What frame/bike meets these criteria:
01-29-18, 12:33 PM
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What frame/bike meets these criteria:
Was doing some bike fantasizing/daydreaming. So if someone (me) wants a lightweight long distance bike that has:
- carbon frame
- carbon fork that has the eyelets to accommodate a front minirack (not carrying anything heavy) and decent fenders
- rim brakes that take up to tires 700 x 33 (but usually 28mm max), preferably extra long reach calipers (e.g. tektro 559) or cantilevers if needed
- no panniers, at most a seatpost mounted rear rack for lightweight storage of clothing
What are some options, if any, that fit the bill? If nothing fits the bill, what would be close?
- carbon frame
- carbon fork that has the eyelets to accommodate a front minirack (not carrying anything heavy) and decent fenders
- rim brakes that take up to tires 700 x 33 (but usually 28mm max), preferably extra long reach calipers (e.g. tektro 559) or cantilevers if needed
- no panniers, at most a seatpost mounted rear rack for lightweight storage of clothing
What are some options, if any, that fit the bill? If nothing fits the bill, what would be close?
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most carbon all-road meet your requirements except they use discs. Your choices are going to be very slim for rim brakes outside of custom.
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Thanks. Even accepting the disc brakes - what are some all-carbon all road bikes that have fork with eyelets for mini-rack? When look online , I'm not seeing it.
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Mostly I am interested in carbon forks like that because I want to put them on a steel frame, so I'm not fully informed of all the bikes that might fit your needs. Just the forks.
Rodeo labs has a nice fork Rodeo Spork Bicycle Fork. A carbon fiber adventure bike fork.Rodeo Adventure Labs, LLC They have a carbon all-road with the previous version of this fork. I figure they are waiting on new stock.
niner had a similar fork which came on a carbon all-road bike, I'm not sure what's going on with them. There is a fyxation fork that has a lot of mounting points, so a Mark's rack should fit https://www.fyxation.com/products/ca...adventure-fork
Hopefully some other brands have wised up on this. You can to bikepacking without rack mounts, but I think a front rack would be really nice.
Rodeo labs has a nice fork Rodeo Spork Bicycle Fork. A carbon fiber adventure bike fork.Rodeo Adventure Labs, LLC They have a carbon all-road with the previous version of this fork. I figure they are waiting on new stock.
niner had a similar fork which came on a carbon all-road bike, I'm not sure what's going on with them. There is a fyxation fork that has a lot of mounting points, so a Mark's rack should fit https://www.fyxation.com/products/ca...adventure-fork
Hopefully some other brands have wised up on this. You can to bikepacking without rack mounts, but I think a front rack would be really nice.
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Those are great options and a good answer to my question.
Rather than looking for a stock bike that has the right fork, I could get a big brand endurance bike in whatever level carbon I'd like to get, e.g. Trek Domane or Specialized Roubaix , and then use one of those two forks you listed to be able to mount a mini rack.
Thanks.
Rather than looking for a stock bike that has the right fork, I could get a big brand endurance bike in whatever level carbon I'd like to get, e.g. Trek Domane or Specialized Roubaix , and then use one of those two forks you listed to be able to mount a mini rack.
Thanks.
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