M_V's multitude of bikes and adventures in the land of framebuilding

Does the A'ha have an eccentric BB shell or is it just a one-piece BMX BB?

Fascinating projects as always. Can't wait to see how the Surly turns out.

It’s a ‘USA’ bmx bb shell.

Spent the evening with Matt of Rothair getting some fillet lessons.

He uses acetylene so hopefully what he’s taught me will transfer over to oxy-propane alright but the way he showed me to lay down a fillet is like night and day with what I’ve been doing! Can hopefully give it a blast tomorrow evening and see.

Surly is frame shaped again.

Annoyingly I’m going to have to take the brake posts off and redo them slightly higher up but the wishbone using the old bridge is pretty cool I thought.

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Still some bits and bobs to do but got the Surly rolling today. I think it’s gonna be a lot of fun...

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that does look fun!
did you file back the ends of the seatstays that form the wishbone where they poke forward?
they look like they have the potential to rip some nice holes in your calf muscles...
#healthandsafety

They are capped with euro cent coins now.

So rad!

Well here it is, the bmx I took the opposite way to the Surly and made into a minivelo.

I’ll be building another of these, with slight design tweaks, from scratch but this one seems like it’s gonna be a lot of fun anyway!

Got some 60mm SKS guards on the way for this and I’ll probably chuck a front rack on it once I figure out what I’m going to do about a front brake (rear wheel is a coaster, it’s not totally brakekess just now).

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thats really cool! brazing looks very tidy :)

Thanks, I do feel it’s coming along.

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Seen worse from people doing this full time..

Love it.

Awesome! I might borrow that idea..

Wow, looks really nice

Ps.

Love to see a lowpro mini like this

It reminds me quite a lot of those 20" bikes with gears that people used to race. What was it called? They were fairly chunky like a BMX. Early 90s I think. Didn't really catch on.

That looks almost too fun. Love it.

That's really, really stupid.

I want one.

Work is progressing on framebuild no4.

This'll hopefully be one of the frames/bikes I take to Bespoked if we get a place.

All the bottle cage mounts!

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Added a disc tab to the minivelo fork today and built my dynohub into a wheel for it. Will wire up the lights tomorrow. Also might start on a wee rear rack for it. Or will it be a front rack, since it'll be mounting to the forks I turned into seatstays?

Also brazed chainstays onto the Konga gravel yoke but not sure I can bring myself to use it in the frame, its soooo heavy.

746g for the yoke and stays (cut to length), 356g for a pair of sbend stays (uncut) which I think can give me the same tyre clearance.

I also find it quite difficult brazing the stays to the yokes as there's such a difference in the thickness of the steel.

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Damn!!!

This is my kinda bike!!

Gonna go to the scrapyard tomorrow and pick up a bmx and see if there’s an mtb or two to try something similar/uglier.

i've been looking for a scrapyard that lets you do that. lemme know if you find one.

It took a year of sweet-talking and a lot of bag freebies, and sewing patches onto jackets, to get a look-see in one locally. Doubt you’ll get so lucky in London :/

this would be in the north west (of england). i've asked around but everyone's like 'no chance lol'