Originally I built the Privateer with Albatross, bar end shifters, Maxxis Refuse x 28 mm tires, Shimano Sora triple, and Wellgo dual sided platform/SPD pedals. I tried every fit variable over and over again and could never get truly comfy on Abatross and bar ends. So next I went to my favorite compact drop bars and brifters. Ahhh, now it was becoming a bike I could appreciate. But it still felt sort of slow and clunky for the kind of fast club riding I do, and do mostly on my ti and my carbon. I know the Privateer frame and fork at $350 should not turn into a truly great bike and I was getting ready to relegate to being the town bike. Decided to give it one last chance of staying in the preferred riding herd and that is when I went for Grand Bois Cypres. Immediate difference in comfort and speed. So then I removed the clunky pedals, replaced with my much preferred Speedplay Frogs and turned it from a frog to a prince. Today I was in Sonoma crappy on some of finest and some of the crappiest roads around. So many patches in places there were no more spot to put patches. It was a great ride and give most the credit to the tires. On this bike they have made a difference I can't quite believe/understand. Seeingly fast on the smooth and an uncanny way of lessening the impact in the crap sections. And for the type of riding I prefer to do; drops and brifters and Frogs make all the differerence in the world. A good steel frame, but I take my helmet off to Grand Bois Cypres. I am a fan.
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