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£50 Thorn 26 fork for cantis, 56mm offset, hella steerer, starnut inside. £60 with the FSA headset. A-C is 37cm, steerer is 40cm.
This is unused - mounted and decided against - BUT in my infinite wisdom, I tried to drill through the crown with a hand drill. I persisted for like two seconds before realising that was dumb and I won't make a dent in it, BUT it was enough to ruin the threads of the front eyelet. Price not including any spacers but let's talk about that.

Also another pic of the bars.

£10 Avid rotor 140mm w bolts (New)

Prices including postage
£20 Very long short (60mm?) 25.4 quil stem
£20 Nitto Randonneur bar 42cm wide 25.4
£10 Nitto bullhorns 38cm 26mm
£10 PlanetX aero bars
£10 Dia Compe cantis with kool stop pads (these will work nicely with a narrow canti boss spacing)
£10 Deore front hub, bearings could be smoother but low milage
Stronglight crankset 170mm sub compact
Random saddle 140ish mm wide
£5 Promax V-brakes

Postage or free with sth else:
Bar extender thing
Random friction shifter
Sunrace 6sp shifter set
Tektro flat bar lever for road brakes - I have the other just have to dig it out

I'm moving and am keen on getting rid of this stuff, so make me an offer. I'll list details and price in a bit.

I feel like those fit nicely in the Functional thread. Old school rando bikes tend to end up there too.

I like this a lot, how are the bars to ride, seems like it may feel weird to handle? Wanted to try sth like this for a while.

Don't understand; this is what buying books online is for??

Gotta get around putting my surplus stuff for sale already

£18 posted? I'll check if you're interested, but pretty good, don't remember any scratches or anything.

I got a black pair I just took off a bike if you'd like

Oh that would do it. Would also strengthen the fork under twisting force I guess?

@user150977 it's an ostrich, not sure about the exact model. It's my favourite, planetx had them for £30 in 2020

It's baffling how they can put so much thought into designs and still put together the weirdest looking aesthetic atrocities for their catalogue. But the gigantic steerer, at least in this model, is really convenient because you can get the bars level with the saddle without it looking out of place.

I also don't understand the geometry of how they can simultaneously have such big head tubes as well as so much steerer leftover.

I want to lament more about how cool Thorn can be, but maybe after I finish the few things it's missing.

We don't shill for Thorn nearly enough.

Mouth watering, hope this stays up by the time I'm less unemployed, glws

Oh it's also getting a rear son light (scored for £15), spd m520 from bike station, and a spa 160mm crankset (it's the one they sell as a triple). The BB drop (70mm) is my only beef with the frame, but I don't mind shorter cranks, and they might also have a reason for not changing it because they do the mk5 in 650b with the same drop (although slightly bigger tyres).

I didn't really keep track but I think I spent under £500 on this thing, which is pretty cool.

There's also Crust's autistic cousin, which is probably also going to be my favourite bike, but it's a bit off from a satisfying level of done. I was a little worried about the spyres and campy levers -- they seemed a bit soft on the stand, and there's some speculation that the campy pull ratio might be a touch off, but after a few rides, I totally fw it.
The shifting also works super well (campy 10 + shimano 9 with alt cable routing). Def recommend.

Mudguards are keeping me up at night tho. I was a dummy and bought 700s thinking they might fit the frame mounts better, and I can swap wheels, but they're kinda off. I think I can get them right, might need to drill another hole for the fork crown to push it forward, it's waaay too low on the front wheel rn.

Almost everywhere.

Just a few more grabel pics. This is actually super fun on trails, 70 gear inches is like a magic ratio that works almost everywhere.

What's your chest circumference, under the pits? To get a feel of much would be too big for this

So I'm in the last (touch wood) efforts of writing my phd thesis, and have been away from bikes for too long, but like, here's a small progress report on the grey raleigh which is growing to be my favourite bike

Pending as soon as I find the time, and it's not freezing:
Gutted campy levers
Nitto M12
Fix chainline
Connect rear light

Oh didn't mean to recommend, I have this one and need it gone

How about a thorn 26in fork?
https://www.sjscycles.co.uk/forks/46-26-thorn-st26-steel-fork-black/?geoc=HR

That one with the larger offset

Here's what I mean by the use case of a bivy. I went and did the NC500 with a 3ish day goal, and I brought a flat tarp, a pole, and non-wp bivy with a groundsheet. Bad move, here's why.

First night I stopped at a bus shelter because it started raining. I layed my stuff on a groundsheet and wrapped everything in the tarp. Not ideal because I was likely damaging the tarp, it was flapping a lot, and I was never sure if it was covering me fully.

Second night, I just stopped by the side of the road when I got tired. Pitch was kinda successful, but was a faff. There was just enough space for it, no more. Bad sleep, too much wind for an exposed flat tarp.

Third night, I planned to ride through, but was pretty tired and kept looking out for a shelter to nap for a few hours. I couldn't just lay my quilt in the open because it was just about drizzling, but not quite raining. I was too stubborn to stop ahead of a storm and when it hit me I had to scramble to pitch a sorry excuse of a shelter. Somehow it held, barely, and I had just about enough space to sit or lay in a fetal position. I was totally soaked, but just about avoided hypothermia as it was only a few hours before sunrise.

If I had a waterproof bivy, all three nights would have been fine, even relatively pleasant. I had to stop 100km before Inverness tho because I was so tired I couldn't keep my head up mid day.

I looked into the fabrics a year or so ago, which is a big concern due to breathability constraints. EVent seemed to have a reputation of being actually kind of breathable (more or less everything else is not), likely because it doesn't just pass vapour, but also air. Con is that eVent seems not to be very durable. You might find some old Rab bivies with that fabric. However, those models switched to pertex something, which is also what OR helium uses, and people review them as being ok wrt breathability.

Breathability is a weird buzzword and I wouldn't trust it too much. My OR Helium gets very muggy, but as does everything else including my half-mesh bivy. I live in Scotland and don't bother much with site selection, tho. I chose the OR helium because of the kinda breathable reputation, the hoop, and the mesh. The use case for these things IMO is to mostly use them open, and close down only when necessary. On first glance, it's not the lightest option, but my relatively minimal flat tarp + mesh bivy setups tend to be a few hundred grams heavier due to poles, stakes, groundsheet, etc. I'm not concerned with weight here tho, but utility - a bivy is easy to pack and setup in a crap campsite. I also like feeling abit more open vs. closed down in a tent. Ideally I'd cowboy camp most of the time, but that's a non-starter in Scotland.

I don't like Alpkit's elan thing, last time I checked it seemed heavy, contrived, and I expect, not very breathable.