Planet X kaffenback - Touring / Cross

kaffenback looks awesome. well done. need some of those fista stickers for my brooklyn sooo bad

Today was the day! its fucking done!

I got the focus frame for free from the bikeshop where we service our bikes on work, it has a little scratch on driveside dropout but it will work fine without repair.. I felt I could not justify building the Focus up so i gave it away to a close friend who really wants it!

back to the Kaffenback.

I took the wireless ride across downtown to the bikesshop where a friend work :)

It feels better to let a pro set the brakes and gears so it runs perfekt.

i also mounted new 25mm 4season conti's and new lizzardskin bartape.

When everything was in place it was time to weigh it, all under 10kg is okay I thought haha lucky me.

Time to ride back to fista HQ, fix the bartape and drink some beers.

and here it is, done and done for now! I'm a little unsure about the bottlecages, what do you guys think? i dont like fat carbon ones on a skinny steelframe.. hmm

Next step is lighter wheels, i got a pair of 30mm Rigida rims in black, maybe lace them up on red novatech hubs.

It not gonna make that much difference with a porky frame I'm afraid, good thing it got a carbon fork.

Damn, that came out really awesome! I like every bit of this bike (except the cages). Especially the drivetrain with the single ring looks boss. About the bottle cages: just plain traditional black ones would look great I think.

Really nice.

I like the bottle cages, but not on that bike.

Something simple and black would be good like posted.

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Edit: nevermind.

ive think about traditional cages to, just a little detail and i will only use them on longer rides.

That turned out so good! Are you not tempted to go for 32mm tyres?

Jesus, that chain ring looks huge? As in, a 53? Fuck that. Sorry if I'm mistaken.

52T are perfekt for my riding style when i use it as messenger bike, if you read the thread from the start i got a 46t chainring for other missions.

carbon fork only take 28mm tyres :/

A little sharper pics..

Fair enough! Looks great, btw.

thanks man!

You mean it's not a CX fork?

its a road fork.

That make a lots of sense, steepen the head and seat angle and made the bike feel more agile compare to original fork.

BB a snatch lower too.

As i said before, bb drop with the roadfork is the same as my old felt roadbike, more agressive angles just make it more fun to ride, handles really good with the road forks!

but on the other hand, I have built alot of freakbikes, frames from scratch, swapping forks and all that shit for many years now, so i kind of know what happens.

I do not always need that engineering perfection, I know what I do and can live with some consequences :)

First real test, pushed the bike hard for 8 hours today!

really happy with the build, handles and feels so good!

If the kaffenback geometry is anything like the pompetamine (71.5'ish degree headtube and bb drop of 52mm with original fork), you have just made the angles more normal :), but yeah .. no room for big tyres.

I think it is the same frame and geo, just other dropouts and cable guides :)

Still search for a cheap carbon cx fork to use winthertime.

there's this:
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Carbon-Cyclocross-700C-Road-Fork-Steer-tube-1-1-8-UD-weave-with-Disc-Brake/32314562327.html
but not full carbon so 780g, and looks a bit dodgy.

I think it is the same frame and geo, just other dropouts and cable guides :)

I believe so too, although I question Planet X/On one measurment as one time they said 72.5, other time it's 73 (seat angle).

thanks, i will take my time to find something nice.

and when winther comes i will prob ride my trashy maeda NJS with disc fork. gears and swedish winther are a bad kombo :S

Man, that's the greatest kaffenback ever IMO