Temple Adventure Disc Commuter Build

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  • We have way too many bikes, we built this commuter about a year ago so we had a bike with a child seat and something that we weren't too precious about in terms of locking up in the city etc.

    The basis was a Temple adventure disc Mk2 frameset 55cm in Lunar Sand colour. This is the latest version with through axles, flat mount brakes and swappable rear dropout inserts that can be changed for track style ones for single speed or IGH. We also bought the Temple seat post with the frame kit.

    The rest of the build was some parts bin stuff, Sram Rival cranks and rear derailleur, Sram 1x chainring, Hope Pro2 hubs onto H Plus Son Archetypes, Avid brake rotors.

    Everything else for the build was bought new. DMR V6 pedals, Teravail Rampart light and supple tyres, Sram Chain and cassette, On One Mollymawk 'bars, Vans/Cult waffle grips, Sram X2 shifter, Shimano MT200 brake levers and some older non-series flat mount callipers. We also fitted some kinesis Fend off wide mudguards and I made a fillet brazed flat bed rack for the front of the bike that is still unfiled and unpainted which will be included in the sale.

    The bike is currently fitted with a Fabric Scoop saddle which we would like to keep, so we can sell sans saddle or fit something else for the buyer.

    It is a great bike, but now our little one isn't so little, she is too heavy for the child seat and we find ourselves using our Bullitt Cargo bike to do all the runs that the Temple used to.

    Couple of bad bits about the Temple, the top tube has a couple of scuffs where shoes have rubbed it, we couldn't sling our leg over the saddle with little one in her seat without giving her a Chuck Norris style roundhouse kick to the face so we had to go over the top tube, I'm flexible enough to do that, but my husband isn't. The Temple logos on the seat tube are scuffed up from the child seat bracket, though these are £4 to replace and the front hub has had some machining done to the disc mount (it was fitted to a custom bike where the framebuilder had brazed the front disc tab too far inboard, so the mounting face on the hub had to be machined down to get the calliper to line up with the disc although there is plenty of adjustment on this bike and everything lines up fine) This has been like this for 10 or more years and hasn't been an issue, I'm just trying to be 100% honest.

    I'm not sure where to price this, as the Frame kit was £900 when we bought it before we built it, hopefully £850 for the full build is a decent starting place? Please let us know if we are way out here.

    We just have one picture at the moment, but I'm happy to get any more if anyone is interested.

    The bike is based in Norwich, but we are happy to box and send or perhaps drive to deliver for a little bit of fuel money.


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  • This looks great in the flesh (steal) GLWS!

  • I like it when not too precious bikes look like this.
    Also, those drawers!

  • haha, I know what you mean. It was a hell of an extravagance for what is technically a beater!

    The drawers still need Kaizen foaming, but they are full of plenty of nice tools from Abbey and the like.

  • Thank you sir!

  • I wish my partner and I were similar enough heights to both be able to ride this!!

  • We are lucky, we are both similar heights so there is a lot of bike swapping going on!

  • Lovely bike.

    OT, but what is the steel box section for on under the workbench top? Is there mdf above and below?

  • The drawers are a big roll cab with a wooden top, the box section is the work bench which is bolted to the wall so there is somewhere secure for the vice to be anchored to. The middle leg under the vice can be removed and the roll cab can be wheeled out if necessary.

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  • Price drop - £800 now fitted with a Brooks Cambium

  • PM'd

  • Is this still available?

  • Price Drop - £775 plus pic of how the bike currently sits...


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  • Finally got round to having the custom from rack powder coated and fitted.

    Bike is still up for grabs if anyone is interested.


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  • Nice build 👌

    Glws

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Temple Adventure Disc Commuter Build

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