Originally Posted by
Bianchigirll
Great work!! I've unbent a few dropouts and watched even more get unbent but fortunately we never had to so much as usea dropout saver.
I get the holes in the DT were likely for a bottle cage but what is with the huge hole in the ST?
What is that chain ring? Is the trouser guard part of it? I've decided I'm going to put bigger rings on Project 3 and one with a trouser guard would be great.
BTW, I kept reading the title as "Underwing"
and it took me a bit to figure out just what you were talking about.
I'm not sure the holes in the DT were even
spaced correctly for a bottle cage. No idea why they went to town on the ST either; the FD had been clamped around the hole. Don't forget the hole in the BB (which I still need to photograph).
The Bianchi's chainring has the guard built into it; they pop up under whatever name anyone wants laser etched on them, but I most commonly see them as Litepro as these are popular on folding bikes. These specific cranks came with the ring and were marked Mejiun.
This is the last place I found a full array of them for sale, but I wouldn't buy them from the
pistro store on Amazon. The prices are ridiculous and the 45t silver ring I ordered for the build never arrived:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0..._title?ie=UTF8
They're on AliExpress for a much more reasonable price:
https://www.aliexpress.us/item/32568...Cquery_from%3A
Welcome to the Project 3 family...this one is a rusty mess.
Originally Posted by
pastorbobnlnh
Kurt, don't just stop at the "pot-hole" patching on the Soma--- how about thinning the lugs?
While I'm not a fan of plain lugs, these long points clearly belong on something nicer.
Originally Posted by
SJX426
Absolutely beautiful work, and definitely the right call to preserve the surrounding paint. Makes me remember that I have that '60s Competizone that has been pulled out from a front ender and has a JBW-smoothed downtube. Need to get back to that sometime...
-Kurt