Brother cycles... Cheap as chips frames

On one hand, people buying the wrong frame but on the other, they've overstated the versatility a little.

Maybe they mean more verasility if your other grav grav is a Crux..

https://bikeinsights.com/compare?geometries=610423b9107089001cb0ec1a,615f289817695e0020dc651f,

But hey, choices! Throw the fairlight lineup into that website and they basically all look the same.

crux is a cyclocross race bike, a good comparison would be diverge

fairlight has the regular/tall sack differentiation which is very nice for sizing properly and gives someone a lot more wiggle room for avoiding the terrible cockpit setups on the past page.

I only comment this as I have a kepler and I am currently struggling to make it fit/work for me.

maybe their market is cyclocross races who want to grind in the off season

I only comment this as I have a kepler and I am currently struggling to make it fit/work for me.

Sorry to hear, and it is true about the Tall and Regular, though it gave me a decision headache!

Kepler deffo isn't for me, that orange Mehteh though.. would have been all over that if it had come out in previous years.

These kinda just seem too small for the rider tho

no, they are too big/too long

brother cycles are just Brexit Tsunami bikes with instagram friendly paint job

If that was the case they wouldn't all have short stems.

Mine fits quite nicely.

It's more aggressive than a Canyon Aeroad.

and mine

I'm hoping they sell the fork separately. loads nicer than the straight blade unicrown

yes tijs I agree, aerodynamics is much more important

ye kinda agree

Stupid question: does anyone have experience with a front rack on a Brother Mehteh with the carbon fork? Getting a small-ish dog so thinking about doing a front rack and basket combo for holiday rides.

It's like any other triple mount carbon fork.. a no go for a proper rack.

If the dog is really quite small, maybe a Jack the Rack, maaaaybe and wouldn't go off-road at all.

Figured so, guess there’s only one solution…

Build a new bike around the dog!

This should be perfect then

Build a new bike around the dog!

That's the ticket,

A favourite quote from my wife, 'How has us having a baby turned into you buying a new (cargo) bike'

@MisterMikkel that’s a nice thing!

@HousecatHST luckily I already have a bakfiets for city dogging

made a few updates to my commuter / do-it-all Kepler before the dirty reiver in a few weeks time.
43mm gravelking sk set up tubeless, ultegra rx rear mech and 11-42 cassette, and a set of wiggle bargain bin special gravgrav flared riser bars.
oh, and in case nobody noticed, some subtle green bar tape.

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Anyone got a Mehteh? Just added to the evergrowing list of framesets I'm looking at.

Anyone know what sort of time of year Brother tend to do their Sale? usually before they announce the new season frames? My Allday got written off thanks to a taxi and trying to not break the bank getting a new one

Tiny company, doesn't appear to be a pattern or any guarantee that it'd happen..