Functional bikes. Not Porn not Anti

WRONG. Drop ends should be pointed at the where normally the brake bridge would be

I wish they'd gone with a lugged crown though - I've always thought their forks were rather handsome.

Fork looks like something they dug out of an Apollo parts bin.

That fork is pretty Univega but I’m sure you had your reasons.

When I grow up I want to make this for a living. https://www.flickr.com/photos/mapcycles/26539860678/in/feed

You and me both

that rack and that stem is what I want

This.

Pretty sure that horizontal bar nonsense is from the era of horizontal top tubes.

Most bikes look better if the bars compliment the line of the wheel.

Let's not talk about the stem ya?

26>650b conversion I just finished up for camping in the summer, frame bag currently being made & 10 speed friction is Ludicrous.

Nice man. How did the 26" to 650b conversion work? Just a case of buying the right cantis?

Yep, there's a few canti options (I'm using tektro cr720s) or you can splurge for Paul motolites which will apparently let you fit all the way up to a 700c in a 26 frame. But since I got this frame for $20, I didn't really want to spend 10x as much on the brakes alone.

Cool, I would have thought the rim diameter would've been too different. Might try it one day!

Oh yeah pads are slammed right to the top and it's not optimal, but the difference you need to clear is only about 12.5mm of vertical adjustment (650b = 584mm 26"= 559mm).

the 42c I'm running makes the entire wheel diameter about equal to a 26x2, so geo isn't effected too much either.

This is sick, but man the stem is the best part!

Narrow wide and chain keeper !

Totally into this!

^lovely
I’m calling a comeback for rod brakes in 2019. You heard it here first. #paulbrakesaredead

@edmundro Which one? Don't think either of those have rod brakes? I think on the MTB it's just a weird ultraretro suspension

Ha! No, the Raleigh just made me think the next (il)logical step in retrogrouch functional pron would be rod brakes..
/csb

Ah right. Can see it happening. "Functional" is definitely the wrong word for some of these bikes

Function: turn a scoundrel into a gentleman for the rides duration.

:-)