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When Sam launched the Mk3 Peregrine a few years ago I put a pre-order in in Xmas day to make sure I snagged one, C19 then got in the way of supply chains and they took aaaaggggggeeeeessssss to arrive on UK shores but eventually they did!
I've got a couple of other Singulars as well, a 700c 28mm tyre'd Osprey and a 650B 38mm tyre'd Osprey both with rim brakes which I love and have carried me on thousands of miles around Devon, Cornwall and Somerset, but my plan for the Peregrine was to build a 650B 48-50mm tyre'd multi-surface bike with discs for when I couldn't be arsed to drag the MTB out but wanted to play offroad more than the 38mm Osprey would allow (basically I wanted a Singular to replace my AWOL)
When the Peregrine arrived I built it up pretty sharpish and then ended up riding it almost exclusively for a couple of months while I got it dialled in and gave it a proper test both on and off road. I absolutely love this thing, it's far more capable offroad than it has any right to be, and it's a blast on road too, it's a bit heavier than my more road oriented bikes so plods up hill a bit but everywhere else it's a hoot and I've ridden it on several club runs with no bother.
Fast forward a couple of years, many miles around the counties on roads, lanes, and all over Dartmoor, Exmoor a bit of the Quantocks as well as local woods and commons and I've been starting to feel like I actually want to split the Peregrine in two and have an offroad biased build and a road biased one so I tentatively started looking for another MK3 frame second hand, a couple had popped up but I'd always been too late so was resigned to the fact that I might have to buy another one brand new. It was either that of try and get a Crust of some sort shipped over.
But then...
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