Last summer I decided that I wanted to get a bike especially for getting way out there, with enough stuff along to stay out there, at least overnight.
I met
Rick Hunter when he was in Salida during his 2007 Great Divide Race attempt. He wrote a really cool article about the GDR (can't find it on the interweb, sorry). Of course he was riding one of his own classic hand-built bikes.
I decided I wanted one, so I asked him to make me a "flat-bar dirt tourer".
Customs take a while. That's just how it goes. The better the builder, the longer the waitlist normally. But this spring, I got my frame and fork. I have a stem coming whenever I decided exactly the length and rise I want. Here you go, pictures from when it was still sleek and clean:
![](http://tom-purvis.com/images/bikes/h1.jpg)
![](http://tom-purvis.com/images/bikes/h1_rear.jpg)
Trademark Hunter Cycles seatstays
![](http://tom-purvis.com/images/bikes/h1_front.jpg)
Trademark Hunter Cycles Supercrown fork
![](http://tom-purvis.com/images/bikes/h1_side.jpg)
Standard side shot (note the angus bull visible through the frame)
![](http://tom-purvis.com/images/bikes/h1_bb.jpg)
I went for the new Chris King BB
![](http://tom-purvis.com/images/bikes/h2.jpg)
Closeup of BB