This has been a labour of love, my old Claud Butler Majestic Reynolds 531 road/tourer frame frankensteined into a fun light gravel/do it all.
Still a work in progress but so far it's had a 1x conversion, 9 speed cassette upgrade with a SRAM MTB clutch derailleur (forget which one), TRP RRL levers and rune hilt bars added, pelago front rack and the biere de resistance – a euro crate that can carry 48 small cans of beer for hydration purposes and everything else.
Going to do a deep clean of it this weekend and get some glamour shots.
by bin-bag-beef-fingers
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Forget to add new Mavic wheelset added with some chunkier terrano dry tyres (soon to be gravel kings)
Beautiful. I built up a 1981 Majestic myself this year in the same colour. A really comfortable, handsome, versatile frameset, with room for 40mm gravel tyres + mudguards.
I went for 3×9 though (too hilly where I live for 1x, at least for my legs), with some Nitto Albatross bars and friction thumb shifters.
https://preview.redd.it/ozom4wvs6a5f1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cdca38059bab0f1da0790ab939ccec80effc1b16
My Majestic. She’s a bit scruffier than your frame, but that suits my style
Really nice, what width tyres are you able to run with that frame?