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I was 50 this year and decided to treat myself (actually my lovely wife treated me). In January I emailed Lynskey, In March she paid a deposit. In May the frame build started. In June the frame shipped to the UK. In July I was 50 and today (10 weeks late) the bike was delivered to me.
Yes it has too many spacers and yes, the lawn needs cutting.
And it needs chunkier tyres. Fork by Waltworks
More pics available in the same folder for those who are interested.
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Lynskey's drawing
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My original drawing
Looks massive. EBB?
Such a nice bit of grass shame about the . . . .:wink: Whats the reason behind the bend in the downtube? hope you have fun!
That is a seriously huuuuuge garden !
Is it a 96'er or the camera angle playing tricks and more importantly how does it ride?
My eyes are bleeding.
It looks massive because it's very high at the front because its designed for rigid forks only. I grant you it does look a bit odd but it rides great.
Lynskey put the bend in the down tube for reasons that were never clear! Perhaps they already have a pile of bent downtubes?
Yes it has an EBB
Yes the garden is 'large'
very nice indeed.. 8)
Looks like quite a long headtube and very long stays.
Whats it weigh?
Stays are 18" so pretty short for a 29er
Weighs 26lbs in current guise. Schwalbe Marathons are HEAVY
Headtube is long - it's the rigid fork thing again
its a 29er - sort of 🙂
Stays are 18" so pretty short for a 29er
Yeah, I think they just look long cause of the small tyres.
Instead of waiting 10 weeks for the bike to be built, why didn't you build it yourself? It's as satisfying as riding, in a different way.
It cost a few quid I'd guess? Lynskey only being a realistic proposition with their stock frames really.
Nice berm . . . or is it a compost heap 😉
is it sporting eyelets for a rack? if so, well done sir.
If you like it then that is all that matters. Personally I think it should be put in a bag and drowned down the canal.
I had no idea that it would take 10 weeks to build. I've built bikes before but the shop gave me quite good prices on the parts and offered to build it for free. The wheels needed building too and I've never done that so it seemed like a good deal. However there was delay after delay getting the right bits and even though we'd agreed all the components at the beginning they didn't start getting them in until the frame arrived in the uk. I had to order the rims and the chainring off the internet and have them posted to the shop. I also had to make a couple of component changes at some parts were no longer available.
If I was ever going to do something like this again - and to be frank, it's seriously unlikely - I would definitely order all the bits myself and build it at home. Hell, I'd have had the bike for my birthday and the summer.
It's a berm! My wife always says I have a nice one!
Yes, it has eyelets for both a rack and mudguards. In winter it will have small tyres and mudguards and be used mainly on the lanes. In summer, bigger tyres and out on the hills.
Fair play regarding the build.
And a rack! Suspension fork for crappy roads/off road and you're there!
Nice dropouts, by the way.
Looks groovy. What are you going to use it for? I kinda looks set up like a hybrid with those tyres. Must be nice designing it yourself. Is the bent down tube for fork crown clearance prehaps? Enjoy your new bike.
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it looks pre-crashed into a wall...
Im sure it rides nice though...
Im just jealous beacuse i have to wait till next year for a new bike.
It's been an absolute pleasure designing it. I started in March 09 so it was nearly a year before I contacted the shop. I love the little touches like having my initial in the dropouts.
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very nice bike.
did you have the rohloff before or is that new to you as well?
what type of riding do you do? are you putting knobblier tyres on?
I've had a Rohloff before but this one is new.
I have a full suspension bike for off-road stuff but much of my daily riding is on muddy (read shitty) country lanes - hence the need for mudguards. I know this bike would look better with knobblier tyres but for winter round here, these are just the job
Ooh, nice. You might want to try the Marathon Supremes. Decent hardwearing grippy and lighter than other Marathons.
I like it. What size are the tyres? Any problems getting them on & off the Stans rims? I have some Arch rims & have been really struggling with 28 & 32 road tyres.
