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I also want to build my frame with ‘parallel’ chainstays but having no way to bend stays into this shape I’ve bought a donor frame that I’ve cut them out of.
I’ll try to reuse the seatstay too as they have a similar ‘parallel’ shape to them but I’ll need to find a way of extending these as the seat stays of a giraffe are really long.
The framer I bought for the stays was advertised as being from the ‘30s which I thought might have been an exaggeration but I found a frame number on the seat clamp lug (which I want to reuse) and it has the number 32 stamped beside it so maybe a year of manufacture?
Interestingly it also has integrated bearing cups!
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