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Loove this frameset, did you buy it direct from Mathew a few years back? Built up super nice too!

Worn once, perfect condition. Mine is from Gore bike wear but I’m open to other brands versions.

Let me know if you’re keen ✌️

Thanks for the reply 🙂 exactly what I hoped and expected to hear. I’m running Rene Herse tubeless on another bike and loving it. These are going on more of a beater and for €13 a pop thought it was worth a go

Anyone got experience running OG Pari Motos tubeless? Will be on 40psi or so

Who’s the builder?

Just seen your posts...prices and shipping to Germany possible?

Hi,

I’m after Thomson seatposts, 410mm long, straight - one 27.2, one 31.6

Can anyone help me out?

Also interested....

Aye it’s funny...my life story over the past few years told through my connection with a bicycle. From tourist to racer, courier to framebuilder, London to Scotland and onwards to Berlin

He did, you know him? Nice, thanks for the tip! I was on the edge of it Easter Weekend and got the feeling I need to go back and deeper in

Just ordered an Igaro D2 which will live in a bar bag I reckon

:) I think I might too

Yeah you’re all right, it would never be worth in money to someone else what it’s worth to me. If the world re-opens anytime soon and I can see myself visiting my parents I’ll send it there if not - risers, flats & straps and I’ll use it for the odd bimble around town.

Test Ride!

The position came out millimeter perfect. It’s the same position as my road bike and my Orłowski, fairly aggressive but one I can comfortably ride all day, day in day out. So as soon as I sat on the bike I felt home. Handling geometry straight away also gave me that “yep” feeling, intuitive. I wouldn’t change it at all if I were to build the bike again.

The route was 137km, 57 on road or paved bike path, the rest a mix of gravel, sand, forest roads and singletrack...a good all round test for bike, tyres and rider.

The first 10k or so were on road and at first I couldn’t help thinking “maybe these tyre are just a step too far, too big” They’re so much bigger than anything I’d ridden before and from an aesthetic point of view, looking down from my road position, past a road cockpit, the front wheel looks bizarre! Then onto the gravel “ok they make a bit more sense” but as soon as I hit the first Sandstraße it was a eureka moment “woah, alles klar!”

The float they offer is unreal, it’s not just a case of being able the get through the sand but actually being able to rip over it. It’s weird, you don’t really get a sense of how deep the sand is until you turn, otherwise the bike just sits on the surface and flies over it.

The combo of the tyres and the super light wheelset is really special. They looks so big and cumbersome but acceleration is like on the road bike and for fixed off road riding being able to punch over short steep climbs without feeling weighed down is great.

On the road the speed feedback is totally different to a traditional setup but it certainly ain’t slow, whenever glancing down at the wahoo I was pleasantly surprised how fast I was going.

Gear ratios I chose feel spot on, one for road (which will likely be winter miles with the guards on) one for off road fun times.

I’m waiting for a Thomson seatpost to arrive for this, in the meantime I nabbed the seat & post from my road bike...virtually unpadded Arione is too firm for off road. Will get the Antares VSX on there and see how I go.

I lost a water bottle somewhere along route but other than than no catastrophes.

Average speed for the ride was just over 25kph which considering the terrain I was astounded by.

In short, it’s fast and more importantly it’s fun! I really feel this bike will change my riding and open up Brandenburg for me. There’s no hills to speak of, lots of long straight roads and to be honest I found it quite boring coming from Scotland and even London but there’s limitless forest roads, tracks, trails, which were previously blocked by the sand, that are now open to me and I’m super excited to spend the summer exploring and going hard.

It’s a niche bike this one but for me, my riding style and where I live it’s perfect and I couldn’t be happier.

Thanks again for all the kind words people, dunno what to say other than I’m honored.

@kjlem no raw steel showing through here, it’s a chrome effect base coat

@SasenFrAsen unfortunately it’s not really a one-size-fits-all kinda thing

Oh you

Giving the people what they want! This has the potential to become my favorite thread

Haha I was gonna message you or Stu and ask for his library of fixed gear off road bikes, he alone could flesh this thread out nicely!

Haha happy coincidence! ESI tape is the one

The life of my long suffering Orlowski hasn't been any easier since my move to Berlin: it's done 20km daily commute and easily 90% of my training miles and general riding. In near two years it's had a dyno powered front light, few new chains, sprockets and brake blocks but other than that, zero maintenance and it's still trucking on!

I just finished its successor and now I'm not sure what to do with it - don't need it, don't really want to sell it...might post it to my parents to enjoy retirement with them, then I'll always have a bike to ride when I'm visiting them.

With the new build almost done and a sunny 4 day Easter weekend I thought I'd load up the old Orlowski and head out on one last hurrah. Coronavirus measure stated that I couldn't cross state lines but that we were allowed to be "underway by bike" so I made a route just skirting Brandenburgs northern border using forest tracks and forgotten cobblestone roads and headed out. The nights were bitter cold but then days were super clear and sunny. Barely a soul out, just me cruising through the eerie, empty countryside.

It actually kind of is, looking at LFGSS many years ago shaped my idea of what a good looking bike was and sharing projects, tricks and tips has built my love for the craft. My Orlowski, in its many incarnations, was definitely a product of the forum and this is it successor.

Thanks for all the kind words, means a lot.

This project and this bike as the outcome has really fired up my framebuilding mojo and reminded me what drew me to it in the first place, glad it speaks to you all as well

Cheers! Will share pics as and when. Definitely not for panniers, the idea is more to strap a dry bag of warm clothes for the end of a long ride, ultralight tent or isomat (what's the English word for that?). My fair weather overnight camping set up is normally, hang the sleeping bag from the bars, clothes and food in a saddlebag and then isomat clumsily strapped somewhere...now it has a home.

Sure, this is running on a Neco, not a household name but super reliable sealed bearing unit. JIS taper, 116mm axle.

Hanging out the bottom of the front light