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TACCKKKKKKKKKKKKKED. And onto melting that honey tuffness into the rear dropouts, which have basically been the driving force behind this build. They look so damn good.
And while we're at it - and just to be bang on trend (at least for the time this build got under way, and maybe still currently), we thought best to chuck on a top tube/seat tube brace. If nothing else and the whole build went to shit, we'd still be able to put one of those silly little bags in and have a snort laugh to ourselves.
I can't even remember if I'd updated on underside braze-ons, but we chucked some zit holes in for the underside cables AND, a trio of mounty-bois for a an Anything Cage. The plan all along has been to go without inner triangle bosses to run a full frame bag, so a bit of underside storage will come in handy.
Nobody cares about the downtube though do they? Here's the whole bastard in the vise for it's first belegged photo opportunity, which must've been photographed by an early 90's cell phone so sorry about that.
I should stress there were periods of weeks if not more where I was in another state renovating a house on and off throughout all this, hence the huge void between starting this thing and now. It's about this time I got restless and wanted to start the fork to fire up some interest.
Couldn't find a lot of pictures of the shaping for the fork, but the Anvil Fork jig ended up being godsend. Still a pain in the dick getting it level with the way the fork leg is pre-bent. As it was boost spacing the idea was to avoid the shitty bow-legged look you get with some unicrown forks on a narrower hub.
Picked up some of the lovely hooded dropouts from Paragon which look so fucking hench, and couldn't be happier with how they look. We wanted to get as much bronze on this girthy cunt as possible as there are only two welds, and chubby brazing looks hella sick, so I went in with some double Rod (he didn't mind), and a good bit of heat, and it came up slick as an af.
This came up pretty nicely after only a little faffing:
Next up; drilling the shoulder of the fork and adding a bashed up steel washer for strength to run a dynamo cable, and the same just above the hub area. Ball tingle level 5/10.