Originally Posted by
sleepy
And that's the rub. Painful too. As I noted in another thread, it'd be nice if someone would start mass-producing old-school road frames again. Give us the old roadie back. The one with a quill stem and the option to run geared or fixed or singlespeed. A nice old-fashioned road bike with 125mm dropouts, or 128. Whatever.
Surly Cross Check, everything you said except a quill stem. Or a Soma Wolverine, does damn near everything.
I wish Wabi made a bike that had road bike style horizontal dropouts and fit larger tires.