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If you squint a bit, and try to imagine a beautiful paint finish, front tyre, boring bits like cranks, saddles, brakes &c &c this gives some indication of where I'm going with this (constant uphill bike!!):
Back end is not brazed to the front yet, I've got a nice chunk of proper tandem bottom tube to connect the BBs. So far I have just brazed a half sleeve of old headtube to the Pompino seat-tube to get the right diameter for the larger Iron headtube to fit nicely.
Little and Large wheelset of a 24" (507mm) Sun-Ringle Ryhno Lite 36h with a Alfine 8 hub, and a 700c Mavic TN317-disc with a Deore hub on the front. Matching white wall tyre is in the post.
The Iron is listed as 24" only, but it looks like I could easily get a 26" in, and as I'm using disc brakes and removing the canti bosses, their position isn't a problem. Maybe an upgrade for later, as it will give we a much better choice of rims and tyres. I quite like the proportions as it is, but have no idea how it will feel/behave.