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Fitted and ridden a couple of times but not feeling it on the Swift.

Prefer to swap for Junkers or VO Klunkers
Or posted to you for £50 all in

Funds sent but just for the 38t

can I get the two TA 94BCD chainrings?

Would anyone be willing to collect and post the Gevenalle CX 1x10 road levers (used)
£20 for the price of a pint and all costs covered?

I'm guessing these are disc only but the sidewall look like they are machined for a brake track?

So after a first shakedown ride my first thoughts are-
Lovely riding frame, comfortable, capable up and down bumpy tracks, feels nice and light.
Not completely sold on the Stooge moto bars, might look for something with more rise and back sweep- velo orange Klunkers?
Gears need sorting- 7 speed shifter (friction)- 8 speed chain to used 9 speed cassette does not make for slick shifting and 30 to 11-34 is not a great range of gears either.

I discovered I needed a 2.5mm shim on the freehub so does that mean I can move up to a 10 or 11 speed rear cassette?

Tyres and wheels are plush and comfy so they can stay for now.

Overall very happy with it and looking toward a respray and slow upgrade. Seatpost feels OK but will probably go to inline when one turns up.

You is tall, I'm 6ft 4in with minimal seatpost exposed!

Coming from a Krampus and running 27.5 x 3.0 tyres on my Scrambler the wheels seem almost road/ gravel width

I believe you!

Also i can't believe how high you had the seatpost in your drop bar build!!

I am considering a front rack so that may help even the look out, or are we all brainwashed by the long and slack mantra?!?

Hmmmm 🤔

Funny you say that, I sent some pictures to Sam at singular who thought the forks were from a mk3 but they would be shorter than the original ones. He gave me a figure of 483 a-c so I'll give them a measure and see. It may just be the slack seat tube angle throwing things out of wack

Lovely bike there! I've thrown what I've got from the spares bin to get a feel of fit and ride etc.

Helluva reach on this so I've knicked the stem off my daughters bike to try and make it rideable!

Chain and gears to go this weekend then out for a test ride. Still fels pretty darn light compared to the Stooge Scrambler but this Swift is going to have a much more cruisey life so that's OK.

Might change to an inline seatpost at some point, not sure I will be able to fit a dropper!

OK, thanks, simple as that!

And a quick count up tells me it's f-ing octalink!!!!

Is there anyway to figure out if some specialized cranks I have are power spline or ISIS bb?

Got a ratty one you can have for £5 posted

For a singlespeed MTB so ramps and pins not required. Somewhere in the 30s teeth would be great, will need to be posted too.

Many thanks

If you want to try the high rise stem I have the genetic version I can do for cheaps

But somehow the blue screams swift to me

Yes I've put some road cranks on leaving too tight clearances for my liking. I've a few square tapers that I can play with just to get this in use.

Long term plan for the Swift involves repainting to the original blue

Thanks both, bars are Ti Jones bars but sold and delivered to Mat-cr as I was 'passing' Bournemouth yesterday.

No worries, I'm away for a week now so give me a shout if you need it and any parts too.

In shock news I've just measured the bb shell on the swift- 68mm NOT 73mm the normal MTB 'standard'.

Nice as I have a few road chainsets I can use, but may be limited to a 34 front ring, maybe a 11-36 cassette would do for now?

Devon now mate! Just need an on one fixed hub and I'm away!

So the osprey can go a couple of ways, shimergo veloce shifters to tiagra 8 speed, classic silver mechs and square taper cranks
Or
1x11 Sram apex modernish groupset

No @bobble believe it or not those are both pictures of the Swift.

Osprey is rim caliper and very similar to yours!

Some pics