Thanks, guys. That's a beautiful bike you've got there, too, Matt.

Matt, you might have noticed that my bike has a sleeved repair to the right chainstay at the dropout too. The repair and repaint were done by Peter Weigle in 1986. My biggest regret about that is that I would have preferred the original head tube decal, just the plain red letter K without the rest of it. I would also choose a less flamboyant color nowadays.

I love the clean simplicity of Redcay's frames, and feel that the lugless construction, which I requested, adds to it. I also wanted to keep the handlebars uncluttered by the SA shifter and cable, and am used to and comfortable with downtube shifting with drop bars (this is my only remaining drop bar bike now).

Here is how I modified and attached the shifter. Maybe a little crude, but it works very well.



I might have been able to come up with a 40 hole rim if I tried, but I was intrigued with the idea of building the 32-40 wheel and already had the rim and the spokes for it.


Here's an old (and fuzzy again-sorry) snapshot of the bike as it looked when I first built it up in 1977:


By the way I do have a Rohloff on another bike and love it, but for this bike I feel that the Sturmey Archer AM is ideal.