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I purchased a Bombtrack Arise tour not long ago to have a proper comfy commuter and do a bit of touring, so I decided to dismantle the GT and, thanks to @Gaston, I was able to exchange some battered dynamo wheels and bring my GT Force back to its former glory.
I had a quick ride with it and I'm so chuffed. It is such a fun ride.

Nice one on the truvativ elita! That's exactly the sort of thing i was looking for!

Is there a good looking black triple chainset with hollow Axle that is not made FSA?
Something looking like a Praxis maybe or white industries?

Mielec is still cheap!

I was thinking having another #RadFixeh built to go along with both my sensible bikes. Something along the lines of a Triple triangle 52cm square Fixeh like the one I stupidly sold 4 year ago, but with straight bars and some stupid wheels.

Ha thanks! I wouldn't mind!
I'm actually tempted to have one built even though I just bought a new bike and have one to rebuild... If I get a third one, the missus' gonna be mad... I do miss my Mielec though

Hey dude,
While you were hesitant las week, I contacted Mielec for you and asked for a Mash Geo Frame with both Disc and Canti mounts and:
-kind of tubes : round
-kind of head tube : integrated
-kind of geometry : yours (the one on your ss page) wirh triple triangle if possible?
-kind of welding : polished
-no paint

And, lo and behold: according to the owner: "So the price for such frame will be about 200Euro."

There you go!

So rad!

Leader Pharaoh is too expensive or not, BB too high or low, probably not compatible with BMX cranks or is, doesn't have both disc brakes and canti break mounts and caliper brakes in case OP gets bored, dropouts are not pretty enough or are too ugly or not totally horizontal, and will most likely require an infinitesimal amount of research and/or work, which the OP does not seem to keen on doing.

You want proper track ends? Cough up the £££.

Ultimately, that is correct ^

Alternatively:

• learn to weld and DIY
  
• ask a welder/mechanic to modify an old frame
  
• Magic Ratio
  

Also, for example, this Day one can fit 700c*40 tires as shown in the following picture. I'm sure this will fit bigger tires with smaller wheels. There are a few threads mentionning the Day One and/or threads for Day Ones on sale. You could ask there.

Are you in Paris? If so, you could check out the Genesis day one in a Cyclable Shop.
Also, you might find this interesting:

Oh look! I found some actual picture of the omnium cxc by extensively looking online for about 12.2 seconds!
That google thing really is impressive, isn't it?

So that's for frame and forks only or a full bike?

Online is a good starting point usually.
Are you in France by any chance?

I've got some Trekz Titanium and frankly, while it works, I find that I need to push the level so high in traffic for voices to be intelligible that I do lose some spacial awareness.
It works, but I usually end up not using them as soon as I am get back on the road.
Also, battery life is not great, and (I have a big head apparently) it gets quite uncomfortable after an hour or so.
I still think it still is the best option for listening to stuff on a bike though: BT speakers blasting shit music on shit bikes pisses me off just as much as twats not aware of a fucking thing on their Noise-cancelling cans.

How about a Genesis day one disc with flat bars and MTB tires?

Define cheap: What is your budget exactly for a frame?
I fear your maybe looking for a unicorm: a cheap, sensible configuration that will suit every one of your needs without any compromising.
I doubt you'll get a frame cheaper than £250-200 given your specs...

There's always the Mielec option... You could get a custom aluminium frame for less than 350€ I guess?
When we did the group buy for the Mash clones, it was 145€, and i heard the rates have gone up since, but i'm sure it won't be that expensive...
I'm sure they'll be able to build it from a given RattleCAD or BikeCAD design.

Can anybody ID those mudguards? They're, like, totally long and awesome. They would be great on my commuter...

Gaston is le most sensible posteur AICMFP.

Have we had this yet? It's the 2018 Bombtrack Arise tour:

It tick all the right boxes for an ideal Commutourer for me... Good dynohub and light, tubus racks, up to 40c clearance (not that I would go that far)...
Any reason I shouldn't buy this?
Other candidates were Equilibirum, Tour De Fer, Croix De Fer, Kona Wheelhouse which would almost systematically require a Dynohub wheelset purchase.

It could be from sweden too! Murikans seems to have more taste for ostentatious knives rather then the formfollowsfunction Fallkniven knives.

I have that AXA and would not recommend it to a friend. I might recommend to a foe: plastic cover on top of the light was rattling out of the box, I had to shim it; it's doesn't seem very well built, and it's not very good at charging in my experience, however that might just be to keep phone at a steady percentage maybe?
Mounting bracket broke after a couple of weeks' use
It's the second AXA I bought after the first one broke in the same way... I am not a clever man.
TL:DR, Next build, I'll go for a B&M or SuperNova...

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