Readers' Rides: Tom's Rå .410

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Readers’ Rides: Tom’s Rå .410
devash
Free Member

Stunning bike. I bet it’s a hoot to ride.

Posted 1 year ago

tomhoward
Full Member

Thanks! Been playing with it this weekend, handling is super sharp. Short chainstays FTW…

A corrections though, seems I was a little to broad with my descriptions of the steel, it’s actually;

853 down tube and BB
631 head tube
725 chainstays
T45 everything else.

Posted 1 year ago

brakestoomuch
Full Member

Nice, very nice. The stanchion guards make it look ready to take on anything. The only issue is the colour; it’s so nice, I’d have to clean the bike after every ride, and I can’t have that.

Posted 1 year ago

kayak23
Full Member

Beautiful.
Looks so clean and the lack of shifter and dropper cables really helps that.

Posted 1 year ago

CalamityJames
Free Member

LOVE that. Stunning looking and component choices are perfect (I started looking into some of them but quickly stopped once I realised it would end in divorce!). Enjoy.

Posted 1 year ago

ta11pau1
Full Member

Mmmmm shiny. 😎

I really want one of those 5dev Ti stems, just… because.

Posted 1 year ago

tomhoward
Full Member

(I started looking into some of them but quickly stopped once I realised it would end in divorce!)

I should point out that MrsTH has been extremely patient, understanding, and generally wonderful (in all aspects, but specifically…) throughout my bike shopping whims and fancies.

Posted 1 year ago

binners
Full Member

I’ve said it before mate, but that is virtually pornographic! Its a beautiful thing – that frame is a work of art – but it looks like it goes as good as it looks

Posted 1 year ago

desperatebicycle
Free Member

She’s a perty thing indeed. Myself, I don’t like the look of upside down forks, but who cares, I could never afford any anyway 😀

Posted 1 year ago

matt_outandabout
Free Member

That red… 😍

Posted 1 year ago

big_scot_nanny
Full Member

Absolutely stunning. **** me. Amazing. #prayfor200mm+AXSdroppers

Saw a fella on a custom steel full sus with intend forks at LAc Blanc a few years ago, just as I was driving out the car park. I screeched on the brakes and jumped out so I could go have a look.

Intend forks in the flesh are just out of this planet gorgeous. I would risk the damage and lose the bash guards, IMHO it would look utterly perfect without.

(bit like mudguards, you know they do a great job, but, you know, meh!)

Posted 1 year ago

tomhoward
Full Member

Thanks all!

I would risk the damage and lose the bash guards, IMHO it would look utterly perfect without.

Whilst they do provide function, they’re also an aesthetic choice, the exposed stanchions are a kind of champagne colour, which don’t really match with anything else. Black fits much better.

Posted 1 year ago

pierre07
Free Member

Is the bike confortable ? (for a hardtail)I

Posted 1 year ago

tomhoward
Full Member

My last hardtail was a 2013 alloy 26” SC chameleon, with 2.25” tyres, so it’s definitely more comfy/springy than that. I had a quick go on a stif squatch recently, and comfort wise it’s pretty similar (that surprised me with how compliant it was). 29×2.6 tyres will play a big part though.

Edit, and before the SC, I had this, seemingly prophetic build…

The fork is significantly improved…

Posted 1 year ago

EhWhoMe
Full Member

stunning looking bike, it has that it looks right look….what is it about steel hardtails just lovley to look at

Posted 1 year ago

reeksy
Full Member

Thin tubing, lack of clutter, shiny goodness.

Posted 1 year ago