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Small bikepacking trip this weekend on this fantastic bike!

I was quite surprised on how smooth and responsive the ride is when comparing to everything else i've ridden over the years. It's a bit on the heavy side, naturally, especially compared to my carbon bikes. Important to note that the modern tyre setup help a lot, with 28/30mm tubeless and lower pressures. I'm enjoying it very much!

The stem is an Enve aero and the handlebars are Syncross alu 40mm :)

Been riding this as my main race bike for half a season now. Very happy with it!

Amager unite!

Yeah it's a great design. I was lucky to find a frame for dirt cheap on the Danish second hand market :)

@pj2606 What a lovely bike that is

I won’t be needing those, so go ahead :)

Yeah it runs fantastic! And this is compared to 11 speed and 12-speed AXS too.

The bike was born with this groupset, and even has the cannondale-green on the levers and RD. I won’t change the groupset, but was looking into maybe swapping the cranks for some SI’s and hunting down a matching Thomson x2 stem. But those are details! As it stands now it works amazing

Just built this one up. It's fast and lovely to ride! Red 10-speed. Will upgrade on it slowly down the road, but as it stands now it still weighs less than my other more modern road bikes.

Pogi also seems to have lost weight. He looks sharp as ever. Giro favourite for sure

For a TDF victory i'd like to see some better team efforts from UAE than what we've recently seen (Milan San Remo for one) And Vingegaard is looking pretty ripped. We are up for some great cycling rivalry in the Grand Tours

Major domestique in the making

Yes, please do!

Dyrehaven indeed!

I run into a steel bike or two occasionally when i ride in that area. But no, there aren't too many of us.. :)

Cheering for Mads P (fellow Dane) today in the e3. He might be the odd one out compared to the two brutes that is MVDP and Wout, but forecast says rain and Mads loves the rain 😎

Another snapshot of a winter ride in the Scandinavian mud.

Switched over to some 40mm Maxxis Velocita's and having some fun plowing through the dirt and mud.

Nds pic (Excuse me)

Another lovely summer being spent on this great bike!

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I'll post some when i get to the build :)

Just recieved my Kreissäge (Paceline Peach)

Should be interesting to see how this frame rides and if its worth the hype. It's a beautiful frame though, so no complaints there. Still trying to figure out if i was clever to buy this instead of a compliant carbon frame.

For those wondering about the sizing (I know i did) i decided to go 56 (M) with my 1,82. It was between that or 54 which in the end seemed a bit too steep. This frame runs a bit small.

Might do a build thread if anyone is curious, even though it's gonna be built up pretty vanilla

So yeah.. I bought it off @fredtc a while ago on this forum and had it shipped to Denmark.. :) I really can't emphasize enough how much i love the frame. It did the job of outclassing all my other bikes, and i even sold my plastic bike last year. So now i've only got steel in my shed. I'm also the type who likes to thrash around quite a bit on my bikes, so it's perfect

Though... I dont want to sell it folks! Haha

I'll try to take some more photos this summer. I often forget to.. When out biking, there isn't much time for documenting :)

I have some bonus pics of a banana that's out of focus and a non driveside pic from an epic winter ride

Been out and about with my Rourke. Really enjoying the versatility of this bike. Even use it for racing, popping on some slicks now and then! It's the only bike in my collection besides my everyday ride. Been tweaking it since i got a hold of it nearly 3 years ago but i find myself using it in a pretty standard 1x setup and with 32-35mm tyres. It's got space for 45mm i believe, but haven't found the use for that yet. Guess i can spend loads more years just experimenting with this frame.

I rode a couple of Bon Jon pass (35mm) standard casing, last year. found a set of NOS on sale, from the Compass days, before they switched names. I was curious on them so i couldnt resist buying them. Even on sale they were very expensive. Needless to say, i was very disappointed, since i had some hype built up around them.

They are great rolling tyres, but are slippery as f*** as soon as you hit wet conditions. Forget about gravel too. I punctured after the first 500 meters on light gravel. After some weeks of struggling i caved and bought myself a pair of GP5000's 32mm.

With that said this is just my 5 cent. i know some people who ride the endurance casings and have a good time.

The pain

Yesterday i decided to mount some new tubeless tires for my upcoming 14 days of touring/graveling and general all road fun. Having fitted tubeless tires before, and knowing the pitfalls, i felt comfortable with waiting for the day before leaving. Cause thats always a brilliant idea. I got lazy

Currently running tubed 32mm contental gp5000. Love them. They are some of the best tires i have ever ridden. Not kidding.. Reason for not running tubeless on these was simply the fact that i couldnt be bothered with the hassle, and i was in a hurry back when i installed them. But for my purpose with this vacation i wanted to go bigger and knobbier for some trails and loose gravel.. I went for a couple of tires i had run before, on the same rims too. A couple of WTB 38's. Back then i managed to fit them with a normal floor pump and some soapy water. Easy peasy

First tire went on pretty smooth. required some soapy water. Not super easy, took some effort but it was alright. Second tire.. Well. I went on with the same approach. It wouldnt seat. I tried again a couple of times till my arms were sore of pumping with my novice floor pump. It stood clear that nothing was helping. Soapy water and grime everywhere in my kitchen, since i dont have a shed or a workspace for my bikes. It was supposed to be a fast and grime-free process this..

Im kinda in a hurry now. Between this and work i've got a few hours to pack (which i havent even started yet because of this mess) and finalize this.. I finally cave and run down to my local bike shop. Hes a nice guy and lends me his compressor. The tire seated perfectly and i was good to go give it a hit of sealent, but that had to wait. Right, off to work then.

Later that evening i came home and the tire had lost no air. I thought "well okay, sealent can wait till tomorrow before we leave" Another stupid decision made purely out of lazyness. First thing i do this morning is to pour sealent in the tire, and the F****** tire wont seat. Its popped out of the rim again and im back at square one. But now with tire sealent all over the F' floor in my kitchen. I hurry down to my local bike mech again, and this time around hes not so happy as he was the day before. I realized that i've spilt tire sealent all over this shop floor due to me being kinda stressed out because im leaving in under an hour, and still havent packed. Im sweating now, and desperately asks for this guys compressor once again. He sighs and asks me to hand him the rear wheel. He pumps up the thing, i tell him NOT to pump it too much cause hes really going at it with full speed. What happens then? The tire blows of the rim and the rest of the sealent spills all over the place. We both look at each other, im kinda bursting out in laughter because the whole situation has gotten so much out of hand. He doesnt find it funny, and asks me politely, but with a strict tone, to leave as hes got other customers waiting outside. I offer him some help with cleaning/cash whatever for the inconvenience. He tells me no problem, which is kinda surprising giving the circumstances.

I run home, totally defeated by a tubeless tire, and fit on my good old 32mm continentals. It took me right around 5 minutes for both wheels.

I am not likely to meet any dry tarmac here. Weather right now is kinda shitty. Thats makes me kinda sad. Serves me right for buying those tires out of impulse.. ;) I just wanted some sexy tires for my touring, haha

Yeah.. See, our roads are kinda full of flint ;/