Full mudguard mounts and disc brakes…et voila:

http://flyxii.com/en/products/flx-fr-602-matt.html

My 57cm frameset weighs 1450g and is being run with full ‘guards as a winter road bike.

Get the BB30 version and a beer components eccentric BB if you want to singlespeed it.

OP ping me an email (ad in profile) and I’ll send you some gpx files – I work about 5 miles inland from Lulworth Cove so ride round there all the time.

You committed the cardinal sin. You changed the colour!!

A long time ago I impulse bought an Eddy Merckx road frame that had been painted bright green.

Having built it up I forgot I’d put it in front of the washing machine (that had to live in the garage for kitchen space reasons).

Four weeks later, having not got round to riding it yet, I got a proper ear-bashing along the lines of ‘where’s that green one come from?’ to which I replied I now had evidence that she had not done any washing for four weeks!

There do seem to be some rather good frame/fork deals for around the ~£300 mark… Did that one come with a headset?

Yep. Frame, fork and headset for £304 + UK charges.

TBH I’m more tempted by an unbranded, Far eastern CX Disc frame than a branded import… the “Stealth” examples in this thread look way sexier IMO…

Flyxii FR602 disc CX frame and fork bought to be a fast commuter / winter club run / audax bike.

Chosen because it was the only disc CX model I could find that had proper mudguard mounts. Also, I could get it with an english BB.

3 months and about 400 miles so far, no complaints. Lightweight and souless, just like I wanted. :-) Fork in particular is worryingly light :?

Not sure how you’ve got 294 out of the DT calc?

With your numbers the Musson formula gives 250.16 left / 256.35 right.

HTH

Also tempted by the eTen from the German site.

Would be a regular swap for my usual lightweight post on the XC bike depending on the ride plan, so I’m considering the non-remote lever under the saddle version so I don’t have to faff with removing the cable and lever…would not getting the remote be a mistake?

That Serotta looks just ‘right’…

Thanks. Took me a few iterations to get it how I wanted it, and the chainset in that (2011) photo was temporary after I’d snapped one of my Tune crank arms! Carbon wheels and cranks on it now…in fact just got back from 15 miles on it to the seaside for an ice cream during my lunch break. Ace bike, shame Serotta are no more.

Very dark blue metallic and white with yellow highlights:

Red/white/black custom to emulate an old Giant design:

Definitely go and ride with and talk to each club before you make a choice.

I drifted away from my club in 2012 because I was no longer interested in time trialing, and they didn’t seem interested in what I wanted to do instead.

Also worth finding out where their club rides / social evenings are, as this might not be anywhere near the theoretical location of the club ie Bournemouth Jubilee rides HQ is Wimborne, 10 miles from the centre of Bournemouth.

Having said all that, I’m seriously considering joining a different local club – Wessex RC – this year just because they have a nice retro style kit :D

Bacon sarnies

Great day out. Sub-9hr ride for me for something like 12th place (but it wasn’t a race :wink: )

Loads of non-technical local trails that I haven’t ridden in ages all joined up to make a great route. Lots of banter with JohnClimber, Paul on the Niner gravel racer and Chris Noble amongst others added to the fun. Being cheered into the finish by a hundred people was a nice surprise.

Had a brief discussion with Charlie at the finish about a Dash 200 route for next year… 8)

I’m signed up for the 12hr solo, but I’m DNSing in favour of Charlie’s Gravel Dash on Sunday.

The decision was made before the forecast for biblical amounts of rain on Saturday morning, honest :?

I’ll be on the Dash on Sunday. Rigid Niner with some gears. ChrisN on here will be joining me on his Kaff with some CX tyres.

I’m local to the north half of the course so we’ll be on the visit-as-many-pubs-just-off-route-as-possible plan, hopefully winning our beer costs back in Charlie prizes at the end of the day :D

Flyxii frame and fork ordered at the end of April.

English BB frame as ordered out of stock until 30th May…no, I don’t want to change my order to a BB30 frame thanks :roll:

Wouldn’t be too bad except I sold the frame & fork it’s replacing on Monday… tick tock tick tock

Yes, I bought one last year and it works fine. I only bought one after others on the BearBonesBikepacking forum had bought them, as I thought it looked too good to be true!

Still not sure how it can be that cheap and legal though… :?

You want a Garmin Etrex 20 or 30 for about this sort of price and full UK OS 50k maps on an SD card from here.

I use mine for everything on and off road (from BearBones200 to 600k audaxes), and it does everything you want for much less than the 800 or other OSmap-capable devices. The 30 is also ANT+ compatible, so you can have HR and cadence sensors displayed & logged too.

For £300 + customs charges you could have a chinese carbon CX disc frame and fork (nearly as many threads on here as CdF ones) which would drop 2kg off your current bike. Even I can’t poo 2kg.

