Fairlight owners?

After some weeks of searching for a bike for gravel, bike-packing and some commuting duties I’ve manage to snag a Fairlight Faran. Picking this up at the weekend:

Pretty, no? 🙂

Just curious if there are other owners on here. Interested if any of you have fitted racks and guards and if so, which?

Surely I can’t have out-niched STW?

I’m pretty sure that there was a smart looking one in the Classifieds a few weeks back but the advertisement seems to have expired.

Looks lovely by the way!

— Edit —

I may have gotten that wrong, it could have been a Secan.

How tall are you? That looks massive!

6ft 1 and lanky 🙂

It’s a 57, but a T, which is more upright and ideal for old codgers with back injury and no flexibility 🙂

It’s a 57, but a T, which is more upright and ideal for old codgers with back injury and no flexibility

Jeebus, and those bars are still lower than the bars on my road bike!

There is a fairlight owner on here. I’m not going to out him, he’s probably working on his turbo buns.

ha – just got to bar in the hotel and saw the title, with 7 replies, and thought, jeez how cool is STW, a number of peeps have that Fairlight synth from the early 80’s, imagine my disappoint 🙂 STW is still cool though …

I thought the same…
Had a tinker with one a couple of years back. Lets just say that things have moved on…

I know the one of which Jimmy speaks, his bike inspired me to get a Faran.

Or, it would have if you could actually buy one. Which for some reason, they won’t let you. And you can’t just buy a Secan either. So I got something else instead. That might be why they’re so niche.

The new models look lovely and I’m sorely tempted to get a pre-order in.

Sorry for the delay. I was indeed working on my turbo buns as Jimmy suspected.
I have a Secan, one of the first and it’s just fantastic.
I set up a Facebook group called Fairlight Riders and you would be made most welcome. It’s full of people with heaps of experience.

Good buy btw. Enjoy it.

😳🙂

Ace, I’ve asked to join the group.

Cheers
B

Sorted. You are in.