Building a touring bike, I require almost everything!
- Thread starter TomGale
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The Saracen Sahara frame (ok MY Saracen frame!) in the first reply to your original post would indeed make a great tourer. I'm a very lanky 6'3" and it fitted me fine with not a great deal of seatpost showing. Utterly bombroof frame, obviously rim brake only but would accommodate a modern 3x9 drivetrain with no drama... and rim brakes have enough power when set up right.
I also have loads of handlebars (including some On-One Mary bars which I found great for ATB touring or the flat bars I used on the Saracen with stem and bar ends), a freshly powdercoated Blackburn MTN rack, an SLX Hollowtech II chainset, a couple of XT long cage rear mechs, several water bottle cages, loads of cantis and v-brakes (DX, STX, Acera, Avids etc), some new Schwalbe 26" semi-slicks. If you buy my frame you won't have to pay postage on anything else you buy from me!
As an aside, I'd personally avoid hydr. discs, alloy frames, XTR. As stated a Rockhopper would also be a good choice (late 90s Ritchey tubed esp.) and donor bikes are always a good way to shave the budget a little.
I also have loads of handlebars (including some On-One Mary bars which I found great for ATB touring or the flat bars I used on the Saracen with stem and bar ends), a freshly powdercoated Blackburn MTN rack, an SLX Hollowtech II chainset, a couple of XT long cage rear mechs, several water bottle cages, loads of cantis and v-brakes (DX, STX, Acera, Avids etc), some new Schwalbe 26" semi-slicks. If you buy my frame you won't have to pay postage on anything else you buy from me!
As an aside, I'd personally avoid hydr. discs, alloy frames, XTR. As stated a Rockhopper would also be a good choice (late 90s Ritchey tubed esp.) and donor bikes are always a good way to shave the budget a little.
Bar Bag
I have an Agu Sport camera specific bar bag which I bought for the world tour I'm never going to do.
It has protected my [film] SLR very well and comes with internal padding and partitions plus the removeable carrying strap but needs the [standard] bar fitting bracket.
Can't seem to post pictures here [again] but can send them to your email adress if it is of any interest.
I have an Agu Sport camera specific bar bag which I bought for the world tour I'm never going to do.
It has protected my [film] SLR very well and comes with internal padding and partitions plus the removeable carrying strap but needs the [standard] bar fitting bracket.
Can't seem to post pictures here [again] but can send them to your email adress if it is of any interest.
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