Doing most rides on a Surly Steamroller with 35-622 gravel tires. On gravel. Or on road. Or on a road that is so shitty that it qualifies as gravel. Don't do much city riding due to lack of a city.

I came to your channel for the gravel content, I came in from mountain biking but ended up falling in love with Gravel/Road, and I dug all the retrobike restorations and drop bar conversions - plus you inspired me to get my own Specialized Allez and even build a retrogrouch of my own. I haven't watched much lately because I'm not as into MTB anymore, but I'm still around. Had to give a click to the Rawnstercross for all times sake, it's like family.

If you change the bar to something more swept back and put a ringlock on it you would have a typical dutch bike 😄 Put a bigger gear and short aerobars on it for more fun.

great video, I'm in the process of building a bike from scratch (Commencal SX frame) not all components I'm buying are top notch, but they are pretty good for me. I'm curious what size of handerbars are you running?, I got one with 31.8mm of clamp diameter; but not sure if I should've got the 35mm. I like jumps and technical riding.

Why not both 😈

These videos are fine. If they think you talk to much they need to learn to listen for longer instead of wanting everyone to cut the conversation short just for them.

Nothing looks cleaner than a steel frame on a bike.

How did it hold up 2 years later?

Bought a Norton in XL matte black. About to install a Rockshox Domain Fork.

What frame is that

👍👍👍

I just got my X and I too swapped out my seat post from a Schwinn Central bc I like the internal bike lock (I had to remove the bottle cage mount bolts in order for the lock to stow away completely 😊

I thought the old build was a bit more appealing aesthetically, but I appreciate the change in your desires being reflected in your bike! I think some alt bars like koga denham or surly maloko would be perfect for this bike so you still have flat bars but also the hand positions of drops

Dude my status is probably going to end up similar being cobbled together with whatever i can get my hands on

I've spray painted cars bikes airplanes bridges trains.... I love spray paint. That said don't over think anything. Do over tape and bag the over spray. Best part about painting your bike is usually you will re paint the bike to tweak it to perfection. Also have fun.

ok, i getr it. im a goofy. ^^

It's cool to see something that's not used being altered to be usable again. Saying that, I think it was my favorite ever road bike 😢

Love it!

A BMX is always more fun than a dirt jumper. Dirt jumper might be a little more comfortable and "safer" feeling, but who cares about that lol.

Damn, the bike that inspired me to build and tinker with my bikes. Glad to see it in use again. Kinda hate the fork tho lol

So get one each lol

Please fucking stop posting soy

Very nice Casio watches! The A158 and F91-W!

Original fork had a nice shape

I'm sorry to say, but the before was so much better.

So glad the Rawnstercross is back in rotation!

Sounds like you'd appreciate my frankenstein whips! 🤣🤣🤣

Awesome bike! Would love to see a Tinker Tuesday using a ISCG-05 BB adapter and ISCG-05 mounted chain tensioner with a pulley wheel... Seems like it'd be another clean setup for all the vertical dropouts out there

Half link in the chain and a narrow-wide chainring? I was led to believe that won't work. Does it? Is it because it's a 1/8" BMX chain? In any case, glad to have you back posting regularly!

Old school video! Love it!

Looks so good, big fan

made some old heads happy with a rawnstercross vid

hipster skinny jeans, check. hipster boots, check. hipster man bun, doh! puts on hipster hat to cover up space X launch pad! Touchdown area sean from space. procedes to build hipster one speed, one! i guess you cant miss a gear! ( chain falls off ) keep trying. puts on onsy after warming it in dryer

Love it. Inspired to tinker

Babe, wake up! New Spindatt just dropped!

I've just finished set up gears on my bike. Single speed is looking pretty cool 🫤

Me who deliberately build his own bike after the old Rawn: 👁️👄👁️

I liked the Rawnstercross assembly video series a lot. Including the re-polishing.

Slick and sexy! The bike man .. the bike

Making me feel guilty for not using my single speed to commute 😅 Nice job, and nice to have a chill video to start the day.

I get the build, but not sure why the fork swap was done. I remember the video where you swapped the fork on this bike to lessen toe overlap; so, what's the deal here?

I have a Swobo Sanchez fixed gear from 2009-ish that's been neglected. I'm somewhere between "I don't want to change it" and "there's no way in hell I'd change it" and "I don't ride it much the way it is right now so I should change it and see if that motivates me to ride it more." You might have inspired me, my man! Currently it's got some (nearly) flat bars. Maybe I'll hunt down some drops. I think it's probably a good idea to just refresh all the bearings on it...but that sounds like a pain in the ass! New, shorter cranks would be sick. New saddle would be sick. New stem would be sick. It's practically a new bike at that point! We'll see what happens. I don't get enough bike time the way it is so I'm going to be hard pressed to dig through pages of google to find a bottom bracket for it when I could instead be ripping' some twisty singletrack on the mtb. Winter approaches. Maybe that'll be the bike thing to get me through the cold. I appreciate your uploads and your outlook on bike/life. Thanks for all that!

Need to see a monster tracklocross.

You hurt my heart. RawnsterX was perfect.

One day drop bars will come back.

I’m glad you’re still making videos, I’ve been out of the loop bike wise for a good few years now and it’s cool to see you still here in the space doing your thing bud

I thought half links DID NOT work on narrow wides.

The electrical tape spray job looks way too good for what it is 😅

You got a construction job? Judging by your boots?

Right on, you're radiant. Keep doing you and whoever else you're doing. It's working.