I have a desire for a similar bike, but without the panniers.
I'd like to have a custom frame to take the parts from the Gravel Roadster
<https://instagram.com/p/2u0o-SA5jD/?taken-by=biketinker>. It's a Gary
Fisher Utopia frame with a Kona P2 fork. If anyone has a larger frame like
this (Utopia or Marlin?), let me know! I love this mongrel bike.
I'd ask a builder to mimic the handling of the Quickbeam, or this bike as
it is, which might be easier, since the tires would be the same size.
I want more clearance in the rear, larger frame, "road weight" steel
tubing, 27.2 seatpost. Wider rims. I have this counter-intuitive idea that
fatter tires should be coupled with a lighter road frame, not stouter,
since the wheels are taking the shock. I think it's a frame style we'll see
off-the-shelf the very near future as "gravel grinders" go big, but maybe
not in steel.
Functionally and aesthetically, I like the details of my Bontrager: OX
Platinum, wishbone stays, gussets, top run cables; but with Breezer
shrouded dropouts. I'm really happy with the Kona fork. As for a builder,
Soulcraft has an unfussy ("workingclass?") aesthetic I like, and a very
pretty signature blue...
Philip
www.biketinker.com
On Monday, June 8, 2015 at 3:21:38 AM UTC-7, Patrick Moore wrote:
>
> I am thinking that, God willing, I will have a custom frame built for
> local dirt-cum-pavement rides. Our bosque is so nice, winter and summer,
> and living within a good spit of it, and not having to commute to an
> office, means that I have much more opportunity for bosque miles now than I
> did a few years ago.
>
> I have a Fargo very nicely dialed in and very nicely set up for this sort
> of riding, but the handling is less than best, and the tubing is
> excessively stout.
>
> My next door neighbor rides a Jamis carbon fiber cyclocross bike along the
> same trails, though in dry summer when the sand gets deep, he uses a CF
> mountain bike.
>
> I think I want something that is, basically, a sedate road bike with room
> for 65s and fenders, plus a rear rack for occasional grocery loads. Perhaps
> a front rack, too, if the geometry requires more even spreading of the
> load. Gearing would be wide-spaced subcompact with close ratio rear, tho'
> with the choice of running a triple and wide range. (I think of building
> the bike up with the Dura Ace 7410 f and r derailleurs left over from the
> Ram, just 'cause.)
>
> Use would be largely what many of you would call short distance riding,
> but energetic riding, using drop bars and a position just a bit more
> relaxed than on the road bikes. But I'd like the bike to be capable of
> longer rides, and that laden, should such occasion arise. "Laden" will mean
> panniers.
>
> Disk brakes and "29er" wheels are musts.
>
> The Jones sound wonderful, but I want mine to be optimized for, as it
> were, road riding on dirt, often sandy.
>
> I'll appreciate any technical or otherwise practical suggestions about
> tubing, sizing, build, geometry, braze-ons, and what have you.
>
> Bring it on!
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
>
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