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Bikes: Retro Hercules adult tricycle, 1953 Hercules ladies roadster, 1950s Wearwell fixed gear 'Club' pathracer, 1980s Malvern Star 'Super Star', 1980s Healing GTX-105 Arabesque, 1980's Morrison Concorde & etc & etc.......
Originally Posted by
solveg
OK, I recently got an ebay find of very nice CCM frame with odd dimensions (52cm seat tube, 56cm top tube) that match exactly what my FIT specs are for an ideal bike. I'm getting it to primarily see what a custom built bike would feel like. It's only the frame and fork, and the link is here:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=150197243902
That is a really beautiful frame; - a lucky find indeed
The great thing about bicycles Solveg is that they bolt together like a Meccano set and provided that nothing is taken to with a saw, file or a grinder (
) parts can be shifted around one's fleet of bicycles at will. In the case of a really original or uncommon bike I try to avoid 'borrowing' parts as much as possible, but sometimes it's worth the experiment to see if something is going to work on another frame.
If that CCM frame fits you like a glove then you've struck bicycle treasure and it's well worth switching parts around until you end up with the spec you like best. Borrowed parts can always be put back where they belong when something better comes along.
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