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  • Monstercross / adventure bikes?
  • thisisnotaspoon
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    I commute past Swinley so looking for something that can do 50miles comfortably on the road (drop bars being essential then) and cope with the blue/red (with a bit of sphincter clenching anticipated due to drops/geometry/fixed gear, but not a cross bike with fragile wheels or spindly forks).

    Looking for something that’ll take 29er tyres and wheels, designed around drop bars, disk brakes, be singlespeed-able (or fixed). Ohh and 2nd hand, haven’t got the £££ for a new Swift frame, but not had a huge amount of luck searching. And would rather stick with bigger purpose designed frames than sizing down a 29er and adding drops to keep the front triangle open for frame bags and/or hike a bike.

    Gryphon, Fargo (alternator version), anything else I’ve not looked for? I’d like a Vagabond, but there’s no way of running it fixed.

    cloudnine
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    The new ALU tripster?

    Malvern Rider
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    AWOL has ‘swinger’ dropouts.

    Not sure about Bombtrack Beyond

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    thisisnotaspoon
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    The new ALU tripster?

    Plenty of CX bike type options, but I’d rather something from the drop bared MTB end of the spectrum than a CX bike. More suited geometry, bigger tyres, tougher frames etc.

    stuc
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    Original Mk 1 Escapade has horizontal drop outs, but probably fails your list of requirements on tyre clearance – tight squeeze with 40mm on hope xc 29er wheels.

    Malvern Rider
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    Was about to suggest a 29er mtb frameset. Then thought of a Kona Unit with drops. Then saw this on Ebay

    Dyffers
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    would rather stick with bigger purpose designed frames than sizing down a 29er and adding drops to keep the front triangle open for frame bags

    I sized down a Karate Monkey for this job and still have plenty of space for frame bags, although the bars are perhaps a bit low for what you require (I came from an XL Gryphon with Luxys which was never quite right and I wanted a more roadie / CX position). Have ridden around some rocky places like Portland Dorset with a little extra *ahem* foot faults 😆

    thisisnotaspoon
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    Yea, maybe I’m overthinking the frame size issue, I’d still be on a medium and I’m not too proud to put a stem ‘up’ rather than flat. There’s a medium Swift on ebay at the moment too………

    cjr61
    Full Member

    +1 for the Swift.

    Loved mine in MX guise. Ticks all the boxes.

    Ps first time around Swinley I rode this…much fun but much bum clenching!

    frogstomp
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    I think a Raleigh Stuntman would be great for this sort of thing, if only you could get them over here 😥

    Bigmantrials
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    Pipedream ALICE? Looks like a great do-it all bike!

    thisisnotaspoon
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    That pipedream looks nice, although well out of my budget!

    moorsey72
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    You can probably set a vagabond up as a fixie, i have alfine on mine, just used a chain tensioner. Might be more suitable options out there though.

    thisisnotaspoon
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    You can probably set a vagabond up as a fixie, i have alfine on mine, just used a chain tensioner. Might be more suitable options out there though.

    Can’t use a chain tensioner with a fixed gear. An Exzentriker might work, but would push it up to Swift prices.

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