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Gotta love the huge ass-end on this thing. Now, for portage, and because I'd like to keep most weight back and under the saddle where possible I drilled some boss holes in the seatstays, these will form the base for legs on a simple rack, which will stabilise at a tab on the seat tube, and the rack will support a big sideways bag.
A bit of clean up.
Right, post-glamour shots realism:.... At some point in brazing the seat cluster(fuck) I'd been a bit liberal with the heat, and thus had warped the seat tube right between the brazing. Doesn't show up fantastically well on a picture, but it was there and was clearly going to cause issues when reaming out the seat-tube, but would also obviously not fill me with confidence when it comes to huge multi-day bike rides in the middle of nowhere.
That lead me to do what any sane person would do. Call dad! And by dad I mean @hulsroy, because he doesn't mince words, and because he actually has a child. After sending him some shit pictures and explaining he confirmed one of the options we'd been considering as what he would do. As did Jimmy from Egress bikes in Melbourne. So the plan was to shim it by dropping in another length of tubing, which Will fortuitously had one hand having sent a piece off to a local chap with a lathe.
In it went past the cluster brazing and silver dribbled in to merge the whole thing with a holy strength. Before filing the lip down from the inner shim tube it was on to slotting the seat tube, with a tiny tiny saw.
Once tidied, an oblig introduction to the first seatpost fitting..
Now shit's gettin real real, I picked up a pair of 29er wheels from Todd, who'd just bought a new MTB and wanted some spicy fucking upgrade wheels bless his heart. So here I am with a pair of Stans Flow S1 to Novatec hubs which will do just fine till I sort out a dyno for the front. I put the tyre on the wrong way round (and thus the wheel) in my excitement.
Gotta try an Anything cage to see that swoop-back angle.
And probs better add some cable guides for that stupid rear derailleur...
Still to come: a dropper post cable hole, tab for the rack and a bit of back-end bending...