Beautiful custom bikes: steel all-road, road and gravel

[raleighnut]

This is my 'Posh' bike, a handbuilt Reynolds 653 TT bike with all Campagnolo kit, the bar extender on the stem is for my lighting rig as I rode it at night on unlit local lanes a lot (not fitted in the quick picture I took for insurance purposes)

 

[Ian H]

What tubing is the fork Ian?

American: KVA. The main tubes are Columbus Life.

 

[raleighnut]

Black hood's with brown leather tape???
Who is this criminal?
Let them suffer a lifetime locked in a soundproof room and made to endure Barry Minilows Greatest Hits!

Yep mine would have had DT shifters and proper brake levers in the right place, none of this riding 'on the hoods' malarkey.

 

[Fab Foodie]

American: KVA. The main tubes are Columbus Life.

Thanks!

 

[marzjennings]

Received my new custom steel gravel frame about 2 weeks ago and I've started this week to order parts to build it up. B17 saddle on its way. It was going to be built up as a Rohloff hub gates drive bike, but due to parts and cash limitations will probably mean a Shimano GRX build. Hopefully I'll have it out on the gravel roads by September.

 

[avecReynolds531]

Received my new custom steel gravel frame about 2 weeks ago and I've started this week to order parts to build it up. B17 saddle on its way. It was going to be built up as a Rohloff hub gates drive bike, but due to parts and cash limitations will probably mean a Shimano GRX build. Hopefully I'll have it out on the gravel roads by September.

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Lovely details - that curved brake bridge with mudguard boss, and neat cut out map of Texas with (I'm guessing) the frame number.
The chain stay indent is something else too.

 

[marzjennings]

Lovely details - that curved brake bridge with mudguard boss, and neat cut out map of Texas with (I'm guessing) the frame number.
The chain stay indent is something else too.

Thanks, I'm looking forward to the build process and then getting it out on the dirt. The frame is spaced for up to 2.5" tyres and I'm going to fit 750mm drop bars. It's going to be mile munching beast.

 

[MntnMan62]

I've seen lots of these "gravel" bikes mentioned lately and I have to admit I'm taken with any kind of bike porn. But the concept of a gravel bike, a bike meant for the dirt but without shocks, just wouldn't work for me around here. I do live down the block from a 2,000 acre park that has some of the sweetest technical single track you could ever want to see but I don't have much smooth dirt to ride on around here. But I do love seeing any bike from the perspective of the rider looking over the handlebars at some nice dirt trails heading off into the distance. Maybe if I lived in south Jersey. But for me it's roads or mountain biking the single track.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

Call me old fashioned but I'd sooner have a handbuilt Mercian,

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You can scrub those silly decals off those tyres right now young man.

 

[MntnMan62]

You can scrub those silly decals off those tyres right now young man.

What? Why would anyone spend valuable time doing something so daft as to scrub off decals from their bike tires? I would bet Raleighnut has much more important things to do than that. Like ride the darn bike.

 

[raleighnut]

What? Why would anyone spend valuable time doing something so daft as to scrub off decals from their bike tires? I would bet Raleighnut has much more important things to do than that. Like ride the darn bike.

Actually I'd never fit tyres with great big feckin logos on em.

 

[Venod]

I still am drawn to this.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

I still am drawn to this.
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Today I may possibly be preferring this one:

https://www.templecycles.co.uk/products/adventure-disc-2?variant=29454470217814

 

[raleighnut]

Today I may possibly be preferring this one:

https://www.templecycles.co.uk/products/adventure-disc-2?variant=29454470217814

The 'Classic' looks nicer,

Not as expensive either

Oh and BTW I'm aware of the black hoods brown tape faux pas they've made

 

[Bonefish Blues]

The 'Classic' looks nicer,

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Not as expensive either

Oh and BTW I'm aware of the black hoods brown tape faux pas they've made

Do you think they'd put an ickle 'gravel' decal on it so I wouldn't be laughed at by hipsters?