650b conversions, some new bikes, all nonsense

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Ph1ll1p in reply to @midlife
Totally fair question, it mostly boils down to two things:
1. Stiffness. This term gets thrown around, but in this instance its correct. the bridge mount for the caliper adds an extra ~30mm to the distance from the pads to the mount, and therefore will decrease stiffness. As the brake arms are at the end of the day, quite thin, increasing their stiffness (and hopefully reducing the posibility of the dreaded howl) is only positive. The bridge will be used for a mudguard, I had the nice machined one left over from a previous project, and to be frank, the old location made for a weird looking gap from tyre to bridge.
2. Vibes. Nuff said. (It will be used for mudguards, and possibly even a Brompton esq light mount, not sure yet, the square edges might mess with the organic shape.
See badly annotated attached image. Please ignore the homage to Tom Sachs.

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midlife in reply to @Ph1ll1p

Thanks, was just curious. What make is the frame by the way?

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Ph1ll1p in reply to @midlife

I have a tendency to over explain, appologies if offence was caused.

I got the frame from @Rhodrich, I was under the impression he got it new (but I cant remember where from) but I could be wrong. Otherwise its unidentifitable. Its well made, the fillets are nice, if I had to guess I would say its 531, but could be extremly wrong. There are no cable stops or anything, it was all band on if that makes it any easier to guess?

@Marcootsee Im into that! awesome.

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