Custom Rourke Cross / Light Tourer

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Looking forward to seeing this complete!

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It's done, bar another steerer tube trim, and it's brilliant. I'm racing it this pm at Herne Hill so say hi if you see me. It'll be interesting to see what a difference (if any) it makes over my old cross bike!

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Really good! Ti stem and seatpost?

thanks. nope, deda zero100 dark metal (I just love the colour)

and thomson (light, and kinda matches the stem). If anyone has a zero100 dark metal seatpost in 27.2 then please do let me know

The new rourke font looks awesome on black. Are you going to leave it plain?
I'm looking to get my bike resprayed next year and still umming about colour after looking at your it's got to be black.

Swwwaaaag. Swag tyres too. Nice build Fred.

Is that stainless? Look like the pewter type material.
Is this a geoff moorhouse made badge

yes, it's a stainless badge, I think it's just the lighting that makes it look brass. the frame is 853.

Dang nice bike mate! Bosses for muguards & rack too... drool

So nice. sorry if I read over any reason for huge excess on the fork tube?

do you mean the excess steerer tube? Just not fully cut down in case the handlebar position wasn't perfect. It will get trimmed when I cba

Sweet, this needs some better pics!

it has crabonz now courtesy of @andyp so I'll get some new snaps done this w/e

this has got to go back to Rourke so is having a respray. Thoughts on the attached? It's RAL 3012, so more like this

Skip the cream bands you think? Looks quite 'fleshy'

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https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/shortcuts/2017/mar/22/millennial-pink-is-the-colour-of-now-but-what-exactly-is-it

Found myself really being quite stary at a pink jacket a MAN was wearing today. Then got a hold of myself and pretended I was looking at something else.

He was quite stylish.

That's well nice

exactly, I was going for a bike the same colour as an essex boy's t-shirt

betterer?

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This got a little update and conversion for winter / road duties (just in time for summer).

I'll do decent photos at some point

Not a massive fan of the colour, but each to their own. Dream bike otherwise.