I’ve been thinking of getting a space horse but all I’ve seen online are over 2000 (cad) for the tiagra build.
This one is a across the water from me but should be my size and they are asking 1600, is this a reasonable build?
I know I may want to upgrade to a 2x setup for the front for touring and a wider range of gears but how would the other components be?
Thanks!
by wamzo7
6 Comments
What a chimera. Why MTB groupset on a gravel? You’ll have trouble coupling it with road/gravel groupsets that are 100x easier to operate on handlebars like these. I mean, someone just slapped MTB shifters and brakes there.
Perhaps the owner got the good stuff onto their next bike and just slapped whatever on this one. Can’t believe anyone would ride like this.
And that for 2000? Hard pass.
Edit: to be precise, MTB derailleurs have 1:1.7 (up to 8 gears) to 1:1.1 (12 gears) pull ratio. Gravel sets have usually 1:1 so you can’t mix
Looks like a pretty good build (for me), and a decent price I think (if that is listed for $1600 CAD). I’d probably offer 1400 and be quite happy at that price.
The wheels add a good chunk of the price, as well as the rest of build. Would definitely ask about the handlebar swap, but I assume they just mean flat bars based of the MTB brake/shifter setup currently.
I’m not sure how familiar you are but the handlebar setup is pretty different, as well as having MTB components.
Crankset might be a bit of a pain to swap to 2x, though I’m not very familiar with it. I’d probably just run a smaller chainring up front and be happy with the gear range. Though also sounds like something worth mentioning to them as they might have the original cranks and shifter on hand.
they are great frames. the gearing looks great for loaded touring
Frame is great but I’d love to see the person who rides this, are they 70% torso??
The weird ass setup of massive stem and corner bars is off putting for sure, if the frame is genuinely the correct size for you, you’d need to immediately make modifications to fit the cockpit to you better.
Considering that you’re thinking of swapping the groupset, and the fact you’ll need to unfuck the cockpit I don’t think you’d actually be saving a bunch buying this over the other bikes you’ve been looking at.
This bike just also screams “I’ve done all the work myself” and while sometimes that’s alright, someone who sets up their cockpit like this is unlikely to be very kosher in the way they work on things.
im thinking its junk, with more wheels you could have more bike
Hate the bars love pretty much everything else
Edit: that stem is equally as awful as the the bars