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MCamb
Picked up a frameset recently, plan was to make a cheap gravelmuncher from mostly leftovers. I've had this plan for years to have fewer bikes but more wheelsets so I can change according to what I'm riding. I can tell you right off that doesn't work.
Much more fun to have more bikes :D
Seems like Finnish brand Tunturi were years ahead of their time in the late 90's. Long toptube (610mm), clearance for 622x45mm, slack ht. Pretty much every gravelendurancebike right?
Still, the geo didn't suit me. Weird handling and way too long despite shortish stem. So I proceeded to chop off the headtube and shorten the frame, also decided to modernize the headtube standard from 1" to 1-1/8". Ended up having to adjust the downtube as well but I think it turned out pretty good.
Also received some CrMo-tubing so I finally have tubes to make stems with proper tolerances. Pretty dodgy to make them out of mm-spec tubes, 29mm ID steel tubing doesn't really want to grab onto a 28.6mm OD steerer tube no matter how many clamps you braze on.
So I made this classic 100mm -10deg stem with internal steerer clamp to complement the build.
Don't think I'm gonna paint this one just yet, kind of like the look right now.