Salsa Vaya, the Resurrection - TvH's touring stuff

Then we can swap if I need more aggressive angle and you need mtb 0 angle.

I am probably going to build one for myself at some point but I have other priorities right now.

There is also this if you want oversize

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25.4 and no faceplate makes me sad

Yeah I know what you mean.
Stayer Cycles will make you some if you are impatient.
I can maybe make some, but I have so many other things I need to do first.

Why are they so preposterously expensive? Are they not reasonably easy to make? Hmm.

Because forged stems are superiour in every way probably :)

But I agree on the aesthetics

Good find on the Megamo. Need 26.0 but that might do for now.

When your only standard for a stem is that it holds your bars up, aesthetics becomes the only criteria!

Shimmy!

So, 700c x 35ish, or 650b x 42+? Putting it to a vote, which I will then likely ignore.

650B feels like it might offer the least mudguard hassle, and even with 70mm BB drop, shouldn't be unmanageable.

But 700c means a decent range of cheaper tyres, and more shared components with Kate's bike

I've got 650b X 42 wtb resolutes and they feel ace.

They also exist in a 700*42 size

You can always build two wheelsets...

They do look good, wondering how they compare to Gravel King SK and/or Mud... Or whether I should go back to slicker tyres, being that I mostly ride on the road. Hmm.

I've not ridden the gravelking sk but I would imagine they would be better on tarmac than the resolute

Am leaning towards 700c, and likely 35 or 38c GK SK. Mostly because I have a cunning and complicated wheel shuffling plan. More on that after the weather

If you get carried away with the welding you could always reweld the forks for a low trail insta hype machine (clicky for sauce)

Full-on rewelding them for more rake would certainly be for the advanced class...

Was worried for a moment about the lack of canti bosses, but then I thought this would be the perfect bike to indulge my pizza rack yearning

Interesting decaluer on that one.

Parts are starting to come in! Postman is going to be busy over the next few weeks.

Rich gloss! Subtle silver! Classy font! You may have noticed that there's a bit of a lack of caliper here, but I have a cunning plan.

For their modulation sins, I'm ripping the XT brakes off my mountain bike, replacing them with these Level TLs (which apparently don't suck) and stealing the calipers for this project. And then throwing the stupid servo wave levers in the bin.

And of course I need something notThomson to hold my bars up.

So this one will do for now

BTW I have no idea which hoses and olives I can use for the TRP levers so any help pls

Yeah. Cool stem

Painted or polished?

Difficult to say

Are we talking Mega stem? Chrome or plated surely??

erm... trp uses mineral oil, but sram stuff is dot, non?

Quite. Hence I'm replacing the XT brakes on my mtb with the SRAMs, and using the XT calipers with the TRPs

Looking at it in the light, I think it's chromed, hence the rust pitting