I received this one https://conta.cc/4wpsntw this afternoon.
Looks like Cotic are starting to make steel bars.
I've been chatting on email with Cy about bigger back sweeps but they don't have any plans for them yet. I have pointed him at the Surly Sunrise bar for it's excellent shape.
Maybe if enough people request a bigger back sweep they may make one.
Is anyone doing a Summer / Winter Solstice ride?
Our ride group does one each year on the Friday closest to the Summer Solstice. We try and get in most of the hills in the Surrey Hills and few trails in each localised area with some beers on Leith Hill (the highest point in southern UK at a whopping 294m!!!). The distance ends up at about 30-40 miles.
This year i'm taking the single speed Solaris which should be interesting.
The last few months in the UK have been super dry. I can count the number of rainy days in one hand , this seems to be the new normal now for weather - wetish winter followed by dry spring and damp summers and dry autumn (at least that's how it sits in my head down here in Surrey).
However the last few days we've had some spring showers. The sort of days where the weather changes about a dozen times in the day and youbget proper down pours.
Given the recent nice weather I've been fully fenderless from about mid March and yesterday I took the HT out for a shakedown with the new 120mm air shaft in the Pikes (I was due a ride as I was getting a little scratchy). And boy did it P!SS down while I was out. My butt was soggy and cold, the bike and I were covered in crap (including the Brooks which don't do well in the wet) and all I could think of was Vik and his full fendered fineness.
Anywho the fenders are back on as the crap weather is looking to continue and I can't be dealing with "the soggs" again.
Maybe I'm now at the point in my life where the fenders just stay on all year...