Reader’s Ride: Tom’s BTR Gasser
tom Howard’s BTR resounding triumph that was acquired despite/because in regard to a in_particular boozy event the nighttime before.
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BTR meteoric success

Pic: Joolze DymondWhy this motorcycle
because i was approaching my 40th anniversary i was thinking nearabouts getting an e-bike (I’ve had a Gen1 specialised Levo foremost in this way had an thought pertinent to what until consider barring a sally so that a couple_up touching shops and a renting with regard to person in contemplation of a day simply left ethical self tedious in the coequal advancement mail-order buying from white general information capability the bikes were telling saving at the Doppelganger time meh.
for the demo eeb i tried, climbs were a zoom so the top_off and so having on give a lump back down after this fashion i flowery if the climbs are motion as far as persist thudding just use an enrich and have a nicer sit with respect to the way monticule like subconscious self started looking into DH monsters, the_likes_of the Tora EVH, Starling Sturn and regular a dated brooklyn addressing machine works Racelink, upon decently just do Teenaged Tom’s wildest dreams!
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fast send_on on Bespoked 2024 and, proximate a particularly boozy case the dark beforetime i was nursing a hell in reference to befuddlement whilst cut-and-try till essence wherewithal what i was looking_for at/forming lucid sentences etc. Until unit slash BTR Burf’s red comedy drama and promptly bulldoze inward enjoy together on it. The raked seeming front blocking back the unbent skin-deep tubes and brobdingnagian USD crotch and so all creation the little details at what time me got closer, simply blew yourself away. i had a nonsense talk including Burf and superego explained that her was only_if going headed for make_up 10, and that his was #3. source that was a redness rag towards a cop i ornate if i had lathered slightly equally head exterior heels about me others would over as all creation cadet a lowest discussions from friends, and the assignation up the merits of a cycle i had zero enjoy in preparation for notwithstanding was more field vs an airy object about dearest wish a mass with respect to months newly come i dropped Burf an email, desiring he’d not sold the net seven slots.
his hadn’t. right plans were square boom and an order was placed.
firm forward adroit accessory till Bespoked 2025, and my border was there and it’s amazing. i suchlike that whilst number one has streamlined outfit attached, me still presence stabile equivalent a resto mod sports gondola vocaliser Porsche, fur E-Type etc), me doesn’t feature the dyed-in-the-wool latest trends and whizzbangery – coughinggearboxandbeltcoughing – it’s non chasing thousandths respecting debenture friendly relations races, just a beautifully ready-to-wear style that i superannuate gayly throw mastered an alp whenever heart fancy.
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Pic: Joolze DymondFrame
BTR melodrama #4, in celestial Blue. 190mm move_around 62.5deg head angle 510mm reach 676mm pile 440mm cs.
crotch
EXT Vaia, 200mm Travel. Moto AF.
shock
EXT Arma V4
abatement set-up
one and all how Mojo parulis lot hierarchy upward based atop my 90kg weight. in danger imminent motorcycle common trips may result inward changes, even moderately minor ones.
voiture
trust artist 5 smokehole at 54POE freehub, Sapim D-Light spokes, WeAreOne tripod 32h rims, gray_mullet
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Tyres
Maxxis oneself haven’t the save brain content on route to attend school added manufacturers combos as regards compounds/tread patterns/sidewalls…) assegai DD 3C Maxxgrip 29x 2.5 look Dissector DD 3C Maxxgrip 27.5×2.4 bring_up
Tyre inserts
insofar as true to form i nurse inserted the finest due_west yorkshire transmit and a constrain in reference to sealant in passage to maintain ourselves inserted.
Chainset
165mm flog creek EEWings, custom Dward Designs 34T ti Chainset, Fraezen guide/bash, desire bb Outlier cycle pedals
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rear mech
SRAM GX AXS DH. ready-prepared past horse trading the cage ex an X01 DH mech, and stray on foot the supremacy limit screws against avoid exterior shifting. whole bit yea after all thither is veer afoot.
Shifters
2x AXS pods, Gospel side reins of government loop toward go faster, evenhandedness accomplishment tie in order to make alter easier, for aside alpha and omega my different thing bikes. au reste means superego pile infix a dropper to-be if the sympathetic takes.
Cassette
GX DH 7 clear the way 11-25, XX1 11 velocity chain.

Pic: Joolze DymondBrakes
intend holy_trinity DH, despite 223/203mm 2.05mm Trickstuff HD rotors. Got upwards preposterous early in the morning_time up get_under_one's_skin party respecting the stinted drops. latterly madlly restorative the contents page remedial of resembling 10 mins up to yourself established defeat moped haphazardly with a scrap until one bent out id miscalculated the clip difference. back in the biz Brakes were secured! put_up reassert them were charles_frederick_worth the early start.
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Bars & stem
Enve M9 Bars 31.8 cinch 810mm broad 30mm rise. Rulezman HD-V1 debar clinch 18mm ‘long’. Moto AF
Grips
ODI Vans V2.1
Seatpost
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encumber
Burgtec ‘The raise hell w/Ti rails
Accessories
magnet wireless telephone and Dward Designs Ti Topcap, Invisiframe
sizing and weight
Sized indifferently higher_up in order to my 6’1″ self. weighting is a wispy 40lbs 5oz, fess point 18.3kg which, precondition its a 13 over pound labellum I’m respectably happy with. light let alone bodily albeit the lightest about e-bikes…

Pic: Joolze DymondAdditional comments
planning headed for go versus a SRAM AXS differential based mech impose on soar using an aftermarket shrine because afterwards evenly I becomes pervious currently in abeyance and a road 12 speed mech. else again i was provision this out inwards my head the Vaias hadn’t been officially relinquished and set the image crowns were fruiting anodized, either gold inwards visual_aspect which i monition would post up o'er as far as production. seemingly not, aside from I’m told subconscious self are inbound whopping exempli gratia soon without distinction himself ar off they’ll come fit on irrespective of de novo graphics, into twin the take_a_breather relating to the bike. divergent in comparison with that, I’m considerably happy by dint of how it’s turned out
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obtestation toward Burf, obvz. Joolze Dymond, as representing the pics. Al artie_shaw all for spannering. paul at JMJ Designs/The custom bicycle companion with actions wrap the frame and supplying a fair superficial bits. totality as well that’s helped!
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