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Nice! Sounds good, are you thinking a stubby extra HT under the rack like the longer Omniums? Hoping to get down to Bespoked this year for a day.
@loctez cheers! Really enjoying riding it.
Brazed a small brace on the HT this morning, so it now has two more bolts perpendicular to the other two. Then emptied the dregs of a can of gloss black onto the rack for some vague road salt proofing. Once I'm happy with it I'll strip it back down and sent it off to get powder coated. Maneuvering it while walking is going to take a bit of getting used to, already dented the rack ramming a bollard and taken a chunk out of hall plaster..
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Looking good!
Did you reinforce the DT where it meets the horizontal box section? Everything else looks super heavy duty, but to me that looks looks like a potential weak spot... it is the thinnest part of a butted tube too
Thought I would point this out now before you paint, as it would be relatively easy to braze more steel on in its current state.
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stubby extra HT under the rack like the longer Omniums?
Yeah, exactly.
Could cut the steerer down on the fork I have on the minivelo just now or just buy a new bmx fork.
Might try and extend the headtube after I cut the downtube away from it rather than do a total replacement like you have. If I can just sleeve some tubing over the existing headtube and capillary braze it it'd be good, maybe size up to a 44mm bottom cup, will need to see if I can work out tubing sizes to get me there...
Keeping the new segments aligned may also prove to be too difficult though.
Mucker
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Your genesis has inspired me to turn a frame I bought off of here recently into a cycle truck. Think I’m going to go for an Omnium style long tube from bb to under the rack.
No idea when I’ll get it done as I really need to get cracking on some stuff for taking to Bespoked.