Damn! I'll start saving for gugie003.
How do you feel about an old school weight weenie racebike?
Clearly one can talk me into doing just about anything, including dual headlight racks.
Originally Posted by
Andy_K
Awesome work! Will we get to see that painted and built?
My buddy's getting it done back home in Berkeley, CA. It'll probably be sometime late winter.
Originally Posted by
USAZorro
Not a fan of the extra tube concept, but excellent work!
I tried to talk him out of it, but he was persuasive. That and it brings his water bottle up closer within reach.
Originally Posted by
Wildwood
A lot of brazing for just 1 frame/rack. Yathink?
Yep, but that's the fun part! Filing and sanding is hard on the hands.
Yeah, that is really cool!
But I don't understand the dropouts. I thought Rohloff requires horizontal dropouts, so you can tension the chain?
Chain tensioner. The dropout has a derailleur hanger on it. We went round and round on that design element. I've ridden with Andy (customer) a lot, he's always fidgeting around with seat adjustments like he's Eddy Merckx. An eccentric would just add to that, and he wanted vertical dropouts, so the tensioner was the lesser of evils for him.