Hi, I can't commute on the road bike in winter because the East Lothian potholes sneak up on you in the dark and burst the tyres. So, last year it was the Singular 29er with drops. This year it's probably the Pomp as setup below.

Your howls of protest please.

Cheers, al.

Wow. A fork with sexy rubber booties. It's been a while.

Suntour of some sort?

Looks super to me.

Can you get a 35mm tyre in the back?

Steady with that disc brake on the ice !

I'm guessing it's not fixed, looking at the gear you are running ?

needs guards

Dummy: It's a £15 ebay fork, no less than a "mg SR Suntour T910". Wow. It was new, I guess it's what they put on cheap hybrids. I really wanted a 700c disc fork, and that was cheapest. Brake's a BB5.

It's worse than it looks actually: it's a 1 1/8" threaded steerer in a threadless headset + stem. The steerer's only long enough to go half way up the stem… So, I put one of those long head-compressor things in, the kind the dirt jump boys use. That should be OK, eh 😉

Anyway, it rides very nicely. The fork adds about 2" to the front and so the head angle's dead slack so it's really stable, and the bounce is good – I was aiming for the patchy bits of road =)

Stever: That's Conti Twister 32c tyres. They fit fine, but you have to have the wheel right at the back of the dropouts for the tyre to sit in the chainstay dimples. I'd say that with the wheel there there's room for a 35c – of course every tyre make's a bit different.

Revealing dirty bike-porn gusset shots below. Don't get too excited.

Cheers, al.

i've got 35c tyres in mine. tourers mind not slicks. the clearence isn't too bad either. could't really go much more though. 😀

Spesh: 40×16 SS. It has 14t fixed on the other side, but due to the 'back of the dropouts' thing above, I can't flip it with the chain this long.
🙁 I rode it fixed 40×14 last year during spring, really liked it but my route now has me up hills and (more importantly) down again and I don't like fixed downhills!

Cheers, al.

Whatever does the job 🙂

I'd get some 'guards on it meself though, and some wheel and pedal reflectors …

Cheers both. Biggest I've had in mine were 30s I think, plenty of clearance though. I took a punt and ordered some Maxxis Locust 35s.

how did you get on with the maxxis locusts? Curious to know if they'll fit on a pomp.

I thought resurrections happened on the 3rd day 🙂

Anyhow here's a better looking fork:
Swing fork