vernon
Harder than Ronnie Pickering
- Location
- Meanwood, Leeds
I was happy and contented with N bikes until this evening.
I called into Woodrup's bike shop to buy a couple of spokes. Steve Woodrup asked me if I'd be interested in seeing his latest project and I was whisked upstairs into the inner sanctum where frame building takes place.
A completed but unpainted steel frame was held in a clamp and I spotted the S&S couplings and Rohlhoff (sp?) rear drop outs closely followed by a belt drive grafted onto a Shimano 105 spider. It was truly a thing of beauty - fillet brazed joints neatly fettled and immediately N+1 sprang to mind.
I've been promised a loan of the bike when it's finished and a good price (and fake low priced invoice
) on one should I find N+1 inevitable.
Then there was the 953 frame with false hand cut lugs on one of the jigs N+2 materialised in my mind.
The grand finale was a highly polished 953 frame waiting for collection and N+3 started to take shape.
Kerching that's the next five years bike budget spoken for - I just might have the funds for N+1 this year....but I really want to resist.
I called into Woodrup's bike shop to buy a couple of spokes. Steve Woodrup asked me if I'd be interested in seeing his latest project and I was whisked upstairs into the inner sanctum where frame building takes place.
A completed but unpainted steel frame was held in a clamp and I spotted the S&S couplings and Rohlhoff (sp?) rear drop outs closely followed by a belt drive grafted onto a Shimano 105 spider. It was truly a thing of beauty - fillet brazed joints neatly fettled and immediately N+1 sprang to mind.
I've been promised a loan of the bike when it's finished and a good price (and fake low priced invoice
Then there was the 953 frame with false hand cut lugs on one of the jigs N+2 materialised in my mind.
The grand finale was a highly polished 953 frame waiting for collection and N+3 started to take shape.
Kerching that's the next five years bike budget spoken for - I just might have the funds for N+1 this year....but I really want to resist.