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Custom Brother Cycles Strom S

Originaly I bougth this frameset because the Brother fork I needed for another project wasn't avaliable as fork only option. In the meantime my other Brother Cycles, the Meteh, got used a lot for commuting and I love the feel and quality of the frame so much that I decided to repaint it. After some recovery of my bankaccount and the fork only option beeing back in stock why not build this bike up as a budget/second allroad bike? A friend was looking for a new bike anyway so I built it up with 105 Di2 to fit her budget. When finished, she suprisingly didn't like the look of the round steel tubes anymore. Women... It happened that I rode it for some winter races in Rüfenach and even in April at the Möhlin Nightcrit and it didn't dissapoint. Now the time has come to frameswap it to a serious allroad racebike. Local framebuilder Stolz made the versatile frame sportier by taking off the fender eyelets, the huge derailer housing stoppers on the downtube and the unnessesary cable guide for mechanical rear derailer option. He also fillet-brazed a clean integreated seatclamp and lowered the bottlemount on the seattube. Duoton GmbH painted it in dark purple. To create some aesthetic and financial contrast on this reasonably priced Stroma it got speced with fancy raw titanium and alloy parts such as a Chris King bottombracket and headset, King Cage titanium bottlecages, Thomson titanium seatpost, Carbon-Ti topcap and thru axles. A friend even CAD me a direct mount Shimano mech hanger that brothers doesn't offer. This detail will be expensive but the bike will look even cleaner and should shift better due to the stiffer mount. If anyone is interessted in buying a direct mount hanger for theyr Brother Meteh, Stroma or Kepler I'll be happy to sell one and share the cost of this stupidly expensive piece.

Frame:
Brother Cycles Stroma size S / Colourcode NCS S 8010-R50B / Reynolds 725 Steel / Carbon-Ti 174x1.75 /

Fork/Headset:
Brother OEM Carbon Road Fork / Chris King InSet 7 ZS44/28.6 EC44/40 / Carbon-Ti 120x1.5

Crankset/Bottom Bracket:
Shimano Ultegra FC-R8100 165mm 1x12 / nichecycling.ch Hollowtech ll screw / Chris King Threadfit 24 BSA

Pedals:
Shimano XTR or Dura-Ace

Drivetrain/Cog/Chainring/Chain:
Shimano Dura-Ace CS-R9100 11-34 Cassette / Alugear 50T with aero Cover or Rotor 34T Chainring

Derailleurs/Shifters:
Shimano Ultegra Di2 RD-R8150 / Shimano Ultegra Di2 ST-R8170R and custom 1by BL-R8170L without the shiftpedals

Handlebars/Stem:
Pro Vibe Alloy 380 / THOMSON Elite X4 10° 110 mm

Saddle/Seatpost:
Ergon Enduro Carbon / Thomson Masterpiece T 27.2

Brakes:
Shimano Dura-Ace BR-R9170 / 140/160mm BCA Rotors

Front Wheel/Hub/Tire:
690g Nextie Carbon 50mm NXT50GX ERD541mm 425g 50x29x22mm laced with 24x 260mm Sapim CX-Ray to DT-SWISS 350 with black Sapim polyax 12mm brass nippels

Rear Wheel/Hub/Tire:
820g Nextie Carbon 50mm NXT50GX ERD541mm 425g 50x29x22mm laced with 28 Sapim CX-Ray (DS256mm, NDS258mm) to DT-SWISS 350 with black Sapim polyax 12mm brass nippels

Accessories:
2x King Cage Titanium / Titanium Probolt drilled racebolts / Carbonworks.de Garmin Mastermount extra breit / Velobike long Expander Plug / Meti SPD Titan Axle

More Info:
8.765kg in road mode and xxkg in cx mode

Bike History

Click a link below to see past stages of this bike.

  1. Build for Bae but she didn't like it
  2. Build for myself
  3. Direct Mount Hanger from nichecycling.ch

Added by ianiscaratti. Last updated 15 days ago.

As of 15 days ago, ianiscaratti has indicated that they no longer own this bike.

25 Comments

NicolasCalifornia

NicolasCalifornia says:

Ianis you're not fooling anyone that expensive piece is totally wrong

Posted about 1 year ago

NicolasCalifornia

NicolasCalifornia says:

best bet is to take the original, and make a negative relief of it using a pencil and tracing paper

Posted about 1 year ago

ianiscaratti

ianiscaratti says:

pls elaborate

Posted about 1 year ago

GhostRidingTheWhip

GhostRidingTheWhip says:

?

Posted about 1 year ago

daniel5

daniel5 says:

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Posted over 1 year ago

ianiscaratti

ianiscaratti says:

you're in fact pissing me off.

Posted over 1 year ago

qwixoticle

qwixoticle says:

Well, that was anticlimactic

Posted over 1 year ago

ianiscaratti

ianiscaratti says:

sorry for not beeing up to your expectations but I'm happy with it.

Posted over 1 year ago

henry510

henry510 says:

nah you're tripping bro this looks amazing

Posted over 1 year ago

giz404

giz404 says:

Inspiring project!! Keen to see the result !
By the way, DM'd you about the dropout ;)

Posted over 1 year ago

ianiscaratti

ianiscaratti says:

Itßs finished exept the hanger. I replied to you the 16.06 but we need more patience until the hanger is finished.

Posted over 1 year ago

ianiscaratti

ianiscaratti says:

I finaly finished the cad and ordered some. Let me jnow if you're still interessted

Posted 3 months ago

kang

kang says:

Hey! Thanks for sharing the Quokka Voyager that I built haha

Posted over 1 year ago

ianiscaratti

ianiscaratti says:

hey! Hope it is ok? becaus it matches the dark paint with shiny parts style so this is a temporary picture to imagine the final result.

Posted over 1 year ago

kang

kang says:

no problem sir, if it is inspiring for you then I'm happy You can find more pictures on quokkacycles.com if you want

Posted over 1 year ago

ianiscaratti

ianiscaratti says:

Now I even used a better photo.
Love the raw critmachine and the turbo resque

Posted over 1 year ago

_nico

_nico says:

Please keep us updated

Posted over 1 year ago

GhostRidingTheWhip

GhostRidingTheWhip says:

+1

Posted over 1 year ago

ianiscaratti

ianiscaratti says:

I'll for sure

Posted over 1 year ago

henry510

henry510 says:

oh la la!

Posted over 1 year ago

ianiscaratti

ianiscaratti says:

sorry for removing your comment.
I'll use velobike steel bolts and the dura-ace track steel bolts when they are back in stock. Were the wolftooth bolts alloy? Alloybolts can only handle 5Nm max.

Posted over 1 year ago

henry510

henry510 says:

it looks great!!!

Posted over 1 year ago

ianiscaratti

ianiscaratti says:

thank you <3

Posted over 1 year ago

NicolasCalifornia

NicolasCalifornia says:

I was hoping more abandoned resorts

Posted over 1 year ago

ianiscaratti

ianiscaratti says:

this was our home for the last 9 days and nights but now it's time to biuld this bike

Posted over 1 year ago