How about a charity bike build?
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Ranger
New Member
- Location
- Fife borders
I have a spare set of 700 wheels, never ridden. (taken off my scr and replaced with a set of hand built)
So we now have 2 wheels, does that mean we have 2 ways?? (sorry Maz)
So we now have 2 wheels, does that mean we have 2 ways?? (sorry Maz)
punkypossum
Donut Devil
- Location
- My own little planet...
It's been done on other sites before, so can't see why we can't do it...however, we do need someone prepared to build it first!
Flying_Monkey
Recyclist
- Location
- Odawa
Yes indeed, the people over at YACF have done it quite recently in fact.
Arch
Married to Night Train
- Location
- Salford, UK
summerdays said:
Hang on, that sounds like my bikes!
The one thing I've learned from hanging about with instinctive engineers is that things can always be made to work - incompatibility is only an issue if you really care enough...
I'm sure I'll have something spare knocking about at home that would be useful - I'll have a look.
If all else fails, I can knit a saddle cover. I have wool in the right colours and everything.
I don't need another bike, so I wouldn't want to win it! Ah - frame size.... Anything too big rules out the shorter folk etc. Is it worth trying to specify the most versatile frame size we can...
Amanda P
Legendary Member
- Location
- York. Well, York-ish...
I'll volunteer to build it up.
Five of my six bikes have been built this way (6th is a Brompton!). I can braze bits on (or off) as required (within reason - replacing whole tubes is probably more trouble than it's worth, but a cable stop or bottle boss is not problem. Track ends for dropouts are doable).
And I'm on good terms with an excellent powder-coating-blokey.
I think the suggestion of a simple, steel, 700c wheeled touring/runaround is a good one. In an averagey-mediumey size.
Five of my six bikes have been built this way (6th is a Brompton!). I can braze bits on (or off) as required (within reason - replacing whole tubes is probably more trouble than it's worth, but a cable stop or bottle boss is not problem. Track ends for dropouts are doable).
And I'm on good terms with an excellent powder-coating-blokey.
I think the suggestion of a simple, steel, 700c wheeled touring/runaround is a good one. In an averagey-mediumey size.
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
If this is done please can we have a log of progress with photos to chart how it was done. (Not in minute detail... the builder probably wouldn't want to do that as well).
Sittingduck
Legendary Member
- Location
- Somewhere flat
Have you got a frame yet?
What about this puppy...
The steerer has been cut down since this pic was taken and the forks are frankly "gash" (the dropouts are horseshoe shaped instead of U shaped) and I've butchered them a little to try and allow the wheel to slide in and out as normal but got bored of filing the dropouts The crown race for the ITS headset you see there is also on a different set of forks now (that I need to have it removed from so I can sell them seperately) 
Anyway... it ain't the prettiest and the headtube is very short but it's on offer if you don't get anything better.
SD
p.s. it's a horizontal TT and is 48cm from centre BB to center TT. 55cm TT length.
What about this puppy...
The steerer has been cut down since this pic was taken and the forks are frankly "gash" (the dropouts are horseshoe shaped instead of U shaped) and I've butchered them a little to try and allow the wheel to slide in and out as normal but got bored of filing the dropouts
The crown race for the ITS headset you see there is also on a different set of forks now (that I need to have it removed from so I can sell them seperately) Anyway... it ain't the prettiest and the headtube is very short but it's on offer if you don't get anything better.
SD
p.s. it's a horizontal TT and is 48cm from centre BB to center TT. 55cm TT length.
Amanda P
Legendary Member
- Location
- York. Well, York-ish...
It could be a start. I think I'd rather have a slightly larger frame (wider group of potential riders) and, ideally a frame and fork that match already and won't require a fancy headset.
Any further frame offers? A 50 cm-ish one, maybe? (It seems a sensible place to start).
Admin, if we have a frame re-finished, could we get some CycleChat vinyl graphics made up for it? If we did that, it decides the colour scheme for us!
Any further frame offers? A 50 cm-ish one, maybe? (It seems a sensible place to start).
Admin, if we have a frame re-finished, could we get some CycleChat vinyl graphics made up for it? If we did that, it decides the colour scheme for us!
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
Talking with my complete inexperience here, isn't 50 cm quite small... I thought that I would need somewhere between 52-54 and I'm 5"6. This bike building is definitely beyond me...
If that's a 48 cm seat tube with a 55 cm TT, I suspect it's a compact frame that is equivalent to a 53/54 cm conventional frame, to fit around 5'9" -6'. And if it is a compact frame and the 55cm is the actual length of the TT, then the equivalent horizontal TT would be longer still making it something like a 56/58 cm frame.
