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Old 08-19-05 | 12:42 AM
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From: 78º44`W, 42º46`N

Bikes: Mercian KoM with Rohloff, Bike Friday NWT, Pogliaghi Italcorse (1979)

Building my ideal loaded tourer right now, but I'll start in on a different one in a year or two:

-Mercian custom King of Mercia frame with Rohloff-specific dropouts, 531-ST steel tubing, specific touring geometry, and Tubus-specific braze-ons & eyelets galore
-Rohloff OEM-XC speedhub (point of contention for many, but I dig the things)
-Campag Chorus crank, circa 1989 (42t chainring, with 16t cog on the Rohloff)
-Rohloff chain
-Good bear-trap pedals and toeclips, undecided brand - probably MKS
-Phil Wood bottom bracket and front hub
-Good canti brakes (many to choose from, still undecided)
-Aero brake levers, Modolo, c. 1993
-Brooks Professional saddle
-Seatpost, undecided brand - probably Nitto 'frog'
-Chris King headset
-Nitto Technomic Deluxe stem
-Nitto Randonneur drop bars
-Mavic A719 rims or Velocity Dyads (32-hole for the rear/Rohloff, 36-hole for front)
-Schwalbe Marathon tires, 700c x 32
-Tubus Tara & Tubus Cargo racks
-Ortlieb or Arkel panniers, probably the former
-3 water bottle cages on frame (2 x under/over downtube, 1 x seattube)
-Fenders, undecided brand, probably MKS.

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