this aero nonsense is a joke.

You have to be about 20mph to see gains in aero on gravel. when mvdp won the gravel worlds i was 22mph in that race. 

so it is pretty safe to say none of us aero will matter one bit ever.

 so back to your bickering

Any pictures of this built up as a bike?

I love the looks of non dropped stays, udh, and huge down tube but seeing it built with wheels would certainty help me make a decision considering how long it is.

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I agree on a need for 50mm tires.  This frame looks like it could be used for bikepacking/touring with the placement of all the threaded bosses.  I wonder if someone will make a gravel geometry hybrid frame that can fit boost/148 rear wheels, and 110 front hubs.   (I suppose the rear frame geometry is too short to accommodate a 148 wide rear triangle and either a 73 or 83mm wide bottom bracket.)

They do it is the focus atlas. Boost spacing normal crank spacing

The wider hubs make stronger rims is the only real reason for it. Most don't want the wide q factor of mtb crank standards on a drop bar bike.

Does anyone know who the maker / original supplier of this fork is?  Variable rake and 700x54.  Must be one of the larger Chinese suppliers to the OEM market.

https://nordestcycles.com/producto/albarda-carbon-horquilla   -- this one.  I'm seeing quite a few brands using it now.

https://www.speedercycling.com/Carbon-Adventure-Bikepacking-Fork-SC-ADV09-_p375.html

They make a number of different forks. That on has flip chips mounts dynamo routing and clears 55s

Great thought, I was actually considering that the other day. All those 69 degree hardtails may be a good candidate, I was just worried a bit about what type of rigid fork i would need to run. The axle to crown length on some of those may be longer that a standard gravel fork. Oh and has flip chips

Here is another option. Been on the fence what my next build would be.

Been thinking the same thing but with this fork it is longer 120 suspension corrected and had dynamo wiring also. So that is what I have been thinking with an h bar set up. Yeah and I want clean dynamo lighting on the next bike.

https://www.speedercycling.com/29er-Carbon-Mountain-Adventure-Bikepacking-Fork-SC-MTN13-_p383.html

If anyone is looking for an alternative groupset for gravel, Microshift Sword is available on AliEx:

https://www.aliexpress.us/item/3256805871184107.html

That is crazy expensive really.

You can get the grx 2x 10 complete group with cranks bb brakes chain cassette the whole thing for not much more.

Last time I looked it was around 350 plus shipping.

Regarding the press-fit BB: Park Tool makes a really expensive and hard-to-get reaming tool for BB86. It's one of the few tools I can't justify buying myself, but if I ever buy a frame with BB86 (which unfortunately is most Light Bicycle and Yishun frames), I'd definitely take it to a bike shop that has that tool. Same goes for facing the disc brake mounts.

I hear you on owning real shop tools. Too expensive for one use.

The amazing thing is way back in the day when I worked at a shop every build got faced and chased and I don't understand when that went away. Every seat tube got reamed along with headset before cups got pressed in. I don't understand why it is expected really it is part of build prep.

Even stupid expensive frames needed it and  aluminum alway needed it to just get round again. Then again this was threaded days before the stupid bb explosion.

Yeah if I was worried about the bb I would certainly be bringing it to a shop.

On the plus side looks like t47 is gonna take over hopefully