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There might be a Breezer Radar something on sale somewhere.

For cool used late model disc steel bikes: Jamis Coda or Renegade, some Marins, Kona Dew or Unit, Breezer, and I know Norco had a couple steel gravel and hardtails, not sure if they had a proper hybrid.

This Jamis has been up for a while, not sure if listing is really active:

Needs 650b wheelset.

Also aged listing for a nice Breezer

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Oh yeah I completely forgot about the Jamis Coda even though I probably did final checks on like 600 of those during my shoprat days. I love those things.

This is also making me want a Marin Larkspur for myself.

I want to install a front rack on my Kentfield. Would you go with p-clamps or run a nut/bolt through one of those (unthreaded) holes?

I have a set of these Pelago QR adapters in black that I’ll never use. I can post them to you, if you’re interested.

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How do those work?

Kinda like the Axion fender stay adapters, but they’re thicker steel.

These are the assembly instructions, which probably explain it better than I can: https://pelagobicycles.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/front-rack_rasket_assembly-instruction_2023.web_.pdf

Looks like they’re for nutted axles.

Specialized Pizza Rack or Blackburn Grid Basket?

Could you just run some threads in one of those holes? That’s what I’d do.

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The plates are pretty thin. Not as deep as a fender/rack mount.

Hm, aren’t they as thick as the dropouts though?

I get that the sections betwixt the holes are thin but any load should be mostly down not fwd into the thin bit…

Personally, I’d get a Pelago rack and a solid axle. I avoid p-clamps whenever possible, and I get a bit squicky about modding things like that on a fork.

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Might go with either of these.

Keep the dream alive.

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My Ritchey P-29er is never going to be my primary mtb again. It’s settled into a sort of “gravel+” role, and I’m pondering a drop bar for it. The catch would be the brake levers. Can I swap drop bar hydro levers in for the current Deore flat bar jawns? It’s a 1x10 with a Saint shifter, so I think I just want wet road levers, not wet shakes.

Lightly tap one of those holes if the size is right, then nut/bolt but with the screw head on the inboard side, loctited into place in the plate.

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