Originally Posted by morksmith

Hi Bandera

Haven't fully figured the exact specs yet, so any advice is welcome.

The choice of Mercian was down to wanting a traditional but bespoke English frame.

I am going for the Strada Speciale for evening and weekend rides - I live in the country and it's fairly hilly by me, so I wanted to go light and fast on the frame. So it will have no mudguards, racks etc - I will probably run 700 x 25 tyres as the roads aren't smooth enough for anything skinnier.

Might look at joining a club too at some point but all the local ones seem to be full of carbon fibre bikes - don't know what they think of steel bikes.

Obviously we all know they are far cooler