Dear God I wish they did these in custom geometry (and with a carbon fork)…
Ok so the saddle is *hideous*, but those tyres make up for it. The Thomson finishing kit is perfectly suited too.
Delicious.
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Vestigial quotation marks. Bah! Humbug! The photo conceals the oversized bars necessitated by the Thomson X2 stem. Nitto might have been a better choice…
Very pretty.
Happy New Year!
Hmmm… Had it have been a quill stem I would agree on the Nitto bars – but given that it's a 1 1/8th threadless fork and headset I'm afraid I have to disagree.
But then I think it'd look better with a carbon fork, so perhaps I'm just a heathen?!
If you want a threadless stem that is (a) silver and (b) not oversized then Nitto is the way. The old Thomson Elite 25.6mm stem is not pretty and I personally don't like oversized bars on spindly frames. Happy New Year, you heathen!