MFP Pursuit - missed the deadline

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Spent some time today fabbing up a top plate/bracket for the fork. Then when I tried to glue them together with sparks the MIG wire wouldn’t feed. I need to either replace the gun liner for the MIG or give myself a crash course in TIG. Either way, what was meant to be half and hour of welding turned into about 1-1/2hr of faffing about trying to get the welding going.
 
I’ve put some filler around the fork weld and a dent in the frame then sanded some, but been a bit distracted from the build. I’ve been meaning to reassemble this old e-stay mountain bike, so finally got started.

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Then today i picked up this Speedwell GTS in need of some lovin. I’m going to park it until the build off is done but couldn’t let it go.
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That fork is flowing well together.
 
No pics, but I got the frame and forks sanded ready for paint. The frame had a dent in the down tube that needed filler and the forks needed some filler where the brake mounts were ground off. If I’m lucky I’ll get a chance for some primer tomorrow.

Also playing with a prop bike for the photo shoot when (if?) the Pursuit Special gets completed.
 
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I dropped (pressed) some headset cups into the frame so I could fit up he forks for the next phase. Messed up somewhere as there wasn’t enough steerer tube to fit the lock/top nut for the headset.

Solution: take to the head tube with a grinder and shorten it by about 4-5mm. Messed up the paint a little, but is a bit rough and ready anyway and probably needs another coat.
 
...or, it just looks like it's been ridden a bit. Which is what these bikes are ultimately for anyway, right?

Rough and ready; I like it!
 
Cool, I like the original mad max flair.
 
Now the paint is (mostly) finished its time to assemble. This is the other ‘prop’ bike not the build off entry, but I wanted to get some parts out of the way so I can get the Pursuit model assembled.

The front hub motor is working on this, but it was a bit hairy riding around without any kind of footrests or no braking.

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Off it goes to the back of the garage and into the real build next.
 
Slow progress, but it is looking like a bike now. Don’t think I’m going to get enough time to complete ‘the vision’ but should get most of the way there.

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Looked back over the thread and it seems I haven’t pointed this out. I widened the rear dropouts and added a disc mount to the frame. I was too keen to paint prior to test assembly, and now have a re-paint section because I needed to heat the chainstay to crimp it a bit for the disc rotor to clear it.
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