Dear Andrew, You have found your huckleberry, but given your weight and design constraints, I would also suggest a UJB designed around 27"(28-630) wheels and repurposed to 700c (32-622). Or something like a Boulder Bicycle Road Sport ( which would not be front-loading).
The UJBs will have BSC threading (or can be easily modified to do so). If you pick one on the high end of the parts range while still built around 27" wheels it will have a 531c tubing spec, which was the standard for fun and lively mid-sized bikes since the late 1930's. They will typically have eyelets for fenders. The Boulder Bicycle Road Sport is now unobtainium new, but was designed around the basic sporting needs you describe (note that I helped design it). 32mm tires, flexible tubing for lighter riders, and 57-reach brakes; fork rake bumped up for the wider tires. It was not designed for fenders. Everyone involved with that project ended up with one in their regular rotation. Mine was a welded prototype, and is my most-ridden machine in these CoViD-19 no-commute-to-work-for-me times. It has served as a racing bike, a cx bike, my general road machine, and handles gravel and 32mm tires with aplomb. Mine is not front loaded, but Mike Kone straps a giant Berthoud to his and rides hard with it. They are around on the used market in a silver-brazed longpoint lugged version with nicely-thinned Cinelli-drilled lugs. Mine is welded, and I kinda regret not getting one with lugs after the prototype came out so well. Best Regards, Will William M deRosset Fort Collins CO USA -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/e7f2350a-7bdf-49a5-b64d-75c33bc07b17o%40googlegroups.com.
