Dropbar Hyland
Scott at Civia recently built up a cool dropbar Hyland:
I had seen photos of others that had built up Hyland frames with other components and configurations and figured I’d try my hand at it.
The build started out with a Hyland frame w/derailleur dropouts and our carbon fork, then added our Hyland fenders and rear rack. From there, I built the bike around Shimano’s Tiagra group paired with a Brooks B-17 saddle, an Alfine front hub and Supernova’s head and tail lights. I got the front derailleur working by using the Problem Solvers Back-Stop, clamp-on cable housing stop. It’s a pretty slick and affordable piece avialable from any bike shop.
The end result is a bike that is perfectly suited for the type of riding I’m using it for: Up-temp, 30 mile round-trip, single-pannier, all-weather commuting.
We size Hylands around working with a flat handlebar and a regular length stem. To get the dropbar fitting I needed, I went with one frame size smaller than normal. I usually ride a 60cm, so the 58cm’s top tube being 600mm worked perfectly for my normal stem/dropbar combo. The added bonus is extra standover height.
I’ll be riding this for the next few months and taking into consideration how something like this might fit into the Civia family going forward.
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4 Responses to “Dropbar Hyland”
I so sorely want to get one of these bikes… but there’s a couple of things that bug me. I wish they came with the steel fork instead of the carbon, and I wish that steel fork had a hole drilled in the crown to use in mounting a different light (like the B&M IQ Cyo) lower down, out of the way of the handlebars, and I wish it had a dynamo powered taillight. I’m also apprehensive about having to maintain hydraulic disc brakes. Why didn’t they go with mechanical ones I wonder?
Maintenance of hydraulic disc brakes is no big deal, and in many ways is easier than maintenance of mechanical disc brakes.
I agree about the carbon fork. Everything I know about carbon forks makes them seem out of place on a workhorse.
I’m looking to get one soon. They do have a steel fork available specifically for the Hyland. I don’t know if it’s available with any of the pre-built bikes but you can get it with a frameset. I’ll be going that route and building the bike myself.
For the time being these are still being assembled in house so if you would like a steel fork on one of our builds let me know and we can work this done for you. This will not be the case for more than a few more months so let me know if you are interested. Otherwise buying the frame with the steel fork is the way to go. Just shoot me an email at pj@civiacycles.com to talk about swapping forks.