Bike I built for my loved one ;)

Nice.

replacing shitty weinnmans for tektro long drops

I wanted to do exactly the same but couldn't figure out a nice way to route the cable. I see you've just done a U-turn. How is it - not too much friction? I would have thought going up with the seat tube would result in smoother angles, did you consider that?

If your calipers are appropriate you may be able to swap the clamp/cable stop bolt things and route it like this:

QR will still work.

I bet that look on his face was all the reward you needed. This is what this thread is all about! Great work!

Thanks. Yeah bit of a bugger that one - i looked at doing a mod to the tektros but wasn’t confident of making it work given current tools / parts on hand - it’s definitely do able though - in order to use the existing cable clips you could also flip the Caliper and run it backwards so the caliper arms are on the rhs.

Running the cable up the seat tube looked too ugly to my eyes and Didn’t seem to result in much less bending / friction.

The way I did it required one reasonably unobtriusive cable tie and looks okay ish . As for friction yes there is more than on the front but the brake seems perfectly functional.

The only other option was to put the caliper on the lower seat post bridge plate situation - resulting in a pretty straight run which is the way they do it on those Freddie grubb neo retro mixte jobs - I tried it but with the larger long arm tekros they stick out way too far and looked like they would just get bashed up / bent

Yes! The long version is... He got me into cycling when I was a kid, talking about doing the Paris-Roubaix 'sportive' (full 250km although I think it was just called a 'ride' back then) in about 1975, and being in Paris to watch Lemond win the tour by 8 seconds in '89. His favourite was Bernard Hinault, and we used to do a lot of riding together very close to where he is from in Brittany. Dad stopped riding as much the last few years, but is retired now and hopefully this will get him back into it. First ride reports are positive, and he's already talking about a tour round Normandie, so it's looking good!

Agree that it's a cool thread, and right that it includes everyone. Building bikes for others means I don't have enough time to spend a load of money on my own too!

Here's my effort:

CP thread here, if anyone's interested.

That's very lovely, recipient is lucky!

Thanks for sharing
#honest

Haha yes #honest - it's not that I thought anyone would care really, but if there's a place for that sort of thing on The Internet's Friendliest Forum™ then maybe this is it!

I'm going to put a mention in here for the 24" wheel MTB that I rebuilt for little-m from the ground up. I reckon it turned out pretty rad and it's now gone to a new forum home!