STBO Kintsugi

macncheese · Sep 14, 2024

Ratrods are Relative.

Ive been out of the game for a while due to limited garage space and time but happened upon this frameset over the summer and couldnt pass up on the color. The frame is used with a fair amount of chips and scratches so I’ll be giving it the Kintsugi (Golden Repair) treatment.

More to follow.

macncheese · Sep 14, 2024

This is probably the biggest scrape.

Never going to match a paint with this much flop so we’re going for gold.

OddJob · Sep 24, 2024

Good to see you back in it, @macncheese ! Cool frame to start with.

ifitsfreeitsforme · Sep 24, 2024

great frame.

idiotboy · Sep 25, 2024

those fork crown lugs are awesome!

Bike from the Dead · Sep 25, 2024

That'll be a cool bike once its done! Those lugs are sweet!

macncheese · Oct 18, 2024

Slow going over here. Found some 650 wheels and some take off tires I bought at some swapmeet but I didn't have any rim tape.

macncheese · Oct 18, 2024

Greased up this spiffy 27.2 Kalloy seatpost only to find out the seat tube is 26.8.

Of course the only one I had in that size was this fancy forged Nitto S65. It was a swap meet score but...

I figured if that was going to be blinged out, I might was well use one of these Sugino Messenger cranks I'd been saving for a cool project. Of course it has a 1/8 chainring so I'm waiting on a new one.

Its a roller. Just need to get that chainring and then we can start with the do dads.

MattiThundrrr · Oct 19, 2024

macncheese said:
Of course the only one I had in that size was this fancy forged Nitto S65... might was well use one of these Sugino Messenger cranks

This just went to 11!

OddJob · Oct 24, 2024

Ooooohhh! Ultra modern gears and retro look modern tires on that cool frame!

Couple of points. Will that short cage rear der handle all 42 teeth of that lowest gear? And, you will probably want no more than a 42t chainring combined with that cassette for prime gear ratios.

I'm with Matti ^^, it's turned up to 11! :inlove:

macncheese · Oct 25, 2024

OddJob said:
Couple of points. Will that short cage rear der handle all 42 teeth of that lowest gear? And, you will probably want no more than a 42t chainring combined with that cassette for prime gear ratios.

It wont. I must've grabbed the wrong box! That's a super short for a mini velo project :/

macncheese · Oct 28, 2024

After weeks of waiting, looks like the chainring is almost here. I didn't realize it was shipped via carrier pigeon. Now I need to find that derailleur. Hope this ends in Nov and not October!

Captain Awesome · Nov 25, 2024

Bump

Only a couple days to get those finished threads posted

SwissGuy · Nov 29, 2024

Tick-tock

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