I got a Lynskey (cooper) for my 40th this year from the wife, now that means i've got 10 years to plan for my 50th, YIPPEE!
wonky downtube just looks wrong on what is otherwise a nice bike despite its wagon wheels
I suppose you could always ask them to put a straight one in
I like it.
Is it sad that I like the cad drawings just as much? I really need.to get myself a cad job again. Drawing bikes would be ideal!
Here's another one for you, gives you an idea of how much detail I went to:-
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I could draw that in half an hour 😉
Mister P - MemberIf you like it then that is all that matters. Personally I think it should be put in a bag and drowned down the canal.
+1 it's the forks they look too thin
It's one of the neatest ways for a Rohloff'ed bike to have an EBB and have the disc brakes between the seat and chain stays so that all cables can run along the downtube and the toptube is un-cluttered. And those seat and chain stays are lovely!
I would have gone for a Ti fork also, if such a thing exists.
When you say your initials are in the drop-outs, are they actually 'in the drop-outs' as I can't see anything resembling initials. Or am I just be thick/blind?
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There's a 'N' between the upper and lower parts of the dropout
Ti forks are pretty rare. There are lots of scare stories about them breaking. Black Sheep were pretty much the only ones I could find that would have suited and the cost was just too much even for this build.
A touch of class, hope you enjoy it.
See it now - bit too subtle for me and I was looking for a 'B' as well as the 'N' 8)
Knowing wht you lot are like about attention to detail, I'm quite surprised no one has commented on the mudguard eyes being on the 'wrong' side of the fork.
Looks pointless and ridiculous, but each to their own.
How much did it cost?
I had a bike just like that for a while....
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Nicknoxx - Member
...Ti forks are pretty rare. There are lots of scare stories about them breaking...
Bit like the carbon scaremongering?
Most people are riding around with a pair of large aluminium tubes at the front of their bike and will worry about fatigue on their alloy bars without even thinking about what's going on below them.
Maybe the real reason we don't see many Ti forks is the difficulty in finding appropriate tubing.
Nicely thought out bike btw.
Looks very light but a bit anorexic. Needs to eat some protein and hit the gym a bit.
Looks like a labour of love.
Liking the flexibility to rag it over the moors off road or cycle tour. Is this the 'do it all' bike?
Good job and admirable attention to detail.
Very nice but until you attach the wicker basket to the front it won't be complete.
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wl - If you're talking about the bike, well each to their own, but if you taking about the fork, the reason the mudguard eyes are like that is because Walt has deliberately fixed the dropout 'backwards' into the fork to keep the wheel in under braking.
LOL at PeterPoddy
takisawa2 - Member
I would have gone for a Ti fork also, if such a thing exists.
You've presumably never ridden one, they are crap.
cynic-al - Membertakisawa2 - Member
I would have gone for a Ti fork also, if such a thing exists.You've presumably never ridden one, they are crap.
I think Jeff Jones would disagree with you there.
Uh OK conventional ones are crap IME etc YMMV WTF OMG
cynic-al - Member
Uh OK conventional ones are crap IME etc YMMV WTF OMG
I'd agree with you there. Plus Jones forks (and bikes) mostly look toss.
That bike up there is what's great about bikes - perfect for the guy who owns it, 101 kinds of wrong for everyone else.
Long may it continue.
Oh, now I'm offended Sideways Tim, I likes how my Jones looks 🙂
ti forks are not crap. crap (ti or anything) forks are crap.
if you want a nice ti fork, check darren crisp.
black sheep are pretty flexy, but for certain weights of rider and types of riding thats good.
chi ti, the metal itself is actually crap. so put crap IN get crap OUT.
chi ti, the metal itself is actually crap. so put crap IN get crap OUT.
Not true, as Mark Lynskey himself said:-
"As to the raw materials; did you know that everybody's starter materials (tube hollows) come from either Russia or China. Yes that includes Sandvick, Haynes, Wolverine, and Reynolds. Yes the tubes that these companies create using Chinese and Russian raw materials do in fact go to aerospace/defense use as well as bicycle frames (including ours)."
read his full statement at
http://weightweenies.starbike.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=49167