Functional bikes. Not Porn not Anti

innit though?

the #buyer in me seems to be winning... currently looking at Lynskey Cooper frame : /

Yup, frame only. At £150 I couldn't think of anything even remotely competitive. Will shift a shimergo setup onto it and upgrade gradually, hopefully starting with tiagra hydro when it finally comes out.

Edit - £150 with a hefty Brexit discount for us forriners. So more like £120ish in pre referendum money.

Hear, hear

Alpkit's sonder bikes are 949 for a fully custom titanium frame. Maybe even including the carbon fork...

Yeah, Rival 22. I'm used to Force (10 speed, 2010 I think) but if anything the shifting is better. Mechanical disc brakes, BB7. My first time using any disc brakes so nothing to compare them to but they work and haven't needed adjusting. Only minor squealing in the wet.

The only changes I made to the standard PX build was putting on some Marathon Supremes, and my favourite Fizik Arione saddle.

...We're leaving for the Pacific Coast Highway on Saturday. Come on!!

...the blue one, that is.

Yeah, I'm not so sure about the graphics. Basic blue would've been nice enough. Still... "functional"!

why not get something that'll fit 650b mtb tyres?

Trek 920? Salsa Marrakesh looks great too btw

920 is an awesome bike. Shockingly light too.

My ogre with On One midge bars and supermotos. Have since swapped these for nitto randos and works well. Re: frame bags - have got a blackburn frame bag and there is room for one bottle in the triangle unless the bag is fully extended (if that makes sense). Still bottle bosses on the bottom of the down tube and the forks. Have got a ridiculously short stem now but that's partly to give me more of an upright position for commuting but also due to the fact that when I put the nitto bars on the reach was longer than the midge bars that ride mainly on the super flared drops.

920 is an awesome bike. Shockingly light too.

So much this, and far removed from Trek.

That looks pretty bad ass but I think I'd struggle to get drops on it without a hell of a lot of spacers.

never seen one of these before so will definitely check it out-I like lightness!

Keep looking at Surlys and they are great for what you want them to do but you also know they are built like a panzer and feel like it too. That said, the Ogre seems to make the most sense out of all of them.

Salsa-wise, the Marrakesh looks good but I'm reading that it's got a max. load of 15kg on the rear which puts it in a strange place between not being light but not being rugged either. There is also the new Salsa Deadwood which I like the look of and has moar carrying capabilities:

I do like the Salsa Alternator rear ends and the Deadwood can go up to 3" tyres which is almost fatbike territory. It's just too bad the price tag is double that of the Marrakesh : ?

In other news, Lynskey is clearing out frames on Ebay but US delivery only and I have no-one to noise up otherwise I'd be getting a Cooper CX frame and be done with it!

What do you want kind of rides to do with this bike and where will you be riding? If you end up going for the Marrakesh just ditch the rack and get a proper Tubus rack!

Impressive wood pile/stack.

Is this in Scandinavia?

Good thing about the Trek is that you can try and get them on a discount.

The full hydraulic system will be quite easy to look after for you.

Will be riding through trails like this but will also be riding on-road to get there, so don't want MTB but a pure CX bike might suffer. Basically 2" tyre clearance would be great, and braze ons.

Yeah, I've tried mechanical discs before and really wasn't impressed (think it was BB5's) so decided that if I'm going disc it'll be hydro all the way. Really liking the Trek, quite similar posture to the Awol but looks more designed.

When does Evans' big end of summer sale normally start btw?

Cable pull disc are great, but fiddly and too many variability to go wrong (such as facing the mount for the calipers to sit 100%, the calipers isn't well build to begin with, housing that flex a lots, etc.).

The hydraulic wirth the auto aligned piston and auto adjusted for wear is much easier to forget, which remind me that I really need to service my Hylex at some point.

Lol thx and yes it is. Spent the summer on Gotland.

If you want the Lynskey, I've used Shipito to ship a bike frame before. They give you a US shipping address (one of their warehouses) and then you arrange shipping from there.

You can also get parts etc sent there and then they'll combine all of the bits into one shipment to send to the UK.

Hope that helps.

Salsa Deadwood looks great though!