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Re the Puch bottom bracket: this looks like a re branded Raleigh Twenty, if that’s the case you can get a threadless bottom bracket pretty cheap and then use the cranks of your choice. I used a dremel to make the bb shell a little narrower on mine. Those threadless bbs are handy anyway. If you’re just after weight savings I’d say just get some lighter wheels, seatpost/saddle, cockpit etc.
Re the chain coming off on the Saracen: it looks like you have the chainring on the outer position on your cranks, move it to the inside and see if that makes a difference (along with shortening your chain and maybe buying a chain keeper).
Re bars for the Saracen: I can’t say enough good things about map/ahearne bars. They are so comfy mile after mile. They have about 40 degrees of back sweep so any bar in that neighborhood should also be good.
Your bike collection looks sick, I’m excited to see how all these turn out!

Diff color brake and gear cables is very big brained I’m excited for the Homer bike

This turned out awesome. If you find a 20” disc fork you like, BBB make a threadless steer tube extender that’s not too expensive and worked for me pretty well.

Just got my new gravel bike from @Samwize :)

Not that I'm not utterly in love with it but the shifters???

I gotta do this to my shimano DT shifters, looks fantastic!

Thanks all, it was a ton of fun to make I can see myself doing more as gifts in the future.

Made this for my wife as a Valentines gift, watercolor and pencil with a bit of Posca for the white highlights.

Glad you found the cranks you were after, and good luck in your case! The red tires on the Steamroller give it a Y2K mtb vibe that kind of works. Also, it may be a good idea to get somebody to fuck around with the gears on the PD, maybe they just need a little adjustment? When I was changing cockpit parts around on my Pacer the indexing would sometimes get thrown off.

Mismatched bottles, MTB helmet, dress socks??? WTF is the point of being rich

Willing to sell just the frame?

Is it the cantis? IDGI, just looks a little blue luggy but fun to ride and definitely not anti.

Shimano cantis + fixed is a great setup

Fucking amazing, you madman. Reminds of the "Fauxnagos" that fyxomatosis used to make, but with much more detail.

Free light forever!!! Let’s see how this radial lacing thing goes, the only spokes I had were from a 26” wheel and they ended up being just the right length for putting an open pro and LX dynamo hub together.

Big time excited for this.

Ty! The bstone is in the shed with a wore out rear rim, waiting on me to get over my fear of wheel dishing...

Idk there were a bunch of stones in the mud on part of my ride today, felt very gravelly.

Neo retro forever. 11s drivetrain, square taper cranks, silver parts everywhere. Paint it BONE WHITE with BLOOD RED decals.

The tricolor frame!!! Damn that’s cool. Excited to see how the ti track comes out too.

Cut a nice lil scallop in the front fend- I mean mudguard to make it look more expensive and made a milk carton flap. Also removed the ol lopsided front rack and massive rando bag, it didn’t really pay its way like the little super c does on my shorter rambles.

I use Suntour power shifters, very affordable on ebay. Have had Riv ones in the past and those also worked great. The Rivendell shifters and ENE ciclo have the same ratcheting internals afaik and are both based on the Suntours.

Sick sick sick sick, can't wait to see how this turns out. Deore rear derailleur and Suntour friction shifters is an excellent combo, feels fantastic to use. Word of caution on the VO stem, I have the chrome version and the quill is a little skinny. When riding there is a noticeable wobble and a small gap where it goes into the fork.

Very comforting thanks, and your write up has me looking at spending pants money on a hub dynamo now...

Black looks better, maybe get some freaky anodized bar plugs to compensate for the lack of color?