTB. I wonder if I can make one bike that'll do both jobs.

I'm thinking disc brakes so sliding dropouts. I have a pair that might be old PMW ones or something. They have a hanger but unlikely I'll ever use it, I think at most I'd go 3 speed igh, I have a Nexus 3 speed disc hub that I could build into a wheel if I want to do this.

I'm also thinking front rack and maybe rear, mudguards, dynamo. Worried that loading it up with all this stuff is a pretty hard steer towards fbnpna and away from ssmtb though so anyone got any pics of bikes with all that kind of kit that still look like they'd handle some offroading that goes beyond champagne gravel?

Photos are of a couple bikes I've owned in the past that fit the bill.

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My Trek Stache is sort-of built to that brief, the only failing is the mudguards. I could fit one to the Krampus fork, but would need some sort of clip-on type for the back. I've considered the Ortlieb Quick Rack as they do a mudguard that attaches, I've heard there's a new one on the way with through-axle fitting.

Anyway, I use it as a winter gravel bike/pub bike. Schwalbe Johnny Watts are silent and quick on the road, reflective sidewall, puncture-protected (not tubeless but i set them up tubeless and theyve been fine), big footprint is fine off road except on wet roots or really sloppy mud.

The Stache can be run SS, it has a bit of sliding dropout. I'm toying with the idea of putting a belt on it, as it has the raised chainstay

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I know it’s just a rack, but it was enough for me to get a Cooker.

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Very nice, got a link for more pics, deets?

Yeah, the guards are probably the biggest worry for me. I don't know that 'proper' guards are really compatible with the idea of a mountainbike. The old Crud rear guard on the Muddyfox, (and I have the modern equivalent, the Mudplugger, on my Honzo) is good as mtb guards go but nothing like a full guard. For a front guard, there's nothing comes close to a full guard.

I'm not settled on wheel size by the way. I have a decent 26" rear wheel and a 29" boost front wheel but I dunno that I see myself building a through axle, boost, rigid fork and was thinking about a dynamo anyway so that'd be a new wheelbuild.

Front rack could come on and off reasonably easy (dynamo light would need to mount to fork separately but that's easy enough to sort out) but I know from previously trying to have on/off guards that it just doesn't work with Scottish weather, once they are on, they are on.

I borrowed a surly troll for a bit, put 27 x 2.1 g-one bites on it, which was just fantastic and when I had to give it back I built the Stache like that ^. I loved it as a kind of genre-less bike that did everything just fine

That can kind of be ridden like a rigid mtb, is definitely functional, could be SS, all the mounts… Bridge Club is basically the same but without the rohloff/trailer bits on the dropouts.

https://theradavist.com/made-bike-show-australia-gallery-01/

Terrible phone pic for you.

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