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Old 08-16-18 | 03:26 PM
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unterhausen
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I made the front triangle for this bike a long time ago. Finally put the chainstays on it today.
Once the chainstays are on the bike, it's all downhill from here. Flikr progress pics are in this album https://www.flickr.com/photos/151743...57699930598584


I'm using my only Reynolds 531 steerer for the fork. Also 3rd to last Reynolds 531 fork blades. I'm somewhat disgruntled that I never even got any lowball offers on them on ebay, so I decided to use them up. I don't want to be humping them around for another 40 years. For one thing, it's not likely I'll live to 100. I guess nobody likes skinny fork blades, or at least they prefer the Kaisei over 531.

Got a Compass crown for skinny blades, don't remember why, it's going on this bike now. I made a threaded plate to attach to the bottom of the steerer to hold the fender on. I'm going to clean it up on the lathe, otherwise I would have had to figure out how to fixture something like a washer on the lathe.

Turns out I had a set of SON dropouts for connectorless dynohubs that I didn't remember buying, so this is going to be a really fancy fork.
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