Probably wouldn’t solve the mud clearance though.

Are there any (tubeless) disc wheelsets that could actually make a decent stab of keeping up with a club ride or are they all bastardised MTB 29ers that weigh a ton?

Hope Mono (non-disc) hubs on Open Pros ~1850g.
Cheapo Superstar Switch Evo hubs on Crest 29er rims ~1750g

I use 25mm Michelin Krylions (now called Pro4Endurance I think) on both.

Keeping up with a club ride is about fitness not wheels

warns74: Can’t tell what it is…got a link and/or a make/model?

Running a 140 Rev on my Yelli Screamy, along with wide rims and big tyres. Lots of fun.

Out yesterday on the summer road bike. Today it requires a deep-clean to remove field run-off :?

4 days to Mccgrath which equates to 87 miles of running every day.

Good interview with the runner, David Johnson here – how he broke the record for another 100 mile run a week before the ITI and how his entire body hurts!

If it was wet, then a rear ‘clip on’ at least.

Did a 600k with clip on ‘guards once. Never again. The incessant rubbing was worse than getting wet.

For the OP, if you fancy a challenge, how about attaining Ultra Randonneur[/url] status?

Notice it’s under the ‘fame’ section of the Audax UK site, a bit of an oxymoron. :D

Audaxes are great, been doing them for years, to start with just for the challenge of going further having got bored with time trialling, more recently to keep the base fitness up for other things.

I’ve ridden plenty of audaxes at all distances on un-mudguarded road bikes and not been moaned at. It’s mostly conditions-based and whether you want to meet any new friends. If you’re happy getting filthy and don’t annoy the cafe owners by spreading that onto their furniture* then it’s live and let live as far as I’m concerned.

*Even with mudguards, I rode a DIY-route 200k on 30th December on which it rained so hard during the first 50km that two of us semi-flooded the corner of a nice cafe in Crewkerne with the water running out of our kit. It was that or hypothermia :? Type 2 fun.

I did the north end of the Wessex Ridgeway at the weekend. I say ‘did’ rather than ‘rode’. Seemed a lot of effort for little fun…might be just what you want for HTR training :D

Plan to do both.

Sold my SS Swift last summer though, so considering whether I can be bothered to singlespeed my geared Niner for the Saturday (but I’d prefer a few gears for 100 miles of Dorset hills on Sunday).

I binned one at Christmas having forgotten about it after a ride…in June…and it didn’t look half as bad as that one. 8O

You know you’ve bent your rim when you’ve bottomed out your brake disc

Yep, done that :oops:

Did the 29 x 2.7 Dirt Wizards ever appear? Much talked about but I never saw any for sale

Fair enough.

A little bit of google-fu does indeed tell me 71-72° headangle is the norm for CX…except for On One’s Dirty Disco which comes in at 73° headtube angle and 74° seattube angle in the XL size I want. And a BSA BB. But no mudguard mounts.

fr-602

Looks good, but the headtube and seattube angles are pretty slack (71.5° and 72°).

Is that typical for a CX bike; are they all going to be like that (that’s slacker than even my Roadrat I think)?

I’ve been thinking about swaping my old road-geo Roadrat frame and fork for one of these.

However, I’ve searched a few times over the last few months for the spec I want without success.

Anybody seen a CX disc frame/fork combo with mudguard mounts and a 68mm English threaded BB? Or am I going to have to go with a pressfit BB and an adaptor?

Happened to be on the bridleway next to the top of UK BikePark on Sunday morning…no one to be seen.

Weather wasn’t that bad, and the trails looked dry enough (compared with the bridleway certainly).

December uplift dates on their homepage are from Dec 2012…looks omnious.

I have loads of low-to-zero-value-to-me tat, but I also avoid FaceAche.

I do have a ‘For Sale’ Photobucket folder though.

Maybe people could post links to self-hosted photo sites with a brief description if necessary against each picture?

Conversely I took the MTB out this morning thinking the trails would be frozen…it went from -1°C crispy and fast to +6°C mudbath in the first hour. So FunkyDunc stop complaining!

What tyres for inch-deep wet clay? Not Ikons :D

I am also encouraging the habit in the young ones. The littlest had 4 bikes when he was still 2…

Ditto. My lad turns 1 next week and already has a trike and an On One (although at the moment he still needs me to pedal the Inbred for him :wink: )

A couple of years ago my better half had a moan that I’d made it up to 9 bikes.

Fair enough I thought, so I sold one. The one that got used least. Her one and only bike, that hadn’t been ridden for 18 months. :D

Went down well. :?

@Gotama

Tubus do an eye-wateringly expense QR axle adaptor kit[/url] which I would have a go at making something similar myself out of the spare box…?