Originally Posted by
Drillium Dude
I was thinking the same. You'd think that would be a custom lug and would fit both tubes without any mod. Strange - but it's French, so...
I note in the ad pics there's a kickstand. It appears to be mounted directly to the underside of the BB shell. I wonder how they accomplished that? The CL guy's bike doesn't have this feature.
DD
Thinking of lugs. It is possible that the builders found a stock seat tube lug, uncut, that could be modified to fit in that location.
Looking at the Columbus SL tubing set on Nova,
ST 28.6, DT 28.6, TT 25.4
So, using the Seat tube lug, the DT would fit where the ST would go, and then the ST would have to be swaged to fit where the TT normally would fit.
It may well have saved quite a bit to use an existing lug rather than having one made custom.
Are there any track/time trial bikes with that lug configuration?
Originally Posted by
Drillium Dude
It's kinda like Sasquatch in that way, huh? Scary, ugly, smelly - but apparently plenty of people want to find one
DD
One never knows that one wants something until one knows it exists
Oh, the dangers of BikeForums
It might be a unique bike to purchase if the seller came down to say $200.
Send the seller the list of previous ads and sales that I found above.