hows about this for an idea?

[snfargle]

hope u like, any comments would be cool, if u dont like still comment

 

[Wingman]

Cool !!

 

[Galtbacken]

Start building!

 

[snfargle]

gotta get some oxyacetaline and a workshop that wont burn down first, learning to braze lugs and make them might b useful too. i will build her one day, mite not be yello and red though

 

[Galtbacken]

I guess brazing in the livingroom is not to recommend... :lol: I don't have a workshop yet either, but planning on building one. Soon it'll get a bit cold to build bikes outdoors here (middle of Sweden). Anyway, hope you get going on learning how to braze and find a place to do it! Looks like it will be a nice bike, yellow and red or any other colour!

 

[SkidMark]

Is that a scale drawing, and are those 29er wheels?

It looks very, very cool.

 

[user 135]

gotta get some oxyacetaline and a workshop that wont burn down first, learning to braze lugs and make them might b useful too. i will build her one day, mite not be yello and red though

That is ambitious to make your own lugs. It will be very cool though. Good luck. Nice frame design.

Nova Cycles may have some some frame building materials for you.
http://www.novacycles.com/catalog/

 

[snfargle]

the wheels are meant to be 27x11/4 but it think i got the calcs wrong, the frame is meant to be scale 1"to 0.5cm, so every cm is 2" (im from europe and therfore dont understand inches very well)
it wud be mad with 29ers.
would not like to be in sweden for the winter, it gets cold enough down here in southern england. i dont think it even goes below zero
thanks for the nice feedback guys

 

[GodHatesCleveland]

Looks great.

One thing you'll want to watch out for is the bobbed, or shortened fenders. Stock fenders normally are held firm in three areas, the front of the tire, the rear of the tire, and where the fender is screwed to the frame. When most people cut off the fenders they only leave the part which screws on. It looks great but has to frequently be adjusted and re-tightened. You can solve this by gluing or welding another point to connect the fender to the frame.

 

[Galtbacken]

I thought of one thing the other day when I came to think about your bikedesign: maybe you will have to make the chainstays and seatstays a little longer so that you can position the rearwheel further back. The way it is now it looks like the rearstays might interfere with the crankset. Still like the look of the bike though!

 

[snfargle]

i suppose it does look like it might be a little tight on clearance, i think its the drawing that makes it look that way but ill find out if i ever manage to build it.

 

[Galtbacken]

Of course you'll manage to build it! The way I think of it, if you can visualize it you can do it!

 

[SkidMark]

You could get about 3/4" of the way with two lugged road frames & forks. I say two in case you decide on 29er wheels and need to extend the forks. All you'd be doing is shortening the chainstays, bending or mitering that top tube, putting in that center bar, and mitering the seatstays. Still a lot of work but not nearly as much as working from scratch. There as a lot of build diaries on here with reconfiguring of existing frames, and I'm sure anyone is willing to discuss their "process".

This bike reminds me of your drawing, or vice-versa. It was built by a local professional framebuilder named Tony Pereira.

 

[snfargle]

i was gonna adapt an old road frame ive got, just chop it about
that bike is exactly the look i was looking to go for. but run 27" wheels on slicks rather than 29ers on knobblys

 

[SkidMark]

It's Tony's personal race bike.

 

[snfargle]

man i wish that was my personal race bike, id feel soo proud. then not ride the thing in case someone stole it. i was reckoning on bending the chainstays at the brake boss and making them line up with the angle of the top tube, then running the seat to match the angle. what does he race on, if u know what i mean, like mud, asphalt, gravel etc