• Naturally my girlfriend didnt want a bike she was quite happy living her life how it was/is. Over the past few months ive tried to convince her otherwise.
    since buying her a rapha bottle (cus it was in the sale and in one of her favourite colours) we've now gone from "i dont even want a bike" to "i wont be riding it in london its too scary" to "i wont ride it unless its pink".

    So im attempting to 1 up amey and building a bike not around a bike part but around a fancy pants rapha bottle.

    A Frame came along on here conveniently located, and conveniently cheap.

    A raleigh "gemini 18" frame set, from the limited info available on google about this frame it seems to be an early hybrid type, it has clearance for big 700c tyres (probably upto around 42c I guess) and so thats what it will get. hopefully gumwalls!

    At the moment I have.

    1. A bottle
    2. A bottle cage (my research shows that this should save us 2 pages worth of bottle cage discussion)
    3. A frameset
    4. A headset (i actually have 2 i'll see which i prefer)
    5. A set of canti brakes (help me ive never set these up before)
    6. bars, a few options, probably some sweept back town bars, whatever she finds comfy.
    7. A can of Spray.bike in a soft pink or "suprebe" as their site lists it.

    So the project begins, I collected the frame a while back, it looks pretty good, 531 tubing so its not a total bag of shit. ironically though having started the build around a bottle it doesn't have bottle cage mounts. So opinions on the best way to clamp a cage on will be appreciated.

  • If you paint it anyways, can you not get one brazed on?

  • Bring it to Walton on Thames and I will put some nutserts in the frame.

    Cage bosses are mostly nutserts of one type or another rather than brazed in fittings.

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