NFD: Gunnar Crosshairs

[kppolich]

Great paint, and right down the road from me. I'm jealous.

[Plum Hill]

Stock or custom geometry?

[Toddtwenty2]

This is a beautiful bicycle frame.

I bet the ride is as beautiful as it looks.

[gbcoupe]

Originally Posted by reuben

The only thing that bugs me is the graphics/lettering color. On their website "charcoal" has a bit of a bronze tint, hence the gold headset. In real life it's just a basic gray. Oh well, not everyone works from a calibrated monitor.

Put a gold chain on and you're balanced.

Love the color! Very nice looking frame. Congrats!

[reuben]

Originally Posted by Plum Hill

Stock or custom geometry?

Stock geometry. I'm lucky in that despite some hereditary back/spine issues, I'm pretty much at the peak of the bell curve in many ways, and the back stuff doesn't really bother me much. So I have no real need for custom geometry.

I had them add the pump peg and chain hanger, chose the Cross Crown fork, and that should do it.

[jody_husky]

what a beauty! with the steel fork it'll be singing softly like hope sandoval.

[oldpotatoe]

Sold a bunch of Waterfords and Gunnars. Great framesets from a great company.
AND the simplicity of canti brakes..Huzzah..

BTW-don't forget the cable hanger for the front brake.

[phishrabbi]

I absolutely adore my Crosshairs.

I recommend two things which I've done and which make this the bike I'd keep if I had to choose only one (G-d forbid).

1) Mini Motos.
They stop a bike (a least when it isn't raining) as well as anything, including hydraulic discs, they are easy to set up and adjust and have great clearance. Oh, and they look cool.

2) Two sets of wheels.
I have two essentially identical (and inexpensive) wheel sets with bitex hubs and kinlin rims, one with 32mm conti gp5000 slicks the other with RH 38mm knobbies.

This summer I was able to keep up with my roadie buddies on the road wheel set up Mt. Evans, despite having used the same bike to ride chunky gravel and single track the day before with the same bike.

[reuben]

Originally Posted by oldpotatoe

Sold a bunch of Waterfords and Gunnars. Great framesets from a great company.
AND the simplicity of canti brakes..Huzzah..

BTW-don't forget the cable hanger for the front brake.

It's gonna get TRP CX 8.4 brakes, so basically sidepull, no cable hanger.

[reuben]

Originally Posted by phishrabbi

I absolutely adore my Crosshairs.

I recommend two things which I've done and which make this the bike I'd keep if I had to choose only one (G-d forbid).

1) Mini Motos.
They stop a bike (a least when it isn't raining) as well as anything, including hydraulic discs, they are easy to set up and adjust and have great clearance. Oh, and they look cool.

2) Two sets of wheels.
I have two essentially identical (and inexpensive) wheel sets with bitex hubs and kinlin rims, one with 32mm conti gp5000 slicks the other with RH 38mm knobbies.

This summer I was able to keep up with my roadie buddies on the road wheel set up Mt. Evans, despite having used the same bike to ride chunky gravel and single track the day before with the same bike.

Awesome sauce!

Two wheelsets is a given, but I opted for TRP CX 8.4 brakes. They're what I have on my Litespeed Appalachian, but I'll admit that I don't have to do heavy braking down long hills, so I don't have any personal experience with how they compare to the Pauls. I went with the TRP after starting this thread. Based on the responses it seemed as though there were lots of good options, including the Paul brakes.

I have a Revelate Shrew like that just ready to be filled with the necessary stuff.

[phishrabbi]

The Shrew really is a great piece of gear, big enough to hold lots of clothing and food, and yet doesn't move around under you while riding.