Topkek loves functional bikes

it just gets better and better!!!"

It does.
And @topkek, that would be much appreciated.

@jontea
It was a little hard to measure precisely, but this might give you an idea of what will work.

Rear tire width is 36,9mm
Front tire width is 36,8mm

Seat stay
Distance to tire is 12mm on each side.
Distance from outer edge of rim to bottom of seat stay bridge is 51-52mm.
Chain stay
Distance to tire is 9mm on each side.
Distance from bridge to tire is about the same, maybe slightly more
Fork
Distance to tire is about 15mm on each side.
Was not able to measure top, but looks like its the same.

Let me know if you have any other questions!

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Bloody hell man, above and beyond, very helpful.
Cheers.

My wife has understandably never liked riding gravel and forest roads on her mixte with narrow 32mm tires, so I set out to build her a casual rigid mountainbike, that would make those sort of rides more enjoyable for her.

The purple Trek 850 is the result of that. She loves it, and I am happy with how it turned out as well. It looked like it was poorly maintained when I bought it, but it was easy to strip down, and it has almost no rust.

The Giant Coldrock is a project for myself, just for fun, and because I have wanted to build a 90's mtb as a functional ride ever since I gave my little brother my GT Karakoram. I'm going to build a pair of wheels identical to those on the Trek (I put them on the Giant for the photos and a test ride), add a silver seatpost, silver stem, silver bars, and a narrow wide chainring for 1x conversion.

The Schwalbe Hurricane tires on the Trek are awesome, but I imagine a couple of tan walls will look good with the purple frame, so they might get transfered to the Giant. Billy Bonkers or Gravelking SK are however not easy to find at the moment.

Maybe we will bring these bikes on our trip to Sweden in October, we will see...

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The Giant is great, but that Trek is lovely.

Finished the Giant yesterday. Love how it turned out. It's my first bike with such a relaxed riding position, and I really like it.
The drivetrain feels a liiitle like the chainring needs to be worn in or something. The chainline is good, but it's still slightly noisy in the outer positions on the cassette - a lot more than my wifes Trek above, which has a sram x-sync 2 chainring, as oposed to the Gabaruk ring on mine.

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With the Giant claiming the pizza rack, I had to get something else for my Trek 520, so I went and bought a Surly front rack. I've wanted to convert it to flat bar for some time, so did that while I was at it.
Also, behold, my first attempt at shooting a bike with something else than an iPhone. Feeling like John Prolly right now.

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New Kona Sutra LTD project is about to begin. Was lucky enough to get my hands on a frameset from Velobande Berlin last week. This will replace my Macho Man road bike, as I haven't enjoyed riding that for the past year (it's a nice bike, but my riding has changed).

My LBS is currently building the 105/DT M462 wheels, and will hopefully be done by friday. It will have a 1x10 shimano drivetrain and hydro brakes, Thomson seatpost, Soma Dream riser bars - very excited about these, and Vittoria Mezcal 29x2.25 tires.

This will be my first time working on hydraulic brakes, so looking very much forward to that as well.

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Picked up the wheels from my lbs today, very happy with where this is going.

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Yes, that is good. Love the classic wheelset!

Building up courage to install the hydraulic brakes by installing other parts.

Forgot to set the limit screw after adjusting the rear derailer last night, so when i went for a careful spin around the parking lot, I shifted the chain over and in between the cassette and wheel. Took some force to get free, and I think I bent the rear derailer in some way, because I couldn't get it adjusted properly afterwards. Ended up swapping in an other deore 10 speed rear derailer from my Giant, and it works flawlessly now. Stupid mistake.

Paint got a nice metallinc shine in the sun.

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This looks really nice!
Love the silver parts on a green frame.

Subbed. This has @spotter vibes

Managed to install and bleed the front brake today using the top to bottom “gravity” method with no syringe involved. I bought levers, calipers and hoses separately, so no oil in the system to begin with except for maybe a little in the caliper.
After behaving bled and closed the bleed valve at the caliper, and with the funnel still plugged in at the lever and topped up with oil, I had to pump the lever quite some times before it started to build resistance and move the pistons. After pumping for a while, small bubbles were still occasionally ascending through the funnel, but at a point I thought that had to do it. I finished up and went for a quick spin and everything feels as it should, but I keep wondering if there’s still air in the reservoir.
I’ll do the rear brake tomorrow and see how that goes.

Went on my first longer ride on the Kona yesterday:

• brakes are working very well despite being lower range Shimanos
  
• the Sram X-sync2 chainring feels great, and have been smooth and silent right from the start.
  
• the overall fit is good, I just need to get used to the wider bars. But no pain after 3,5 hours.
  
• the tires. They are really good. Roll extremely well on tarmac, and have good grip on steep ascents. 29x2.25 at 25 PSI.
  
• while the not-level pizza rack hurts my eyes a little, stuff stay put in the basket even on rough terrain.
  

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Very very nice.

that is a great looking bicycle.

Looks really lovely!
How long a stem are you running?

Thanks. It's a 90mm stem, it gives a nice and relaxed position with the handlebars backsweep

Thanks!
I've been trying to find a decent setup for a disk converted trek mtb from 1994, and steering was sooo sluggish with a 45mm and Ritchey Kyote bars. But it's really twitchy (like don't stand up and pedal twitchy!) with a longer stem and narrower bars..

Yes, it can be hard to find the sweet spot. I kind of guessed based on the setup on my Trek. I think the bar width has a lot of influence on the steering feel as well.

Tried getting some better shots some time ago, but never got around to upload them

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I don’t see them 🧐

@Simba
I have edited the post to attach the photos instead of embedding them from Google Photos. Can you see them now?