Framebuildin'

Finishing up collecting components for my zap! frame:


It’s a set of S&S couplers – they’re mounted in a teeny donor frame right now, but I have a torch and I’m not afraid to use it – for slightly more than the minimum framebuilder price estimate the S&S people provide on their website. They look like they might be 25 & 28mm, which would be spectacularly perfect, but if they’re oversized I can just upsize and downwall the frame selection.

Plus it will give me a donor frame that I can experiment with doing a nondestructive front triangle retubing.

(The boss battle will be to make a S&S coupled tadpole for post GCS and post kidney donation riding, but that’s not going to happen until the zap! bike is glued together.)

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Rufus is in town doing a talk on thursday night. Could be interesting. This is his latest thing. Build a bike in 6 days from stuff lying about.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DBA32UUSKk6/?igsh=NDhiejRpYjJ5ZHNv

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this might be old news, but if you have an original Tom Ritchey you can get a fork or bullmoose made

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Foh

Yeah, that’s pretty expensive for a fascist fork or handlebars.

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I wasn’t aware of fascism; was surprised you could still get something built by Tom for those old classic frames

Thought it was an open secret that ritchey was a trump supporter, but i’ve never seen it substantiated

I don’t want to believe

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