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Spotted on the street yesterday. Brave lockjob.

Absolute beast of a bike, well done!

Still the bomb. I think this one has much more character than the Crust.

That paintjob is mental, I don't recall seeing anything like that before. Interesting brand too, they have built quite some gorgeous looking bikes in the past, I should pay their shop a visit...

I think this defines living the dream

I would argue pre 2000, but cool machine nonetheless :P

Oh boy, this build's gonna be good.

Yep! Thankfully I've found the solution, the issue was the dishing after all... I've trued the wheel properly now it looks way better.

In the meantime I've put two washers onto the hub axle, OLD of the fork was about 74mm while the hub is only 70mm, so now the fork doesn't need to be squished together. 4mm is probably negligible but with such a narrow hub it looked way off. Meh, I'm just nitpicking. The bike looks great, rides great, folds great. Will deffo upgrade the pedals and I've already ordered some bootleg Litepro eazy wheels off AliExpress.

Thanks for checking! I've also looked around some forums and apparently it's normal, also the middle of the tyre lines up with the brake hole so I'm relieved.

Front wheel still sits quite skewed, I'm starting to think the cutouts of the dropouts aren't equally deep, might need some filing but gonna ask customer support first what to do.

So I've just got my brand new A Line, and and the rear stays look fucky. I guess the design is asymmetrical seeing the dimple for the tyre, but is it normal to have such minimal clearance on the drive side chainstay? Can anyone confirm it should look like this?

I've got to say I'm not all that impressed with the overall build/assembly quality. Front wheel was sitting waaay skewed in the dropouts (and the front fork's O.L.D. is at least a cm wider than the hubs), rear brake cable housing is at least 2 cm too short, and both brakes had about 0 lever throw. These are all fixed bar the housing.

This bike's gonna be phenomenal, great choice of tyres too!

Still one of the best bikes on the forum.

That's ridiculously good.

Eternal struggle with sorting out the N-1(-1+1)

The coaster track bike is for sale, and I expect the Pinarello to be listed soon, as it's redundant with the Puch being useable now. The latter might get a set of Sensah 2x7 brifters and compact drops again, will see how it goes.

Then, I've just ordered a Brompton a couple of minutes ago. A Line, the most basic edition. I'll see how it holds up. If I like it, I might upgrade with mudguards and whatnot. Knowing myself it will have numerous titanium parts by autumn.

I went through 4 saddles in the past weeks on the Marin, none of which fit, so that's still in progress. I even measured my sitbone width, got a matching SQlab, it was good in the first 5 kms or so, then it became very uncomfortable very quickly. I might just get a cheap grandma saddle at this point.

There's no cool new projects in the pipline. I really wanna score a cheap retro MTB to play with, but as soon as anything interesting pops up, it's already sold. And it doesn't help, that even rusty, worn to hell RockHoppers are going for over 200 euros nowadays. :P

Awesome! It desperately needs some loud fluo pedals though.

Ace! Been lusting over these for long, hope I can score one sometime.

Yeah, the frame warranty is also a pretty solid point of buying new. I really don't mind the colour and the looks, albeit I actually do fancy the bnw scheme on this year's A Line.
I think I might as well just go for it after I figure out which one (or more) of my other bikes to sell.

I think it looks quite great. Definitely my nicest bike so far. Rocking some vintage MKS pedals at the moment.

I actually sold mine yesterday

Noo! That's a shame, although I hope you have a similarly crazy build coming up instead.

Bonkers frame, love it, although the Look text looks rather weird.

Last piece of the Puch puzzle. Can't wait to shoot some pics of the full build.
Also, amended the thread title.

That's next level, I love it.

Stunning machine, looks absolutely magnificent! And that balance bike is more rad than all my bikes combined. ;)

Are there any pressing reasons not to get a brand new A Line for € 1100? As far as I could tell it's fully upgradeable with mudguards, rack and whatnot later on.
Even 15-20 years old, heavily used models go for € 7-800 here in NL, so I'm not very keen on buying one second hand at the moment.

Thank you for your continuous efforts (and entertaining wizardry), boss, this was also a good reminder to donate again.