Holy shit. Is this yours?
No. I have an English but not that one!
Send Nick Crumpton the build sheet from my Coffeegrinder and with the necessary components to make it a 16lb bike.
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I could have saved time by just saying Crumpton / Argonaut/ Landshark for mine.
Oh wait but I also want an all carbon tapered disc fork with less rake than anyone currently makes
Whoa, do you have a link to this?
For the price of the Renayairs brakes you could probably have someone waterjet cut some arms and links out of carbon fiber plate.
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I wish Cane Creek/eeBrake would make a long-reach brake.
I know there were some plans to do so before Cane Creek bought ee, I assume that’s dead since nobody but me wants a weenie long-reach conventional brake any more.
Couple more things:
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I’d sacrifice some additional weight for an Onyx rear hub, they are so fantastic I don’t even care that they are bricks. I have one on my current English, and I wish I would have listened to Fred and gotten an Onyx for the Jones.
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Mold in some guides for generator wiring into the carbon fiber fork, and an additional wheel with a generator hub that I can swap in easily. Or even better if there was a carbon fiber fork with a contact plate that would be great
Why are the onyx hubs so great?
You have to ride one and see. Dead silence is novel and pretty fantastic. The instant engagement feels amazing although I know it probably doesn’t make any practical difference.
But the main thing is flying down hills in absolute silence. It is a really quite shocking how nice it is.
There’s this little bit of shiny madness from Chapman cycles…
Yeah, I saw those. That’s the sort of thing I am referring to when I say I’d consider rim brakes for a dream bike, if I were living someplace warm and relatively dry.
I was JUST thinking about this the other day, but with Magura hydro cantis.
If I ever get a custom frame it will be a titanium rando from Engin.
Tire clearance for 650x42 with fenders, low trail carbon fork, custom rack, internal dyno routing and an R8000 hydro group.
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Chapman’s Di2 rando comes close
obviously it’d be a 650x47 lo-trail track bike. I’d like a truss fork with a wet dick (the other lever is my bell , and has Di2 buttons that control the volume on the bluetooth weed speaker) and integrated foot pegs for taking your feet off the pedals during descents. Also the frame is a water pipe
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I’m not a strong or serious enough rider to appreciate the benefit from an English level road bike, but I appreciate it aesthetically.
If my Endpoint had slightly more tire/fender clearance, a rack and dynamo setup, and a better drivetrain tune it’d be about perfect. I’ve enjoyed the coffee grinder more than anything other than my keirin. I know two of those are gaps I could remedy.
Could also get that keirin frame copied in 650x50 with wet dix… 
Through experience, I would suggest you change the angles and bb drop some with the fat tirea
Some kind of reasonably light and quick steel 29er with some alt bars and modern xt build. Rigid. Oh, probably a hunter or coconino.
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This thread has me pricing custom carbon road frames. It pains me to report that most of them are $7k for just the frame, which is more than I’ve ever paid for an entire bike. Landshark, however, does them for $5k, which is less than that, but …less enough? time will tell