• As has become my custom, I spent a week at the start of the year on the South Coast with Geoff Roberts, building a bicycle frame.

    As in previous years, I went down with camera and notebook, and the full intention of carefully documenting the process, mitre by mitre, braze by braze.

    Obviously therefore, I took no 'photo's and wrote no notes. I did however, have a great time - as always - and came away with a frame that I am sure, once it is built up, will be a pleasure to ride.

    I'm calling this one a 'light tourer'. As noted in the title on the thread, it was built with Columbus Life Oversized Tubes. These were joined together with Llewelyn lugs and, rather daringly for me, the frame has a sloping top tube.

    As I'm now starting to get the hang of this framebuilding malarkey, I had intended to build my own fork. However, Max Fork blades proved somewhat reluctant to the process of raking, and a bit of a miss-communication with Ceeway meant that in the end I had to leave sans-fork, and Geoff built them last week and sent them on.

    I am, nevertheless, very happy with the frame & fork combo currently sitting in the shed.

    Here you go:

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