Custom jack of all trades, master of none

I will keep track of modifications on my main rig in this thread. That's already a failure as the rig is almost 2 years old ...

Once upon a time, I had a Pompetamine (still have but not ridden by me anymore) :

This frame served me well as tourer, workhorse, week end ride ... and had a rohloff, singlespeed and even a derailleur.
The two pictured iterations reflect a few years of foruming, tweaking and learning and define what I like and what I would like on a custom frame : Rando geo, not too much sloping, mudgards, rack and lights.

Let's see the custom rig in the next post !

I finally ordered the frameset of my dreams by one of the bests makers in the country (Vagabonde cycles): Classic geo, disc, internal routing the lights wire, compatible with mech, rohloff, singlespeed, ...

After a few months :

And the first incomplete built next to the old rig :

A few trips to test it :

A sore butt made me change the saddle for a berthoud, the best I ever tried.

A few weeks ago :

And lastly in full winter mod :

That's awesome - nice job!

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Great to see more pics of that bike, one of my favourites. Been tempted to contact Vagabonde for something similar.

Thanks guys !
Now that I have 60mm GB, I'm contemplating switching to 650b big rubber (at least 50mm) but not sure of the gain.

@Thms apologies for the late reply, great to see a thread dedicated to this bike. I was secretly hoping this was an off the peg frame as looks perfectly suited to my needs. If you ever sell!

This bike make me smile everytime I ride it !

I'm still thinking to 650b wheelset but can't really convince myself. The resolute are very good tires !

Looks comfy as. What's that padding shit on your frame for?

I have an old bike rack on my car which destroy the paint hence the padding.

Why not put the padding on the bike rack?

I put the padding on both ! Don't worry I left the padding on the bike only for this week. I don't use very much the car rack.

Phew, such a lovely bike, even nicer without the padding.

Thanks ! I should clean it and update with nicier pics.

Not cleaned but a small update.

I had some racing ralph in 29x2.25 laying around so in a lazy sunday morning I mounted them.

On a 18mm internal rim they go out at ~53mm with tubes. Max of my clearance !

Such a cushion ride on the trails ! But feel a bit slow on tarmac.

I will get rid of the racks to lighten the build, will see how long this setup last. I also need to remount the tires tubeless.

That looks amazing!

That's a dream frame, I am sure it rides great!

Where was the picture in front of the green hills taken where he bike has the padding?

Thanks !

Approx here : https://goo.gl/maps/uix77385AZN2

forum fav bike

Very nice build.

Thanks guys ! I inflated a little more the ralphs and they roll pretty well. I will need to refrain myself of buying some thunder burt/furious fred !

As I have time these days, I clean my bikes and finishes some projects.

First one, the tandem, after a fresh paint, it as been rebuilt with most of its original parts. I build a new front hoops in 26" to match the rear rohloff one which is shared with the bullitt :

Before :

Now :

After that I showed some love to my solo rig. Cleaned it piece by piece with full reagrease. As the weather get better, I fall again on putting some big chunky tire on it. But with some much time, I got a little crazy and shaved a little my racing ralph (about 100gr) so that they fit way better and roll amazing well. My only concern is about the mudgards, I do like to have them all year round but here they don't fit. I'm thinking cutting a pair and zip tying ... Will see.

Before :

Now :

Long time no see, no real update but some tweaking ...

Winter mode 21/22 :

2021 best config :

Trying a new handlebar :

With gears :

I'm no longer contemplating 650b but I recently acquired a new rear hub (dt350), I need to decide which rim to go. The plain and simple me point to r470db but who knows !
And I need to decide on handlebar, tried 46cm zipp Xplor but too wide to my taste although the drop are comfy. I like my zipp sl-88, would love same geo with a little more outsweep in the drop.