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With carbon the prep is the majority of the expense. No shortcuts, labour intensive. You could try stripping it yourself, this guy has tutorials:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiqWy-JXB74

My thoughts too. It barely ever rains in Palo Alto anyway

Something new for the Ti Stockbrokers

https://22bicycles.com/products/titanium-fenders

My old KHS Flite 800 on 25mm Paselas with SKS Longboards.

After a while I swapped out the original fork for a Cyfac unit to give me a little more steerer tube, and the front guard would no longer pass through so I trimmed it.

Almost as if it was produced by these guys

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ce3ST3wRPCI

My P-29er has no fender mounts at all, so I P-clamped the lot. It's silent.

It is however very fiddly to mount and remove the fenders, and I don't want to do it more than once a season.

Hi (again)

Winter update with Ultradynamico Mars 58mm tyres and PDW 65mm fenders.

Epic clearance to handle snow and assorted winter woodland crap. Coverage is ok.

First ask if they can warranty-replace them, as they're less than 12 months old.

^Part one of the holy trinity, gently delivered in succession to paralyse your audience:

(1) My wife laughed at me when I suggested building a bicycle out of spaghetti. You should have seen her face when I rode pasta.

(2) My wife eventually left me due to my obsession with pasta. I'm feeling cannelloni right now.

(3) You'd think she'd be able to forgive me, I just made a fusilli mistakes...

Life is too short to run 28s on a Pompino. I run PDW 45mm full metal fenders and 35mm GravelKing SKs on mine with no issues. 38mm Volummys were no issue under those fenders either.
Did tyre clearance decrease between v3 and v4?

Thanks to all for the compliments, I wanted to build something to make people smile!
Tyres are Panaracer GravelKing SK 650b x 53 (or 27.5 x 2.1 if you like)

Quite a throwback to such 80s classics as

• “what do you call a Russian with 3 testicles?”
  

• “Ujunika Bolokov”

• “what do you call a Russian with 1 testicle?”

• “Ivor Bolokov”

Frame awaiting graphics.

The colour is 'Low Overcast' by Prismatic Powders. It's very low-gloss, and has a fine grain to it.

Cranks (Deore XT M8100) are alloy, and have been powder-coated - that's not going anywhere. Plasti-Dip on seatpost will be trimmed to known saddle height. I don't expect it to be indestructible, and have prior experience with it.

I procrastinated over how to build a somewhat future-proof (and easily-sellable) wheelset for my P-29er (v2, 2017) which is running a Boost 110TA fork, and landed on a pair of non-boost White Industries XMR hubs as they're completely swappable from an axle standpoint and I could use a Problem Solvers Boost Adaptor on the front hub & rotor.
I daresay I'd go the same route with Hope hubs if I lived in the UK.
12spd Shimano runs happily on non-boost BB & 135QR rear end.

After a few months I decided it was time to refinish this bike and put my mark on it. Metal parts have been away for powder coating, and now they're back;

The frame has also been refinished in a new colour, but I have some graphics work to do.
These carbon parts have been finished with Plasti-Dip, a non-destructive liquid rubber coating applied by aerosol.

Hopefully I can get the graphics buttoned up soon and finish the rebuild.

I knew snow was on the way, and was glad when it came.

What with NYC roads being about as smooth as the surface of the moon, I threw on some commute luggage. This led my neighbours to start asking me about my new e-bike.

Snow kept falling, and this bike kept being ace.

Back at the end of last summer, after a couple of years of procrastinating over whether to build a drop-bar gravel bike, a hardtail frame that I'd long admired came up for sale locally and I realised it was what I really wanted to build. I decided I wanted to run it as a 27.5x2.6 initially. Parts shopping began in earnest, as much as it could anyway. Took a while but I managed to get it built up just in time for winter. Compromises were made, parts substituted, too much spent, but I was stoked.

Various Soma forks work too

I'd like to speak to your Mother.

20% off Pro Team / Explore (Brevet) / Classic, 10% off Core.

But Richard Sachs does it so it must be cool