Gravel / Gravé / Gnarmac / Groad / ATB

50/34t road compact is a bit too much for me.

Fit a 46t chainring, and a 11-36 (or 11-4o).

Nice!

Big fan of that

have never run a bottle under the downtube - do people ever have any issues with those?

Yes, horse, cow or worse shit flicked up on the nozzle.

Am looking for some kind of solution more elegant than a plastic bag over the bottle.

At the moment I tend to take the lid off completely and refill other bottle from it.

Down tube bottle >> designated cooking water..

Only with mudguard, and on tour, a tool bottle to hold stuff.

cool - so no issues with maneuverability and/or the thing getting caught on protrusions (e.g. large rocks)?

Your crank gonna get caught first.

(TBF this Bike have the cages set way too high compare to says, the Arkose).

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This. It's higher than your BB so if you're hitting your down tube bottle on a rock you probably should have gone round the fucker.

Need to get this to lower the cage a bit;

just get a new bike

what is this ? looking for something similar to lower seat-tube bottle on arkose. preferably one of those but which would straddle the FD clamp

The frameset was on sale

Where? Nice build btw

Topeak Alt-Postion Cage Mounts, reasonably inexpensive.

edscoble, the bike now has a 34-46t up front, customer wanted to buy the 94 bcd chainrings I had ordered for myself but I think this is going to work for now at least.

Dexter & russmeyer, thanks! Finnish Veloshop.fi had a discount on the frameset.

As I said, the bike is built mostly of parts I happened to have already, so NOS Suntour friction shifters & FD with a Deore M59x RD and Campy compact cranks. Brakes are Campagnolo Xenon sti-levers with shifter components removed operating TRP Spyre -calipers. Today I also got a NOS Made in USA Blackburn MTF-1 front rack, which is pretty neat.

I've usually kept fuel for a Trangia under the downtube, like so.

Superb

The 2020 a8 is only 850 quid. Any reason not to get one as a winter commuter? Seems pretty unbeatable at that price point.

I took mine back several times, but eventually ended up changing it for the D3. The Alfine hub was problematic, although I’m not sure whether it was just that hub, or a cable issue, or a general issue with the new version of the Alfine 8 hub. Was a shame cos it’s well spec’ed and was a nice ride. T

If it come with the microshift or suntour shifter, that’s the problem.

Is that the shifter at the bar end? Is the a way to change it or fix the issue?

The plastic cans that new tennis balls come in make good tool/waterproofs holders

Is that the shifter at the bar end? Is the a way to change it or fix the issue?

Yup.

The Jtek one are supposedly better;

https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/gear-shifters/jtek-8-spd-bar-end-shifters-mk2-for-shimano-alfine-nexus-internal-hubs/

Awesome thanks!

Looks like new bike time

Mine - 2018 - has done a trouble free 3,500 miles

Bar end shifter is j-tek

If that really stresses you out just get the Alfine trigger shifter.