That's a nice functional looking build.
I am a big fan of this style bar, I think it gets the hand position just right and lets you use 22.2 bits. I have actually never had a bike with flat bars, either swept back or drop.I grew up in the Rough Stuff era, so dropbars on an offroad bike were a given. This is my Dawes Cougar mtb (531ST) modified into an 1980s gravel bike if gravel had been thing back then. (i.e. it's my Rough Stuff Bike)
I used the parts I thought Dawes would have used if they had built a bike like this, e.g. nos Ideale saddle, S-A hubs, alloy rims, North Road bars, wing-nuts on the axles instead of QR (didn't have a set for the front when I took the pic), GB forged stem, etc
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