Project of the lunchhour
After a considerable period of sitting idle in the basement at a stage of 99% complete, I finally did the last 1% of work on the project bike to make it into a usable bike – I dragged it out to the garage, fired up my torch, and (poorly) brazed on the struts for the front rack.
No lights yet, so I can’t take it out on a R200 for a little while, but I’ve got the guts out of an old B&M Ixon that I need to fit into a new housing, and I’ll most likely be using that to provide forward visibility at night.
And now I’ve got a rack that’s suitably sized for testing out porteur bags, as well as a suitably ridiculous test bicycle to play around with narrow saddles, shallow drop handlebars, and fat tires (though these days my narrowist tired bicycle is the trek with 26 & 27mm tires; the mlcm has a pair of 28mm Clement tires, and the project bike has 45mm Resist Nomads.) I wonder how suited it is to reasonably long rides?
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That’s a very determined shade of blue.
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Sweet bike! Want to try it out on a gravel road this weekend?