No, not mine…. I wish! 🙂
One of the guys on our group ride last night (27 riders!!) has made himself a frame.
He works ‘in accoustics’ (?) and made a jig from some alloy they had lying around, then sat down and welded it up out of Columbus tubing.
It took him about a year to do, on and off, and about 100hrs labour. I asked if he’d ‘borrowed’ any bits from other bikes, but no, he made the whole lot, incuding cutting the droputs from plate. Not sure about the EBB though, but I wouldn’t put it past him… (Yes it’s a SS)
He’s planning a Mk 2 as this one has a rather too slack head angle and not much chainstay mud-room, which will be cured by ‘S bend’ chainstays. It’ll also have stainless steel, Ritchey-style cowled dropouts. Nice….
OK, OK, I guess you’re imaginig some hideous bodge job, yes?
Well, whilst not up to the standards of a UK custom builder, it’s better than anything I’ve seen from any UK designed/Taiwan made frame, finish and detail wise. The back end is very Pipedream Sirus-esque. And there are some really neat touches, neat cable routing, and no creaks from the EBB!
Have a look at these (Crappy camera phone) pics…
One of the nicer details is the SS converter on the Pro 2 Hub….
Pro 2 have alloy freehub bodies, and this is made from an old SRAM PG990 cassette body, so he can screw any SS cog to it. Very, very trick…
Well, I’m impressed.
😀