The Silver Slug

Finally finished my latest bicycle build. I call it the "Silver Slug" because even though the frame is titanium, the big Wald basket on the front and the wide tires make it a pretty heavy machine. Fun, though, and just right for around-town jaunts. Being able to just toss stuff into the basket is VERY handy.

It has moustache bars, 35mm Panaracer Pasela tires, Shimano XT flat pedals that originally came on my 1989 Wicked Fat Chance, Suntour bar-con shifters, and a Kogswell Konversion fork with 67mm of offset. That gives me a frame geometry of around 40mm or so of "trail." The new geometry doesn't really feel all that different from the sport-touring geometry I'm used to, but it does seem to work better with heavy front-end loads.