How cool is that!? Steel vintage-y and 1x. At $550. Not a bad start for somebody not ready to dive into the everybody-for-themselves wild world of craigslist. Looks like State is out of product till the end of the month, though.
Heckeroonie, they even have a Rick & Morty Portal bike!
https://www.statebicycle.com/collect...rtal-core-line
I haven't been barking up this tree for a while. I'm not so surprised, I guess, to see my former usual go-to's for affordable road frames all going disc and dt casing stops i/o dt shifter mounts: Surly, Salsa, All-City.
Having trouble getting on Ben's Cycle site with two different browsers, but in the past you could get a Milwaukee frameset, or complete bike from them, and the road model had a level top tube and dt shifter bosses. And was rim brake. I think they ran $700-$800 for the frameset, without too many fancy options. I got on to the site once, briefly, don't know how I got to the page that showed up, but they had a 60cm or 62cm Mwke Road True Temper Verus (4130) frame for $600 i/o $770.
Sure seems like pickins are slim, not many of us would be likely to see something like this stocked at our LBS, even pre-covid.
If OP doesn't have a month to wait for State, and if Ben's doesn't have anything in Mwke, then it's BF C&V classifieds, other forums, craigslist and ebay, I reckon.
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