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Couple of years ago I went to the European Handmade Bicycle Show with the blue bike. A lot of bike builders took a ride on it and were amazed at how it handled, no one expected it to behave like a normal bike... once riding it and being able to ride it no hands people convinced themselves agains their previous expectation.
The problem with the construction of the blue bike was that if i wanted to make another one the adjustments on the camber of the wheel needs to be very precise. That could be done for a couple, but it wasnt very satisfying to me.
About a year ago the adjustment problem came up again and I was able to devise an axle that has a mechanism in it that allows for a very precise adjustment of the camber.
the next day the axle was made... now i needed to make it stick to the bike. I never quite know how this works but suddenly i realized that a stem does exactly what I needed to make. Et Voila, 15 min later everything was put together. It took some more time to find a proper setting but it was infinitely much quicker then with the blue bike :)
this was on the Romany bike. I used a 1" tube from a regular fork for the part in the head-tube, and glued a 1 1/8" tube to it for the lower part. Yes glued! (I can hear you think...)
For simplicity's sake I felt it needed to be a single part, one 1 1/8" tube top to bottom. I had to get a special set of bearings to make that happen but Im very pleased with the result in an aesthetic kind of way.
This project is for me and for me only right now. No intentions yet of bringing it to market or anything, just enjoying thinking about it and making it.