Graham Weigh Track - Made by Paul Dohonue - Another Tiny Yellow Track Bike

Got it off EvilBay, no history with it, but it looks like Donohue's work, TIG welded with mad handformed aero tubing, and it's 853 from what I can tell. It has the exact shape as the other 853 Donohues and it's too light for 531 Millenium.

No serial or date, but 853 with a 1" headtube puts it mid 90s.
The seatpost size is 27.0, BB English threaded.
Fork can't be drilled, crown isn't suitable for it.

It has, eh, patina. Good, as Eddy Balk Merckx is too nice for winter, so I won't be afraid to use this. I need to treat some minor rust and clearcoat over to protect it.

The plan...
1 - Get a fork built for it (was thinking flat blade "powerfork" ala Max, or an aero fork ala Argos) can borrow a chrome fork in the meantime
2 - To bumblebee...or not too bumblebee is the question...

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if you bumblebee this would be so rad. I have a yellow and black flite you could use on it. Cheers

Tx :)

Flite is too narrow unfortunately :(

not too bumblebee

wuuuut? Is this even option, will look good regardless .. but bumblebee the s**t outta this :))

Haha OK. I need a 27.0 setback black seatpost then...any ideas? Kalloy is only one I can find :/

Do Thomson do one?

They do, but in 27.2.

Nobody here reams frames either...

Damn, i thought all those graham weigh's were standard 27.2. Bumblebee dreams are over before they even began :((
Had trouble finding non-kalloyesque 27.0 seatposts too

Well...Tioga has a 27 but no setback. Vintage MTB also, so is Thomson.

Perhaps ebay turns something up, I've a silver one for now :)

Yeah silver seatpost will still look good, what wheelset you putting on this?

Got a pair of black Novatecs on Alexrims. Nothing fancy but will do for now. Shall post a piccy later :)

Looks sick.

Just use an inverse shim, duh.

Silver stem and seat post would look better IMO.

How about ritchey?

http://www.chainreactioncycles.com/mobile/fi/en/ritchey-comp-2-bolt-seatpost/rp-prod112146

Tx!

:)

Needs risers and a spoke imo

Going to have drops, cos windy on way to work. But I'm partial to a nice carbon spoke, but they're £££ no matter what :/

Well, with a bad potatochop silvers VS blacks ;)

Ignore the parts, it's just for colour ref. Easier to stick on what you have than have to find pics and badly shop :)

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Black black black!!

If classy then black finishing and rims but silver hubs/spokes/cranks/ring/chain

If slave then black errything, double trispokes and woundups.

Great frame btw dibs if you sell :)

OK then we get this (modified e-bay shot) and I put original with it (moar silver, but a little black)

Spokes, it's budget really, no parts going around in Belfast so ebay £££ prices :/

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Looking for a fork, 1" ahead, min 17 cm steerer, rake 28-35, to get me on the road until fork made...this one isn't drillable :)

Hens teeth bar soma / all city which is gonna be well over £100 for a temp solution.

Buy a threaded fork with way more steerer than you need and cut off the threaded section?

tbh it is drillable. i had an identical fork on my donohue weigh and it was drilled. its a unicrown one isnt it? theres millions of those around the world which are drilled!

btw search my threads and youll see mine was drilled. it has so much excess material, i cannot think its undrillable

Yours is a different make, I've a later version. Crown on mine is very low.

I can try, let me see if LBS can do it. Others with the same model got told 50/50 or don't.

:)