The new On One Inbred frame is now available - an absolute bargain at only £139 - and it has some interesting design features that make it quite an interesting proposition for expedition touring (e.g. will run with derailer or hub gear (without any silly sliding dropout contraption) and the disc brake tab is positioned so as to make rack fitting much easier). Only problems I see are some uncertainty about whether or not it'll accept a rear Avid BB7 disc (seems that a 180mm rotor may be the only option) and no v-brake mounts.
Still for only £139 you won't get much better.
Shame about the colour though.
iambaisekeli
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tracksterman_returns
Brant told me a few weeks back that the Avid BB7 road disk model will fit, but not the offroad version. You can get specific levers for flat bars designed to work with road brakes, or just go with standard MTB levers (which I figure would be pretty harsh, but manageable, given the cable pull involved).
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philipd
Great price for a really good frame. Just a warning for anyone tempted, that they need riser bars for most people, the geometry is quite stretched out. It took me a long time to get a comfortable set up on my older model Inbred.
I'd be tempted to upgrade to it, but damnit, its red, not white as an Inbred should be. It would clash horribly with my new blue jacket, it just wouldn't look right.
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iambaisekeli
Even better than riser bars are On Ones own Mary bars. Used them for the first time recently and they are great.
The colour could have been worse Philip, the 853 is pink!
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northlandboy
Red's faster, isn't it?
I wanted to get my Raven in Red, but they didn't have any in stock at the time, had to settle for boring old black...
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tracksterman_returns
I wonder if Brant's modified the geometry - the current 20" there has a TT almost an inch shorter than the Trek I'm now riding, which doesn't feel excessively long.
At that price, buy one, get whatever braze-on extras you want, and a respray any colour you like - still comes in cheap.
The Mary bars are working for me, although I needed flanged grips to stop my hands feeling like they were going to slip off the ends on rocky downhills.
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pq
Amazing value. A few niggles though - that's a lot of suspension correction for a touring frame - not sure how easy it'd be to find a rigid for to suit, and the back wheel will be difficult to get out if you're running derailleurs.
Still, for the money....
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tracksterman_returns
On-One's own forks, or the Surly Instigators I'm running on the bike I posted out to China yesterday. There are quite a few options around now, although they mostly tend to be either pimpy carbon or heavy jump forks.
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