Originally Posted by
cudak888
DD, I've been lurking in this thread since you started it, but just had to chime in with my appreciation here. It's really coming out beautiful (and just the right level of "over the top-yet-functional" too). Those curved shifter levers are the icing on the cake.
Rear triangle should be easy enough to sort out, if nail-biting to watch. My only concern is why it wound up so far off from center in the first place.
While it wasn't uncommon in this era for frames to be shipped without proper alignment, shops selling bikes of this caliber usually had the knowledge and understanding to call out the frame table with a rear triangle as off as this.
I highly recommend also checking that the seattube is square with the BB, vertically. You might find yourselves cold setting more than you anticipated.
-Kurt
Thanks Kurt! I see the gear levers in the same way, which is why they get the "special component" distinction on this build. As far as alignment goes, it's a mystery to me, too. There's no obvious sign of damage or crash, so it's hard to understand why the rear end is skewed to the left, but I have no doubts [MENTION=381793]gugie[/MENTION] will be able to put it right. I hope we don't have to tweak the seat tube!
As far as watching goes, I'll be pacing outside the door, chain-smoking; I ain't wanting to be seeing that!
DD