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Frame progress -- finished up the rear triangle
I had planned on doing this in 2 or 3 blog entries, but I'm running behind. That means you get one mega entry. The frame is pretty much done. It just needs cable routing brazeons and rear canti posts. This is what it looks like in profile: A set of...
Posted 23 November 2009 09:25 PM by AlexWetmore | 2 comment(s)
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Chainstay Alignment
The next step in building my frame is attaching the seatstays. Before doing that I needed to make sure that the chainstays were properly aligned. It will be much more difficult to correct axle alignment issues once my seatstays are attached to the frame...
Posted 05 November 2009 04:56 PM by AlexWetmore | 2 comment(s)
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Frame progress
Administravia first: A couple of weeks ago I blogged about the Ibex Vim jacket . I actually raved mostly about the Dash Hybrid, which is an awesome jacket. I thought that the Vim would be very similar, but I've been using one for a couple of weeks...
Posted 29 October 2009 04:25 PM by AlexWetmore | 9 comment(s)
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It's starting to look like a bicycle frame...
I brazed the front triangle of my first frame this weekend. Things went pretty well. I did have one mistake which has made a fairly minor change to the geometry. My brazing order around the downtube, seattube, bottom bracket area should have brazed the...
Posted 26 May 2009 02:06 AM by AlexWetmore | 9 comment(s)
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Rear tire clearance is hard
I'm almost done clearing out old projects and finally getting ready to build my first full bike frame. It's going to be what Jan classifies as an urban bike. Kind of a light touring bike, drop bars, front porteur rack, 650B wheels. I want it to...
Posted 24 March 2009 06:24 PM by AlexWetmore | 9 comment(s)
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