its been done for about a month but i was waiting for the right classic track cranks to throw on it. now it is my showoff hipster bike that i ride in the city and at kenosha velo. i use a less steep angled conversion with a brake for alleycats and long (30-150mi) rides.

those rear stays are weirdin me out! It's an escher bike.

[QUOTE=the locust]its been done for about a month but i was waiting for the right classic track cranks to throw on it. now it is my showoff hipster bike that i ride in the city and at kenosha velo. i use a less steep angled conversion with a brake for alleycats and long (30-150mi) rides.


brakes during an alleycat what**********???

Faster.

what's the rationale behind the assymetric stays?

you built the frame, or just the bike?

i'm sure you're description wasnt vague, i'm just slow.

frame and wheelset too if your asking.

Awesome! Those stays are nutty...

I'd love to hear the details - tubing, lugs, angles, etc.

Congrats!

I think I soiled myself over those stays. I want I want I want I want I want.

*sobs*

it was my first build as well and i didnt want to spend lots on the tubeset and lugs incase i f'ed it up so the tubeset is 4130 and the lugs are cheap cinelli replicas i only payed $80 for the tubeset and lugs but i am going to upgrade on my next frame which will probably be some sort of replacement for my conversion.

BTW i love the frameset you built and the tread title is sort of how i felt posting mine after yours.

yama-insipred?

yeah, actually it was either here or FGG that gave me the original idea. infact it may have been a post of fugazi daves. i never did find a picture of the asymetric yama but i know of it so i guess you could say it was sort of an inspiration.

o_O Did my fetish for strange/industrial bike stuff actually spread?

Thanks! Framebuilding is fun.

For your next bike, you should see if Kirk Pacenti has any NOS Columbus SL sets left... It's only $90 for an 11 tube set, and he even swapped out the pre-raked fork blades for straight ones for me (the stock ones were really raked...).

Again - great looking work!

Hott. Too damned hott.

wait, or was that a landshark?

so... for the homebrew builder.. what tools are required?

torch set, file set*, hacksaw, some sort of work stand, area that wont start on fire.

*half round, round, flat**
**coarse+fine, big+small***

***not totally required but makes it lots easier

man, i want to build a frame now. i'm not the most tool-y guy, and i wonder how hard it is to get started. i can fix my bike...that's about it. oh, but my girlfriend can weld.

So you cut all the tubes down with a hacksaw? how do you keep the cuts straight?

What kind of torch are you using? Just one of those propane ones you can pick up at homedepot?

They don't really have to be. Almost all of the tubes get filed down to sit nicely against the other tubes or get reamed/filed down once they're brazed into the lugs.

You're also going to need access to an alignment table and somebody who knows what they're doing at some point to make sure that your frame is relatively straight and that the spacing is right. Also, there are some really expensive, specialized tools needed to face/chase the bb shell and face head tube that you're probably not going to want to invest in unless you're building a lot of bikes or have a pile of money. A well-equipped repair shop or friendly neighborhood framebuilder should be able to hook you up and do that stuff for you.

yeah you cut the tubes down with a hacksaw but it helps to have a saw guide, i made one out of angle iorn and i clamp it in a bench vise and then clamp the tube to that.

looks like..___________ _______________
...................|.................| |......................|

except for the slot is only blade width and then you clamp your tube to that.

and no you need an oxy-acetaline torch which you can rent from a welding shop if you dont have access to one.

quite right i totally forgot about the parts i had someone else do.*

*friend owns a nice race car shop so he has an alignment table and LBS faced and chased bb and HS.

Very nice. The stays are very trippy. Is there purpose to distract your opponents in a race?