Another one of these hypothetical projects I might do some day.
I love my El Mariachi as it is, but it occurs to me that the bike can do lots of different jobs, and I might like to be able to swap components on a whim. I thought it might be fun to be able to swap between flat and drop bars to make a kind of gravel/tourer bike.
All the cable bosses are external, and all are full length. So I could lift off the bars, gear cables, and complete brakes all together, and bolt on a drop setup. I would probably also fit some 700c wheels.
I’d need STI shifters, but they’d have to be disc, so that means either cable discs or road specific hydraulics, doesn’t it? Are road hydro stis compatible with say deore calipers? I’d have to build 700c rims onto mtb hubs, because even if I were to swap an axle on actual road wheels, the disc would be in the wrong place.
Am I insane?