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Yeah, it's not long enough at the back to tension the chain, or take a 1.5 tyre even at the very back. The chainstays are too short essentially.
AFAIK there aren't longer dropouts available, as I'm having sliding dropouts. Or yeah, this would've been an easy fix.
I've just spoken to John and he says if I can't work out BikeCAD we just have to tell him to lengthen the stays and maybe put a wider BB shell on to accept the tyres, and we're done. He reckons unbrazing the rear end then rebrazing is the best way to go.
Because I'm so unsure about this, and because it's so much money for a lowly bike sales assistant. I've asked to speak to Lee directly when he gets back from his holidays next week. I don't understand Joh sometimes because in the discussion we just had he told me it was very specific and if I wanted it super specific then I'd have to give Lee a specsheet with all the angles and lengths done for him. But, I thought that's the reason you go to frame builders? You don't just send the numbers to a far eastern frame builder to do, or rip the geo off and take it to any of the plethora of frame builders in the UK who'd knock it up for cheaper. I don't understand why Lee can't talk to a normal persona bout what they want and then build it.
Is he expecting me to believe that every custom frame in the world is designed by the customer in bikeCAD and then given to the frame builder to just follow instructions?
John says he doesn't understand why I'm stressing about it. I don't know how much money John earns but paying up-front for this has seriously put me out. If it was a chocolate bar and it wasn't what I asked for, fair enough. But this kinda money? This is why I went to 14 and I didn't just send Marino a bunch of numbers I'd painskakingly worked out myself. I don't have the time to learn about bike geometry, nor do I have the money to design it, get it wrong, and have an expensive experiment to hang on my wall.