Who said I'd have time for bikes with 3 kids? (Stayer Crit, Cdales, Vitus 979)

The Stayer is superb

Heavy on the filters, will take out soon with the camera when time permits!

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It's been said before but incredible paint (and bike). That gold streak on the headtube is the icing on the cake.

Just can’t get enough of this.

Awesome.

wow very nice build. I have recently have seen a few gravel stayers on the NLD ride and was midly disappointed, but this looks great

I follow a guy on IG who has just bought and built a stayer gravel...He has made it so ugly and cluttered it really over shadows the craftsmanship.

Goes to show you what someone with a good eye for detail can do (the stayer above)

the wishbone stays are odd, with large tyres and clearance, plus chunky dropouts, the proportions just don't work. also comparatively massive straight headtubes, duh.

properly naughty, most of lucia's work is nice.
Absolutely dialled build too.

I might need to blow some life back into this thread.
(who would have thought that 3 kids under 5 would be a lot of work?)

I have some modest updates on the current bikes and something new coming up!
New project will be a slow burn, as it will be mostly secondhand stuff I find interesting enough.

We all like pictures, so here goes...

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Awesome bike by the way - must have missed the final result somehow!

(No idea how that happened with only two kids under 5y 😒)

It's so good.

New parts look promising as well!

Have the day to myself which started out with an easy ride, (long ride planned tomorrow) cleaning and maintenance for all the bikes and have some friends coming over for Roubaix beer and bbq later. Dug out the dslr, but forgot that the 85mm has broken, so only pictures with the 50mm sadly.

Maybe I should have put more effort in tidying up the garden first, will put on list tomorrow. ;)

The original "dad bike" it has not changed much since I built it up. I have done so many nursery and school runs on it, runs into the city, some work commutes. But does not get much use lately as it can only carry 1 kid.

My commuter and do-it-all bike, I got this for the price of shipping and the custom Orlowski fork cost about 5 times what I paid for it. It had a tough life before I bought it and it lives a tough life now and it does it all very beautifully. I upgraded it with the Force drivetrain and the Apex shifters just before winter and just added to the longevity of the bike. The plan was to go touring on it this summer, but our third kinda put that on hold.

I think the SuperSix has reached it's final form, it has served me many joyous moments the last few years. It weighs 6,25kg according to my crappy luggage scale and that is good enough for me. This bike will shortly retire to the south of France with my in-laws to live out it's days under a blanket in a wine cellar and get ridden a handful of times among the cols in the region.

This bike came alive with the carbon wheels and remains remarkably light, just 7,4kg! It needs new cables and tape, and I only took it out a few times last year. But could never get rid of it. Contemplating if I should get the frame drilled for the second set of bottle mounts. No pedals as I switch over the Assioma's from the Stayer.

Stayer crit, you just cannot take a picture of this bike that does the paint justice, the details are amazing! This bike is made for where I live and the roads I ride, it flies over cobbles, eats up the typical punchy Flemish ascents it just goes and goes. Current setup is at 8,1kg, I do have a SISL2 chainset which I still need to mount.

We are looking into getting an Omnium for local runaround duties, hauling kids and their bikes and it would be a good add-on for the family Bullitt. It would make us much more mobile as a family and all the stuff you have to take with you. We just can't be arsed to take the car out for every outing that can be done with a bike.

Thinking a bit further about this, maybe I should also retire the M600 to France, it would make a good baguette getting machine. Hmmm.

Here's another pic of it all.

Just can't get enough of that Stayer.

That Vitus 979 so frikkin hot

Such a great collection!

Love the T, Evo and stayer

Would all of them

Oh and the vitus

Oh and the M

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This setup and the picture are pure chef's kiss despire not normally being an exciting part of a bike, the clampless seat tube/post and frame colour work so well together

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