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Since you guys are loving/hating my other build I thought I'd post my pride and joy; Rusty.
I rescued a Harry Quinn frame off ebay. A lovely, hand-built track frame with Campagnolo stays. Sounds good right? Well a non-matching fork, brushed on paint finish and it being bent all out of whack says otherwise.
The hub spacing of this bike should have been 110mm (was my educated guess). It wasn't:
Turns out the whole right hand rear stay was bent in. This maybe happened in the post or maybe it was sat on. A trip to the local bike shop who cold set it to 120mm to take a modern wheel. Huge win.
Shout out to Pi Squared Bicycles.
Collected on PINK-E and left outside while I did a food shop.
Hopefully I've not offended anyone in this project yet. Next is paint. I'll put my flame suit on...