What do you do as a fisherman whose bike lives on the boat? Steel can rust with that much proximity to salt water, but titanium is too expensive for your budget? Stainless Steel!
With a Rohloff hub, DaVinci cranks, a Schmidt generator hub and our Trillium Big Squeeze™ Brakes this Alaskan fisherman’s bike is ready to handle whatever he throws at it.
Full specs here, more like it can be found here.
Rodriguez MakeShift Stainless High-Roller |
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| Frame | Stainless Steel |
| Fork | Steel Tandem Grade |
| Shift levers | Rohloff twist grip |
| Brake Levers | Tektro ATB |
| Brakes | Trillium Big Squeeze™ |
| Bottom Bracket | Phil Wood Stainless |
| Cranks | DaVinci |
| Wheels | Hand-built 3-year warranty |
| Rims | Alex Adventure 26″ |
| Rear Hub | Rohloff Speedhub 14-sp |
| Front hub | Schmidt Generator |
| Spokes | Stainless 14G |
| Tires | Schwalbe 1.5 Marathon |
| Handlebar | BHB Butterfly |
| Head Set | FSA 1 1/8″ |
| Bar tape | Black Cork |
| Seat post | Thomson 27.2 |
| Seat | Terry Fly |
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| Accessories | S&S Stainless Couplers |
| Sun Edolux light | |
| Tubus Tara front rack | |
| Tubus Logo rear rack | |
And you didn’t even mention the S&S Couplers. Gorgeous finish !
Regarding the choice of tubing, did you also consider aluminium ? Could it make sense for a fisherman bike from a quality/cost point of view ?
Aluminum is a good choice as far as corrosion, but there are other issues with aluminum that make it a bad choice for this bike. The customer wants the bike to ride comfortably, like a steel or titanium bike does. It’s a long distance touring bike, and aluminum tubing provides a lot more ‘feed back’ than this customer wanted (see my material world article here for details on ride quality). The fact that the bike is S&S coupled makes it very expensive and difficult to build with aluminum also. For these reasons, stainless steel seemed to be the very best choice.