Old barn find I breathed new life in because gravel bikes are too expensive so fuck it I'll make my own.

Just waiting for the last parts since i lost some plastic thingamabobs I need for the STIs.

Sometimes I think I should keep my bike shop like surgically clean so I don't lose the small, crucially important plastic bits in the mess of parts and old boxes but alas, if your personal shop doesn't look like you could outfit a frame with parts you find on the ground, is it even a shop?

  • Grownbravy [they/them]
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    2 years ago

    I need to (not want to and want to) convert a bike of mine to a city bike, but i have stupid requirements for aesthetic reasons.

    Why doesnt anyone make a bike with modern dropouts for a road bike, but a 1" threaded steerer?

    • 7bicycles [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I do not understand what you're trying to do, please enlighten me

      • Grownbravy [they/them]
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        2 years ago

        someone posted a bike check on a lot of japanese bikes at a shop and they all looked really nice, also the narrowness of vintage styled frames look really nice, and i dont like the overbuilt look of modern bikes.

        Basically, i want a bike like the whole Mountain Bikeification of road bikes didn't happen at all, and i'll just strip parts off this one cheap bike i have

        • 7bicycles [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          It sounds to me like what you want is a 90s roadbike frame to modernize to STIs?

          • Grownbravy [they/them]
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            2 years ago

            Yeah, but i wonder if someone makes a frame new, with the more modern dropout instead of those long ones

            • 7bicycles [he/him]
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              2 years ago

              You mean with a possbility to hang a derailleur? I'm sorry but I honestly don't understand what you mean by more modern dropouts instead of the long ones vis-a-vis roadbikes, the distnace between the dropouts has been 130mm in the rear since a while now

              • Grownbravy [they/them]
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                2 years ago

                i dont know the technical, modern, nor correct terms for these things, I just know they call them dropouts, on a track bike, they're called fork ends, and vintage bikes have dropouts that let you adjust the wheel back and forth, but modern ones are set where they are and the derailleur hangs on the frame, but i dont remember if that's always been the case

                • 7bicycles [he/him]
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                  2 years ago

                  Gotcha and...sort of I guess. Most world-traveling bikes still offer both, but at a premium, premium price.

                  Otherwise I think ya gotta look for old frames. Or jury rig some stuff together, I can't remember where I saw it but I once saw someone working with emergency rear derailleur hangers on a long dropout frame to some effect

                • fart [he/him]
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                  2 years ago

                  some 90s road and touring bikes have vertical dropouts and threaded steerers. Soma grand randonneur is a newer option along with some high end stuff.

        • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          You're probably thinking of the vid I posted, and if so, some of those bikes were built on Surly frames which you should probably be able to find on the used market.