All City Nature Boy Zona Edition

So after a fair few bikes I have been narrowing it down to what I like best in a commuter and my hopes are high for this one; All City Nature Boy Zona.

It has some really nice touches; internal brake cable housing, nifty geometry, chance to use modern componentry (PF30) and also some pretty decent Columbus tubing.

So I had this colour:

But to me gold is pretty naff and all my previous bikes have been black, so it was off to Armourtex to get something interesting rather than a standard powdercoat. I was thinking *go faster *red with some kind of iridescent finish. I'll get a pic up later tonight.

great frame!

Although all of my bikes are rather dull colours, I've recently wanted something in a "look at me" orange.

Red is also nice. Were you thinking along the lines of

^^^ Oh yeah, lovely frame! Look forward to seeing the results.

I'd love to have one of these!

What does the gold/black look like in the flesh? Any pics?

What are the build plans/spec?

I quite like the original colours.

^ Prefer that though.

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This one looks pretty dope

I'm selling a nature boy at the moment. 55cm. Drop me a pm if interested

Thanks for all the interest, plan is for a speedy commuter with guard potential and larger tyres to deal with London roads.

Parts fully procured and as follows:

Cockpit
3T Ergonova 44
SRAM S900 carbon levers
TRP CX9 linear brakes black
Thomson X4 100mm silver
Chris King Sotto Voce black
Lizard Skinz DSP black tape

Drive train
SRAM S900 carbon cranks
Stronglight CT2 46T ring
KMC X1 chain

Wheelset
Phil Wood low flange silver hubs laced to TB14 silver, Pasela TG 32c tyres
White Industries 19T freewheel

Bum
Selle Italia SLR Ti
Thomson post silver

Currently waiting on a new chain tool as I broke the other one last night.

Will defo post pics of new colour and current build status tonight!

Sounds awesome!

I quite like the original colours.

Gold parts in classy looking shocker!

I think if you kept the gold to hubs, headset, nips, and seatpost clamp. It'd look really nice.

Its the big things like stem and seatpost that start to make stuff look gash in gold.

Still sparkly red sounds great, I share BNs love of orange, and have a special weakness for toxic sparkly green.

Wheelset
Phil Wood low flange silver hubs laced to TB14 silver, Pasela TG 32c tyres
White Industries 19T freewheel

What's the reason for not going a nice road hub from Hope/ChrisKing? It's cheaper, more durable and easier to change cogs.

I checked out the Chris King SS hubs but they were too spendy. Look fantastic though.

Although I'm not hugely familiar with putting a SS cassette on a road hub, would that not mean a huge wedge of hub remaining exposed? Maybe I've got it wrong here...

This is my first pair of Phils so I wanted to see if the hype is justified:
Timeline; System X >> Goldtec >> Phil Wood.

Plus if I ever fancied going back to track spacing it would be possible as I used a re-spacing kit.

I'm building something a bit similar (slowly) and have been looking at options. My frame is 120mm spaced but it is steel so could be cold-set to 130 easily enough. I've been weighing up the options and from what I've learnt the pros of using a road hub and a SS conversion kit for sscx are...

• lighter weight (no bolts)
  
• quick and easy cog changes with just a cassette tool
  
• you can run a couple of cogs
  
• you can use a QR
  
• you can borrow a spare wheel at a race
  
• freehubs are generally much better sealed than screw-on freewheels and tend to last longer. Even WI freewheels tend to last months rather than years off road according to my mtb mates (who are probably just doing it wrong).
  
  

The negatives are...

• you can't run a fixed cog on the flip
  
• you have a dished wheel
  
  
  

Sick frame BTW.

Ah ha! Gotcha, I thought there was some new-fangled methodology which I hadn't seen.

Agreed, it certainly gives you more options, the longevity of a freehub system is certinaly appealing too.

However, the aesthete in me likes the look of freewheel and non-dished wheel...

Anyhow, pics to follow, never knew people dug these frames that much!

Having said all that ^^ I'm happiest building track wheels and probably too lazy to get my frame reset so I might go down the White Ind route too.

:)

A little gold can look nice :-)

A Hope SS hub builds into a sysmetrical wheel, and has masses of clicky clicky points.

It also has a disc mount, and 135 OLD.

A little gold can look nice :-)

OT. That's lovely. Yours?

OT. That's lovely. Yours?

Thanks. Yep all mine :-) Lovely steel feel. Best bike I've ever owned by some margin and I've had far too many for one human being ;-)

Taken last weekend before I started to build it up, I think you can get a good idea of the finish - it was a lovely day which really set off the colour. It is 'Deep Trans red' from Armourtex.

Thats darn sexy.

You going to put some simple 'all-city' decals back on.