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Okay, so I'm sitting here a little bored, having just polished off a nice bottle of red, and starting to work up my next bike - not that it's going to materialise for a while yet, but anyway...
I've just got a 'that british brand that loads of forumites are getting upset about the advertising of' Hemlock - a nice jack of all trades possibly master of none, versatile full susser - and think for my next bike I'd like a diffeent kind of jack of all trades type bike. I'm thinking rigid drop bar 29er which I can have a couple or three wheel sets for - mtb 29er, cross/touring and road. So I can have a reasonable chance of keeping up on club runs (road wheels), commute along the tow & cycle paths (cross/possibly just change the tyres on the road wheels) and do some touring on too (probably with front and rear panniers).
Therefore I think a steel fork rather than carbon is the preferable option - that and I'm a bit of a carbon sceptic/luddite!
So far the only bike I can see that would give me that versatility is the singular swift, but does it have rack mounts?
Also, I presume that I'd need to leave some spacers on the steerer to be able to switch from an off road drop bar position to a more roadie position?
Any thoughts?
Cheers
A.
Cotic Roadrat with the Monster Rat package?
Hey, this advertising stuff really works huh?
Either a Swift or one of the forthcoming [url= http://www.flickr.com/photos/singularcycles/sets/72157608998598025/ ]Gryphons[/url]. Gryhon could get the nod as it's rigid specific and for mine looks better when run rigid as a virtue of that. It doesn't have rack/mudguard mounts either but if your touring was fairly irregular and not too loaded then p clips on the seat stays would work fine.
A road rat is definitely a nice option as well - and has rack mounts etc.
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A Peregrine could also be a possibility? Though not as off road capable as a Gryphon can still be fun in the dirt with 48mm tyres (or a bit bigger up front). Does the road/touring bit much better as well.
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Sam
[url= http://www.singularcycles.com ]Singular Cycles[/url]
Any custom builder will make you what you desire. Try Roberts, Yates, etc. Is Rob Mather still building? (I remember his first frame, a teeny tiny red Kona like thing! Very nice, though.)
mmmm.....the perigrine is gorgeous!
That might have just moved to the top of the list