This is a frame and fork built to accommodate medium width 700c tires, fenders and carry a rear rack. The customer wants to do some weekend touring and explore gravel roads. The bike is not a full blown touring bike though. So it’s intended to handle and feel proper unloaded or with a small load. The bike will have V brakes but the customer and I decided the rear cable stop would be a nice addition. In the future, the customer could switch to cantilevers. If that never occurs, the cable stop is small and unobtrusive so it will go unnoticed even if never used. The lugs are Sachs Nuovo Richie series with the points on the head tube removed. I really like the look. Simple yet elegant. The bb shell and fork crown are Sachs too. The white cutouts really pop against the blue without being too much. I like that.
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Smart move on the cable stop. It would be a smart move or matter of when the customer switches to cantilevers. Linear pull brakes don’t leave a lot of clearance for fenders and seem to work so poorly with road levers. (Yes, even long travel versions.)
Photos look great, lighting does a good job of capturing the color. Nice little detail in filling the brake hole in the fork crown too. Got a fender mount hiding under there somewhere?
There’s a fender mount brazed on under the fork crown. Sometimes I drill the fork crown if a front rack is going to be used and use the daruma bolt to hold the fender. But in this case, the bike won’t have a front rack so I thought it looked cleaner to fill in the crown hole and stick the fender mount under the crown.
That bike is beautiful! I like the team blue color more and more.
It’s even more stunning in person, very understated.
Hey Curt could you play down your “team” blue? I really like that color and wanted it to be mine all mine. Beautiful bike, shame about the color though.