And it’s just in time for my midlife crisis!
An extraordinarily generous birthday gift from my parents, sneakily provided in a form that means I have to spend it on bicycle parts. So, if, hypothetically, I wanted to build a nice ~20 pound 1x8 porteur-style bike as an alternative to 40-50 pounds of xtracycle, this would give me enough money to build up most of the drivetrain, get a headset, a stem, and maybe enough for brakes & levers, and then I’d have to figure out whether it would be better to build it with 650B (fat, possibly slow, but certainly better on the 15 miles of chipsealed hell that is Springwater Road south of Barton Ferry Road) or 700C wheels like I’ve got on the Trek right now.
Oh well, time to sit down with the QBP catalog and start gram-counting. I wonder if they sell any low-trail forks?