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@jetski
Hi there,
sharing the current state of a project I am working on for longer now: it's a french Preuss road frame made of Columbus MAX which had a loose seatstay near the seatcluster lug.
Originally it was STxTT 61x59cm (both CTC) and had quite slack angles and clearance, so I decided to take it apart and completely re-think the whole geometry.
It's new purpose will be a short-distance commute bike, and the main feature of the new geometry is that everything became super-tight and with steeper angles, and the top-tube has been shortened to 55.5cm and got a slight pursuit-like 2° negative slope.
The forks have been made shorter, too, so they are tighter and have less rake.
The other unusual feature are the new dropouts, the old standard road dropouts have been replaced by a special kind that look like track dropouts, but with a hanger (found at ceeway), so this will be used with gears, but the dropouts and the geometry are supposed to still lend it a HHSB track like appearance.
Still lots to do, but as I am not a framebuilder (I only know how to disassemble, not to braze, haha), this will now be given to an actual framebuilder to finish the work.